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Metatron777 04-26-05, 05:59 PM	Hi everybody and I trust you all are having a good day... There is a half dragon npc in my campaign who lost her wings a long time ago and recently in the campaign storyline lost her right hand in a nasty clash... Now there is a little side quest that involves getting her artificial wings and a new right hand..... I was wondering could a Artificer create these artificial wings and right hand and what is the best place to perform such an operation? Could these fake wings be clockwork or would they be powered by another source? (like eldritch energy if that is even possible...) thank you and have a wonderful day...
Edymnion 04-26-05, 06:27 PM	Arm of Nyre, scale it down to remove the AC and Str bonuses since its just a hand. Wings are easy, just craft up a Cape of Flying, and say it looks like dragon wings instead of bird/bat wings.
Metatron777 04-26-05, 07:41 PM	That's the problem, the npc doesn't want to wear a cape.......she wants wings...... i trust that somebody in eberron knows sugery....
Edymnion 04-26-05, 07:48 PM	That's the problem, the npc doesn't want to wear a cape.......she wants wings...... i trust that somebody in eberron knows sugery....Okay, double the price for the cape to make it slotless, describe them as being mechanical wings, and say they're grafted to the PC's back. Remember, you are always better off in the long run to simply use an existing item and modify it to fit your needs when you can. Creating something new is risky business if you don't know what you're doing, and even then it can be iffy. And most of the time, as long as you don't tell them that its just a modified normal item, they'll never know.
Radkres 04-26-05, 09:19 PM	Humm why not the normal Regenerate spell? (Player's handbook p. 270) would fix everthing wings also.
Edymnion 04-26-05, 09:29 PM	Humm why not the normal Regenerate spell? (Player's handbook p. 270) would fix everthing wings also.Yeah, if you've got an artificer high enough level to be crafting replacement body parts, chances are they can whip up a scroll of Ressurection. Assuming your DM allows it, that is.
Metatron777 04-26-05, 09:35 PM	nope....no scrolls allowed to fix the problem..
Radkres 04-26-05, 10:11 PM	well you can give them a symbiont of flight which gives the character a set of bat wings and they become part of them too can't loose them easly.
Neofish 04-27-05, 05:32 AM	C'mon, This is Eberron, make this trade dark and shady... If see wants wings, she'll have to kill Coul'tu (sp?) and then a Dragon Below Cultist with the graft flesh feat could graft them on for her, is flying worth the death of a holy being..? For the hand, make Cannith have a new protype prosthetic hand for sale, the operation is painful, and expensive, and thier are no garanties it will even hold up to the deadly demands of combat, plus at night, the elemetal bound within the hand thought's seep into her dreams..!!!
Radkres 04-27-05, 10:11 AM	Well if we are going to head down this road and make a right turn into a dark alley then sure why not. I am sure the player's will not mind finding another half-dragon to donate the parts they need. A very generous half-dragon Lich might even give of herself. Or If we go Artificer then we have to come up with artificial limbs. As there has been a long war recently I am sure there must have been some advances in this area. Maybe Warforge parts as replacement parts for limbs lost in battle. Or Even more exotic we go to the old Drow artisans to make them a hand. With all the knives and built in spells etc of Shadowrun. I mean there are a few ideas on getting limbs or parts but it always bothers me when players start going {Looks at new shiny toy oh I want one of those here, Doc cut this old meat off and slap on one of those Flametouched iron +3 fist of fury you got there.} Sorry bad memories of a GM who went wild with home rules on upgrades.
Streamweaver 04-27-05, 10:35 AM	There are many paths that seem reasonable here. Personally I like the idea of an artificer grafting warforged parts onto people. It has a very pulp feel to it and the imagery works for me. A character, frustrated by attempts to heal their wounds by traditional means, meets up with a quirky Changling Artificer in a lower alley bar in Sharn. Taken back to an out of the way lab smeared with dirt and bits of dried blood and littered with construct parts and jars of yellowish liquid and suspended organs. They're directed to the metalic chair at the center of the room, the only portion of it illuminated starkly by a white light above. The changling assures them it will be all right "Flesh obeys" they say "flesh does as it is told". Yep I can see that and must now include this character into my own campaign. All hail the creepy NPCs.
Metatron777 04-27-05, 05:41 PM	Hey some of these dark alley creepy guy with parts suggestions are cool....anymore dark and creepy parts suggestions.? And Neofish, the methods you introduced are interesting
Neofish 04-27-05, 09:59 PM	Rumors tell of a Xen'drik parasite that has the uncanny ability to regenrate it's hosts limbs by attaching itself permanatly to it's host spine, of course these are just rumors, and finding one will be hard, even worse is the fact that the parasite feeds on it's hosts memories for food.!!!
Metatron777 04-27-05, 10:44 PM	Oh my word Neofish....you just introduced a plot hook that i'm now going to give one of the other npcs..... You have some cool methods
Radkres 04-28-05, 12:05 AM	You know of course that it takes over the character when they go to sleep and needs to breed. Also fun things to do to players who get new parts from unknown places are the side effects. Like strange dreams about places and people you have never meet before. An irrational fear of cold dark places that causes the new parts to spasm. A smell brings a flash back of the victims last moments of being attacked and having the part removed. You feel drawn to a Far off Place you have never been before. You find your hand writing in a language you don’t know. You have a dream of an Illithid eating turnips. Moments of relaxation the part begins to tap to an unheard song.