Gygax would’ve probably found me too insane to work with 😜
(( but he’d have probably tapped my insanity to GAME with and swipe ideas from, i’d imagine - at least until Greenwood showed up and showed him how to cast Clairaudience to spy on me from afar ))

Table: Bonus Types and Effects

Bonus Type Description Can Affect Sample Item Sample Spell Alchemical An alchemical bonus is granted by the use of a non-magical, alchemical substance such as antitoxin. Ability scores, saves Antitoxin — Armor An armor bonus applies to armor class and is granted by armor or by a spell or magical effect that mimics armor. Armor bonuses stack with all other bonuses to armor class (even with natural armor bonuses) except other armor bonuses. An armor bonus doesn’t apply against touch attacks, except for armor bonuses granted by force effects (such as the mage armor spell) which apply against incorporeal touch attacks, such as that of a shadow. AC Bracers of armor Mage armor Base Attack Bonus (BAB)* This number is a modifier added to your attack rolls. A higher number means you’re better at combat. +++ +++ +++ Circumstance A circumstance bonus (or penalty) arises from specific conditional factors impacting the success of the task at hand. Circumstance bonuses stack with all other bonuses, including other circumstance bonuses, unless they arise from essentially the same source. Attacks, checks Robe of blending — Competence A competence bonus (or penalty) affects a character’s performance of a particular task, as in the case of the bardic ability to inspire competence. Multiple competence bonuses don’t stack; only the highest bonus applies. Attacks, checks, saves Boots of elvenkind Guidance Deflection A deflection bonus affects armor class and is granted by a spell or magic effect that makes attacks veer off harmlessly. Deflection bonuses stack with all other bonuses to AC except other deflection bonuses. A deflection bonus applies against touch attacks. AC Ring of protection — Dodge A dodge bonus improves armor class (and sometimes Reflex saves) resulting from physical skill at avoiding blows and other ill effects. Dodge bonuses are never 1 usually not granted by spells or magic items. Any situation or effect (except wearing armor) that negates a character’s Dexterity bonus also negates any dodge bonuses the character may have. Dodge bonuses stack with all other bonuses to AC, even other dodge bonuses. Dodge bonuses apply against touch attacks. AC Never* Never* Enhancement An enhancement bonus represents an increase in the sturdiness and/or effectiveness of armor or natural armor, or the effectiveness of a weapon, or a general bonus to an ability score. Multiple enhancement bonuses on the same object (in the case of armor and weapons), creature (in the case of natural armor), or ability score do not stack. Only the highest enhancement bonus applies. Since enhancement bonuses to armor or natural armor effectively increase the armor or natural armor’s bonus to AC, they don’t apply against touch attacks. Ability scores, AC, attacks, damage, speed Belt of giant strength Magic weapon Inherent — Ability scores Manual of bodily health Wish Insight An insight bonus improves performance of a given activity by granting the character an almost precognitive knowledge of what might occur. Multiple insight bonuses on the same character or object do not stack. Only the highest insight bonus applies. AC, attacks, checks, saves Ioun stone True strike Luck A luck bonus represents good (or bad) fortune. Multiple luck bonuses on the same character or object do not stack. Only the highest luck bonus applies. AC, attacks, checks, damage, saves Stone of good luck Divine favor Morale A morale bonus represents the effects of greater hope, courage, and determination (or hopelessness, cowardice, and despair in the case of a morale penalty). Multiple morale bonuses on the same character do not stack. Only the highest morale bonus applies. Non-intelligent creatures (creatures with an Intelligence of 0 or no Intelligence at all) cannot benefit from morale bonuses. Attacks, checks, damage, saves, Str, Con, Dex Candle of invocation Bless Natural Armor A natural armor bonus improves armor class resulting from a creature’s naturally tough hide. Natural armor bonuses stack with all other bonuses to armor class (even with armor bonuses) except other natural armor bonuses. Some magical effects (such as the barkskin spell) grant an enhancement bonus to the creature’s existing natural armor bonus, which has the effect of increasing the natural armor’s overall bonus to armor class. A natural armor bonus doesn’t apply against touch attacks. AC Amulet of natural armor Barkskin Profane A profane bonus (or penalty) stems from the power of evil. Multiple profane bonuses on the same character or object do not stack. Only the highest profane bonus applies. AC, checks, damage, DCs, saves — Desecrate Racial A racial bonus comes from the culture a particular creature was brought up in or because of innate characteristics of that type of creature. If a creature’s race changes (for instance, if it dies and is reincarnated), it loses all racial bonuses it had in its previous form. — ?? ?? Resistance A resistance bonus affects saving throws, providing extra protection against harm. Multiple resistance bonuses on the same character or object do not stack. Only the highest resistance bonus applies. Saves Cloak of resistance Mind blank Sacred A sacred bonus (or penalty) stems from the power of good. Multiple sacred bonuses on the same character or object do not stack. Only the highest sacred bonus applies. AC, checks, damage, DCs, saves — Consecrate Shield A shield bonus improves armor class and is granted by a shield or by a spell or magic effect that mimics a shield. Shield bonuses stack with all other bonuses to AC except other shield bonuses. A magic shield typically grants an enhancement bonus to the shield’s shield bonus, which has the effect of increasing the shield’s overall bonus to AC. A shield bonus granted by a spell or magic item typically takes the form of an invisible, tangible field of force that protects the recipient. A shield bonus doesn’t apply against touch attacks. AC Ring of force shield Shield Size A size bonus or penalty is derived from a creature’s size category. Size modifiers of different kinds apply to armor class, attack rolls, Stealth checks, combat maneuver checks, and various other checks. Ability scores, attacks, AC — Enlarge person Trait A trait bonus is a bonus granted via a character trait. Character traits are an optional additional character defining feature like feats but less powerful (typically about half as strong as a feat.) As with other named bonuses, trait bonuses do not “stack” with other trait bonuses. — — — Spells and magic items should never grant dodge bonuses because dodge bonuses always stack, and it would be a simple matter to stack various low-power items or spells with small dodge bonuses and get an incredibly high armor class more cheaply than by achieving that AC using the armor, deflection, enhancement, and natural armor bonuses in the game.

