Recreating A dagger from a movie

[Ferret]

Could I have some help recreating a Dagger from the 1995 movie The Shadow? It was an intelligent(Barely sentient, by my recollection) dagger that could burrow into the victim. Plus it was evil.

First I plan to make an ability for the burrowing, and thenother abilities. I can't remember what it could do exactly, which is were I need your help.

In fact any help would be good.

 

[Scion]

telekinesis on self at will is definately way up there for abilities oh, and a really mean sneer.

 

[spigadang]

I did not think it was evil. I thought it was good trying to kill evil. For it attacked him before he beacame the shadow.

 

[waterdhavian]

The knife/dagger from the movie is something that would definetly be a good/bad thing for a psion. Since The Shadow was basically about mindcontrol or illusions, I would say this is a good thing to add to a campaign involving psions. Now the knife/dagger has its own personality but can be willed to do things. It can be shot at a target as easy as throwing it. So it has a high ego but more so can be bent to its user if the user has a high wisdom or charisma, or psionic powers.

The knife should be able to fly or hover and have very good manuevaribility. I say it should act as a construct a tiny one but powerful. It can burrow but the worst thing that I remember is that it could also bite! Such as when someone grabs it or tries to weild it. That thing had some razor sharp teeth and could easily rip through flesh.

Just my input good luck with the knife!

 

[ajanders]

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Could I have some help recreating a Dagger from the 1995 movie The Shadow? It was an intelligent(Barely sentient, by my recollection) dagger that could burrow into the victim. Plus it was evil.

I believe in handling this a little more simply than some people, apparently.
First of all, the style of dagger from the '95 Shadow movie is called a phurba. It's a Tibetan dagger more often used as a holy symbol than an actual stabbing people weapon.
You might be able to find special stats for it, but I'd just treat it as an SRD-issue punch dagger.
The flying around is best simulated by giving it the dancing ability (again, out of the SRD). The burrowing into the victim business could be simulated with the wounding power from the SRD, but it sticks in my mind that there's a weapon ability from The Book of Vile Darkness called biting or grinding...maybe gnawing. Anyway, this ability is activated by a command word whenever a hit is scored: the weapon hangs onto the victim and starts chewing through their flesh for 1d6 or 2d6 points of damage a round. That's a better match cinematically, but you may not have the BoVD.
Adding intelligence to the weapon, of course, is trivial with the SRD. Throw in any other properties you like and give it whatever bonus you want.
Just bear in mind this thing's pretty powerful: by the rules Wounding is a +2 bonus and dancing is a +4 bonus, so you're moving into epic territory even without intelligence. Add intelligence at your own risk, or the phurba may be wielding its user, not the other way round.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

Fleshgrinding, I think.

 

[Storyteller01]

It had a minimal, animalistic intelligence. It attacked anyone who tried to control it (physically or psychically). It also seemed to react to commands similar to those used on trained animals.

You could amp the Ego check, and have the weapon attack those who fail said check, instead of taking over the person.