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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 372790" data-attributes="member: 149">Well, I was exaggerating what was being said, but try re-reading the first posts like Benben's.  It was the general attitude of the posts. Well, yes, things do depend on what your campaign is structured like. The flunkies don't even have to be on a suicide mission, they just need to get in a couple of shots. Especially if they are after fragile weapons like bows. But any BBEG should have at least a couple of suicide shock troops, they can expend.Well, that was more a crack at the people who were complaining that magic items were too generic. They are only generic if you let them be. You don't have to tailor the items of the villans to what the party needs, one of the things I like about 3e is that you can have items custom made to what you want. My character in the last campaign, carved his bow from the rib of a dragon the party killed, it took him 6 months of game time and about a year of real time before he was able to have enough time and money to get it finished and enchanted. The item had a history and a purpose (he wanted to use it to slay Iuz, eventually). Loosing something like that to some twit after all that time and effort is something I would find seriously annoying. I don't like wasting considerable time and effort, call me strange on that score.I have no objections to using other feats and what not to add some varity to combat. One of the characters in my current campaign specializes in trips and knockdowns. Sunder, especially when used against weapons that mean something to a PC is usually a cheap shot. It has a place, but it should be rare and it should mean something when it happens. If it's a disposable weapon, sunder away.  You have been polite and rational. Simply differing opinions, politely expressed are never an attack. Though the original "whiny players" comment was quite irritating. I am not totally opposed to the use of sunder, it should just be rare and I would hesistate to use it against the "symbolic" weapon of a character. The tone of most of the early comments was basically "screw the players, sunder everything in sight, if they complain they're crybabies". There is way too much of that sort of attitude towards players and it gets tiresome.Well most of my favorite moments in D&D are desperate fights to the death, where you escape by the skin of your teeth, your wits and determination. Necessity is a great motivatorGood gaming to you as well.</blockquote>

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