Well, in the group I was in today - there was a VERY happy cleric (lvl 22
if I remember right) in MM. Shieldboy showed up - and she was the only one
could use it.

We had to tell her 3x - loot your shield.

At 01:58 PM 1/12/00 -0600, you wrote:

>From: James Schuldes <jgs@...>
>
>Loot rules should be stated at the beginning and when any new person joins.
>You can make up your mind whether to abide it or not - up front.
>
>This concept of the person who can personally best use the item having more
>"rights" to it or even rights to roll for it than other's prolly developed
>from regular groups and/or guild groups. If you are consistently grouped
>with players, it benefits the group (or guild) to ensure that everyone is as
>well equipped as possible. But in pick-up groups, or if you have "guests"
>(non-guild or non-reg group), then I think (imho) that everyone deserves the
>right to roll for any loot. It is their compensation for the risk of being
>in the group. Now you can modify that rule to everyone can pick any item
>they want to roll for and once they win a roll they are out of the rolling
>until everyone has an item. This allows some choice and you avoid winning
>something you don't want.