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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 6175850" data-attributes="member: 221">I'm not throwing huge dragons at 1st level characters, by all means. And I do think the CR charts a pretty useful little guide (as are treasure level guides for the monetary value of treasure). But I never anguish about whether or not I think the monster is perfectly balanced and I certainly never worry that my player's characters have the right equipment. That's their job. My job is to make the world interesting; so I just throw in whatever treasure I think is thematically appropriate or nifty. And in my experiences nifty treasures win over utilitarian treasures every time in player approval.I have DMed some players at Cons who, in conversation, talk a lot about balance and broken builds, or broken rules or who claim to have  "friends" who do, but I notice some of these coming back year after year to play in my new scenarios, so I have to think that part of it is just GMs who allow such concerns to take precedence over story to the detriment of their own games.</blockquote>