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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 8640337" data-attributes="member: 6877472">You do need to be careful with giving NPC's magic gear.&nbsp; I can attest to this as it's one of the things that finally made me give up on d20/PF.&nbsp; Trying to build good humanoid opponents and keeping the amount of treasure the party would claim from their dead corpses to a reasonable minimum.You could, I suppose, do what Gary did, with the Drow, by giving them special equipment that was powerful, but basically useless to player characters for anything but short term boosts, but that sort of thing players find obnoxious.Maybe the best thing to do is give them Boons that simulate magic items?&nbsp; I guess that has a similar issue.The problem is, we don't really know how to balance magic items, because WotC didn't even try to figure that out themselves.&nbsp; So what would be appropriate at a given level is unknown.Like I've said before, it's as if they said &quot;uh, here's magic items.&nbsp; We're not going to tell you how/why/when to use them, but if you do, you're on your own, don't blame us!&quot;, even as they made it almost necessary to have some magic weapons available.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 8640337, member: 6877472"] You do need to be careful with giving NPC's magic gear. I can attest to this as it's one of the things that finally made me give up on d20/PF. Trying to build good humanoid opponents and keeping the amount of treasure the party would claim from their dead corpses to a reasonable minimum. You could, I suppose, do what Gary did, with the Drow, by giving them special equipment that was powerful, but basically useless to player characters for anything but short term boosts, but that sort of thing players find obnoxious. Maybe the best thing to do is give them Boons that simulate magic items? I guess that has a similar issue. The problem is, we don't really know how to balance magic items, because WotC didn't even try to figure that out themselves. So what would be appropriate at a given level is unknown. Like I've said before, it's as if they said "uh, here's magic items. We're not going to tell you how/why/when to use them, but if you do, you're on your own, don't blame us!", even as they made it almost necessary to have some magic weapons available. [/QUOTE]

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