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101 artifacts [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Rykler
06-18-07, 03:55 PM well, i thought it would be cool to get a list of 101 homemade or offical artifacts down. I'll start i guess:

This one is taken off the newest R.A. Salvatore series:
Zhengi's Creation
It is a book when opened, takes control of the human, using some of its life force to create a castle. The castle's size depends on waht Zhengi's creation book it is. It works by using the life force of the opener to get things going. They become very sick and week and die in 1d4 + (con. mod) days. Each day they suffer -2 constitution -2 strength and -2 dexterity damage and their hit points are reduced by half. The sufferer must make a fort. save of DC 20 each day or take an additional -1 constitution damage. The only way to live is to defeat the castle's lich. Once the lich is defeated. The effect goes away immediately.
In the back of the book is a purple small stone, that fits in the palm of your hand. It is in the shape of the skull of the lich. You can then from now on summon the lich whenever you need it. The lich can communicate telepathically through the stone.
Zhengi's creation's have large numbers of gargoyles, flesh golems, daemons, mummies of several different types of creatures (such as gnolls) and Iron Golems. They also have a castle lich.

A lich could be of any creature type but most likely: Humans
Dragons
Dwarves
Halflings
Elves
Drow

If the stone is taken out in the back of the book, the keeper of the stone can raise the dead of the race of the skull depicited in the stone and can control them and their actions. The raised creatures are under the complete control of the stone keeper.
RobbyPants
06-18-07, 04:00 PM 2) The Ear of Vecna
Grants the user a +10 profane boost to Listen checks and a -2 penalty on Charisma. The user must attach the ear on his head, replacing his own severed ear.

Spell like abilities: (at will) - Silence, Comprehend Languages, and Deafness
Andorxor
06-18-07, 04:19 PM 3. The book of universal law
It is a book completly made of steel.1/3 of its pages are already filled with laws written with acid.The remaining pages are blank.If the rightfull owner of the book ,is the legimate ruler of a country he can write a addional law into the book and a Inevitable comes into existance that enforces the law.He can only do that once in his lifetime.The Inevitable only enforces the law in the country of the owner.

4.The feather of ultimate madness
This black feather overcomes the once in a lifetime limitation of the book of universal law.But this comes at a price.Every time the feather is used it reduces the wisdom of the user by one until it reaches 3 and the user turns chaotic when he doesn't passes a DC 15 will save.The use of the feather has strange effects on the book roll a d12 to determine which:

1-5 The books function normal
6 The ineviable has a strange color
7 The ineviable is freewilled and doesn't enforced the law
8 The Ineviable enforces the opposite of the law
9 The ineviable enforces the law only outside of the borders of the country
10 The ineviable is tiny
11 a Aberration instead of a ineviable enforces the law
12 Reroll twice,and ignore results between 1-5
RavenGraygem
06-18-07, 06:24 PM Here's my artifact. Not much in the way of numbers, but I think it's a good one.

The following staff was created by a powerful archmage at the behest of one of the mightest warriors in history.

An accomplished leader, a master of every weapon known to exist, and a darn handsome fellow to boot , this warlord sought a weapon that would harness his consumate skill and provide him with any weapon he might need at a moment's notice.

The result was the Warlord's Staff, a major artifact.

The Warlord's Staff appears as a 6-foot long quarterstaff of dull gray metal, with untold amounts of carving running it's entire length. Closer examination will reveal that the carvings are actually depictions of assorted weapons, all rendered in the most accurate detail.

The powers of the Warlord's Staff are as follows:

1) At will, the wielder can select any simple, martial, or exotic weapon, melee or ranged, that he has seen before (and the carvings on the staff count for this purprose). The staff will then change into that weapon in the span of one round.

2) The Warlord's Staff grants automatic proficiency with the weapon whose shape it has assumed, as per the master's touch spell (WotC online Spellbook).

3) 5/day, the wielder of the Warlord's Staff can use the spell mirror move (WotC online Spellbook) on himself only.

4) The Warlord's Staff has a magic weapon bonus equal to +10. Unlike normal weapons, however, the wielder can assign this bonus however he likes, thus granting it whatever abilities the wielder may require at the moment.

[Optional] Once an ability has been assigned to the Warlord's Staff, it cannot be changed for a 24 hours.

