D&D 3E/3.5 Jewish magic items?

[abe ray]

How would you go about jewefing dnd monsters/magic items?

 

[Sepulchrave II]

How would you go about jewefing dnd monsters/magic items?

First, you have to canaanize them; then yahwify them; then mazdafy them; then hellenize them; and finally diasporize them.

 

[Samloyal23]

I've started a Facebook group for people to share Jewish RPG content. Come to The Jewish RPG Workshop if you have content to share that is based on Jewish history or folklore.

 

[Raduin711]

Another pre-existing Jewish magical item is the Staff of the Python. Moses tells Aaron to throw his staff down in front of the Pharoh and it will turn into a snake. Aaron does, and it does. (The visiers of the pharoh do the same thing, only they use magic. Aaron's snake eats all the other snakes, but Pharoh wasn't impressed.) The snake isn't identified as a python, specifically

 

[Tonguez]

Another pre-existing Jewish magical item is the Staff of the Python. Moses tells Aaron to throw his staff down in front of the Pharoh and it will turn into a snake. Aaron does, and it does. (The visiers of the pharoh do the same thing, only they use magic. Aaron's snake eats all the other snakes, but Pharoh wasn't impressed.) The snake isn't identified as a python, specifically

Not really. Thats not really how magic worked for Moses. It was just a normal staff that Yahweh transformed by divine power.

 

[Samloyal23]

Not really. Thats not really how magic worked for Moses. It was just a normal staff that Yahweh transformed by divine power.

Did Moses cast a clerical spell to turn his staff into a serpent, or was it enchanted prior to his visit to the royal court? How do we tell?

 

[Raduin711]

Did Moses cast a clerical spell to turn his staff into a serpent, or was it enchanted prior to his visit to the royal court? How do we tell?

NIV Exodus 8-12
8The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 9 “When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ then say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a snake.”


10 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake. 11 Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts: 12 Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.

Not really. Thats not really how magic worked for Moses. It was just a normal staff that Yahweh transformed by divine power.

We're applying game-world logic to some pretty ancient stories so we gotta have a little wiggle room to make anything fit. The form is there -transforming a staff into a snake- and I doubt the resemblance is coincidental.

 

[Voadam]

Not really. Thats not really how magic worked for Moses. It was just a normal staff that Yahweh transformed by divine power.

The original request was "How would you fine people create magic items based upon the Jewish miracles/religious items?" A snake staff seems to match up.

 

[Samloyal23]

I'm thinkin that the Ark of the Covenant and the Tablets of the Law were magical items, and some of the items used regularly by the priesthood during services in the Temple could have been holy items. Both Moses and Aaron seem to have magical staves, Moses uses his when parting the sea and to make water come from a rock. Could their walking sticks have had other powers?

 

[Blue Orange]

Some silly ones I came up with for another thread were the Pastrami of Healing, the Bagel of Protection +2, and the Lox of Water Breathing. That's more Ashkenazi cultural stuff though.