New Posts For Thread: Two birds with one stone: Magic Items and Weapon Expertisehttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19939830/Two_birds_with_one_stone:_Magic_Items_and_Weapon_ExpertiseThe two birds, in this case, are "making magic items more special" and "that bloody Weapon Expertise feat". My idea is extremely simple, but at the same time devilishly clever, if I may say so myself (I'm pretty arrogant): swap the sources of the boSmall update to reflect changes made in Essentials.  By that I mean the feats that grant a scaling feat bonus to one thing and a situational bonus to another.  I like those feats, but getting rid of the item bonuses completely would make them too whttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19939830/Two_birds_with_one_stone:_Magic_Items_and_Weapon_Expertise?post_id=469906065#469906065Small update to reflect changes made in Essentials.  By that I mean the feats that grant a scaling feat bonus to one thing and a situational bonus to another.  I like those feats, but getting rid of the item bonuses completely would make them too wTue, 12 Oct 2010 15:09:34 -0500Heheh.  Yeah, lots of people have come up with something like this; the trick is to do it well.Personally, I'm not a fan of doing away with masterwork armour...This would work well as far as brevity and simplicity are concerned... but something feelhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19939830/Two_birds_with_one_stone:_Magic_Items_and_Weapon_Expertise?post_id=457086457#457086457Heheh.  Yeah, lots of people have come up with something like this; the trick is to do it well.Personally, I'm not a fan of doing away with masterwork armour...This would work well as far as brevity and simplicity are concerned... but something feelTue, 13 Jul 2010 12:54:13 -0500This is a pretty fantastic idea.  I came up with something similar a while back, but I've never play-tested it.... mostly because I have yet to get a game above the heroic tier to even make it relevant.   I remove all of the craptastic expertise ahttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19939830/Two_birds_with_one_stone:_Magic_Items_and_Weapon_Expertise?post_id=456051273#456051273This is a pretty fantastic idea.  I came up with something similar a while back, but I've never play-tested it.... mostly because I have yet to get a game above the heroic tier to even make it relevant.   I remove all of the craptastic expertise aWed, 07 Jul 2010 02:11:02 -0500I was thinking about the problems with progression some more just now, and I had a revelation.  No, more like two.  The first revelation was that I don't actually like the idea of an automatic progression.  A bonus is far more satisfying when you'http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19939830/Two_birds_with_one_stone:_Magic_Items_and_Weapon_Expertise?post_id=455887013#455887013I was thinking about the problems with progression some more just now, and I had a revelation.  No, more like two.  The first revelation was that I don't actually like the idea of an automatic progression.  A bonus is far more satisfying when you'Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:58:36 -0500If you really want a perfectly smooth progression, maybe you should get rid of masterwork armour and just grant the bonus automatically to characters wearing heavy armour.  I know I argued against that earlier, but that was that system and this is thttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19939830/Two_birds_with_one_stone:_Magic_Items_and_Weapon_Expertise?post_id=451094529#451094529If you really want a perfectly smooth progression, maybe you should get rid of masterwork armour and just grant the bonus automatically to characters wearing heavy armour.  I know I argued against that earlier, but that was that system and this is tMon, 07 Jun 2010 23:39:53 -0500