Help Me Create My City's Mage's Quarter (my players please stay out)

[Agent Oracle]

An ancient animated anatomy skelton. it's different from regular skeletons in the MM in that it happens to be held together by copper wire. And it wanders about the floors of a university, trying to give an old, half forgotten lecture.

Also, i firmly reccomed you get some artifacts for your game from Warehouse 23. Because there's nothin g more fun than having a well-designed, but completely useless magical artifact easily found in the debris...

Also borrowing from Discworld... High Magic zones. A tiny area where your spellcasters (including bards, paladins, rangers, etc.) have the ability to detect magic without casting the spell Any primary caster can roll a knowledge Arcane to see taht the proper thing to do in this place is flip a coin... which will allways land on edge in the high-magic zone... (Or turn into a butterfly... or stick in the air... Or change denominations (i.e. copper to platinum etc.) Needless to say, it would be VERY dangeorus to cast any spells in a magic-saturated environment.

 

[Laundreu]

Also, i firmly reccomed you get some artifacts for your game from Warehouse 23. Because there's nothin g more fun than having a well-designed, but completely useless magical artifact easily found in the debris...

Ahhhh, Warehouse 23. Biggest problem with it is it's oriented primarily towards modern day, magic-is-a-conspiracy-theory games. Still, useful things can be found.

You open one of the 997 boxes on this floor and find...

A series of carnival distortion mirrors; in various shapes. Upon each one you see several brownish spatters on the surface; analysis will reveal that it is human blood. Any attempts to use a magic spell or psi talent to reveal what they are for will only result in the user hearing a distant, high-pitched giggling.

I can use this as-is.

A black 9mm pistol with an infinity symbol etched on the side. This gun never runs out of ammo. It seems to have been well used.

A light crossbow with the Ouroburos printed on the side, firing a 2d4+2 force projectile as a ranged touch attack unlimited times? Not quite as good as a level 3 caster's Magic Missile wand, but it has no ammo problem. Nifty, but not game-breaking.

 

[Agent Oracle]

Yeah, but you can get five or six items, adapt them, and they work flawlessly. My favorite one, which I included in a Feng Shui campaign was a black box, about a foot on each side and completely covered with flips, knobs and switches. Little did the party know that attemtping to make it work put a minor compultion on them... not that I needed to tell them that. they played with that thing for nearly half an hour before i got sick of it and narrated that the box did nothing, no matter what they did.

 

[Laundreu]

Point, point. We'll see what else there is.

Anything else that can qualify for 'spooky as '? I'm thinking about some kind of Golem or similar, that follows a path and purpose totally unknown to the PCs - it could be a Deus Ex Machina for doors - opening previously sealed portals in doing its rounds, perhaps.

What? I liked PyramidHead.