@dwarf said in Ancient Items - Thread:

you MAY (ahem) find a few enclaves of them floating around the Magnesti homeworld, along with a vast number of other long-extinct dragons - as Zap is using several of his moons as Draconic Incubators to encourage the re-emergence of Magic on a number of dead-magic and low-magic worlds in other spheres across the 'verse 😜

You know this captured the Triplets interest, as i’m sure they run across dead magic/low magic worlds, normally they just wave as they pass by… it may make it worth their while to stop now.

@halfgiant Going to have to reread some rule son that. I really cannot recall them.

Wondrous Items combined with multiple ability scores Enhancement Single Ability Score Two Ability Scores Three Ability Scores Six Ability Scores Pre-Epic 1 1,000 2,000 3,000 6,000 Pre-Epic 2 4,000 8,000 12,000 24,000 Pre-Epic 3 9,000 18,000 27,000 54,000 Pre-Epic 4 16,000 32,000 48,000 96,000 Pre-Epic 5 25,000 50,000 75,000 150,000 Pre-Epic 6 36,000 72,000 108,000 216,000 Belt of Magnificence - (6 ^ 2) * 1,000gp = 36k * 6 stats = 216k Epic 7 490,000 980,000 1,470,000 2,940,000 Epic 8 640,000 1,280,000 1,920,000 3,840,000 Epic 9 810,000 1,620,000 2,430,000 4,860,000 Epic 10 1,000,000 2,000,000 3,000,000 6,000,000 Epic 11 1,210,000 2,420,000 3,630,000 7,260,000 Epic 12 1,440,000 2,880,000 4,320,000 8,640,000 Epic Belt of Magnificence - (6 ^ 2) * 10,000gp = 1,440,000gp = 1,440,000 * 6 stats = 8,640,000gp

Ok. This was more or less what I thought you meant, but wanted to be clear.

I will think on the pre-requisites.

For later reference, easier to find.

Reference: Here

Body Slot Affinity Headband, helmet Mental improvement, ranged attacks Hat Interaction Phylactery Morale, alignment Eye lenses, goggles Vision Cloak, cape, mantle Transformation, protection Amulet, brooch, medallion, necklace, periapt, scarab Protection, discernment Robe Multiple effects Shirt Physical improvement Vest, vestment Class ability improvement Bracers Combat Bracelets Allies Gloves Quickness Gauntlets Destructive power Belt Physical improvement Boots Movement

@halfgiant said in 10E thief question of Anti Magic:

However, the creature can still use spell completion items (such as scrolls) or spell trigger items (such as wands), even though it can’t cast the spells required.

This is flat stupid. The description clearly states how it covers the creature.

@halfgiant said in 10E thief question of Anti Magic:

Where it strikes your foe, it ripples across his body, like water spreading across a calm pond.

Then clearly states it functions as if in an antimagic field. Which implies that magic arms and armor will not work.

I will 100% override this spell trigger allowance if this verison of the spell is brought into the game.

