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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trasvi" data-source="post: 9207624" data-attributes="member: 7023211">I don't know, you were the one that phrased it "players getting exactly what they want all the time". Theres a middle ground of "giving players the tools they need to make their character concept work at appropriate points in the campaign".I suppose there's a few other options. Slavish adherence to random loot dice rolls even when it creates party imbalance or negates character concepts. I don't think that's a good reason.A lot of DnD loot is randomly rolled inside chests or treasure hoard. This can be whatever you want it to be, and so in my games I'll generally select 1-2 items from the total haul to be useful to members of the party who need items. If an enemy is weilding/wearing a specific item, that will drop with them; but whatever is in their pockets can be tailored. I might even throw a specific enemy at the party that has an item they want. In a Storm Kings Thunder there is a quest to go fetch a Giant Slayer Greataxe. If I left it as a greataxe, none of my party would have wanted it and they just would have skipped the quest. But I changed it to a Rapier and then it was worthwhile for our rogue. I don't think any of those examples remove all sense of verisimilitude at all.</blockquote>