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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Votan" data-source="post: 5094399" data-attributes="member: 18680">I think that one could limit the Iron Man effect in two ways:1) Make it hard or impossible to buy magic items (which I routinely remember in 1E)2) Make most found magic items expendable (potions and scrolls, for example).  So long as you then used the exotic materials rules for crafting (with extremely tough quests involved) and nopticed the high, high levels required to enchant permanent magic items (enforcing CON drain for permancy helped too) then you could reduce the Iron Man effect somewhat as well.  I'm not saying that AD&D did not have flaws, but options in the (admittedly vague and unhelpful) crafting rules made it easier to moderate magic items.  IN 3E the same strategy would lead to a lot of crafting.</blockquote>