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<blockquote data-quote="bganon" data-source="post: 5188977" data-attributes="member: 60886"><p>I think the 1d10 per level is there under the assumption that once an artifact enters the story, it dominates the plot and the party will be driven to the conclusion of its goals one way or another within three levels or so. You could probably replace the 1d10 with a roll every time the party advances to some major artifact-related plot point, but the two should work out to be roughly equivalent. </p><p></p><p>The other reason I think artifacts are expected to go away fairly quickly is that if the DM gives an artifact to one PC, then out of fairness it's tempting to give artifacts to at least some of the other PCs at another point in the campaign. Then unless you overlap them (which is problematic for power balance reasons), you have artifacts around for 10-15 levels even if each one moves on after three. If you have them move on after six levels or so instead, then your campaign from levels 1-30 is almost entirely about artifacts... which seems a bit much unless you're specifically planning for it in advance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bganon, post: 5188977, member: 60886"] I think the 1d10 per level is there under the assumption that once an artifact enters the story, it dominates the plot and the party will be driven to the conclusion of its goals one way or another within three levels or so. You could probably replace the 1d10 with a roll every time the party advances to some major artifact-related plot point, but the two should work out to be roughly equivalent. The other reason I think artifacts are expected to go away fairly quickly is that if the DM gives an artifact to one PC, then out of fairness it's tempting to give artifacts to at least some of the other PCs at another point in the campaign. Then unless you overlap them (which is problematic for power balance reasons), you have artifacts around for 10-15 levels even if each one moves on after three. If you have them move on after six levels or so instead, then your campaign from levels 1-30 is almost entirely about artifacts... which seems a bit much unless you're specifically planning for it in advance. [/QUOTE]
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