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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoutonRustique" data-source="post: 6645932" data-attributes="member: 22362">If you're using the "we can rebuilt it" route, I would add a serious complication.By serious complication, I don't mean a hard dungeon or boss that possess a piece - that's expected, and even, usually FUN for the PCs. So yeah, not a drawback the player's can feel - unless they are incredibly deep into character and fear combat and strife on a personal level - but that would be an atypical D&D game to say the least!The one I prefer : have the artifact require the willing sacrifice of an entity of vast power. - the sacrifice need not be dying for it. Having it be a constant sequestration is more impressive and gives greater options. Perhaps the PCs will be bound by oath to fulfill tasks for it - since it can't leave that place, and they kind of owe it... - the entity needn't even be affected by the problem : i.e. it's not it's problem, why should it sacrifice so much? - the entity could be a great protector of something else. Trade a storm-devastated region for an orc-invaded one ? - etc.The difficulty is always in making the players feel it - in most games, you could say a character has to suffer horrendous pain (I'm talking serious pain here, not just stabbed through the foot by a dagger a few times) for 5 minutes every time it wakes. It would be part of the backstory, might get referenced a few times - but I doubt you'd find a player afraid to let its character sleep... IME</blockquote>

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