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<blockquote data-quote="Lazybones" data-source="post: 289112" data-attributes="member: 143">A few suggestions:1. Make all the items up yourself, staying away from the DMG.&nbsp; If your players are not experienced, this isn't as important, but chances are someone will have access to the book and be able to look up the item lists.&nbsp; 2. Give each item several powers, some mundane and &quot;always on&quot; and one or two more potent abilities that aren't usable very often.&nbsp; This forces the players to decide when to use the item, and also makes them rely on their own abilities from time to time.&nbsp; Just wasted the orc patrol with the sonic pulse from the Circlet of Abot'Timor?&nbsp; Uh oh, do you hear something coming down the ridge?&nbsp; RUN!&nbsp; Bonus points if the item has powers that they can't immediately identify, and they have to quest/do something/find information to &quot;activate&quot; it (i.e. like the Rings of Elemental Command). 3. Give each item one or more weaknesses.&nbsp; This can be a minor side effect to using a power (after using the sonic pulse from the Circlet, you cannot hear for an hour!), or more long term (why do these birds keep attacking me?).&nbsp; Force the players to make hard decisions about using their uber items, and give consequences for their inherited power.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lazybones, post: 289112, member: 143"] A few suggestions: 1. Make all the items up yourself, staying away from the DMG. If your players are not experienced, this isn't as important, but chances are someone will have access to the book and be able to look up the item lists. 2. Give each item several powers, some mundane and "always on" and one or two more potent abilities that aren't usable very often. This forces the players to decide when to use the item, and also makes them rely on their own abilities from time to time. Just wasted the orc patrol with the sonic pulse from the Circlet of Abot'Timor? Uh oh, do you hear something coming down the ridge? RUN! Bonus points if the item has powers that they can't immediately identify, and they have to quest/do something/find information to "activate" it (i.e. like the Rings of Elemental Command). 3. Give each item one or more weaknesses. This can be a minor side effect to using a power (after using the sonic pulse from the Circlet, you cannot hear for an hour!), or more long term (why do these birds keep attacking me?). Force the players to make hard decisions about using their uber items, and give consequences for their inherited power. [/QUOTE]

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