<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=50744.msg2395669#msg2395669">Quote from: The Tarrasque on 29-10-2009, 23:48:44</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Cutting loot below standard because I can push it farther is like doubling enemy damage because the Cleric can heal.  It flat isn't fair, and amounts to cheating.  The entire <em>point</em> of the Artificer class is to get the party items that are more powerful than what they should normally have by that level.  It's not broken if I manage to put someone in a mithral breastplate sooner; it's just what my class does, and what it's supposed to do, its advantage over all the other classes, just as Rogues are supposed to sneak good and Barbarians are supposed to stab good.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>You're right, the DMG is telling me to cheat. Someone should write WoTC a sternly worded letter.