@daermadm Gotcha. I thought that was the case, but couldn’t honestly remember anymore

Feat Leech
[Clairsentience]

Level: Psion/wilder 2, psychic warrior 2
Display: Mental and visual
Manifesting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Touch
Target: Creature touched
Duration: 1 min./level
Saving Throw: Will negates; see text
Power Resistance: Yes
Power Points: 3

You can use another’s psionic or metapsionic feats for yourself. You make a melee touch attack against a target. If successful, you immediately are familiar with the target’s psionic and metapsionic feats, if any, and you can choose a number of these feats to “leech” equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum one).

While the power lasts, you are treated as if you possessed the stolen feats, despite the fact that you have more feats than normally allowed. During this same period, the target can make no use of the stolen feats. When the power’s duration expires, you lose access to the feats, and the target gains immediate use of them. This transfer occurs regardless of the distance between you and the target.

If the duration of feat leech is extended by the use of a metapsionic feat, the target gains a Will saving throw every 10 minutes beyond the normal duration. If this save succeeds, the power’s duration ends. If the target is killed before the duration expires, you immediately lose the benefit of the stolen feats.

You cannot steal a feat for which you do not meet the prerequisites, if any. However, you can use a stolen feat as the prerequisite for another stolen feat.

Augment
For every 2 additional power points you spend, this power’s save DC increases by 1.

Dwarf said part of the inspiration of the 10e thief shadow walk was the 1e ninja from Oriental Adventures?

I don’t see shadow walk. but they have a walk through walls ability.
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@daermadm Isn’t “Dies repeatedly” the other Goblin ??

sideways, G… sideways 😉

Manacite refining is a process that involves smelting the raw manacite ore in a specialized mana powered crucible for 10 days. 10 pounds of Manacite ore will result in 1 pound of refined manacite.

These crucible range in size from 3’ around and designed to be on a workbench to an entire cavern 200’ across and enchanted to smelt manacite. The only known cavern sized smelters are currently located within the various dwarven mountains across the planet.

Powering a manacite crucible varies based on the size of the crucible and the age of the manacite ore. A typical workbench sized crucible can process 100 pounds of ore at once and has 5 cube slots, using one charge from each cube per day as it runs.

At the end of the process, the molten manacite ore seems to suddenly change consistency. The refined manacite falls to the bottom of the crucible passes through it and into a reservoir underneath where it solidifies.

The dross remaining in the crucible is mostly a high quality sand and is often used for glass making. Any other trace metals that were in the raw ore will solidify in clumps as it cools. These metals are predisposed to being enchanted and are highly sought after. From a 100 pound smelting of ore, you would be lucky to have an ounce of any other metal.

Those are nice , the frog just got a lot quicker and a lot more wackity smackity against the bad guys

Owl’s Insight
(Spell Compendium, p. 152)

Transmutation
Level: Druid 5,
Components: V, S,
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Touch
Target: Creature touched
Duration: 1 hour
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates (harmless)
Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless)

As you cast this spell, your face is overlaid with the image of a snow owl. The image fades as you bestow your ally with comprehension.

The subject gains an insight bonus to Wisdom equal to 1/2 your caster level.

I leave that to the @daermadm to decide, but the .02cents from the cheap seats is the Firebolt spell does 1d10 in Tier 1, and scales to Tier 4 doing 4d10 as a cantrip - no saving throw, but you do have to hit. Aside from it being a cantrip and technically not costing any mana points what so ever the damage isn’t going to unbalance anything given the level of play we are at.

For Levels 1-20, I presume the magic item body slots follow this format?

Armor: suits of armor.
Belts: belts and girdles.
Body: robes and vestments.
Chest: mantles, shirts, and vests.
Eyes: eyes, glasses, and goggles.
Feet: boots, shoes, and slippers.
Hands: gauntlets and gloves.
Head: circlets, crowns, hats, helms, and masks.
Headband: headbands and phylacteries.
Neck: amulets, brooches, medallions, necklaces, periapts, and scarabs.
Ring (up to two): rings.
Shield: shields.
Shoulders: capes and cloaks.
Wrist: bracelets and bracers.

The only missing component of this is the unslotted magic items, something like a fly carpet, which i don’t think anyone really cares about. But magic tattoos may matter.

Here are a few references:
Craft Wondrous Tattoo - this a the body slot
Craft Spell Tattoo - 1 shot tattoos i don’t think should use a body slot, maybe x/day use tattoos should not sure.
Scribe Tattoo - 1 shot tattoos i don’t think should use a body slot, maybe x/day use tattoos should not sure.
Create Magic Tattoo - This form of Tattoo i personally like because it makes the rule concise, a single creature can have only three magic tattoos at a time. Any attempt to apply more than that automatically fails.

@DarkWulf You were talking about becoming a lich, here is some reading material to do your research.

They have a lot of strengths, but are not without their weakness either.

