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|author=John Fraser
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Are your players tired of having to set aside that family heirloom in favor of a random bit of treasure with better abilities?  Do you want your character to define his equipment, rather than letting the equipment define the character?  Do you desire maximum flexibility in the gear your players use?  Do you prefer customization over predefinition?

If you answered yes to any of the above, then you need Complete Gear, the new book on customization from the author who brought you Complete Control: Character Design for the Uninhibited.

Within its 13 pages, Complete Gear gives you everything you need to stop making your characters define their abilities by the luck of random treasure or the availability of item creation feats and puts the control firmly in your hands!

With illustrations by Dave Peterson and V. Shane, Complete Gear is written by John Fraser, the author of Complete Control: Character Design for the Uninhibited.
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= Preface =

Complete Control took character design out of the hands of game designers and put it back into the hands 
of the individual players where it belongs.  However, with as much freedom as Complete Control does give 
with respect to the character design process there is still a certain amount of reality to the complaint that a 
character is largely defned by their items.  From the player’s perspective, when so much thought is put into 
designing precisely the desired character why shouldn’t that character defne the items rather than the items 
defning the character?

From the perspective of the Game Master, treasure and NPC equipment are often on the top of the list of 
elements that suck the fun out of games.  Many Game Masters complain about the fact that magic-marts 
destroy the believability of the game.  Yet, without places to buy magic items the players complain that they 
are reliant upon the mercy of the Game Master in handing out treasure.  Wouldn’t it be nice to eliminate the 
time needed to prepare balanced treasure as well as remove the necessity of having a magic-mart in every 
city the characters might visit?

That is precisely the premise of this work.  [[Summary::By using the rules presented here, players can take control of 
the items that their character uses.  Game Masters can stop worrying about coming up with a meaningful yet 
balanced list of items and treasure.  NPCs can use whatever items make sense to the character or monster 
without the Game Master worrying about unbalancing the game when the items fall into the hands of the 
characters.  This work strives to take even more control out of the hands of the game designers and put it 
into the hands of the people who will enjoy wielding that very power the most!]]

As a note before the text of Complete Gear begins, I hope that this work is seen as an obvious supplement 
to the work done in Complete Control: Character Design for the Uninhibited.   Yet, this work in no way 
assumes that Complete Control is being used in a game.  Complete Gear is a stand-alone system of magic 
items and treasure that does not rely upon Complete Control in any way.  It can be used in any game that 
uses gold pieces  to defne both character wealth and  item purchases  regardless of how character design 
occurs.


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Abbreviation	CG +
Author	John Fraser +
ISBN	None +
Item Code	DSPMD0003 +
Media Type	PDF +
Page Count	13 +
Publication Date	2009 +
Publisher	Dreamscarred Press +
Summary	Using the rules here, players truly are once more in control of their equipment in a way that's both meaningful and balanced, and DMs don't have to come up with long lists of items that are both meaningful and balanced. +
System	Dungeons and Dragons 3.5e +
Title	Complete Gear +