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<blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 3419843" data-attributes="member: 94">The impact of gear on CR-- where impact is measured in likelihood of TPK-- is largely boolean. You either have a magic (DR-proof) weapon or not; a ghost touch weapon or not. That kind of thing.The CR system is mostly oblivious to &quot;My campaign runs 35% behind/above the suggested wealth-by-level guidelines...&quot;The DM doesn't really need to concern himself with the exact CR impact that the sword's loss has on the fighter other than those few boolean decisions. For the vast majority of typical encounters, a fighter with a +3 sword, or without-- indeed, a fighter of level-X with level-X appropriate sword, or without-- is roughly equivalent, and the loss is quite safely hand-waved by the DM. The addition of the sword to the overall CR of the fighter is a negligible portion of his total CR.This is not to say that the loss of a fighter's sword is a negligible portion of his panache. As either a DM or a PC, I'd be much more concerned about the sword's loss from a story perspective than a mechanics perspective.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wulf Ratbane, post: 3419843, member: 94"] The impact of gear on CR-- where impact is measured in likelihood of TPK-- is largely boolean. You either have a magic (DR-proof) weapon or not; a [i]ghost touch[/i] weapon or not. That kind of thing. The CR system is mostly oblivious to "My campaign runs 35% behind/above the suggested wealth-by-level guidelines..." The DM doesn't really need to concern himself with the exact CR impact that the sword's loss has on the fighter other than those few boolean decisions. For the vast majority of typical encounters, a fighter with a +3 sword, or without-- indeed, a fighter of level-X with level-X appropriate sword, or without-- is roughly equivalent, and the loss is quite safely hand-waved by the DM. The addition of the sword to the overall CR of the fighter is a negligible portion of his total CR. This is not to say that the loss of a fighter's sword is a negligible portion of his [i]panache[/i]. As either a DM or a PC, I'd be much more concerned about the sword's loss from a story perspective than a mechanics perspective. [/QUOTE]

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