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[Mark Chance]

Ring of Bravery: This magical ring grants a +10 morale bonus to saving throws against fear effects.
Caster Level: 7th; Prerequisites: Forge Ring; Market Price: 25,000 gp; Cost to Create: 12,500 gp & 1,000 XP.

Edited to remove "wrong" prerequisite.

 

[Darth Shoju]

thanks!

Thanks a bunch Mark, I think I'll go for that ring of bravery. That'll be much cheaper. What book is that from btw?

 

[Kahuna Burger]

Re: hmm

You're right, the rules are meant to keep the fighter types weak on the will saves. But I was just trying to find a way-within the limits of the rules-to compensate for my character's weaknesses. Is this a bad thing?

not at all, but I'm saying that your DM has good in game and meta game reasons to make this item a little harder to come by, price aside. I have a peeve with magic items that logically just wouldn't get made much - like a character in a former group that was a big ugly fighter with a chain shirt that cast antimagic field. I ask you? A chain shirt? an item only for fighters useful only against magic users? It wasn't even some reasonable background like he had been a gaurd of a wizards school or something, apparently he just went to the magic shop and said "ugh! me want armor for killing magic people!" and they said "yes sir, do you want the butterfly collar?" So that kind of annoyance probably came out stonger than your case deserved.

A item based on "remove fear" would be infintily cheaper and get you a plus 4 to your throw... and seriously, at 12th you could both take the iron will feat and bump your wisdom - if you're on an odd on wis, you'd be tripling your throw against fear and doubling for everything else... and you wouldn't have a massivly powerful item that the DM could legitamately make the target of numerous theft attempts by all those sorcerer/rogues who look for easy marks leaving the wizard's academy.

Kahuna Burger

 

[Mark Chance]

Re: thanks!

Thanks a bunch Mark, I think I'll go for that ring of bravery. That'll be much cheaper. What book is that from btw?

No problem.

And, no book that I know of. I cobbled it together in response to your query. That being said, my math may be off. If so, mea culpa.

 

[Darth Shoju]

cool

Heh it's all good Kahuna Burger. I understand your hesitation on items of this type; I also hate it when characters request incredibly unique items that they would have no idea about, just because the player is meta-gaming. I've got to admit to a bit of meta-ing here too, but I've tried to work it into the character's personality, based on his past experinces with fear (we've experienced a lot of that lately) and domination (he was mind controlled by a vampire once). My character also has a Wis of 12 so I'm playing him that he isn't terribly educated (Int 10), but he does learn from his past experiences. But I think I'll go with the cheaper anti-fear ring and I'll probably pick up Iron Will as my next feat. It would really work well into his persona. Thanks!

Thanks again Mark, I'll propose the stats you came up with to my DM. Hopefully he'll let me go ahead with something in that price range.

 

[Intrope]

Rather than going with all these magic items, get your party cleric to cast Hero's Feast every day. Protection from fear, hopelessness, poison (!) and bless for 12 hours is well worth it IMO.

 

[Mark]

Ring of Bravery: This magical ring grants a +10 morale bonus to saving throws against fear effects.
Caster Level: 7th; Prerequisites: Forge Ring, emotion; Market Price: 25,000 gp; Cost to Create: 12,500 gp & 1,000 XP.

Post that in the Rules forum and ask about it. Be prepared to duck...

 

[Kahuna Burger]

Rather than going with all these magic items, get your party cleric to cast Hero's Feast every day. Protection from fear, hopelessness, poison (!) and bless for 12 hours is well worth it IMO.

I hate that spell. its so cheesy...

though I wonder if it would be less cheesy if my DMs had ever really enforced the time it takes to eat...

kahuna burger

 

[Mark Chance]

Post that in the Rules forum and ask about it. Be prepared to duck...

Why duck? If it's wrong, it's wrong. Someone show me the mistake, and I'll be happy to fix it. Like I already said, I cobbled it together in a hurry and very well may have missed something.

Now, if there aren't any math/rules errors, and the objections are that said item is "unbalanced" or needs to be "nerfed," I say, "Fie!"

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

Okay, I'm casting heroe's feast a lot more often.

It seem a hell of a lot more powerful than neutralize poison, though.