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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 5571785" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Magazine Issue 234: October 1996part 7/8Bazaar of the Bizarre: Horrifying magical items to fit the theme. Actually, we haven't had too many of those, as the writers generally prefer to concentrate on the monsters. And of course, since they may be icky or of dubious morality, you have another excuse to give the enemy cool stuff that the PC's can't profit from. Poor PC's just can't get a break these days. Amulets of the undead let undead find other undead, like a necrotic dating service. This is of course useless to you, unless you become a lich or vampire. Blackfire wands are so-so zappy things that channel negative energy. Still, at least they don't require regular recharging. Undead always forget that kind of thing, not needing regular food and sleep and all. Bonebriar amulets let you grow spikes from your bones. This is of course generally lethal to living things, but makes a nice grappling buff for undead. Never trust the obvious treasure in an undead dungeon. Brooches of turning resistance are pretty self-explanatory. What use is your holy symbol now, fool? Gauntlets of aura suppression let liches grope you without paralyzing you. Course, unless they're using other shapeshifting as well, this will still be a shudder inducing experience. Memory globes let you store memories you no longer want. Why you would want to do such a thing is up to you. Liches tend to use it to get rid of lingering shreds of humanity, which is rather silly really. Vampires struggle so hard to hold onto it and you throw it away. No appreciation of true value. A Nightmare harness lets you summon said demonic horse to ride. This isn't undead specific, unlike most of the items here, but nonevil characters will still have a hard time controlling the blasted thing. Potions of yellow mold distillate are genius and gross, a truly horrible way to die that also endangers everyone around the drinker. Poison seems thoroughly mundane by comparison. MuahahahaA Staff of the Flesh lets you steal the flesh of others and use it to temporarily rejuvenate your withered form. Another gross way to die and effect that isn't very useful to living characters. My, this is an evil bit of writing. Sage advice: What happens if bob Holds joe and sam puts a ring of free action on his hand ( Nthing, It's too ;ate. He's already spoken for. ) Does the hat of difference let you be a class nornally forbidden to your race (yes. This may still be a problem. )How do you tell if a material component is used up (it is unless it specifically says it isn't. In soviet TSR, guilty until proven innocent. ) Please clarify the rules for scrying cheacks (add the odds from intelligence and level tohether, then you'll have a decent chance.) Please explain players option unarmed combat again. (yay, Skip gets to eat up page count again. Skip gets paid by the word, so that's very important when they keep cutting skip's rates. Blah blah blah, lotsa tables, blah blah blah mastery, grand mastery, extra padding.) Can you use a wish in an antimagic shell (no. If there's no magic there, then the most powerfullest spell in the game certainly isn't going to work) You don't do your research properly. You give answers without consulting all the books. (The books are not official. Skip is! Skip gives the answers, not the complete book of supertwinked mary sues. I'ma cap yo ass. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />fft: Crap. Skip can't even afford new bullets anymore. Uhm. Retroactive april fool. :runs: )No SASE ogre has been replaced by a no SASE dragon. How the hell are they affording that? I am very suspicious. KotDT parodies real game designer conflicts. Swordplay reveals how dull it is siting in a 10x10 room waiting for adventurers. That pie has to last you an eternity. Dragonmirth goes back to the classic gags. Puns and movie references. What is sweeter in life? Floyd goes from crap to exceedingly powerful. But he doesn't know it yet. That's not a good idea.</blockquote>

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