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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9331366" data-attributes="member: 29398">Quite a good summary, except:Which sounds great until you stop and think just how vulnerable magic items are to destruction in 1e.  Fail a save vs AoE damage such as Fireball, Lightning Bolt, or Cone of Cold?  Now every single item you're carrying has to itself make a save, meaning that items in use don't and won't last forever.  (there's other ways to break 'em too e.g. Rust Monsters, but AoE damage is by far the most common)End result: if nobody's making items any more there will be a not-so-slow overall attrition as the items that do exist get destroyed.Contrast this with, say, 3e; where it's relatively easy to make items and much harder to destroy them.There's a few known typos and errors in the 1e DMG price list; the Girdle may have been one such.</blockquote>