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<blockquote data-quote="poilbrun" data-source="post: 135537" data-attributes="member: 532">My opinion on rules interpretationHi Anubis (and everyone else, of course)!I tend to agree with you. No level 3 wizard creating a Vorpal longsword +1 in my game! (He would have troubles casting the required spells, but scrolls can make up for that).I believe the problems with rules mainly comes from the people you believe when it comes to interpret rules. Myself, I only believe WotC erratas (I'm a rule geek, and as they are the creator of the game, I believe they are right, even when they're wrong<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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> !), the Sage and Monte Cook (who, IMO, is the most logical person -among those who created the game- when it comes to rules interpretation). But here comes the problem : I'm a rule geek, except in special cases : no paying XP components everyday in my game, which would mean that you have to cast the spell everyday during the creation time, thus excluding the creation of items using scroll, which is, IIRC, said to be possible in one of the rulebooks.It all depends on how your high-level campaign goes, as usual. I'm currently running two campaigns : in the first one, the players are allied with devils and fighting demons, and as such need magical weapons to be able to fight effectively. However, in the second one, the players are now level 9 and the only monsters they have faced until now are goblins and orcs (which have a powerful civilization in the world). As such, they are quite rich as far as money goes, but quite poor as far as magical items go. All this boils down to one point : you cannot link the power of the players and the power of their magical items.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="poilbrun, post: 135537, member: 532"] [b]My opinion on rules interpretation[/b] Hi Anubis (and everyone else, of course)! I tend to agree with you. No level 3 wizard creating a Vorpal longsword +1 in my game! (He would have troubles casting the required spells, but scrolls can make up for that). I believe the problems with rules mainly comes from the people you believe when it comes to interpret rules. Myself, I only believe WotC erratas (I'm a rule geek, and as they are the creator of the game, I believe they are right, even when they're wrong:) !), the Sage and Monte Cook (who, IMO, is the most logical person -among those who created the game- when it comes to rules interpretation). But here comes the problem : I'm a rule geek, except in special cases : no paying XP components everyday in my game, which would mean that you have to cast the spell everyday during the creation time, thus excluding the creation of items using scroll, which is, IIRC, said to be possible in one of the rulebooks. It all depends on how your high-level campaign goes, as usual. I'm currently running two campaigns : in the first one, the players are allied with devils and fighting demons, and as such need magical weapons to be able to fight effectively. However, in the second one, the players are now level 9 and the only monsters they have faced until now are goblins and orcs (which have a powerful civilization in the world). As such, they are quite rich as far as money goes, but quite poor as far as magical items go. All this boils down to one point : you cannot link the power of the players and the power of their magical items. [/QUOTE]

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