5e really discouraged magic items, and I learned to not expect them in table top...or need them.
BG games expect them...and they ARE cool to find.
The solution seems to be to make Bosses that are really really tough...and encounters too. In veteran and beyond mode anyway.
WOW! I can craft really cool potions and poisons in 5e!
They take weeks to craft, with ingredients from the outer planes, and you can use them once...NM
