comrade raoul
Explorer
Here's the object:
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The Ring of Blades: The ring of blades appears as a beautifully wrought ring made from intertwined bands of mithril and blue-hued steel. It is clearly elven work. Regardless of its surroundings, the ring always feels cold to the touch.
If a character wears the ring and speaks the command word, the character suffers 2 points of Constitution damage and an amorphous, semisolid sword-like shape appears in his hands, constantly shifting in size and shape. By focusing on the shape and envisioning a type of bladed weapon, the wearer can cause the shape to take the form of a dagger, shortsword, scimitar, rapier, longsword, bastard sword, falchion, or greatsword. If the wearer knows what she's doing, she can create a sword from the ring in this manner as a move-equivalent action. Note that the Constitution damage the character suffers "powers" the weapon; creatures without Constitution scores cannot use the ring. The Constitution damage caused by activating the ring of blades can only be restored when the blade dissipates (see below).
Regardless of the type of bladed weapon the wearer chooses, the weapon functions as a +3 magical weapon with the keen, frost, and ghost touch properties. Its hilt of the weapon is made of mithril; the blade of the blue-hued steel on the ring's band. There is always something somewhat off about the weapon - while it has the weight and heft of a real weapon, and stabs and cuts as though it were steel, the weapon always seems not quite right, as though it were somehow just a little unreal.
If the blade ever leaves the hand that wears the ring, it gradually dissipates and is completely gone within a round (if the ring-wearer retreives the weapon before it is gone, the weapon is reconstituted). If the blade is ever broken or damaged, the weapon (or what's left of it) also dissipates. Spells or effects that would negate an object's magical powers cause the blade to disappear, but effect the ring as normal.
When the sword has completely disappeared, the wearer regains the Constitution damage he had previously lost when creating the weapon. He can recreate the blade at will, as a move-equivalent action; doing so causes him to lose the 2 points of Constitution again.
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The weapon's enchantments are equivalent to a +6 weapon (+3 enhancement bonus, and +3 (total) for keen, freezing, and ghost touch); that's 72,000 gold pieces. The ring of blades has other advantages (the versatility of being a type of weapon of the wielder's choice, the convenience of a ring form, the ability to recreate the weapon, in many cases, if it's destroyed) and a significant disadvantage (the "investment" of 2 points of Constitution). Neither of these seem to be easily priceable; I'm inclined to think that the advantages somewhat outweigh the disadvantages. So a tentative price is 90,000 gold pieces -- does that sound right?
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The Ring of Blades: The ring of blades appears as a beautifully wrought ring made from intertwined bands of mithril and blue-hued steel. It is clearly elven work. Regardless of its surroundings, the ring always feels cold to the touch.
If a character wears the ring and speaks the command word, the character suffers 2 points of Constitution damage and an amorphous, semisolid sword-like shape appears in his hands, constantly shifting in size and shape. By focusing on the shape and envisioning a type of bladed weapon, the wearer can cause the shape to take the form of a dagger, shortsword, scimitar, rapier, longsword, bastard sword, falchion, or greatsword. If the wearer knows what she's doing, she can create a sword from the ring in this manner as a move-equivalent action. Note that the Constitution damage the character suffers "powers" the weapon; creatures without Constitution scores cannot use the ring. The Constitution damage caused by activating the ring of blades can only be restored when the blade dissipates (see below).
Regardless of the type of bladed weapon the wearer chooses, the weapon functions as a +3 magical weapon with the keen, frost, and ghost touch properties. Its hilt of the weapon is made of mithril; the blade of the blue-hued steel on the ring's band. There is always something somewhat off about the weapon - while it has the weight and heft of a real weapon, and stabs and cuts as though it were steel, the weapon always seems not quite right, as though it were somehow just a little unreal.
If the blade ever leaves the hand that wears the ring, it gradually dissipates and is completely gone within a round (if the ring-wearer retreives the weapon before it is gone, the weapon is reconstituted). If the blade is ever broken or damaged, the weapon (or what's left of it) also dissipates. Spells or effects that would negate an object's magical powers cause the blade to disappear, but effect the ring as normal.
When the sword has completely disappeared, the wearer regains the Constitution damage he had previously lost when creating the weapon. He can recreate the blade at will, as a move-equivalent action; doing so causes him to lose the 2 points of Constitution again.
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The weapon's enchantments are equivalent to a +6 weapon (+3 enhancement bonus, and +3 (total) for keen, freezing, and ghost touch); that's 72,000 gold pieces. The ring of blades has other advantages (the versatility of being a type of weapon of the wielder's choice, the convenience of a ring form, the ability to recreate the weapon, in many cases, if it's destroyed) and a significant disadvantage (the "investment" of 2 points of Constitution). Neither of these seem to be easily priceable; I'm inclined to think that the advantages somewhat outweigh the disadvantages. So a tentative price is 90,000 gold pieces -- does that sound right?
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