![]() ![]() This was, in part, how Gygax kept adventurers spending their millions (yes, millions) of gold pieces obtaining rare spells and items to aid in their quest to accumulate ever more rare spells and items. Gygax’s campaigns were places where 6th-level characters were amazing individuals known throughout the land and where arcane spellcasters (‘magic users’ and ‘illusionists’) jealously hoarded their knowledge and charged exorbitant fees for their services. Gygax’s D&D was fundamentally a low-magic game, but was it the kind of thing you wanted to emulate? He mocked the characters who had accumulated too much magic, leading them to strut about with “scores of mighty magic items, artifacts, relics adorning them as if they were Christmas trees decked out with tinsel and ornaments”. ![]() In the original Dungeon Master’s Guide, Gary Gygax exhorted DMs to avoid handing out too many magic items. ![]()
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