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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 7655441" data-attributes="member: 22424">Bear in mind that every edition is someone's first edition. So the core books need to provide a core set of magic items, the vast majority of which will be repeats. 99 pages might be a bit much, or maybe not - I guess that's a matter of taste.(Of course, note that the PHB 'rehashes' all the classes and hundreds of spells; the MM 'rehashes' the vast majority of its monsters. For the same reason - a new edition needs new versions of these things.)Actually, the 3.5e Magic Item Compendium specifically did not include the DMG items for exactly this reason - the DMG was assumed to be a book that every DM had access to.(The 2nd Ed compendium did, but it was before the WotC buyout. Also, the 2nd Ed compendium was, at that time, comprehensive - it included every magic item published to that point, a claim the 3e version didn't make.)All of this is fair enough. I don't currently own the 5e DMG (getting it for Christmas), so can't make any comment on its actual quality. I just wanted to note that my past experience was that those pages of magic items do at least leave me confident I'll get some lasting use from the book. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>