Touchstones. Your Opinions, Ideas, Sources.

[DM_Jeff]

While introduced in the Planar Handbook, WotC moved them out of being only on the outer planes and put some in the environmental books that can be on the prime material.

I ran a D&D campaign in my homebrew world using the Corwyl Elves sourcebooks from Green Ronin, and filled the valley with a handful of lost touchstone sites. The players really got a kick out of discovering them and some using the powers. But it wasn't such a knockover hit I continued using them in my new game. They're better when the DM has good story intentions to use them.

-DM Jeff

 

[Patrick O'Duffy]

On a tangent, I just realized that planar touchstones could work well in Eberron as dragonmarked locations. Cool! Will have to fish out my copy of the Planar Handbook and think about how to adapt them.

 

[Thomas Percy]

Patrick O'Duffy, do you mean Ring of Siberys and bones of Khyber, which in the days when THE plane is coterminous, work a little stronger?

 

[Patrick O'Duffy]

Patrick O'Duffy, do you mean Ring of Siberys and bones of Khyber, which in the days when THE plane is coterminous, work a little stronger?

I meant things like dragonmarks or draconic symbols appearing in the world itself, the places where the Prophecy manifests in the world as well as on mortals. There's some mention of such things in a few sourcebooks, and Keith Baker has discussed them a few times on the Wizards forum.

Although they'd also be good for manifest zones and the like, yes. Now I think about it, I can see a few uses for them in Eberron.