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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Odhanan" data-source="post: 2915578" data-attributes="member: 12324">I agree in that the rarity of items makes little for a Sense of Wonder. The Sense of Wonder one can feel when discovering items actually doesn't depend on the rules whatsoever but on the way they are presented in the game, what they do in the game, how the DM describes them, and their significance in the game. Anduril isn't cool or uncool because it would be a +5 Vorpal Bastard Sword or just a +1 Sword. It's a cool weapon because it's the freaking Flame of the West, because it's the blade that cut the ring off Sauron's hand, a blade that bears in its very existence the memory of the legacy of Numenor itself, the White Tree, the Last Alliance and the Kingdoms in Exile. That has nothing to do with the rules, or rarity of items (LOTR could be said to be loaded with magic items, between the Elven bread, Mithril chainmail, orc equipment with dark incantations of Isengard or Mordor, Palantiri, Swords of Gondolin and so on, so forth).I actually experimented this first hand during the last sessions of the Seven Spires. One player actually rolled on the treasure table and ended up with a Vicious Unholy Vorpal Bastard Sword +5. By rolling the dice. I worked it out in the adventure's plot, and with the appropriate research/NPCs/Knowledges the PCs discovered this was actually the Sword of the BBEG some millennia ago, when the world was young. I described the legacy of the weapon, how so many proud knights lost their lives wielding this weapon, and the players thought this was really cool because they did not know if the legends were true or not, and thus what kind of danger there was in wielding the sword. They became even more uneasy with the sword when, after a particularly huge fight, it suddenly spoke and told a single word: "Moooore... MORE!" (To say with a low voice and very heavy breathing).</blockquote>

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