From: dgc@cs.purdue.edu
Date: Tue 09 Jan 1990 - 09:56:33 EET
The lack of magic items contained in the RQ rules has (of course) led
me to create some of my own. The obvious ones were putting spell
matrices and spell point matrices into common items (rings, wands,
bracelets, swords, etc.). I won't bother listing any of those, as
they are easy to come up with.
What I did was take the "magic crystals" mentioned in the Glorantha Book one step furthur. Instead of just letting them store magic points like a magic point matrix enchantment, I let them have various magical properties. The crystals come in widely varying shapes and colors. They are normally activated by placing magic points into them, but there are exceptions.
I'm somewhat new to RuneQuest (I'm the GM -- my players are also new to RuneQuest) and have not completely figured out my economy yet... After about 30 hours of play time, most of my players just now have enough money to buy horses, so they are somewhat poor. Anyway, I've included suggested prices for the crystals metioned here, but you may want to alter the pricing for your economy. Prices given are in pennies.
2000 5 point magic crystal - can be recharged at 1 pt per point used
700 Exploding crystal - explodes if magically charged in a 3 meter radius doing 1D4 + points / 2 damage plus stun. It takes one full round before it explodes. 700 Continual light crystal - gives light in 10M radius forever 1200 Light crystal - lights 10M/point used - each point lasts 4 hours. Explodes as above if made to light > 50M 1500 Detect magic crystal - continuous detect magic in 2M radius - starts glowing when magic is within 2M 400 Crystal lighter - makes a small flame whenever held - no magic point cost 1700 Crystal heat generator - each point used lasts 1 hr, heat depends on points used - 1 = lantern, 2 = torch, 3 = small campfire, 4 = medium campfire, 5 = large campfire, 6 = bonfire, 7 or more and it explodes as above. 1300 Crystal lens - gives magnification of 2^N power, where N = the points used. Each point lasts 1 hour. The crystal must be held up to the eye. 1400 Crystal to see in dark - allows person looking through it to see 5M per point used, up to a max of 30M. Each point lasts 1 hr.
I'm interested in comments on the items and on the prices given. I'm intersted in the magic items others have made too!!!
Doug
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