I think that I may have figured out how drop rates can be random and still have rare items. If this is an already known fact, please forgive me as I haven't seen anything about it before. My idea is that dropped loot for each enemy and boss has a list. When you defeat said enemy, it selects a number of items on the list. The list, however, has many copies of common items and few of the rare ones. For example, when you defeat Loremaster it has five or six treasure cards for Keeper of the flame and one learned spell, so it's more likely to land on a treasure card then the learned spell. This allows the drop rates to be random, but you can still keep rare items. if it was totally random, you would have an equal chance to get anything, and rare items would cease to exist. Eric deathsword
