Re: Campaign pacing

On Mar 30, 12:05 am, Russell Wallace <russell.no.s...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> DougL wrote:
> > I recall a case where two level 10 or so characters had a duel. They
> > started at range so they started by throwing their m***** of otherwise
> > useless +1 and +2 weapons at each other, they both had so many that
> > they needed bags of holding to hold them all.
>
> Yeah, I remember D&D magic items followed an exponential curve, so that
> for every good item that had tactical interest and sup****ted the fantasy
> theme, there'd be an immense pile of junk that just cluttered up the
game.
>
> A partial solution I came up with, back when I ran D&D, was to emphasize
> consumable items where at all possible, especially for the lower-level
> stuff.
>
> There's also the solution video games tend to adopt: have magic item
> shops, and encourage players to sell their piles of junk to save up for
> something good.

Which is the D&D 3.x solution. BtB you can buy and sell magic items
pretty freely getting 50% of retail for anything you sell. All those
+1 swords get sold for 1,157.5 gp each, and then you spend 14,000
having your +3 weapon upgraded to +4.

DougL