RangerWickett
Legend
I have been playing BG3 for the past month, and I very much enjoy the way they do magic items. You find a ton, they mostly all just give you some once per short rest ability, and you end up selling a whole bunch because you can't use them all. But they're fun little toys that give you new tricks.
Recently are regular. GM has been canceling a lot because he's busy planning his wedding, so last night, I am filling in, running an adventure I co-wrote 16 years ago, War of the Burning Sky's second adventure: The Indomitable Fire Forest of Innenotdar.
I'm remixing things, fixing weak parts that have bothered me for years while also being a lot more willing to Yes-and my players' suggestions since I have been gaming with these guys for forever.
Like in the previous session they met a guy whose whole gimmick was making weird magic items, like a falchion that is yellow and decorated to look like a giant banana. And they asked for a few more examples, which led to me coming up with a mask that turns your face into a bear and gives you a bite attack.
Which one PC put on his horse.
And in yesterday's session, the party decides to go check out a random side path I mentioned for flavor, which leads to me inventing a brand new encounter, and at the end of it I want to give them some loot. So after the session's over I write this up for them.
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The longsword has stones inset with elvish runes that read Timbre's Gale. It has a +1 enhancement bonus and can be used as a finesse weapon. Additionally, once per short rest you can use Wind Slash: choose three adjacent squares within 15 feet of you, and conjure a destructive wind to sweep through those spaces, which lets you make an attack against each space as if you were striking in melee.
The bow has a faint swirling pattern in its white wood, and the bowstring is silvery. Small stone beads set into the handle are of a sort Amardil recognizes as being made by various shrines as keepsakes for travelers on pilgrimage to recall their journey, and an elvish rune on them translates to Snowtail Shrine. It has a +1 enhancement bonus, and once per short rest you can use Horn of Ice: after you hit a creature with the bow, you can have the arrow deal 1d6 cold damage, and the target is restrained by clinging ice to an adjacent surface unless it succeeds a DC 13 Strength save. It can make a new save at the end of each round, or can break the ice by dealing at least 1 damage.
The medallion of banded lavender stone has inclusions of white crystal. It is attached to a leather band with numerous beads marked with musical notes, which spell out Adage. The back of the stone is engraved with an elvish proverb: Fine words butter no parsnips. If the medallion is wrapped around the handle of a weapon, it grants that weapon a +1 enhancement bonus. Alternately, the medallion can be worn to gain advantage on Insight checks, and fluency with Elvish and Sylvan.
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I think going forward I'm going to make almost all my match items more like this. A few can still be big story things, but a lot will just be new toys that they can try out for a few combats and then trade up for something new.
Have any of you been doing stuff like this? Do you have any neat items you want to share and brag about?
Recently are regular. GM has been canceling a lot because he's busy planning his wedding, so last night, I am filling in, running an adventure I co-wrote 16 years ago, War of the Burning Sky's second adventure: The Indomitable Fire Forest of Innenotdar.
I'm remixing things, fixing weak parts that have bothered me for years while also being a lot more willing to Yes-and my players' suggestions since I have been gaming with these guys for forever.
Like in the previous session they met a guy whose whole gimmick was making weird magic items, like a falchion that is yellow and decorated to look like a giant banana. And they asked for a few more examples, which led to me coming up with a mask that turns your face into a bear and gives you a bite attack.
Which one PC put on his horse.
And in yesterday's session, the party decides to go check out a random side path I mentioned for flavor, which leads to me inventing a brand new encounter, and at the end of it I want to give them some loot. So after the session's over I write this up for them.
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The longsword has stones inset with elvish runes that read Timbre's Gale. It has a +1 enhancement bonus and can be used as a finesse weapon. Additionally, once per short rest you can use Wind Slash: choose three adjacent squares within 15 feet of you, and conjure a destructive wind to sweep through those spaces, which lets you make an attack against each space as if you were striking in melee.
The bow has a faint swirling pattern in its white wood, and the bowstring is silvery. Small stone beads set into the handle are of a sort Amardil recognizes as being made by various shrines as keepsakes for travelers on pilgrimage to recall their journey, and an elvish rune on them translates to Snowtail Shrine. It has a +1 enhancement bonus, and once per short rest you can use Horn of Ice: after you hit a creature with the bow, you can have the arrow deal 1d6 cold damage, and the target is restrained by clinging ice to an adjacent surface unless it succeeds a DC 13 Strength save. It can make a new save at the end of each round, or can break the ice by dealing at least 1 damage.
The medallion of banded lavender stone has inclusions of white crystal. It is attached to a leather band with numerous beads marked with musical notes, which spell out Adage. The back of the stone is engraved with an elvish proverb: Fine words butter no parsnips. If the medallion is wrapped around the handle of a weapon, it grants that weapon a +1 enhancement bonus. Alternately, the medallion can be worn to gain advantage on Insight checks, and fluency with Elvish and Sylvan.
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I think going forward I'm going to make almost all my match items more like this. A few can still be big story things, but a lot will just be new toys that they can try out for a few combats and then trade up for something new.
Have any of you been doing stuff like this? Do you have any neat items you want to share and brag about?
