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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Messageboard Golem" data-source="post: 2009722" data-attributes="member: 18387">A magic item book like no other.A large part of my collection is books of spells and magic (Relics & Rituals I & II, Book of Eldritch Might I, II & III), but the book I go back to more often than any other when looking for treasures for my games is Forged In Magic.This book has over 400 magic items, QUITE detailed and thick on texture and flavor. It has items from the strangest to the most typical, and a whole PILE of new materials, something I love to make items feel more unique. Each one has some background material, with stories and histories from the "Codex Arcanis" campaign setting also published by Paradigm. A great touch is that all items have the cost listed in gold AND in XP (for those crafting the items), something only rarely seen in other products (and usually reserved to those few items with weird XP costs due to expensive spell components).There are some nice touches, like disadvantages for magic items that affect the owner, such as unlucky which reduces the incidence of critical hits. And there is a Prestige Class to help make all these wonders, the master smith (although I've never used it, whereas I HAVE used about one hundred of the items from this book since its release). And some new spells, mostly of low level and generally combat oriented.There is a great chapter on magic items for warfare... siege engines, banners, constructs and everything else a nation with some access to arcane or divine casters would have assembled for a good old-fashioned land war in Asia.The weapons and armor section is almost competitive with the one from Bastion's Arms & Armor book... something like 40 weapon properties and half that many armor properties.The art is pretty good, if fairly sparse. But most importantly, I've already used nearly 25% of the material in this book in play, and expect to use more. Truly a masterpiece of magic items, sure to compete with the old Encyclopedia Magica series from TSR...</blockquote>

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