I've created this 'artifact' armour for my Wilderlands campaign. It can be used in a game where Inherent bonuses are in play. It is designed to scale with the wearer and be useable from high Heroic through Epic Tiers. you might find the mechanism applicable for your own games.
THE ARMOUR OF BONDOR
According to legend, the armour of Bondor was worn by the Altanian hero Bondor in his great struggle against the Orichalan Dragon Lords. It was forged for him by the legendary dwarf smith Durin Ironbane, patterned after the scales of the great dragons controlled by the Orichalan Dragon Lords. When Bondor ascended to the Heavens as God of Swords, he left his Armour behind, to be worn by future heroes of Altanis.
It appears as a hauberk of black iron scale, with a large (5,000gp) diamond inset in the chest, over the heart.
It has the following properties:
Masterwork Scale Armour. The armour draws from the wearer’s own power. It has no Enhancement bonus per se, use wearer’s Inherent bonus if any (eg +1 at 7th-8th, +2 at 9th-13th, +3 at 14th-18th). , it provides an Armour bonus as follows:
Wearer Level Armour Bonus
1-5 N/A – The Armour deems the wearer unworthy and teleports away.
6-10 +9
11-15 +10
16-20 +11
21-25 +12
26-30 +13
Grants wearer Resist 5 to Fire, Lightning & Acid. At 11th level this increases to Resist 10. At 21st level this increases to Resist 15.
Daily Power, Healing: Wearer may regain hit points once per day as a Free action, as if he had spent a Healing Surge.
If the wearer is killed, as an immediate reaction the diamond flares brightly and the armour teleports him and all his equipment to a previously keyed temple of Bondor within 5,000 miles, and Raises him with 1 hit point and the standard Raise Dead penalty. This process destroys the inset diamond. The armour regains this property only when a new 5,000gp diamond is inset. This diamond must be ritually purified by a priest of Bondor, and inset to the armour on the god’s altar (6th level Ritual), which then keys the armour to the temple in which the ritual is performed. The armour is currently keyed to the Temple of Bondor in Bisgen.
The armour is an Artifact, and it cannot be destroyed by normal means. It is rumoured that only the combined simultaneous breath of Red, Blue and Black Elder dragons can destroy the armour. According to legend it may only be worn by a true-blooded Hero of Altanis, and will teleport away should another try to don it (even without the diamond), reappearing in a Temple of Bondor.
THE ARMOUR OF BONDOR
According to legend, the armour of Bondor was worn by the Altanian hero Bondor in his great struggle against the Orichalan Dragon Lords. It was forged for him by the legendary dwarf smith Durin Ironbane, patterned after the scales of the great dragons controlled by the Orichalan Dragon Lords. When Bondor ascended to the Heavens as God of Swords, he left his Armour behind, to be worn by future heroes of Altanis.
It appears as a hauberk of black iron scale, with a large (5,000gp) diamond inset in the chest, over the heart.
It has the following properties:
Masterwork Scale Armour. The armour draws from the wearer’s own power. It has no Enhancement bonus per se, use wearer’s Inherent bonus if any (eg +1 at 7th-8th, +2 at 9th-13th, +3 at 14th-18th). , it provides an Armour bonus as follows:
Wearer Level Armour Bonus
1-5 N/A – The Armour deems the wearer unworthy and teleports away.
6-10 +9
11-15 +10
16-20 +11
21-25 +12
26-30 +13
Grants wearer Resist 5 to Fire, Lightning & Acid. At 11th level this increases to Resist 10. At 21st level this increases to Resist 15.
Daily Power, Healing: Wearer may regain hit points once per day as a Free action, as if he had spent a Healing Surge.
If the wearer is killed, as an immediate reaction the diamond flares brightly and the armour teleports him and all his equipment to a previously keyed temple of Bondor within 5,000 miles, and Raises him with 1 hit point and the standard Raise Dead penalty. This process destroys the inset diamond. The armour regains this property only when a new 5,000gp diamond is inset. This diamond must be ritually purified by a priest of Bondor, and inset to the armour on the god’s altar (6th level Ritual), which then keys the armour to the temple in which the ritual is performed. The armour is currently keyed to the Temple of Bondor in Bisgen.
The armour is an Artifact, and it cannot be destroyed by normal means. It is rumoured that only the combined simultaneous breath of Red, Blue and Black Elder dragons can destroy the armour. According to legend it may only be worn by a true-blooded Hero of Altanis, and will teleport away should another try to don it (even without the diamond), reappearing in a Temple of Bondor.
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