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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6079867" data-attributes="member: 82106">I think there is a meaningful point between artifact and common item or consumable. I know we don't agree on this, but I think there's room for rare items that are not world changing artifacts. The Rod of 7 parts or The Book of Khel's Doom, are artifacts. They are items that are not just powerful items but forces in the world, characters of their own in essence. Rare items are different. They may be ancient, may even have personalities, but they don't have their own agendas. They are just tools, but still unique or very very close to it and not something a PC will create except with special circumstance.I don't know why they made "uncommon" items. I thought 'common', 'rare', and 'artifact' were plenty of categories.In general I think the 4e items aren't actually that bland, but they made LOADS of very similar items for some reason. It seemed like they ended up not feeling that unique, and on top of that there were the different tiers of each item. It seemed a bit like there were a billion similar items. AV1/2 didn't really do a LOT to fix that, though they had a few cool things in them they also added a lot more similar repeat stuff. I think MME does have it about right, it would have been great if we'd just gotten MME in 2008.</blockquote>