How do you normally decide who gets the magic item? Do you usually Dice off?
I followed the guidelines for magic item distribution which state:
• If all the players at the table agree on who takes possession of a permanent magic item, that character gets the item.
• In the event that one or more characters indicate an interest in the item, the character who possesses the fewest permanent magic items gets the item.
• If the interested players have the same number of permanent magic items on the characters they played during that session, the item’s owner is determined randomly by the DM—usually by rolling a die.
The item in question was Goggles of Night, and multiple people expressed an interest in it, so it went to a roll off between two players who had zero magic items, neither of who was the damage MVP.