I’m parking the autoscaling magic items idea for a few days while I let my subconscious work on it. I’ve already got posts planned for Monday and Tuesday (‘E’ and ‘F’ — Earth Gods of the Tetratheon and Fire Gods of the Tetratheon respectively). Today, though, I’m going to look again at …
I had originally planned to write about how autoscaling magic items are enchanted (“construction of an autoscaling magic item”) but it makes more sense to describe what they look like mechanically first. Guidelines First, consumable magic items really aren’t appropriate as autoscaling items. The whole point is that the items will …
Yesterday I started discussing the idea of magic items that automatically scale with wielder level. I’d like to explore the idea a bit further and how it might be implemented. To start, I’ll look at some existing approaches to this idea. Prior Art This is not a new idea. I can think of …
Many players of Dungeons & Dragons expect the power of magic items to be roughly commensurate with character level. On the one hand, this can be pretty important to party balance. If one PC in a first-level party has a +5 weapon he will be much more powerful than the other PCs. …
(click to embiggen) B1: Junction Room A short corridor leads from the stairs into this dead-end circular room, whose walls are painted with distraught weeping faces. In the centre of the room is a very thick pillar, actually the continuation of the central pillar from the floor below. Around it …
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(click to embiggen) Entrance The approach to the pyramid of Dolmar is flanked by two rows of inscribed obelisks, which I already described previously. The entrance itself is up a flight of steps, and is barred by enormous double stone doors. Pushing them open is easy thanks to a delicate …
On the sands near the great river Daiphrit stands the imposing pyramid-tomb of the ancient king Dolmar, a beloved ruler of the kingdom who was killed by a villainous minister. The tomb’s construction took many years, and necessitated the existence of a temporary town to support all the labourers and …
Previously, I mentioned the hook for this series of adventures: the sage Ladan hires the player characters to search the ruins of lost Acadus for ancient texts. What I didn’t mention was that the characters are the second group Ladan hired for this purpose. You see, he had previously enlisted …