Klaudius Rex
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Hello!
I'm not sure how to handle this. In my Tomb of Annihilation game, the players and several factions are looking for an NPC named, Artus Cimber, and more particularly, the 'Ring of Winter', which is a very powerful magic item that I'm sort of afraid to let the players get a hold of and use in game.
The Red Wizards are after him. Xanadala is after him. The Flaming Fist are after him. The Harper's are after him. There's even some frost giants that trekked it from Icewind Dale to the jungles of Chult who are after him. He has become sort of a big part of the game, so dropping this "side quest" is really not an option anymore.
My players are not necessarily so evil that they will attack him outright and kill him, but more than a few of NPCs have hired the players to bounty him and/or get the Ring.
If the players parlay, hopefully it ends well, but he is likey to defend himself in any confrontation with the players that may arise. I don't necessarily worry about players killing him so much as i worry about them getting a hold of the Ring of Winter. To me, it's a super overpowered magic item, that can cast very high level magic spells, and in my opinion, just inappropriate for the party level at this point.
The players just turned level 5, and are heading into Omu where the Tomb is ultimately located.
I can describe the Ring's power in detail later if you like, but suffice to say that i just dont think this sort of item should be given out right now. If the players get the Ring, it will make almost all encounters for the rest of the game way too easy and no longer a fun challenge.
So what should i do? This is a more general question for all overpowered items that come up in pre-written adventure modules as well. How do you handle this? Do you think the players should be able to use the Ring if they got a hold of it? Do you think i should nerf the Ring, and make it less powerful? Or do you think i should do something else.
Also, if your playing ToA, let me know what your group did with Artus Cimber and the Ring. How did it turn out?
Thanks in advance.
I'm not sure how to handle this. In my Tomb of Annihilation game, the players and several factions are looking for an NPC named, Artus Cimber, and more particularly, the 'Ring of Winter', which is a very powerful magic item that I'm sort of afraid to let the players get a hold of and use in game.
The Red Wizards are after him. Xanadala is after him. The Flaming Fist are after him. The Harper's are after him. There's even some frost giants that trekked it from Icewind Dale to the jungles of Chult who are after him. He has become sort of a big part of the game, so dropping this "side quest" is really not an option anymore.
My players are not necessarily so evil that they will attack him outright and kill him, but more than a few of NPCs have hired the players to bounty him and/or get the Ring.
If the players parlay, hopefully it ends well, but he is likey to defend himself in any confrontation with the players that may arise. I don't necessarily worry about players killing him so much as i worry about them getting a hold of the Ring of Winter. To me, it's a super overpowered magic item, that can cast very high level magic spells, and in my opinion, just inappropriate for the party level at this point.
The players just turned level 5, and are heading into Omu where the Tomb is ultimately located.
I can describe the Ring's power in detail later if you like, but suffice to say that i just dont think this sort of item should be given out right now. If the players get the Ring, it will make almost all encounters for the rest of the game way too easy and no longer a fun challenge.
So what should i do? This is a more general question for all overpowered items that come up in pre-written adventure modules as well. How do you handle this? Do you think the players should be able to use the Ring if they got a hold of it? Do you think i should nerf the Ring, and make it less powerful? Or do you think i should do something else.
Also, if your playing ToA, let me know what your group did with Artus Cimber and the Ring. How did it turn out?
Thanks in advance.
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