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<blockquote data-quote="Windjammer" data-source="post: 5023785" data-attributes="member: 60075">Well, and here you are, the first person ever I give XP on Enworld. Amazing post. No polemics, all example and argumentation. I tip my hat. I was going to write a response to this, but then saw that you answered yourself here:I'd like to spell that out for everyone: Any item they publish has to be LFR legit. And any item they publish has to go onto DDI. As a consequence, they can't publish a magic item which doesn't make it over to the DDI and is LFR legit. One problem on DDI, and certainly for LFR, is that there is no such thing as putting a header there saying &quot;DM, use at your own discretion&quot;. LFR, by its nature, takes that power out of the hands of their DMs, and the DDI interface respects that. We all remember the headache they went through when hybrid classes first showed up on Dragon. What that means for us DMs who've got no vested interested in LFR - well, Peter spelled it out for us. It means bland items. By the way, there are a TON of cool magic items in Adventurer's Vault 2 in terms of flavour. Just up the mechanics and make them a bit more.... wild, and I think you've still got a good resource. But yes, shame in official 4E the mechanics can't match the item description. That's what RangerWickett NAILED.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Windjammer, post: 5023785, member: 60075"] Well, and here you are, the first person ever I give XP on Enworld. Amazing post. No polemics, all example and argumentation. I tip my hat. I was going to write a response to this, but then saw that you answered yourself here: I'd like to spell that out for everyone: Any item they publish has to be LFR legit. And any item they publish has to go onto DDI. As a consequence, they can't publish a magic item which doesn't make it over to the DDI [I]and[/I] is LFR legit. One problem on DDI, and certainly for LFR, is that there is no such thing as putting a header there saying "DM, use at your own discretion". LFR, by its nature, takes that power out of the hands of their DMs, and the DDI interface respects that. We all remember the headache they went through when hybrid classes first showed up on [I]Dragon[/I]. What that means for us DMs who've got no vested interested in LFR - well, Peter spelled it out for us. It means bland items. By the way, there are a TON of cool magic items in Adventurer's Vault 2 in terms of flavour. Just up the mechanics and make them a bit more.... wild, and I think you've still got a good resource. But yes, shame in official 4E the mechanics can't match the item description. That's what RangerWickett NAILED. [/QUOTE]

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