JohnSnow
Hero
So, I noticed some thing about this product while browsing the report from the Critical Hits blog. Since there seems to be some confusion, I thought I'd cross-post the relevant quote.
So my guess is that "common" items are things like magic swords, armor, & implements, potions of healing and similar vanilla items, whereas most of the uncommons are the flashier items like "flaming swords" and so forth.
That leaves Rares to cover things like item sets, artifacts, and similar. Again, just my guess. Thoughts?
Mordenkainen’s Magical Emporium is a book of magic items designed to inject more story and descriptions into magic items. Not just a bland history, but a real story hinted at by the item’s description. The big news with this book, and all magic items in Essentials and going forward, is that magic items will be given “Common, Uncommon, Rare” designations. Common and uncommon items can be bought and created by characters. Rare items can only be given out by a DM. Most items already in existence are going to be retroactively classified as Uncommon, and almost all items going forward in new books will be Rare.
So my guess is that "common" items are things like magic swords, armor, & implements, potions of healing and similar vanilla items, whereas most of the uncommons are the flashier items like "flaming swords" and so forth.
That leaves Rares to cover things like item sets, artifacts, and similar. Again, just my guess. Thoughts?