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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gargoyle" data-source="post: 3085944" data-attributes="member: 529">I've had this book for a while, and like so many others I love the concept but hate the implementation, for most of the above reasons.I would compare owning a legacy item to paying taxes.  You pay income tax.  And state income tax.  Then you pay sales tax on a purchase of property.  Then you pay property tax.  It feels like you're getting penalized too much, even if your taxes are low.  WoL are given as a reward in a treasure.  Then you spend time and money researching its history.  Then you spend money for a ritual.  Then you have penalties to various stats, at least one of which is probably important to you.  Then you pay for another ritual, etc.   Sometimes the penalties take away things that you just gained...for instance the Bones of Li-Peng become +2 nunchaku at 7th level, and you also get a -1 attack penalty (something every monk needs I'm sure).  The Scarab of Aradros is a scarab of resistance +1 at 5th level, but you get a -1 to all saves at 6th.  It's just a bit annoying.If I ever place these as treasure, then I think I'll just have them ignore the penalties and the ritual costs completely, and charge a single feat to unlock all the abilities available to them a their level, and let them have the feat back after some time if they ever lose the item or want to sever the bond.</blockquote>