Shin Okada
Explorer
It is a longsword who's enhancement bonus changes from +1 to +4 depend on environment and type of foe, right? But it costs 52,315 gp and usual +5 longsword is cheaper. What is this sword for?
Q: Sword of the Planes. What is this for?
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ersatzphil
Hero
in planescape, magic items begin to loose their bonuses, the farther you get from the plane they were forged on. thus, were one to forge a +3 shortsword on a prime material plane, (AIRC) on the astral or etherial, its bonus would decrease to +2, and so forth, until you ended up dead in the Beastlands with a seemingly useless blade. thus, one would presume that this sword essentially is a longsword +5 forged in the outer planes, leaving it with a +1 on the prime material, but whose bonuses will effectively increase as you move out, rather than decrease.
although really, one would assume the 'sword of the planes' would be a sword immune to such shifts in power. ah well.
although really, one would assume the 'sword of the planes' would be a sword immune to such shifts in power. ah well.
dcollins
Explorer
What the previous poster said is true not just for Planescape, it was part of the core rules in all prior versions of D&D. The sword in question was written before D&D 3rd Ed. changed the rule (actually the sword of the planes dates back to AD&D 1st Ed., Unearthed Arcana, p. 104 (c) 1985), and now that they've changed the items-across-planes rule, it looks out of place and no longer makes sense.
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