[The magus calmly re-enters the embassy and returns to his small lab. He leaves a few hours later, most of the contents of the Lab having been reduces to smoking cinders. He still has traces of glitter on his robe.]

[After the Incident with the glitterbomb, Magus Namik cautiously opens this letter outside the embassy, pointed away from himself]

[Those who pass through the Thayan Embassy in the next few days may see see a Very disgruntled and slightly sparkly Khagos going over every inch of the common area of the Thayan Embassy with a Brush, under the stern and unimpressed Gaze of Senior Magus Vicho]

[On a quiet evening, his studies done for the day and his staff set aside. Magus Namik relaxes and begins to check through his mail. Upon reaching the sealed and anonymous letter he pauses. After warding himself with every protection spell he knows, having been through the standard Red Wizard hazing in his Youth, he opens the letter]

@joekickass

A fair point, though subclasses are far more common in more modern D&D. But kits are a balancing act. Give to little and nobody will use them except for less mechanically focused RP builds. Too much and everyone will use them regardless of their story. (How many arena fighter kit fighters have ACTUALLY been arena fighters really?)

The simple annoying answer to most of this is that balancing is much more reactive than proactive. You can't find out what will break the server til someone breaks it.

You can solve the obvious issues like monks becoming insane at high levels, but trying to factor in all the potential race/class/alignment/loot combos is a fools errand.

@joekickass

Kits have always been more for flavour than balance, the sorcerer kits being the perfect example as they were flavourful as hell but mechanically terrible.

As for IG equipment and OP builds, You solve that issue by nerfing the builds not the equipment. If you have X subrace who becomes really powerful with martial stones for example, you Nerf X Subrace instead of making martial stones weaker for everyone and thereby keeping X subrace OP. As for DM equipment, it's meant to be powerful. They earned it, if it was easily matched or beaten by quest gear what would be the point?

Bravo was broken on the side of overpowered and subsequently disabled. Fighters can do anything ok but are outdone by specialists like the monk and rogue.

// @DailyPWN

Mister Alebeard

I presented your case to our Quartermaster of the Embassy, expressing the potential of your plans and presenting your order and offer of wholesale purchase.

I have enclosed his response.

Magus Khagos Namik

@spiffymeister said in A Note for Senior Magus Vicho:

No.

Senior Magus Vicho

As you wish.

I shall inform him of your Decision. I had assumed this answer, but most people find it easier to accept when it's on a piece of parchment for some reason.

Magus Namik

Senior Magus

I pass on a request from an ambitious adventurer of Arabel who wishes products for some form of kits he wishes to put together and sell to adventurers.

Our Thayan Rods, due to their great versatility and lack of required magical skill to use, are considered to him to be an excellent potential addition to a Premium version of this kit. Therefore he is willing to make a Bulk Purchase of 5 or 10, depending on your final quotation, of the following rods wholesale: The Rod of Skins, The Rod of Armour and the Rod of Elemental Defence.

As Senior Quartermaster of the Embassy, I bring this offer to you for appraisal, so that I may give him a price to aim for. While the Dwarf himself is about as sharp as a pebble his schemes may have some merit and would prove useful in getting our products back into circulation in Arabel.

I await your Verdict.

Magus Namik.