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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TerraDave" data-source="post: 4591181" data-attributes="member: 22260">I completely, 100% agree that 1st edition AD&D was the leader in terms of style and flavour. As for the rest of it....This is probably the most important point, the +1 dagger does in fact predate 3E..And you can have to much of a good thing. 1E was treasure rich (no matter what RCK says), and it could just get overwhelming. Daods Wonderous Lanthorn, A Deck of Many Things, The Demonicon of Igwiz...try having that in the group at the same time, and more! Its over top, but maybe worse, at some point, everyone just starts to loose track of stuff. Which leads to...Even PCs loose interest. I have seen in various editions, clever items being traded for the most boring crap by good players, because they want to use the boring crap...And speaking of latter editions, there are multi function items, even some flavourfull ones, and the compendium has plenty of them (many pretty clever)4E did reprice items, give them some powers...and artifacts, artifacts are great, and made so that you can actually use them at the levels you will actually play at. But, as I went through all this, I realized:I have continued to use multifunction, flavourfull items all along. Some from published sources, some I just made up. But of course, I am a DM, so I am capable of doing that. It does make me wonder about this 11+ page thread though. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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