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Let's say that hypothetically you're a Fighter, and you can't (and don't have to) spend your wealth-by-level on magic swords or attribute enhancements or any other numeric bonus. All of your wealth instead goes into things that give you a real tactical or strategic benefit. Where would the money go?

So you're a 6th level character, you have 13,000 gp worth of stuff and none of it is a fvcking +1 Sword. What would you have?

You're a 10th level character, and you've got 49,000 gp of weird swag and none of it is used up in stupid Cloacks of Resistance. What else would you have?

You're a 15th level character, and you have 200,000 worth of special swag that isn't a belt of giant strength or a +4 shield. What is it?

-Username17

FrankTrollman at [unixtime wrote:1151438057[/unixtime]]Let's say that hypothetically you're a Fighter, and you can't (and don't have to) spend your wealth-by-level on magic swords or attribute enhancements or any other numeric bonus. All of your wealth instead goes into things that give you a real tactical or strategic benefit. Where would the money go?

So you're a 6th level character, you have 13,000 gp worth of stuff and none of it is a fvcking +1 Sword. What would you have?

You're a 10th level character, and you've got 49,000 gp of weird swag and none of it is used up in stupid Cloacks of Resistance. What else would you have?

You're a 15th level character, and you have 200,000 worth of special swag that isn't a belt of giant strength or a +4 shield. What is it?

-Username17

Grendel's dragonskin bag, Alladin's lamp (or carpet), Perseus' helmet and sandals, an enchanted rice grinder, and maybe a magical stone horse.

Then again, the cash might just go to prosthetics:
A jewel of slumbering scarlet whose colour sometimes shifts to smouldering blue to replace his right eye, and a many-faceted crystal, which pulses as if possessed of independent life to replace his left.
A nine-fingered, alien thing of iron, wood and carved amethyst to replace his right hand, cut from the creature who had sliced off his own hand. A many jointed limb of silver, gold and lapis lazuli to replace his left. So on and so forth.

I don't have a specific list, but here's my thoughts:

A castle, large tracts of land, and servants tending to me.

I would go out, do some profitable dungeoneering, then retire for a few weeks persuing gentlemanly passtimes.

Bracers of Deflection. Periapts of Healing. Eyes of Seeming, Wings of flying, Bobs of Dragon Fvcking. Anything and everything possibly useful. Heck, an Animated sword, to have for a sparring partner.

No really. Getting out of the thing where magic items are merely a plus one sword and the Mage and Rogue have all the baubles... Priceless.

-Crissa

FrankTrollman at [unixtime wrote:1151438057[/unixtime]]
So you're a 6th level character, you have 13,000 gp worth of stuff

You're a 10th level character, and you've got 49,000 gp of weird swag

You're a 15th level character, and you have 200,000 worth of special swag

13,0000 gp (6th)
Heward’s Handy Haversack 2,000 gp
Blindfold of True Darkness (A&E p130) 9,000gp
a potion of fly 650gp
tanglefoot bags 50gp each

49,000 gp (10th)
a portable hole 20,000
winged boots 16,000
Necklace of Adaptation 9,000
Najjar’s Cloak of Weaponry (PGF p123) 2,500
Everlasting Rations: (Heroes of Battle pg 131) 350gp
Shapesand (jug) (Sandstorm pg 99, 102-103) 12 lb. @ 100 gp
1,050 in potions and alchemical junk.

200,000 gp (15th)
Dragonskin Bag of Grendel (DR329 p26) 18,000 gp
(light extra dimension friendly bag of holding)
Boots of Teleportation 49,000 gp
Ring of Solar Wings (BoED p115) 118,000
Necklace of Adaptation 9,000 gp
Everlasting Rations: (Heroes of Battle pg 131) 350gp
a bunch of Shapesand (jug) (Sandstorm pg 99, 102-103) 12 lb. @ 100 gp

Ale & Wenches!

Charity.

Give it back to the people the Dragon stole it off.

Tax.

Leave half of it on the dungeon floor.

