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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7154382" data-attributes="member: 1465">That's true, but as a DM I would tell such player that he is in fact making a mistake. If he's not going to use the shield, carrying it around is a nuisance, and leaving it at home is the same as not having it*. And the commercial value of the shield is practically zero with relation to the treasure they'll soon amass after the first adventure or two.*this is not true for special stuff like magic items, but we're not talking about thoseOf course such way of thinking is pretty much the result of having been fed all our lives with the culture of "free/cheap stuff" and overestimation of property in general, so when they offer you something useless for free the vast majority of the people would take it anyway, without realizing they are possibly actually acquiring only a burden (any property implies a cost of space, time, maintenance, and worry). But then this is way too off-topic <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>