Dragon 365 - Bazaar of the Bizarre: The Treasure of Ashardalon

[Mr Jack]

Some really interesting items in there. The Belt of Mountain's Endurance is far stronger than a Belt of Vigor, though - I'm not sure if that means it's overpowered, or that the designers decided the Belt of Vigor was weak.

More to the point Belt of Vigor is a level 2 item, Belt of Mountain Endurance is level 18. One should expect it to be better.

 

[ThirdWizard]

Power (Daily): Minor Action. Drink the elixir. At any point until the end of the encounter you can breathe fire, making a close blast 3 attack.

Emphasis changed. At any point until the end of the encounter. Once you use it, you can't do it again.

 

[Asmor]

I like the flask, but I'd change it so that the minor action includes drinking and breathing. It's annoyingly ambiguous as written, and essentially lets you "save" a minor action for a later round.

 

[Ginnel]

I like the flask, but I'd change it so that the minor action includes drinking and breathing. It's annoyingly ambiguous as written, and essentially lets you "save" a minor action for a later round.

So you get a racial ability once per day, 680gp for elven precision once a day yus please

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

So you get a racial ability once per day, 680gp for elven precision once a day yus please

And a minor action, of course.

Elven Precision could be "Potion of True Strike" (an item not existent in 3E ).

 

[Bagpuss]

Emphasis changed. At any point until the end of the encounter. Once you use it, you can't do it again.

So I can use at at this point in round one, and this point in round two and this point in round three, etc.

So I can use at at this point in round one, or this point in round two or this point in round three, etc.

The text makes no clear distinction.

If breathing fire was a standard action replacing your normal attacks it wouldn't be that unbalanced as the damage is so poor.

If it was a minor action then yes it would be broken being at-will.

Personally I think it was intended as once, and a minor action, but the text needs cleaning up to reflect that.

 

[Tigerbunny]

So you get a racial ability once per day, 680gp for elven precision once a day yus please

Seems about right to me. Any Elf gets it for free at 1st level. The opportunity cost for getting it as an item-based daily shouldn't be too far out of line with that. After all, I drink the Elixir of Elfness, then roll 20s the whole rest of the encounter - oops. I think I would make the putative Elixir of Elfness require you to use it on your NEXT attack roll, though.

 

[Kristian Serrano]

It's interesting to see how much life Ashardalon has been given since 3e.

• Ashardalon was a key component in the 3.0 adventure modules, especially Bastion of Broken Souls.
• Draconomicon had a PrC based on him.
• Magic of Incarnum attributes the Bastion of Souls as one of the sources of incarnum and references Ashardalon, too.
• Player's Handbook II suggests the Bastion of Souls as a possible site for a rebuild quest.
• Dragon Magic presents Ashardalon as a vestige.

Did I miss anything?

It's a shame these came out as 4e magic items only instead of adding to the 3e run of Ashardalon references.

 

[Asmor]

So you get a racial ability once per day, 680gp for elven precision once a day yus please

And a minor action, of course.

And it uses up one of your item daily power slots (i.e. you can only use 1 item's daily power in the heroic tier, 2 items' dailies in paragon, and 3 in heroic).

 

[Scribble]

I think that the Ring of the Ghost Knight is one of the more mechanically interesting items, since its one of the few examples that actually creates a "creature" that can move and attack at your command, at the price of a minor action. Perhaps a preview of "pet" classes?

The orb of temporal dissonance is my favorite item overall.

Thats how flaming sphere works isn't it?