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My question is this. How do you determine the quality of a piece of equipment that another person is wearing? How do you know how powerful a sword or breastplate is from looking at it?
For example, if you look at the guy down the block's BMW, do you know if the car runs well from looking at it? By appearance, anything can be outstanding, but how can someone ICly determine the actual quality of a piece without using it?
Why do I ask? Because I want to know how these murderers/marauders/thieves know what EQ to go after. If it's a stock piece, why bother? And if it's created by some means or unique how can a character tell ICly whether it's a strong sword or a strong person swinging a sword?
Coveting people's equipment is as ooc as HR and DR and levels and stats. These things do not exist in character. Which means that my DR +10,000 sword might not look a terrible lot different than someone elses DR +10 sword. In fact, mine might even look worse from the amount of use it's seen.
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