My Legacy Item

[adienpryde]

I made up this Legacy Item for my monk who found out his is from a long ancestry of monks that are heads of monestaries. I would like people to take a look at it and tell me what people think of it. I can't get the formatting right on the copy/paste so I have attached it in my .xls file.

Thanks

 

[adienpryde]

Will this help anyone? rtf format

 

[Khairn]

Aside from the weapon being once weilded by the "head of monesteries" I have a few questions for you

What is the actual weapon? Staff, butter knife, tonfa?

You have a varied collection of abilities built into the weapon but nothing to tie them all together. The one thing I did get from my brief perusal of the Weapons of Legacy was that that the history of each weapon was very distinct and integral to the concept of the weapon. What's your weapons history?

With Invisibility at will, Blindness and Prismatic Spray being just a few of its abilities I can see how vision and darkness are a key, but beyond that I'm not certain.

 

[adienpryde]

Sorry, I forgot to mention that. It is a blindfold, not a weapon, that is why it has all of tthe blind stuff, it enhances my senses while reducing my enemies. As far as the history, I am finding out as time goes on. I have a twin brother that is an exact opposite of me, he is CN while I am LN, he is a fighter in full plate weilding a great sword and I am basicly naked with no weapons. We knew each other till we were about 10 then have now known each other for the last 10 years but we are both about 30 , so what our DM is doing is going to be filling us in on the missing years and at the same time introducing us to our ansestry which stems from the monestary(which is still headed by our grandparents) and also tieing in the Blindfold as part of our legacy.

 

[Tinner]

I like the concept, but I'm not sold on Prismatic Spray as the level 20 ability.
I'd make Power Word: Blind the level 20 ability, and add Improved Invisibility as the level 18.
It just feels more "thematically correct" IMO.

 

[adienpryde]

The only reason I went with prismatic spray was because it blinds all lower levels in the area of effect along with roling the chart.

 

[Tinner]

The only reason I went with prismatic spray was because it blinds all lower levels in the area of effect along with roling the chart.

I figured that was your intent. It just struck me as odd though. The item is essentially concered with stealth and sensory powers for the first 19 levels, and then suddenly, at level 20 it's firing off beams of colored light and doing elemental damage?
To me, it just felt like the item was dramatically departing from the original concept.

See if your DM will let you just have a Mass Blindness effect. It could work exactly like Blindness/Deafness, but affect everyone within a certain range. That seems like a better idea than Prismatic Spray.
YMMV.