Seriously, if you go ahead and write up that idea for equipment you had a thread about a while back thats where it'd be goin. It'd be great.

Assuming I didn't buy a bunch of one-shot items to "just win" encounters....

6th
Core:
Ring of Feather Falling 2K
Bag of Endless Rations 350 gp
Bronze Griffin 10K

or
Bag of Tricks(Rust) 3k
Horn of Fog 2k
Bag of Endless Rations 350 gp
Harp of Charming 7.5K (yes, I'd learn to play the bvtch)

Non-Core:
Ring of Floating 2k
Bag of Endless Rations 350 gp
Yeth Horn 10K

or
Night Caller 7K
Handy Haversack 2K
Stone of Alarm 2.7K
Bag of Endless Rations 350 gp

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10th

Core:
Ring of Blinking 27K
Most of two options from the 6th level list

or
Ring of Invisibility 20K
All of two options from the 6th level list

or
Carpet of Flying 20K
Iron Bands of Bilarro 26K

Non-Core:
Meh.

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15th
Core:
Daern's Instant Fortress 54K
Everything in the 10th level and 5th level options.

or
Ring of Spell Storing, Major (Tenser's Tranformation anyone?)

or
Cube of Force 64K
Ring of Blinking 27K
Ring of Invisibility 20K
Carpet of Flying 20K
Iron Bands of Bilarro 26K
Boots of Teleportation 49K

Steroids?

Ring of Floating 2k ?? what is that?


at 10th
Cloak of Displacement, Minor (DMG p253) 24k

at 15th
Cloak of Displacement, Major (DMG p253) 50k

Iron Bands of Bilarro are cool, just look out for the guy that can make the DC 30 Strength check...

The major cloak of displacement always struck me as a waste since it required a standard action to activate.

People would buy magic items that are way overpriced but give obscure benefits in certain situations. Like that Kiira thing from Lost Empires of Faerûn that stores everything you see and hear when you wear it.

RandomCasualty at [unixtime wrote:1151501019[/unixtime]]The major cloak of displacement always struck me as a waste since it required a standard action to activate.

Holy nerfbat batman! that is a HUGE 3.5 nerf :jawdrop:
good thing I'm playing 3.125H and not 3.5.
The 3.5 version is a total waste of 50k, even if it worked as a lesser when it wasn't switched on it's only barely worth it, as written it bites!

While I was going through the list of items, i noticed one thing: everything is either too expensive or merely adds a static bonus.

What can you do? Even items that are "kinda neat" but not good like a Ring of Elemental Command is so expensive that you can't afford it while dumb items that add to skill checks are affordable. Heck, if you get a Ring of Shooting Stars you sell it in the market rather than actually use the damn thing.

I'm actually tempted to check out the items in 2e to see just how many items went from "that cool thing we got that we use once in a while" like an Apparatus of Kwalish and turned into a +stat item out of Diablo II.

MrWaeseL at [unixtime wrote:1151507284[/unixtime]]People would buy magic items that are way overpriced but give obscure benefits in certain situations. Like that Kiira thing from Lost Empires of Faerûn that stores everything you see and hear when you wear it.

which kiira thing?

The Kiira N’Vaelahr (PGF p123) 75,040gp turns someone into a videocam, it's a good way to have your minion watch something, come back and "play you the tape".

Kiira (MoF p162) 7,500gp +2 Competence bonus on Knowledge checks after a full round of concentration. Acts as a spellbook capable of holding 30 levels of spells.

Telkiira (LEoF pg 155-156) 100,000 gp, does all kinds of crazy stuff, you must have elf blood or you get 2 negitive levels and the shiny doesn't work. Can be locked if you are the wrong family etc. holds 10 one hour memories, most likely elf pr0n I would guess.

I was talking about the first one. It solves whodunit's in a pinch if you can get the badguy to monologue while you secretly tape it.

MrW wrote:I was talking about the first one. It solves whodunit's in a pinch if you can get the badguy to monologue while you secretly tape it.

In a world of where illusions are so good that some are even partially real, what use is that? Who'd believe it?