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Post by bestialwarlust on Oct 24, 2015 8:53:59 GMT -5
How often do you hand them out? And when you do you embellish at all or just say you find a mace+1? and how often do you hand out magic weapons? With od&d there seems to be a lot less reliance on needing magic weapons or weapons with a minimum plus value
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2015 9:21:27 GMT -5
Handing them out is one thing ... players actually finding them is quite another.
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Post by Admin Pete on Oct 24, 2015 9:50:27 GMT -5
We play once per month for 4-5 hours, so magic items show up more often than they did bitd when we played twice per week for 24-28 hours. I usually embelish quite a bit and I tend to put unique one of a kind items that they have to play with and figure out how to use. There is also a difference in what you do when you have 6 players instead of 20 or more.
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Post by bestialwarlust on Oct 24, 2015 11:56:08 GMT -5
Handing them out is one thing ... players actually finding them is quite another. Heh I know that. My group managed to miss a 20,000 gp hoard last week.....Oh well  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2015 12:05:18 GMT -5
6 years of running OD&D/Northwind and I can count the magic items found by player characters on both hands minus three fingers. And it's not like I'm some kind of smarty pants ...  |
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Post by tetramorph on Oct 25, 2015 8:00:12 GMT -5
With my Planet Eris folks, we usually roll up treasure from the tables, going round the room.
So we get magic when they roll low enough!
They (we) like this.
But it does not give me, as ref, a chance to make up something cool.
I may try to find some balance.
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Post by makofan on Oct 25, 2015 11:30:49 GMT -5
Not usually, players are just happy to get something that can hit all those creatures who can only be hit by magic weapons
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Post by Von on Nov 2, 2015 2:53:44 GMT -5
Always. A magic item represents a significant sacrifice on the part of its creator, in terms of time and energy and devotion (the XP involved in making it). A generic +1 sword, for instance, is an impossibility; that +1 was put there by a person and it has elements of persona in it. Not every magic item is intelligent but all of them are experienced.
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