Right.
And I hate the former. I hate the idea of 'magic is special and rare because to me it paradoxically makes the world less fantastic.
Well does the DMG have good news for you then!!! (As long as you're DMing anyway, in which case it enourages you to have them as common as you want in your world, with Eberron as an example).
D&D 5E - Levels 1-4 are "Training Wheels?"
Man, I hate the insistence that there's no such thing as 'magic marts'. If there's nothing people won't buy or sell. There have been sellers of mummies (for eating!), military weaponry, and islands with storefronts and everything. IF magic items were a thing maybe they wouldn't be stored on...
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