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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6606365" data-attributes="member: 2067">I'm someone who didn't like the attunement mechanic to begin with, but I've mostly come around when seeing it in play and thinking about the design purposes it serves (still a few minor issues with it, but its gains are pretty big). Ultimately, if you're handing out enough magic items that people are running up against their attunement limit regularly, you're running a high-magic game. That's kind of the only place where that limit even becomes a consideration.And one of the things to understand about the limit is that it is there so that the party doesn't become too powerful to be challenged. Magic items in 5e are a raw boost to your power. They are not required to do things, they are a straight-up increase. So if you're running a high-magic game and you dropped attunement limits, your game would mainly become significantly easier. That's not necessarily a problem if you're playing more for story than for challenge, and you don't mind the occasional &quot;boss fight cake-walk.&quot;But if you like a game of death and risk and the like, you probably want to tell them to simmer down. You might also want to not reward as many magic items - even if you roll them or whatever, your party is clearly swimmin' in 'em. That, plus send a thief in the night to steal their stuff. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 6606365, member: 2067"] I'm someone who didn't like the attunement mechanic to begin with, but I've mostly come around when seeing it in play and thinking about the design purposes it serves (still a few minor issues with it, but its gains are pretty big). Ultimately, if you're handing out enough magic items that people are running up against their attunement limit regularly, you're [I]running a high-magic game[/I]. That's kind of the only place where that limit even becomes a consideration. And one of the things to understand about the limit is that it is there so that the party doesn't become [I]too powerful to be challenged[/I]. Magic items in 5e are a raw boost to your power. They are not required to do things, they are a straight-up increase. So if you're running a high-magic game and you dropped attunement limits, your game would mainly become significantly easier. That's not necessarily a problem if you're playing more for story than for challenge, and you don't mind the occasional "boss fight cake-walk." But if you like a game of death and risk and the like, you probably want to tell them to simmer down. You might also want to not reward as many magic items - even if you roll them or whatever, your party is clearly swimmin' in 'em. That, plus send a thief in the night to steal their stuff. ;) [/QUOTE]

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