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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Patrick O'Duffy" data-source="post: 2994969" data-attributes="member: 11490">If I were to use Weapons of Legacy in a campaign - and I might, because they look like fun to use in play - I might make the various sacrifices and penalties something you have to choose to suffer temporarily to activate the item's powers. A button you press to make it work, rather than a condition you fulfill ahead of time.For instance, rather than take a permanent -1 to attacks in order to unlock Mindsplinter's 'virtue denied' power, you take a temporary -1 attack penalty when you actually use the power, which wears off after 8 hours sleep. You use a 1st-level spell slot and suffer a -1 save penalty to use the planesight power of Planeshifter's Knife; again, both come back when you rest. You lose 4 hp to power the earthseeker ability of Bloodcrier's Hammer for a day, which heal normally. And so on.It'd need a little fine tuning and reworking of the cost/level tables, but it has the advantage of the item not making the character weaker; instead, the character always has the option of weakening herself to gain access to the item's powers. Not a big difference on paper, but one that feels very different in play.</blockquote>