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StormBringer · October 10, 2012, 02:55:42 AM

Quote from: Broken-Serenity;590216Sounds like something ive wanted for years, magic items that seem unique and rare instead just something you buy from the store for a few extra gold above the regular priced stuff.

Welcome (back?) to Vintage Gaming.

Quote from: Doctor Jest;590483The point being, I don't think an RPG should have dealing with crybabies as a design goal.

You would appear to be a few years behind the 'best practices in RPG design' curve, then.

StormBringer · October 10, 2012, 02:58:12 AM

Quote from: Doctor Jest;590483The point being, I don't think an RPG should have dealing with crybabies as a design goal.

You would appear to be a few years behind the 'best practices in RPG design' curve, then.

Doctor Jest · October 10, 2012, 03:12:50 AM

Quote from: StormBringer;590495You would appear to be a few years behind the 'best practices in RPG design' curve, then.

I thought that curve was, itself, several years out of date.

StormBringer · October 10, 2012, 10:37:43 AM

Quote from: Doctor Jest;590501I thought that curve was, itself, several years out of date.

Let's hope so. Modern rulebooks make Advanced Squad Leader look like a summer beach read.

Bill · October 10, 2012, 10:43:23 AM

Quote from: Tommy Brownell;590214Again, I'm really digging what they're doing here. "Generic" magic weapons and armor largely topping out at "+1" and anything beyond that being special? Win.

And the Elven Oathbow...soooooo cool.

That may mean they want to keep the numbers tight, and I prefer that over "I have 45 AC with my Godplate+10 and Bahumat Scale Shield+10..etc...

Glazer · October 10, 2012, 10:52:36 AM

Speaking personally, I'd say that as soon as you start thinking about having such a thing as a 'common magic item', somethings started to go wrong. Just calling them 'common' makes them mundane.

jibbajibba · October 10, 2012, 11:02:02 AM

Yup much rather have magic items being much rarer and having a unique thing so more like artifacts.

So give me a list of matrix of powers and abilities and a table for rolling a backstory for the item.

Then make items rare so the chance of you finding a magic item in a horde might be 1 in 5 so by the time you reach 10th you have seen maybe 10 magic items.

That I like.

If they also work out some way it links to the character as well then also good so it develops as they do...
So a sword isn;t +1 so much as its +10% of the benefit or somethng
and it grows as the PC does (as well as casuing darnkes in a 15 foot radius and repelling angels.....)

RPGPundit · October 11, 2012, 12:54:32 PM

Quote from: The Butcher;590288So you're for making magic items unique, but against having explicit guidelines for this in the core rules? :confused: Please elaborate...

Its simple. He's decided he's not going to like 5e come hell or high water, so anything it comes up with, even if its what he's clamouring for, has to be wrong.

That seems to be the case with quite a few of the more dedicated 5e-foes. And you know, that's fine, but then dont' keep posting on 5e threads trying to play pretend that you were giving it an honest chance, and that "you'd like it but..." and so on. By the 50th time someone does that, it becomes pretty clear that its bullshit.

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