I've seen a game that fixed the 3000 skulls problem. All items could be destroyed to create runes, that can be applied to another item to improve it. Let's say

I've seen a game that fixed the 3000 skulls problem. All items could be destroyed to create runes, that can be applied to another item to improve it. Let's say that a skull giving +10 force would give a few runes to add +1 and +3, the later being more valuable. Everything was recyclable and there was a complete economy about recycling to provide for the one hundred different characteristics.