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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7972799" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>In all other editions (certainly after 1E), you had non-adventures adding far more magic items than adventures did. All the way back to 1E you have books - often multi-purpose (i.e. they might well have setting, spells, items, etc. in one book) adding tons of stuff. Usually by quite early on in an edition there'd have been several books adding a lot of items. 2E also had the brilliant collections of items.]</p><p></p><p>In 5E, I think the only book to add a significant number of non-setting-specific items was Xanathars, and it doesn't add that many. </p><p></p><p>Whereas on Beyond I often search a fairly classic item, only to find it's in an adventure - so it's not a specific, weird item, it just happens to be in that adventure. What that does on Beyond also is prevent you from even sharing a homebrew item of the same name (and, IIRC, takes down existing homebrew items of that name). You can still create them for your own campaign of course, but that's it.</p><p></p><p>It's possible this isn't actually a dictate or whatever, it's just that the sale strategy they're using at the moment prevents there being a magic item book. Still, the reality is the same.</p><p></p><p>Given the pricing the suggestion of buying them "a la carte" is pretty Scrooge McDuck stuff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 7972799, member: 18"] In all other editions (certainly after 1E), you had non-adventures adding far more magic items than adventures did. All the way back to 1E you have books - often multi-purpose (i.e. they might well have setting, spells, items, etc. in one book) adding tons of stuff. Usually by quite early on in an edition there'd have been several books adding a lot of items. 2E also had the brilliant collections of items.] In 5E, I think the only book to add a significant number of non-setting-specific items was Xanathars, and it doesn't add that many. Whereas on Beyond I often search a fairly classic item, only to find it's in an adventure - so it's not a specific, weird item, it just happens to be in that adventure. What that does on Beyond also is prevent you from even sharing a homebrew item of the same name (and, IIRC, takes down existing homebrew items of that name). You can still create them for your own campaign of course, but that's it. It's possible this isn't actually a dictate or whatever, it's just that the sale strategy they're using at the moment prevents there being a magic item book. Still, the reality is the same. Given the pricing the suggestion of buying them "a la carte" is pretty Scrooge McDuck stuff. [/QUOTE]
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