Example: The wielder gives the Warlord's Staff a +5 bonus to attack and damage rolls. He then assigns the remaining +5 bonus to the bane, holy, and lawful properties, leaving a total of +2 available for another ability.

I think you might want to limit the +10 thing.

perhaps you can give the weapon the abilyity to "copy" from other weapons.

ranger has a flaming bow, paladin have a undead bane holy keen whatever,

so the sword could become a flamming undead bane holy keen sword

Actually, +10 is the maximum total value of bonuses a non-epic magic weapon can have. So it's not too far out there.

Sure, you could have all +10 put into attack/damage, but you wouldn't have any special abilities at all.

Alternatively, you could dump +10 points worth of assorted special abilities into the Staff, but get no bonus to attack or damage (other than what the abilities themselves might grant).

And the 24-hour wait would prevent you from bouncing back and forth at will.

Of course, if that doesn't pan out, I could still go with the "ability copying" ability you mentioned.
savant_warlord13
06-18-07, 07:33 PM 6-11.) The Shards of the Glory Stone (http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?t=790593)
Andorxor
06-19-07, 01:33 AM 12.Trickster flasks
This 100 flasks made out of opaque crystal,where created by a ancient forgotten trickster god to store his collection.They can contain everything and nobody can remeber the sealed thing,untill it is released.Only a god can put something into it,but everyone can release the item from it.

Roll a d100 to decide whats in the flask:

00. Empty
01. A summer day
02. A sandwich
03. A boring political speech from a long lost empire
04. A fruit from a extinct tree
05. The laught of a young woman
06. Sand from a beach
07. A intressting colored stone
08. A snowflake
09. A confused commonor in antique clothes
10. The smell of fresh bread
11. A glowing key
12. Dust
13. A 2500 years old whine
14. Another trickster flask
15. 2 extra hours for the day
16. A intressting colored boulder
17. The yawn of a dragon
18. The memorys of a six year old kobold girl
19. Another snowflake that looks like the showflake in 08
20. A tree
21. A drunken swarm of tiny blue fairy rogue/fighters
23. A picture of a sunrise
24. A rainbow
25. The white beard of a old man
26. A intressting colored sandparticel
27. A giant squid
28. Another sandwich
29. A wheel
30. A albino halfing riding cat
31. A black helmet with facemask
32. Two other trickster flasks
33. A marble that looks like lots of star are in it
34. A holy symbol from another god
35. A pink paladinmount
36. 3 connected puzzle piece (sky)
37. North wind
38. A hail cloud
39. 5 ants
40. This one rock
41. A blond ogrehair
42. A tribe of orcs
43. A list with 236 names
44. A glass milk
45. A cow
46. some tea leafes
47. A pot of hot water
48. 3 sugar cubes
49. A pond
50. One mile street
51. Another confused commoner this time with futuristic clothes
52. A rock,not this one or intressting colored
53. A beequeen
54. A lullaby
55. A manual for the constuction of a lightsaber
56. The last words of a famous general
57. The first word of the same general
58. The left ear of a icegiant
59. The head of a poet still alive
60. A nightmare
61. The smell of flowers
62. A brick
63. 1.000 litre icecold water
64. 1 tiny green elephant with wings
65. A picture of the sunrise in the elemental plane of water
66. 5 trickster flasks
77. A shoe
78. The other shoe
79. A hat
80. A shirt
81. Pants
82. underwear
83. A chest filled with chocolate
84. 30 lobster
85. The light of a candle
86. A candle that melts down when it is lighted,but produces no light
87. The memorys of a six year old kobold boy.The brother from 18
88. A statue of a bugbear
89. A cave
90. A island
91. A list a celestial insults
92. A aligator sandwich
93. A hot oven
94. The tear of a lich
95. A poem in abysal
96. A intressting colored mountain
97. A additional moon for the campaign world
98. The catalog of the collection
99. The trickster god,who created the flasks
vegetalss4
06-19-07, 09:28 AM 12.Trickster flasks
This 100 flasks made out of opaque crystal,where created by a ancient forgotten trickster god to store his collection.They can contain everything and nobody can remeber the sealed thing,untill it is released.Only a god can put something into it,but everyone can release the item from it.

