FitzTheRuke
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Really? Dodged? "Telling"? Telling of what? You seem to attribute to me strong feelings on a subject that I just don't have. This isn't the first time, either.Him asked how many pages. The fact that you dodged with "a small section in two books" is telling.
What book is that?They just put out a full book of magic items to give you a ballpark for starting with.
"Should have been done". According to whom? I'm pretty sure that the designers just disagree with you on this. OTOH, I don't particularly care either way. I'm probably actually closer to you on the subject then them. But who knows?It's absolutely a failure of design to be putting out an entire book of something unsupported by the system's math because then the gm needs to finish what should have been done in the core for wotc.
I don't have a problem with magic items having a GP cost. It's not like a DM needs to make any of them available for sale, just because they have prices. And "prices" would be at least one way to judge them. Then again, they'd probably have stupid prices, like they used to do.
I have no idea what you're saying here. It might be the hyperbole, but I'm not really sure. I really try to follow you, too - I like to read your posts (when you're not accusing me of holding some sort of "telling" position that I don't actually hold.)the shift from a statement about the lack of information over goals making "better" ring hollow to the absolute certainty of "Magic Items won't be expected, they are meant to be pure bonus" demonstrates why wotc's eggshell treading attempt to have it both ways is an objective failure on wotc's part