Actually, Magic Eaters are meant to eat magical items. Back in First Edition, things were much different then they are now. There were no THAC0 tables, percentile dice were used for to hit rolls. Some improvements were made in the second edition, and, then, after a buy out, there was another second edition. When the cartoon show hit the air and suddenly D&D was a huge fad, lots of things got dumbed down and made a bit more fair and easier for all the idiots who were out buying tons of books. They removed a lot of spell check rolls for mages, removed spell components, they took a lot of things away that actually made the game fun. When it was mostly college Ph.D students playings, things were complicated. When it became labeled as a family game, something recommended for ages 6 and up, there was much damage done.
I would love to see a First Edition Rules CRPG like Baldur's Gate made. Mods would not be needed. The game would be insanely HARD. Nobody, and I mean nobody would want to play mages unless they were the sorts that also liked to play with whips and chains as well. There would be forum posts of angry noobs flaming that they can't cast Magic Missle and they can't figure out why. (Find the spell components first dimwit [img]tongue.gif[/img] ) I would pay a huge sum of money to see some of those forum posts. "Ok I am playing a fighter and I got this great +2 sword that slays bugbears and I found this weird brown anteater looking thing that spit at me and now my sword, my armor, all my metal stuff is gone!" I want to see my classic monsters in a frightning mass. Displacer beasts. Goblins. REAL goblins. The kind that don't have the nerve to attack you unless the odds are 100 to 1. You see, when a Ranger chooses goblins as his racial enemy, it was a wise thing, because you never ever know when you might be facing a few hundred of them at a time and you want something to give you the upper hand in your final moments of life. I want to feel the sheer terror of the classic preditors of D&D world. Even the enemies that made it to the game are not as I remember. I can remember a battle with but a single troll that ripped apart a party that was all around level 10 or so. But the trolls in BG are well, weenies. Sad sorry weenies, mere shadows of that the real terror of what trolls can be. I found a hammer that has bonuses for giants, but, how many giants do you find in BG? Not many. Not enough. There is great feeling of fear when the DM says the earth is shaking. It's like knowing the TRex from Jurassic Park is about to come and rip you to bits.
Ooops sorry. Forgive an old man his ramblings. I dunno about you, but, I feel better
