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<blockquote data-quote="Dyir" data-source="post: 5557433" data-attributes="member: 13293">I abandoned 3E's WBL guidelines when I realized a few things.&nbsp; Firstly, that most interesting magic items were often those that had nothing to do with combat, but that the &quot;offending&quot; magic items that had to be deliberately parceled out where by-and-large combat related.&nbsp; Also, until the Magic Item Compendium came out, the issue was usually having a few more powerful magic items instead of a bunch of lower powered ones...but both situations could have the same total cost.&nbsp; And, honestly, I found the level in the game where the bonus items became most prevalent was when the game had already become extraordinarily &quot;swingy,&quot; so the items themselves only added to a problem that already existed.I still run a house-ruled 3E game, but I've removed all bonus items from the game entirely.&nbsp; I reworked a lot of the math to make it possible, so that the attack vs AC and save vs DC issues are gone.&nbsp; It took a lot of work, but I think it was worth it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dyir, post: 5557433, member: 13293"] I abandoned 3E's WBL guidelines when I realized a few things. Firstly, that most interesting magic items were often those that had nothing to do with combat, but that the "offending" magic items that had to be deliberately parceled out where by-and-large combat related. Also, until the Magic Item Compendium came out, the issue was usually having a few more powerful magic items instead of a bunch of lower powered ones...but both situations could have the same total cost. And, honestly, I found the level in the game where the bonus items became most prevalent was when the game had already become extraordinarily "swingy," so the items themselves only added to a problem that already existed. I still run a house-ruled 3E game, but I've removed all bonus items from the game entirely. I reworked a lot of the math to make it possible, so that the attack vs AC and save vs DC issues are gone. It took a lot of work, but I think it was worth it. [/QUOTE]

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