What kinda limits are we looking at. Considering some of the items that I've seen requested, I would have to say something that a level 4-6 character might realistically possess. IE, if you ask for a +5 Holy Avenger, you can be pretty sure that I'll laugh for days before telling you no. What I wanted from each player was a "few" things that they would like to have, keeping level in mind. What I got... welll... not so much.<br/><br/>My intention was to give each character one (1) fairly low-level magical item of usefulness and either a magical weapon or armor. I would also entertain non-magical armor or specialty weapon for specific character needs, but Elven Chain, I'm afraid is out. I can offer you a nice piece of dwarven plate though. ;)<br/><br/>I would also entertain regular, mundane items that a character wants for a particular reason. So, if, for example, someone wanted a handy haversack (And they did exist in AD&D, few just knew of it), I might consider it for one member of the party. I might also consider a bag of holding, one and only one in the party.<br/><br/>If someone, for example, wanted a flask of never emptying water, I might consider that... or a bow that yells insults when you fire it... In short, try to keep request to something that you think would be accessible by the levels involved.<br/><br/>What you won't get are a big list of things. In most of my early AD&D games as a player, by level 5, I felt lucky if my characters found a +1 long sword. A 5th level character with magic armor, weapons, bag of holding and deck of cards... not ever going to happen.<br/><br/>Anyway, we seem to have more or less everyone here, so lets work on that group background.<br/><br/>I'll help ya'll out by offering a type of job. How it went and what each person did is open to your imagination. Maybe you can even sneak something special in through story telling.<br/><br/>The party was hired to travel to a castle in the middle of a vast swamp to...  do what?