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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AllisterH" data-source="post: 5375251" data-attributes="member: 51325">Er no...I think everyone is missing the big point. 4e (AND 3e for that matter) allow for the PLAYER to choose/sell the item.  Go back to 1e/2e and give the player to not just SELL magic items a la 1e but to convert that cash into ACTUAL items and trust me, players are going to discard things like Cloak of the Manta Ray, Decanter of Endless Water etc. The only reason people fondly remember these items is that the players were stuck with them and then they would try to figure out a use for them in their adventures. But allow them to sell and buy actual magic items? Then every single non-combat item is being sold so that the fighters all have girdles of giant str, gauntlets of ogre power etc...</blockquote>