From: Leon Kirshtein (leonbk@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri 16 Nov 2001 - 17:51:29 EET
--- "N.J. Effingham" wrote:
> Even with permanent POW (and it should cost
> permanent POW every use.) the item is still far too
> powerful!
Thats why I am asking for ideas.
> My PCs would figure
> some horrible game breaking way to misuse it (as
> someone said,
> area effect Sever Spirits or Thunderbolts -
> thunderbolts would be
> the worst, you would be an army cannon in and of
> yourself).
Yeah, I figure its is bound to happen at least once.
But from that point on the character using this iteam
might as well have a permanent bull's eye painted on
him.
> But it does give me an idea. It'd work far better if
> it was spell
> specific, a group of powerful magical items that
> area effect only one
> spell, like Heal, or Bladesharp or Thunderbolt.
My other ideas was to limit it to one type of magic
Spirit, Sorcery, or Divine with cost varring from 1pt
to 3pt depending on the type of crystal.
> That'd be great...
> Then you could have an attunement and a one time
> cost of 1-3 POW and be done with it.
Like you said earlier -- " ...and it should cost
permanent POW every use."
> Or, even better, for every
> 1 POW you attune to it with, you can area effect one
> point of that spell (so spending 5 POW allows you to
> area effect a Bladesharp 5).
I could see this but it would make it very difficult
for a sorcerer to use something like this
Leon Kirshtein
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