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<blockquote data-quote="Zamkaizer" data-source="post: 4012951" data-attributes="member: 55476">Out of curiosity, does a ring suggest any magical powers by it's very nature? I find it odd that the Ring of Warmth keeps getting invoked, since a ring is worst thing a person normally wears at keeping them warm. I've never taken adventurers for ironists. I would think that Trousers of Warmth or, for the more subtle, a Periapt of Warmth, placed over the heart, would be much more appropriate.There seem to be very few magical effects that would elaborate upon the inherent properties and common uses of rings. Perhaps a Ring of Provocation, worn on the middle finger, that, when the appropriate 'arcane' gesture is made, incenses an enemy into attacking the wearer. Or perhaps a cursed Ring of Binding, that bends entirely a persons will to that of a jealous lover.The point is that nearly anything one does with rings is going to appear arbitrary, if exposed to even mild scrutiny. So, why not reserve them for exceedingly powerful effects, apply some limitations - which bring some semblance of balance, and whose logic can't be contested since they have no basis in reality, and stopped having any the moment they decided they let you summon dragons and whatnot - and save the remaining powers for items of other categories, in combinations ranging from just as arbitrary to astoundingly appropriate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zamkaizer, post: 4012951, member: 55476"] Out of curiosity, does a ring suggest any magical powers by it's very nature? I find it odd that the Ring of Warmth keeps getting invoked, since a ring is worst thing a person normally wears at keeping them warm. I've never taken adventurers for ironists. I would think that Trousers of Warmth or, for the more subtle, a Periapt of Warmth, placed over the heart, would be much more appropriate. There seem to be very few magical effects that would elaborate upon the inherent properties and common uses of rings. Perhaps a Ring of Provocation, worn on the middle finger, that, when the appropriate 'arcane' gesture is made, incenses an enemy into attacking the wearer. Or perhaps a cursed Ring of Binding, that bends entirely a persons will to that of a jealous lover. The point is that nearly anything one does with rings is going to appear arbitrary, if exposed to even mild scrutiny. So, why not reserve them for exceedingly powerful effects, apply some limitations - which bring some semblance of balance, and whose logic can't be contested since they have no basis in reality, and stopped having any the moment they decided they let you summon dragons and whatnot - and save the remaining powers for items of other categories, in combinations ranging from just as arbitrary to astoundingly appropriate. [/QUOTE]

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