> > I have a theory that the probability of finding the rarer special item for your own character class is lower than that of finding any of the others, but nobody's ever backed me up on that!
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> You might be right about that. I remember that when I was playing a druid, it took me eons to find some Druid's Garb, but when I was playing a wizard, I found several of them.

You're both probably onto something, but it's Murphy's Law, not anything inherent in Murkon's Refuge. All of the rarest of each equipment type have an equal rarity. That said, some classes have more commonly available special items than others, but this doesn't change based on who you're playing.

> I think the rarest item is probably that Rod of Catastrophe. In four games, I've only found it twice, and only in games where I've had six characters.

The exception to the "equal rarity" is, indeed, the non-equippable items. There are more of them, so the rarest of these, Rod of Catastrophe, occurs less frequently than the rarest item of every other equipment type.