Socketed Gems
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Since I briefly introduced a Diablo dungeon back in the day, I have no issues with socketed items in general.
But I want more about where you pulled this from.
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It wasn’t specifically pulled from any single source, its loosly based upon my memory of the diablo video games, some of the text was pulled from the Diablerie d20 supplement. The tiers, and costs, were fabricated by me, based upon the existing craft system, as a starting point, trying to wedge the socket structure into the “+1”, “+2”, etc… “+10” enhancement system for armor, weapons, and shields so we could piggy back off the current magical affects already provided in the boat load of existing 3.5/d20 content.
There were a couple of terrible community attempts at it, none of which were all that inspiring.
Here is something Kobold Press put out, but I didn’t think it scaled very well: https://koboldpress.com/from-diablo-3-to-dd-socketed-items/
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Here is a homebrew i found, also wasn’t to crazy about it either.
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Another system, also a mess:
Google Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xI9zSk_QYcqaisf2Kd4YxLKcEcYrmO254FORghMncPo/edit?usp=sharing
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I will think more about this, and dig out my old diablo d20 book.
I do recall that the original socketed items are items that have no other enhancements. Only the +1 to +5.
But then I believe they also had multiple sockets.
If we restrict to a single socket I can see that not being a required restriction.
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I just reread the Diablo 2 d20 book section on magic items. There was nothing there at all on socketed gear. Just the randomized prefix and suffix stuff.
So I’ll spend some time on your other links and thinking about this stuff.
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Read that stuff on my flight. Yup, not a fan. A couple nuggets but that is it.
Going to start working on your proposal.
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@halfgiant said in Socketed Gems:
Paying for the ghost touch weapon property is not only a significant investment in gold, but also feels like wasted space whenever the characters aren’t fighting shadows and wraiths. On the other hand, a Tier 1 Radiant Gem provides the same effect but can be swapped for another gem when you don’t face incorporeal creatures.
Okay, on this. What is the cost to make a longsword +1 versus a longsword +1 with ghost touch?
You are saying a radiant Tier 1 gem can have that affect. So does that mean the cost difference above compares to the 2,000 GP cost of a gem?
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You know it may be worth a look at Ioun Stones as the baseline for the gem anyway, or even using them as the gem for socketing into items. Since its already well established. We can fairly easily create a feat, with a cost breakdown, for creating the socket in a new or existing item to drop a ioun stone into.
Was just something to think about.
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back in the old, old days you had found a master-list of Ioun Stones compiled from dragon mags and other sources. did you ever re-find it ?
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Interesting take on Gem Magic
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@dwarf said in Socketed Gems:
back in the old, old days you had found a master-list of Ioun Stones compiled from dragon mags and other sources. did you ever re-find it ?
Dragon Magazine 174
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2E Gems - Reference: Encyclopedia Magic Volume 2, Page 513
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Magical Gems and Gear Socketing references 5th edition, so probably takes some changes/tweeks, but not a bad approach.
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@halfgiant said in Socketed Gems:
Magical Gems and Gear Socketing references 5th edition, so probably takes some changes/tweeks, but not a bad approach.
That is actually not a horrible system. So much of 5e is so close to something I would like to play more.
