Ancients
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this looks like ninja-speak… doesn’t sound like something i wrote
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Its a Ninja writeup, Onaga was asking about Ancients, and thats what i was able to find. We may have something more worthy of the new Manaverse, i just haven’t found it, or had time to write it.
Probably will need to rework it, for the 10E/Manaverse blend we are doing.
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seems like there was a brief Arg story about the ancients and powermasters, once upon a daerma… wunner where cloud hid that away to ?
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seems like there was a brief Arg story about the ancients and powermasters, once upon a daerma… wunner where cloud hid that away to ?
https://daerma.com/history-lore/arg-discusses-the-origins-of-the-power-masters-and-the-ancients/
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I should probably just shut down the main site. Or turn it into a feed oh here.
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ha !! just reread it - and in the story it talks about wolfgang finding the axe of the dwarvish lords for daren
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Ohh yeah… there it is. That is some pretty amazing odds.
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From the SRD:
Wands: A typical wand is 6 inches to 12 inches long and about ¼ inch thick, and often weighs no more than 1 ounce. Most wands are wood, but some are bone. A rare few are metal, glass, or even ceramic, but these are quite exotic. Occasionally, a wand has a gem or some device at its tip, and most are decorated with carvings or runes.
Rods: Rods weigh approximately 5 pounds. They range from 2 feet to 3 feet long and are usually made of iron or some other metal. (Many, as noted in their descriptions, can function as light maces or clubs due to their sturdy construction.)
Staffs: A typical staff is 4 feet to 7 feet long and 2 inches to 3 inches thick, weighing about 5 pounds. Most staffs are wood, but a rare few are bone, metal, or even glass. (These are extremely exotic.) Staffs often have a gem or some device at their tip or are shod in metal at one or both ends. Staffs are often decorated with carvings or runes.
Dwarf i distantly remember something the Argopolis City Ancient designing wands that could attach together to form a rod, and likewise rods that could attach together to form staffs. Allowing him to do several different things, do you remember that? I thought it was the Argopolis City Ancient, maybe it was Arg…or someone else, i honestly am not sure. Regardless was that a Ancient thing, or something anyone could do?
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currently have no memory of that… try asking drunk me next time you encounter him - he seems to occasionally remember things that sober me has forgotten
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@halfgiant said in Ancients:
Regardless was that a Ancient thing, or something anyone could do?
This would make an item artifact level.
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@daermadm well I think it depends if you could theoretically attach two wands together (for the sake of argument say one was fireball and the other lightening bolt, and now you have a magical rod that can cast either fireball or lightening bolt. I wouldn’t necessarily say that is a artifact. Would have to see how that builds in a few more examples/combinations. They would still be governed by normal spell trigger rules. It just provided some flexibility in configuration.
I think the Ancient part was they could stack 3 fireball wands as a rod or staff (possibly more), and with one charge get all of them to fire plus trigger multiple charges…this part was the Ancient ability and how they magnified affects thru items. At least thats how i remembered it, not saying that is correct, just how i remembered it.
Now to get an accurate recollection, we will have to trick the Dwarf into drinking beer, so his brain gets properly lubricated to access those long lost memory centers.
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@halfgiant if putting them together like you are talking about still only let’s them be wands and shooting only one per round, no, that is not an artifact.
I was assuming that by jacking in a wand of fire and a wand of lightning you were thinking to Have a rod that casts some amalgamation fireball lightning bolt with a single charge from a rod cube that would be an artifact class combination.
Minor artifact, but artifact. Mostly because of the free form spell combine functionality.
