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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9769305" data-attributes="member: 23751">The bolded two things are the same.  The core books are D&D.  What is dominant in a DM's personal setting is whatever the DM happens to like.The issue is that a lot of DMs pretty much just go with the official books, which means their games will be very sword heavy.  Some DMs will create a lot of items and also use the official books for a lot of items. Since they generally also create swords, their games will still be sword biased, even if not by as much as just going with official books.  DM's who create all or nearly all of their own items can get rid of that bias, but in my experience they don't, because they have been biased by the official books(like the players also are) and create more swords than anything else.It's very rare for a D&D game to not be biased towards swords. I know that I have never seen one, and I'm including myself here.  I fall into that second category of use official(and 3rd party) sources, and create a lot of my own, but I still make more swords than other types of weapons.  Thinking about it, though, the last really major artifact weapon I made for one of my campaigns was a spear. Go me!</blockquote>