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Writing magic items, spells, and other content, plus thoughts and rules behind them.
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Light Reading 3: Can I Copy Your Notes? (opens the original)
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Alternate scrolls remain a thing that I think are worth writing. It’s good to have things found at low level loot that someone other than the casters can use; potions and warding scrolls only go so far. Items that aren’t immediately combat relevant, even more so. Of course, the following item is not a true scroll- a 9th level caster is required to make it- but it’ll show up on Scroll treasure tables.Scroll of DuplicationBase Cost 500gp: Single charge 1st level effect. Apparent Value: 150gp.This
Mirror, Mirror (opens the original)
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Years ago, the party in a game I played in found a magic item- a rod- of spell storing, made to contain a number of healing spells. Sessions later, the party cleric attempted to use it to cast bestow curse. This was notable for two reasons. First, he said he was holding the rod upside down to cast the spell in reverse. Second, remove curse was not among the spells stored (cure blindness, cure disease, and neutralize poison). We jokingly excused this attempt as a result of the character being und
Hold Your Tongue (opens the original)
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A number of items and effects in the Treasure Tome can grant the user the ability to speak and comprehend additional languages. the ring of the jackal functions similarly to the spell soul eating, temporarily gaining a language (among other options) from a fresh corpse. The ring of the tower and other items function as the spell tongues, granting the ability to understand and converse with intelligent creature within 90’. Various items allow the user to speak with beasts<
Who Wants To Live Forever? (opens the original)
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In a typical ACKS II campaign, or most other fantasy TTRPGs, immortality is not a very practical goal for the player characters. Even if played out fully, the typical campaign is maybe five in-game years. If you’re not using things like old-school haste spells, aging of PCs isn’t worth tracking, except for spellcasters who rolled the very high end and might barely hit middle age by end of campaign. Life extension technology is for explaining the setting’s backstory, if desired, to allow for 500-
Better You Than Me (opens the original)
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Previously, I presented an example of a triggered item that protected an area of effect from poisonous gas. Here’s another variation on that mechanical implementation.Effigy SurrogateBase Cost 1,500gp: single charge 5th level effect. Apparent Value: 1sp.This straw doll is of the kind that might be made for children, four limbs and a featureless face crafted from straw, tied with red string. The purpose of the doll is to burn in the place of others. When extraordinary fire damage would occur with
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