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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mengu" data-source="post: 5352895" data-attributes="member: 65726">I feel the opposite. Any item that shows as a recommended or must have is automatically common. We see people running around with these items all the time. Bracers of Archery, Iron Armbands, Staff of Ruin, Dwarven Armor, Gauntlets of Blood, Strikebacks, etc. all seem to be the bread and butter items. Characters who have access to these items are the basis around monster design.Once these items are made common, the system needs to take this as the baseline when constructing uncommon and rare items. No uncommon or rare bracer should be worse than Iron Armbands. No uncommon or rare staff should be worse than Staff of Ruin.I know this isn't constructive, but I think the flaw lies with the existing 8,000+ items. The items just need an overhaul to make more sense.Tangent: I realize this argument makes you ponder, if items like Iron Armbands are what we're expected to have an use, then why isn't this expectation simply built into the system? Well, I believe it should be. Making actual magic items a bit more special. The current thrill of finding a magic +2 weapon is typically a sigh of relief that you can now hit monsters like you should be able to. It's a right, not a privilege. I would prefer magic items to become a privilege not a right. I would like to see some magic items properties that are character defining (such as rushing cleats, frost/flaming weapons, hungry spears, etc) become character traits, under control of a character. For instance, instead of relying on a DM to give my tiefling rogue a flaming weapon, I'd like to be able to simply pick up a trait that sheaths my weapon in flame. This way, the character build can be divorced from magic items and put in the hands of the players, and the DM only has to worry about items as privileges instead of items as rights. This of course means more than an overhaul of just the magic item system.</blockquote>

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