Source Material for Lich Information

The Slayer’s Guide to Undead (Mongoose) – I believe they covered liches The Complete Guide to Liches (Goodman Games) “Blueprint For a Lich.” Dragon #26 (TSR, 1979) Libris Mortis (D&D 3.5) - Good Lich Turns undead, and can’t be turned. But can be rebuked/destroyed. Monsters of Faerun (Archlich) The Spelljammer campaign setting accessory Lost Ships (1990) introduced the archlich,[11] which also later appeared in the Monstrous Manual. The master lich appeared in Legend of Spelljammer (1991). A creature called the firelich is introduced in the 2nd Spelljammer Monstrous Compendium appendix (MC9). The psionic lich for the Ravenloft campaign setting first appeared in Dragon #174 (October 1991), and then appeared in Van Richten’s Guide to the Lich (1993), Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium Appendix III: Creatures of Darkness (1994), Monstrous Compendium Annual One (1994),[12] and Van Richten’s Monster Hunter’s Compendium (1999). Several other lich variants were also introduced in the Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium Appendix III, including the defiler lich and demi-defiler lich, the drow lich (and the drow demilich, the drider lich, the drow priestess lich, and the drow wizard lich), and the elemental lich and demi-elemental lich. The lich is fully detailed in Paizo Publishing’s book Undead Revisited (2011), on pages 22–27.[21] A lich appears in Judges Guild publications The Book of Ruins page 20, The Final Regue of Allmark. A lich is also the fate of one of the wizards among other forms of undead in Judges Guild module Citadel of Fire. The baelnorn, an elven lich of good alignment, was introduced in The Ruins of Myth Drannor (1993), and then appeared in Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume One (1994), and Cormanthyr: Empire of Elves (1998). The banelich, a version of the lich created by the god Bane in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, first appear in the Ruins of Zhentil Keep boxed set (in the Monstrous Compendium booklet) in 1995, and then appears in the Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume Three (1996).[13] The Suel lich for the Greyhawk campaign setting was introduced in Polyhedron #101 (November 1994), and then appeared in Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume Two (1995). The inheritor lich for the Red Steel campaign setting first appeared in Red Steel Savage Baronies (1995), and then in the Savage Coast Monstrous Compendium (1996). The lichfiend also appeared in Dungeon #116 (November 2004), as part of The Shackled City Adventure Path. The dry lich was introduced in Sandstorm: Mastering the Perils of Fire and Sand (2005).[17] The Suel lich returned in the “Campaign Classics” feature in Dragon #339 (January 2006).

Lich Variants all worth a read

Basic Lich (Monster Manual) Suel Lich (Dragon Magazine #339) A ghost-like incorporeal version of the lich, as developed by the people of Ancient Suel Dracolich (Draconomicon) A draconic lich Lichfiend (Libris Mortis) An outsider lich, usually a devil or demon Good Lich (Libris Mortis) Turns undead, and can’t be turned. But can be rebuked/destroyed. Demilich (Epic Level Handbook) An epic lich, very powerful and has eight soul gems (that function much like extra phylacteries) Archlich (Monsters of Faerun) Dry Lich (Sandstorm) A sort of mummy-like lich, where your organs are kept in special canopic jars instead of having a phylactery; the Walker in the Waste PrC allows you to become one, much like the Dread Necromancer works for the Basic Lich. Banelich (Forgotten Realms) Powerful followers of Bane achieve this template. Baelnorn (Forgotten Realms) A elf turned into a lich; not necessarily evil. Illithilich (Basic Lich + Illithid) The race with alternative names galore, mind flayers can become illithilich (or alhoons) by taking the lich template.

Templates to Consider

Evolved Undead (Libris Mortis) While not a lich variant, this is something to consider for an old lich (as many of them are bound to be), boosts stats and gives fast healing as well as a spell-like ability Spellstitched (Libris Mortis) Gain a bunch of spell-like abilities and some DR! It costs gp/exp to make an undead spellstitched but it might be worth it.

More Information for the Necromantically Inclined…

Damn Good Shop of the Damned: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showt...ghlight=maerok Lich entry at the SRD: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/lich.htm Tome of Necromancy, at Wizards of the Coast forums: http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?t=632562 Libris Mortis (your manual for undeath and beyond; pg.151-158 deal with liches and provide six sample liches; pg.156-158 deal with two lich variants) Book of Vile Deeds (not much for lichs, but the spells may be of interest) Complete Divine (death gods, especially Vecna) ‘Dead Life’: Undead Leadership, an undead leader class, and necromantic goodies: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.a...nd/dx20021031x Lich Progression - Template Class, as tackled by the good folk at Wizards: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/sp/20031212a

its listed as Phantom XP on dregs… and even my old copy of Erok. you must be mixing that memory with the shadow weave or something netherese 😉