Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) General Why promote save-reload-until-lucky?

Hi! Haven't played too much yet, but quickly learned that items in chests/bookshelves/... are mostly random and not decided until mouse is above the container/item.
So, being the goblin I am, I go to each bookshelf and quicksave, then reload until it has a spellbook. Same with the chests (reload until getting a charm or a statuette) etc.

I've gone through the village and am currently trying to clear out the fifth level in the catacombs where that Maradeus guy went mad, and I've gotten statuette of frog/cat/spider, five smaller charms, at least two different armour pieces each for increasing identify/lockpick/monsterknowledge/repair, plus 30 spellbooks of different types.

Especially for the spellbooks this is very helpful, since I can put my skill points on other things, but it feels... bad. I guess some of you would call this cheating, but as I see it, this is not very different from reloading because you get killed. Using cracks or editing savefiles is cheating, sure, but using a feature that is well known and used by everyone in smaller or larger scale... oh well, it's up to each person's conscience, I guess.

This is not something unique for DivDiv, of course. Almost every game seems to be using the same method, promoting the use of saving before random loot, and reloading until you get satisfied.


Ok, so to my question: Why is it so?
Do game creators just not care about it? This is, after all, the easiest way to code things.
Or is it done this way because people want to have this possibility to increase their luck?

Personally I would have prefered all random loot to be decided when you create your character. I believe it would be easily done by the use of one random number that is created at start, which is saved with your character and used as seed for all random loot in the future, keeping all loot random as usual, but not changing just because you reload a saved game.
So if you are unhappy with the loot, you can try again, but only by starting a new game from scratch.

Hoping for an answer but I'm not in a hurry. I'll be spending some time enjoying this game.
Thank you for taking your time reading this post.