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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bawylie" data-source="post: 6717835" data-attributes="member: 6776133">Magic weapon (or blessing) is gated begin some kind of temple, perhaps resting place of ancestor. The high priests of that temple have access to the weapon, can navigate the temple, but are sworn to defend it from unworthy. The weapon itself can be a sword in the stone, and the act of pulling it out can be legitimizing proof. However, the temple & it's priests do not permit any attempts at all, without some verifiable claim of proper lineage. So we have two obstacles suggesting two approaches. 1 is a proof of lineage to go claim your weapon. Second is the temple and priests. PCs could go scour the world for proof of lineage, or could just try to assault the priests and temple. Now let's mix it up. Red riding hood wants to get to grandma's house through the spooky woods before nightfall. Her obstacles are time, distance, big bad wolf, and hostile environment. Our PCs want some magic weapon but they have a hostile environment (temple) and a big bad wolf (priests) to overcome, unless they have a password (proof of claim). Now let's say the temple itself is frozen in time or whatever, and only opens on certain phases of the moon, and closes immediately thereafter until it cycles back. So they have a 10 hr window to complete the temple or else are trapped within for 28 days (and will surely starve and die, if they don't have sufficient provision).  If they can't get the whole thing done in 10 hrs, it's another 28 days before they can even try again. Now stock your temple with 2 adventuring days' worth of adversity. Now do up a 3 line legend, describing the situation and see if you can make it rhyme. Your players' brains will fill in the rest for you.</blockquote>

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