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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 5402916" data-attributes="member: 2011">I think there are some examples that can be found: Riding Boots, Muleback harness, Arcanist's Glasses.To me, this isn't the real issue though.The real issue is that there are ~300 common items out of ~8900 items and the vast majority of those 300 are not useful to any given current group of PCs. If nobody can use a Rod in the group, 24 items out of 300 are useless as common items. Split across 30 levels, that pretty much leaves 10 common items per level, a third of which are pretty worthless or repetitive for a given group of players/PCs.There are also entire areas of magic like Wondrous items that have no common items.Plus, there are items like Dragonshard Augments where many of them should be common, but are not.Don't get me wrong. I really like the concept. But, I think that the definition of common is too restrictive because it's going to somewhat force the DM's hand when handing out magic items if the DM is someone who likes to follow the WotC treasure parcel guidelines closely.I'm personally trying to come up with my own house rule on what a common item should be, just because of how limited the core rule definition is.</blockquote>