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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8679680" data-attributes="member: 93670">it was fairly simple to shift the scales of intraparty balance back then as opposed to now though.&nbsp; Sure there's a point where you need to ask if the player was deliberately trying to fail just so they could claim they suck or something but there were enough dials the GM could adjust &amp; ways to impose use restrictions to gate the use of things when awarding magic items that the underpowered PC would be likely to get a cool thing that brings them up.&nbsp;&nbsp; PunPun might be able to make some investments to use it but&nbsp; those would come with opportunity cost &amp; the item will need to be replaced eventually anyways.&nbsp; Now it's just going to go to PunPun unless the gm does something like &quot;requires attunement by bob&quot; because there's really only one dial no real restrictions &amp; the item probably won't be replaced.You could sit an optimizer next to a non-optimizer before because the disparity could be bridged in various ways instead of simply being widened</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 8679680, member: 93670"] it was fairly simple to shift the scales of intraparty balance back then as opposed to now though. Sure there's a point where you need to ask if the player was deliberately [I]trying[/I] to fail just so they could claim they suck or something but there were enough dials the GM could adjust & ways to impose use restrictions to gate the use of things when awarding magic items that the underpowered PC would be likely to get a cool thing that brings them up. PunPun might be able to make some investments to use it but those would come with opportunity cost & the item will need to be replaced eventually anyways. Now it's just going to go to PunPun unless the gm does something like "requires attunement by bob" because there's really only one dial no real restrictions & the item probably won't be replaced. You could sit an optimizer next to a non-optimizer before because the disparity could be bridged in various ways instead of simply being widened [/QUOTE]

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