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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Victim" data-source="post: 401386" data-attributes="member: 78">I'd consider a weapon a pretty hit or miss gift.  Even if Ulao doesn't have several better weapons and really likes the shocking burst+thundering properties, who's to say that he'd like a pick?  How useful is a pick to a finess rapier master, or to a scimitar expert? <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Because a pick is also a mining tool - although the weapon version will probably have some differences - a noble might take a pick to be an insulting comment about his station.While the comparsion will be off, what gift would you give a baseline equiped 20th level character when you lack knowledge about their abilities and current gear?  Weapons and class specific gear probably won't be useful, since you're guessing about what they do.  Similarly, they probably already have the common protective devices and so forth.  Most, if not all, of the conventional item slots would be filled.I'd pick some sort unusual or spell based item that doesn't take up any space.  Almost anyone could find a use for a Mirror of Mental Prowess, or Cube of Force, etc.  Extradimensional effects are always pretty useful too.</blockquote>