i am so going to use that

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Rykler 06-18-07, 03:55 PM	well, i thought it would be cool to get a list of 101 homemade or offical artifacts down. I'll start i guess: This one is taken off the newest R.A. Salvatore series: Zhengi's Creation It is a book when opened, takes control of the human, using some of its life force to create a castle. The castle's size depends on waht Zhengi's creation book it is. It works by using the life force of the opener to get things going. They become very sick and week and die in 1d4 + (con. mod) days. Each day they suffer -2 constitution -2 strength and -2 dexterity damage and their hit points are reduced by half. The sufferer must make a fort. save of DC 20 each day or take an additional -1 constitution damage. The only way to live is to defeat the castle's lich. Once the lich is defeated. The effect goes away immediately. In the back of the book is a purple small stone, that fits in the palm of your hand. It is in the shape of the skull of the lich. You can then from now on summon the lich whenever you need it. The lich can communicate telepathically through the stone. Zhengi's creation's have large numbers of gargoyles, flesh golems, daemons, mummies of several different types of creatures (such as gnolls) and Iron Golems. They also have a castle lich. A lich could be of any creature type but most likely: Humans Dragons Dwarves Halflings Elves Drow If the stone is taken out in the back of the book, the keeper of the stone can raise the dead of the race of the skull depicited in the stone and can control them and their actions. The raised creatures are under the complete control of the stone keeper.
RobbyPants 06-18-07, 04:00 PM	2) The Ear of Vecna Grants the user a +10 profane boost to Listen checks and a -2 penalty on Charisma. The user must attach the ear on his head, replacing his own severed ear. Spell like abilities: (at will) - Silence, Comprehend Languages, and Deafness
Andorxor 06-18-07, 04:19 PM	3. The book of universal law It is a book completly made of steel.1/3 of its pages are already filled with laws written with acid.The remaining pages are blank.If the rightfull owner of the book ,is the legimate ruler of a country he can write a addional law into the book and a Inevitable comes into existance that enforces the law.He can only do that once in his lifetime.The Inevitable only enforces the law in the country of the owner. 4.The feather of ultimate madness This black feather overcomes the once in a lifetime limitation of the book of universal law.But this comes at a price.Every time the feather is used it reduces the wisdom of the user by one until it reaches 3 and the user turns chaotic when he doesn't passes a DC 15 will save.The use of the feather has strange effects on the book roll a d12 to determine which: 1-5 The books function normal 6 The ineviable has a strange color 7 The ineviable is freewilled and doesn't enforced the law 8 The Ineviable enforces the opposite of the law 9 The ineviable enforces the law only outside of the borders of the country 10 The ineviable is tiny 11 a Aberration instead of a ineviable enforces the law 12 Reroll twice,and ignore results between 1-5
RavenGraygem 06-18-07, 06:24 PM	Here's my artifact. Not much in the way of numbers, but I think it's a good one. The following staff was created by a powerful archmage at the behest of one of the mightest warriors in history. An accomplished leader, a master of every weapon known to exist, and a darn handsome fellow to boot , this warlord sought a weapon that would harness his consumate skill and provide him with any weapon he might need at a moment's notice. The result was the Warlord's Staff, a major artifact. The Warlord's Staff appears as a 6-foot long quarterstaff of dull gray metal, with untold amounts of carving running it's entire length. Closer examination will reveal that the carvings are actually depictions of assorted weapons, all rendered in the most accurate detail. The powers of the Warlord's Staff are as follows: 1) At will, the wielder can select any simple, martial, or exotic weapon, melee or ranged, that he has seen before (and the carvings on the staff count for this purprose). The staff will then change into that weapon in the span of one round. 2) The Warlord's Staff grants automatic proficiency with the weapon whose shape it has assumed, as per the master's touch spell (WotC online Spellbook). 