Magic signet rings?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

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Dang, I'm going to show my geek roots.

The Legion of Super Heroes was a "far future" series set around 3000AD with Saturn Girl, Braniac 5, and others. My googling says it first appeared in 1958.

The JLA is the "current era" superheroes (Batman, Wonderwoman, Flash, Superman, etc) and first was printed in 1960.

So if you've gone nuts, you went nuts a looooong time ago 'cuz neither of these are exactly new 'round here.

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I know all that, but it's always been the LSH that had the flight ring communicators, not the JLA. That was what my question was about.

 

[der_kluge]

I wrote the book on magic item creation (the Artificer's Handbook). Ok, it's optional rules, but it's a book, and it's been published, so take that for what it's worth (probably not much).

Anyway, that book has rules for gestalt items which are items which do more when in the company of others in the set than they do when they are alone.

I don't have my book handy, but I'd price the item using the spells message, and contingency, and maybe light just to be anal about it. In this case, the contingency would say "when I get a message, glow." The light would be the glow, and the message would be how the rings could communicate, and it would abide by the spell of the same name. You could increase the power of that spell, but that would cost more, obviously.

Given how contingency is such a high level spell, it would make for a fairly expensive item, and the fact that you'd have to make about 5 of them at a time, since they are a set.


You know, in thinking about it some more, you'd be far better off giving everyone a use-activated item that had like 50 charges of message in it. It would be far more useful, and a hell of a lot cheaper.

 

[Henrix]

There's actually a 2nd level cleric spell in Races of Destiny, Insignia of Alarm, that actually does something similar.
Of course the spell just activates the mental alarm to all wearers of the insignia, the wearers cannot activate it without a spell.

But we could make an item based on it. Uhm, a brooch, command word activated, 2nd lvl spell usable once per day, that would be about 2170 gp (including the 10gp the insignia costs for the spell).

 

[kigmatzomat]

I wrote the book on magic item creation (the Artificer's Handbook). Ok, it's optional rules, but it's a book, and it's been published, so take that for what it's worth (probably not much).

Anyway, that book has rules for gestalt items which are items which do more when in the company of others in the set than they do when they are alone.

So you're the guy who put ideas into one of my players heads! He keeps trying to figure out the rules to a set of magic items using your book. It doesn't matter how many times I tell him "I came up with the idea decades ago when I saw the Rod of the Seven Parts" and he won't believe me! I even gave out the first item in the set like 2 months after 3.0 came out, three years before your book was published and he still doesn't believe me!

Gah! Next time he tells me how my magic items work I'm going to put him in a box and ship him to you!

 

[EdL]

Do you mean Legion of Super-Heroes, or has DC Comics gone nuts when I wasn't looking?

Oops! Right you are, my bad.