Weapons of Legacy Question

[MerricB]

page 24. (Spell slot loss is not cumulative)
page 187 (spell slot loss is cumulative)

IMO, page 24 is the primary text.

Cheers!

 

[MerricB]

That sounds like a pretty good idea Patrick. I like it!

It's easy to explain why the penalty happens. The item is drawing on you in order to power its abilities, hence the penalties.

Implementing it may take a little bit of work though since some of the abilities that you get at the end are much more powerful than those in the beginning. I may mess around with this a little and see what I can do.

Olaf the Stout

It's quite a problem with "static" items.

Take Caput Mortuum (page 51). It's really just a scythe. The one activated power it has, "unseen servant", really doesn't warrant a penalty being imposed just because you used it.

Cheers!

 

[MerricB]

If one of my players wanted a legacy item, I'd forget about the negatives and legacy ritual costs and just rule that it costs one-third of a standard character's wealth per level.

FYI,
each level 5-10 is worth 2,000 GP
each level 11-16 is worth 8,000 GP
each level 17-20 is worth 40,000 gp

or close enough. If you want to replace penalties with the actual gold cost, those figures work very well as approximations.

Cheers!

 

[Patrick O'Duffy]

It's quite a problem with "static" items.

Take Caput Mortuum (page 51). It's really just a scythe. The one activated power it has, "unseen servant", really doesn't warrant a penalty being imposed just because you used it.

True.

In cases like that, I'd establish a baseline - +1 vicious scythe - and allow the penalties to boost its power for the day. Expend 6hp, a 2nd level slot and accept a -1 attack penalty, and it becomes a +2 vicious scythe for the day; expend a 3rd level slot and it becomes a +3 vicious scythe, etc etc.

Or, more likely, I'd use an item that wasn't so boring.