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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kitsune9" data-source="post: 5387529" data-attributes="member: 18507">Sounds interesting Diamond. In addition to just making the gemstones an magic item or ability booster, you can inject a more roleplaying flavor for them. For example, in the your lawful good nation that associates the pearl to its alignment, you can state that rubies are associated with chaotic evil. Therefore, it is a crime upon imprisonment to own, buy, or sell rubies. Any citizen would look upon a ruby with absolute disgust and react accordingly to anyone who possesses one. However, everyone has a pearl. There are festivals to celebrate it. The churches that espouse good will have pearls are part of their religious relics. Pearl divers are considered honored professions as high as nobilty or some other respected profession.Also, the gemstones, being tied to alignment act like "magnets". People who are lawful good can pick up and handle pearls. Neutral people can touch them, but find it discomforting to be around them, and evil people are burned or afraid of pearls. It makes the ability to detect evil people easier, but also creates a crutch that society relies upon that can be exploited with feats and spells. What happens when there are families who are too poor to own a pearl? Are they shunned? Are they pariahs? Or does society pity them and have a charity time in which those more fortunate provide pearls to those who don't have them? Kind of like a Christmas holiday, but involving pearls.And for our chaotic evil friends who value rubies, well....their holiday is knifing their friends, neighbors, and family members for those shiny, lovable rubies.Now we can add some mechanics to our gemstone collection. For someone whose alignment matches their gemstone, it powers their magic items. For example, a +1 longsword with a pearl set in it only works if it's in the hands of a lawful good person, anyone else, it's just a masterwork longsword and if a chaotic evil person touches it, they get burned by it or get a negative level for as long as they are holding it.  This really works if you want to limit the number of magic items in the campaign that the PC's can go and sell at Magic Mart. We also don't have to use the gems just for magic as well. If they are tied to alignment, then may be we can gift them with a sense of raw emotion or psych. People who are lawful good may be willing to donate some of their own essence or themselves into  pearl that will heal others since being lawful good is being charitable. The opposite is that you can use a ruby to commit murder that will increase your own power.Well, this is what I have off the top of my head.Happy Gaming!</blockquote>

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