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<blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 8656672" data-attributes="member: 54629"><p>Yes, I am sure. I have been playing with these guys since the start of 5e, if not before. They subscribe to keeping it simple, and they like the old school +s. When they found a sentient <em>sword of sharpness</em>, the player who claimed it was like, "Hey, wait, this doesn't appear to have any plusage." I was like, "Nope! Not all magic items in 5e have pluses!"</p><p></p><p>They want the numerical advantage. Plain and simple.</p><p></p><p>(I even confirmed this with the barbarian's player, who confirmed that he wants the +2 over extra fire damage or whatever because <em>"That extra point of damage could often turn things to the party’s favour. Tho the specific damage like fire could be much higher, the extra damage is always there. In a way, they even each other out."</em>)</p><p></p><p></p><p>I was using the Buying a Magic Item downtime activity from XGE. It refers to the random magic item tables, but it also allows for the PCs to find a specific item if they roll well enough - and the PC doing the looking has +12 on Persuasion, so they're almost guaranteed to find specific items. However, because they <em>weren't</em> finding everything they wanted by trawling the auction houses and private sales, that's when they decided to gift the kingly dwarf cloak to the dwarven community in hopes that there would be a smith among them who could manufacture the specific item they want. Because they are in Waterdeep, the largest city on the Sword Coast, it isn't particularly unreasonable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pukunui, post: 8656672, member: 54629"] Yes, I am sure. I have been playing with these guys since the start of 5e, if not before. They subscribe to keeping it simple, and they like the old school +s. When they found a sentient [I]sword of sharpness[/I], the player who claimed it was like, "Hey, wait, this doesn't appear to have any plusage." I was like, "Nope! Not all magic items in 5e have pluses!" They want the numerical advantage. Plain and simple. (I even confirmed this with the barbarian's player, who confirmed that he wants the +2 over extra fire damage or whatever because [I]"That extra point of damage could often turn things to the party’s favour. Tho the specific damage like fire could be much higher, the extra damage is always there. In a way, they even each other out."[/I]) I was using the Buying a Magic Item downtime activity from XGE. It refers to the random magic item tables, but it also allows for the PCs to find a specific item if they roll well enough - and the PC doing the looking has +12 on Persuasion, so they're almost guaranteed to find specific items. However, because they [I]weren't[/I] finding everything they wanted by trawling the auction houses and private sales, that's when they decided to gift the kingly dwarf cloak to the dwarven community in hopes that there would be a smith among them who could manufacture the specific item they want. Because they are in Waterdeep, the largest city on the Sword Coast, it isn't particularly unreasonable. [/QUOTE]
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