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<blockquote data-quote="Nebulous" data-source="post: 7604283" data-attributes="member: 31465"><p>That's what I did, I had the players meet Artus and Dragonbait in Mezro, and it tied into the whole subplot there. The Ring IS viciously powerful though, so I had to eventually move Artus from the campaign. I also had several caveats in place though beforehand: </p><p></p><p>A) The ring is evil and sentient and perverse, which Artus tells them</p><p>B) Various factions are after the ring and Artus, which puts the heroes at risk if they are near him.</p><p>C) Utilizing the Ring's offensive abilities to cause harm can lead to Artus being possessed - temporarily - by the artifact, so this really scared the players. It could have possibly turned on them and destroyed them.</p><p>D) Can the Ring even be removed from his finger? Probably not. Chop it off? Maybe. It's a greater artifact, it can have whatever wonky ability you want to have. </p><p></p><p>When my Artus Cimber "died" in Wyrmheart Mine to a dragon, the Ring encased his body in a growing block of ice that is slowly filling the lower level of the mineshaft. He is a plot device that can be brought back another time, maybe after Ras Nsi is dead, or the Soulmonger destroyed, or maybe he will just sit there in that block of ice forever. If not for the Ring of Winter though, the fight with that dragon would probably have been a TPK, it was unleashing all the high level cones of cold that turned the tide.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nebulous, post: 7604283, member: 31465"] That's what I did, I had the players meet Artus and Dragonbait in Mezro, and it tied into the whole subplot there. The Ring IS viciously powerful though, so I had to eventually move Artus from the campaign. I also had several caveats in place though beforehand: A) The ring is evil and sentient and perverse, which Artus tells them B) Various factions are after the ring and Artus, which puts the heroes at risk if they are near him. C) Utilizing the Ring's offensive abilities to cause harm can lead to Artus being possessed - temporarily - by the artifact, so this really scared the players. It could have possibly turned on them and destroyed them. D) Can the Ring even be removed from his finger? Probably not. Chop it off? Maybe. It's a greater artifact, it can have whatever wonky ability you want to have. When my Artus Cimber "died" in Wyrmheart Mine to a dragon, the Ring encased his body in a growing block of ice that is slowly filling the lower level of the mineshaft. He is a plot device that can be brought back another time, maybe after Ras Nsi is dead, or the Soulmonger destroyed, or maybe he will just sit there in that block of ice forever. If not for the Ring of Winter though, the fight with that dragon would probably have been a TPK, it was unleashing all the high level cones of cold that turned the tide. [/QUOTE]
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