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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pandathese" data-source="post: 5849531" data-attributes="member: 6690983">I was excited to see this thread on the board, and had to come out of lurking to see how people felt about how the +x has been handled across the series. To me the quality of the weapon should be reflected over the +anything and have started to implement a system in my own home brew that I feel works well for me or for any one that's wanting to tone down on the saturation of magic tools in game. I've implemented a Craftsmanship/Quality/Material system that gives a nice randomness i feel with out being distracting. Craftsmanship is your to hit mod that gets better as you go through the list. this reflects the smiths skills. poor -2, standard, balanced +1, perfect balance +2 Quality is your damage dice that improves as the quality of the material improves. A poor quality sword will not be as effective as a superb quality sword. weak -1 hit die, standard, superb +1 hit die(Rare) Material if they can find it will be what adds any non magical damage or  effects IE silver/iron. Masterwork should be just the only way to get a +3 non magical to hit, A masterpiece would have been an artists submission of skill to his peers and teachers to be worthy of the master title.  So using a 3.5 short sword as a template you could have;poor/weak/steel = -2/1d4/steel  |  balanced/standard/iron = +1/1d6/bonus against fae  |  Masterwork short sword  = +3/superb(1d8)/steelSo using this you could very well have a poor or worse sword of superb materials -4/1d8/steel, or a well balanced weak quality sword +1/1d4/iron. It's made my players really appreciate what they have.</blockquote>

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