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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5402383" data-attributes="member: 82106">I don't think the idea of rarity is about the power level of the items at all. It is about controlling character access to item powers. Common items never have powers, or possibly just have some kind of power that could be harmless if it were spammed. Uncommon items have powers that really need to be restricted such that no matter what level you are you can't gain access to multiple instances of that power. Rare items are a bit of a different beast. They are almost certainly going to be more powerful than other items at the same level, but given that players will never be getting the choice of these items and will see a small and controlled number of them they don't NEED to be on the same power curve as other items. Look at artifacts, they too don't fall into any kind of power curve that resembles normal items except in a VERY general respect of the types of powers they have will be generally appropriate to the tier they are designed for. You can think of rare items as somewhere intermediate between artifacts and normal common/uncommon items. What the level of an item tells you is roughly what point in the game it is considered appropriate to give out that type of item in order to maintain expected power levels and modes of play.As for artifacts being listed in Compendium as "uncommon", so what? All items default to uncommon. Artifacts are outside the whole parcel scheme anyway, so a rarity category for them is irrelevant, not part of the rules, and is just there because of the way Compendium works. Really, trying to ball bust on WotC at every turn for the most trivial minutia gets tiring. Can we just from now on in all threads assume that everyone hates WotC and is silently breaking their nuts with a hammer every 5 minutes so we can just not have to read it anymore?</blockquote>

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