New Item: Chicken Helmet

[Numion]

Chicken Helmet

This wondrous item protects the wearer from the dreaded effects of vorpal weapons. The wearers head is really cut of when succesfully decapitated with a vorpal weapon, but the wearer of the helm can function normally after this. Well.. somewhat normally. His body functions, but his vision is reliant upon his eyes, so it might be difficult to see anything, depending on the way in which his head lands. A Reflex save (DC 20) allows the wearer to catch his own head (when it's first cut off) in a free hand, so he can see better.

Caster level & prerequisites: Who would make this? Really?

 

[Numion]

Forgot to add:

Whatcha think about this baby? Pretty neat, ha?

I'd buy it for a dollar!

 

[ConcreteBuddha]

Two things:


1) Who would test this thing out to see if it functions properly?


2) Would you like a sausageonabun what that? And that's cutting me own throat!

 

[Shayuri]

Close!

I got something like that in the Vitis game I'm in.

It wasn't a helmet though, it was a necklace.

Oh, and did I mention it was cursed? Couldn't get it off! It wasn't so bad, but apparently had I ever rolled a natural 1 while wearing it, my head would have come off in the middle of battle.

Inconvenient, to say the least.

Not to mention from a sheer RPing perspective, not having one's head firmly attached to one's shoulders is...troublesome.

In theory it would have had the positive bonus of making me immune to decaptitation, as well as some critical hits (not sure exactly how that worked...maybe like Fortification?), but since I'm a cowardly sorceror, I never got a chance to verify that whole "anti-critting" ability, nor, thankfully, the immunity to decapitation.

Sigh. The GM was so disappointed when I got it off, finally. I bet he'll send a vorpal-wielding guy at me just to make me wish I still had it.

 

[Hygric]

combine this with the armour worn by the black knight from Holy Grail and I would say that you have a winner!

 

[Numion]

My design isn't that good, come to think of it. The user would die from starvation in the end. Like cockroaches, which can live without head for quite a long time, until they starve.

the armor is a good idea, though there isn't swords of sharpness in 3e.