Quote Originally Posted by Sigreid View Post
As a DM I dont go out of my way to cater to the players. If a player asked, I would let them research and go try to find something specific.
This seems like a way to make the rarity of magical polearms into the drive of a smaller character arc -- they find out about a specific artifact that meshes with their combat style, research where and when it has changed hands and finds out who (or what) owns it presently. Then there's acquiring it. Seems like a cool way to make player agency the drive for a magic item, plus when they get it finally at the end of the arc it'll mean that much more to them because of the investment they made into getting it. Seems cool, sounds fun, might steal.