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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vorput" data-source="post: 2818211" data-attributes="member: 35874">I found the book mostly worthless... It was an idea that I certainly didn't need a book to tell me, and a whole set of complicated needless mechanics to explain the aforementioned idea.I was at a loss to explain to my character why he needs to spend 5,400 gold to go pray at a location that he was able to get to spending no more than 300 gold.I was at a loss to explain to my already low hit point monk why he needed to surrender hit points and take attack penalties to use a supposedly 'beneficial' item.I was at a loss to explain to my characters why they suddenly gain a feat in order to correctly harness a weapon.The items ultiamtly ended up being so much of a headache that one was simply sold because the player didn't want the headaches/penalties that went along with it (and yet thse are supposed to be the equivalent of artifacts).Moreover, while some of the items are good and fun to read about, by and large it seemed like cliche ideas and writing- something they had to get out, even after it became a pain to create a unique history to each item.Anyway, The changes I eventually made were re-writing the item's histories to fit my campaign, getting rid of the negatives associated with the item (i.e. save penalties, hit point loss), and changing the quests so they weren't simply based around gold pieces.  Instead the character actually had to DO something, something significant that often became an adventure or two in itself.  When the monk had to go to the negative energy plane and track down and kill a max hit dice xag-yi and xag-ya, with the party only being able to help kill the smaller ones- THAT was cool.  The book's idea was that he needed to spend time contemplating balance in the universe, and visit both the positive and negative energy planes...  and somehow spend like 28,000 gold doing that.Just my two cents.Vorp</blockquote>

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