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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9865507" data-attributes="member: 93670">Id say that it's obviously intended.  Pretty sure that Crawford even talked about them not locking down the hand slot and leaving it open so players can something or other.This whole thing is the consequence of a second deliberate design choice to ensure that an important system is largely irrelivant be design.  Because 5.24 chose not to tighten encumbrance and carry capacity so "do I really want to be carrying this" would matter enough for players to ask (or even my normally completing container rules that are merely implied as mearls did recently in his Moldvey adaptation). Players don't "need" to carry 6 weapons & don't need juggle them for maximum effectiveness, that's the wrong way of looking at it given the mechanics involved.  It's the wrong way because players have so much capacity and so few hurdles in the way of doing those things that there is no reason to even consider "do I need to" or "could this hurt me".   Choosing not to complete rules subsystems and choosing to deliberately leave existing subsystems irrelevant by design has consequences in totally separate areas of play.  This entire thread exists because those choices resulted in the exact consequences predicted during the marketing play test.Don't believe me, look at wotc's own choice of image to hype weapon masteries.[MEDIA=twitter]1806009535456301287[/MEDIA]While being told why the golf bag would cause problems wotc chose to openly embrace it with sarcasm as part of it's announcement [USER=710]@Mustrum_Ridcully[/USER] at least the 3.x golf bag had benefits like encouraging players to choose between using more optimal but less magical∆ weapons less hindered by Dr/x and vice versa or allowing the spotlight to more organically shift when PC optimization is disparate enough for the need.  There's an endless list of reasons the old golf bags could selectively be used for good at the table by a wise gm leaning on them with monster choice, but the 5e golf bag lacks any hooks for the gm to lean on.∆ maybe it's unexpectedly too good or whatever and you don't want to take it away but don't want to turn the other PCs into sidekicks.  That unexpectedly too magical weapon can still be amazing other times without being amazing always.</blockquote>

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