Icewind Dale II Forum Update
Posted Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 22:44 CEST by Veldrin

J.E. Sawyer, Lead Designer

Placing Items In The World: The problem with placing unique magic weapons "in the world" instead of in stores is that we can never know what weapon a player might want. By placing at least one weapon of each major power level (+1, +3, +5) in stores, we give all players access to at least one weapon of "their type" for each section of the game. If all of those items were placed in the world, the player would typically use two or three of them, then sell the rest for huge amounts of money. Huge amounts of money for which there is no decent equipment to buy (since they already have the weapons they want).