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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 6666427" data-attributes="member: 54629">Hi all,My wife is playing a dwarf wizard in my Hoard of the Dragon Queen campaign. She chose the dragon scholar optional background feature, and as part of her PC's background, she decided that her character's best friend is a silver dragon. Her PC also has the apocalyptic visions bond, and so before he departed for Greenest, his dragon friend gave him a special amulet made from one of its scales.My wife says she'd like it to be magical and offer her some protection. She was thinking it would protect her from dragon attacks. I suppose maybe it could grant advantage on saves against the breath weapons of dragons (and maybe also half-dragons)?I was thinking the most likely thing it would do is grant resistance to cold damage, since it's a scale from a silver dragon. I feel like it ought to allow for some kind of limited communication between the dwarf and the dragon as well - maybe it just lets them sense that the other is still alive or something?I was also thinking it would be cool for it to grow in power as the PC does. So maybe it eventually lets the two communicate telepathically through the amulet. Or maybe it eventually grants the dwarf the ability to cast a spell or two. Maybe rather than being just resistant to cold, it could function like the absorb elements spell (which would work out well for the PC, since he is as likely to smack an enemy on the head with his warhammer as he is to cast a spell at it).I'm also wondering if maybe the dwarf could use it as an arcane focus. I know the PHB has amulets down as holy symbols, and things like rods, crystals, orbs, wands, etc as arcane focuses, but it doesn't actually say you *can't* use something else like a weapon or an amulet as an arcane focus, right?And yes, I am conscious of the fact that I could be seen to be playing favorites with my wife here, so I intend to come up with some cool items for the other PCs too. The fighter PC, for instance, has her family heirloom greataxe. Perhaps it has magical powers that she can unlock - or perhaps it becomes imbued with magic when she defeats a powerful enemy.Any constructive advice or suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks!Cheers,Jonathan</blockquote>

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