3) 5/day, the wielder of the Warlord's Staff can use the spell mirror move (WotC online Spellbook) on himself only. 4) The Warlord's Staff has a magic weapon bonus equal to +10. Unlike normal weapons, however, the wielder can assign this bonus however he likes, thus granting it whatever abilities the wielder may require at the moment. [Optional] Once an ability has been assigned to the Warlord's Staff, it cannot be changed for a 24 hours. Example: The wielder gives the Warlord's Staff a +5 bonus to attack and damage rolls. He then assigns the remaining +5 bonus to the bane, holy, and lawful properties, leaving a total of +2 available for another ability. I think you might want to limit the +10 thing. perhaps you can give the weapon the abilyity to "copy" from other weapons. ranger has a flaming bow, paladin have a undead bane holy keen whatever, so the sword could become a flamming undead bane holy keen sword Actually, +10 is the maximum total value of bonuses a non-epic magic weapon can have. So it's not too far out there. Sure, you could have all +10 put into attack/damage, but you wouldn't have any special abilities at all. Alternatively, you could dump +10 points worth of assorted special abilities into the Staff, but get no bonus to attack or damage (other than what the abilities themselves might grant). And the 24-hour wait would prevent you from bouncing back and forth at will. Of course, if that doesn't pan out, I could still go with the "ability copying" ability you mentioned.
savant_warlord13 06-18-07, 07:33 PM	6-11.) The Shards of the Glory Stone (http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?t=790593)
Andorxor 06-19-07, 01:33 AM	12.Trickster flasks This 100 flasks made out of opaque crystal,where created by a ancient forgotten trickster god to store his collection.They can contain everything and nobody can remeber the sealed thing,untill it is released.Only a god can put something into it,but everyone can release the item from it. Roll a d100 to decide whats in the flask: 00. Empty 01. A summer day 02. A sandwich 03. A boring political speech from a long lost empire 04. A fruit from a extinct tree 05. The laught of a young woman 06. Sand from a beach 07. A intressting colored stone 08. A snowflake 09. A confused commonor in antique clothes 10. The smell of fresh bread 11. A glowing key 12. Dust 13. A 2500 years old whine 14. Another trickster flask 15. 2 extra hours for the day 16. A intressting colored boulder 17. The yawn of a dragon 18. The memorys of a six year old kobold girl 19. Another snowflake that looks like the showflake in 08 20. A tree 21. A drunken swarm of tiny blue fairy rogue/fighters 23. A picture of a sunrise 24. A rainbow 25. The white beard of a old man 26. A intressting colored sandparticel 27. A giant squid 28. Another sandwich 29. A wheel 30. A albino halfing riding cat 31. A black helmet with facemask 32. Two other trickster flasks 33. A marble that looks like lots of star are in it 34. A holy symbol from another god 35. A pink paladinmount 36. 3 connected puzzle piece (sky) 37. North wind 38. A hail cloud 39. 5 ants 40. This one rock 41. A blond ogrehair 42. A tribe of orcs 43. A list with 236 names 44. A glass milk 45. A cow 46. some tea leafes 47. A pot of hot water 48. 3 sugar cubes 49. A pond 50. One mile street 51. Another confused commoner this time with futuristic clothes 52. A rock,not this one or intressting colored 53. A beequeen 54. A lullaby 55. A manual for the constuction of a lightsaber 56. The last words of a famous general 57. The first word of the same general 58. The left ear of a icegiant 59. The head of a poet still alive 60. A nightmare 61. The smell of flowers 62. A brick 63. 1.000 litre icecold water 64. 1 tiny green elephant with wings 65. A picture of the sunrise in the elemental plane of water 66. 5 trickster flasks 77. A shoe 78. The other shoe 79. A hat 80. A shirt 81. Pants 82. underwear 83. A chest filled with chocolate 84. 30 lobster 85. The light of a candle 86. A candle that melts down when it is lighted,but produces no light 87. The memorys of a six year old kobold boy.The brother from 18 88. A statue of a bugbear 89. A cave 90. A island 91. A list a celestial insults 92. A aligator sandwich 93. A hot oven 94. The tear of a lich 95. A poem in abysal 96. A intressting colored mountain 97. A additional moon for the campaign world 98. The catalog of the collection 99. The trickster god,who created the flasks
vegetalss4 06-19-07, 09:28 AM	12.Trickster flasks This 100 flasks made out of opaque crystal,where created by a ancient forgotten trickster god to store his collection.They can contain everything and nobody can remeber the sealed thing,untill it is released.Only a god can put something into it,but everyone can release the item from it. i am so going to use that