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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6556254" data-attributes="member: 22779">The problem, however, of giving players free reign over magic items is, in very short time, everyone power games, because, even though they might pick that folding boat this time, they'll pretty quickly realise that they should have picked that +1 sword.  Heck, again, you have people in this thread who have said that players who choose the folding boat over the +1 sword should be kicked from the group.I mean, it's no secret that the Big 6 magic items were a thing.  And they became a thing because you could buy and sell magic items.  If players were "having fun" with magic items, wouldn't we have seen more diversity?  Instead, we got character after character with identical equipment - everyone HAS to have that stat boost item, every HAS to have that AC boost and save boost and whatever boost item.  Seven years of playing 3e/3.5 and not one player EVER asked to buy Sovereign Glue.  About the most out there item I ever saw bought was a Lyre of Building and that's only because we were playing a naval based campaign and in that context, a Lyre of Building is insanely powerful - make your ship 100% impervious to all damage for an hour at no cost with the possibility of further 100% invulnerability with successful skill checks.Thing is, in 5e, you don't NEED these items.  That's the whole point of bounded accuracy, which, AFAIK, actually works.  Your character doesn't need those bonuses just to keep up with the scaling monster stats because the monster stats DON'T SCALE.  ((Well, other than HP anyway <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />)).   [MENTION=2518]Derren[/MENTION] asks if buying a castle comes with a title.  Isn't that up to me, the DM to decide?  Do I really need the DMG to give me permission here?  Sure, the extra information he asks for, historical castles and whatnot, would be nice, but, jeez, can't I just open up Wikipedia and get the exact same information?  It's not 1979 anymore.  The DMG is not my primary source of setting information.  That's not "make it up", that's DMing 101.</blockquote>

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