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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyeshet" data-source="post: 3110784" data-attributes="member: 18363">Sejs, that was an excellent Intelligent Item write up!As for the question, no, I do not think that WotC or Dragon or etc have expanded the options for Intelligent items since the re-writing of the DMG for 3.5e. Personally, I think the entire setup is too restrictive. Why should a potent item automatically have multiple languages, senses, and means of communication? The idea of a high level Intelligent item that has great power but cannot see or directly communicate - having to use empathy or perhaps something as simple as an on-off or color-changing glow to communicate is thematically interesting. How does it know whom it can trust? If the item is Good perhaps it could be tricked by an Evil wielder (UMD, I guess, with a synergy from Bluff if applicable, maybe). What about a low-mid level Intelligent Item that is able to telepathically speak in 10 languages and has multiple senses but no other powers (except, perhaps, some ranks in a few social and knowledge skills)? The current template more or less requires the item have some other powers, &/or means of sensing its environment, &/or communicating with others. I'd rather make up the items as needed or as interesting for the situation and campaign.</blockquote>