Comments on: Lore: Mystic Blades

By: gentian

gentian — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:10:35 +0000

Hi everyone. Thanks for the kind words. There is definitely more on the way. In fact, that’s what I’m supposed to be working on right now. ^^

By: Dawn Raven

Dawn Raven — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:40:41 +0000

This is great! I don’t have any ways to purchase in my campaign, and I don’t even think my players have considered that they might be able to make any. I convert most of the gold parcels into additional magic items for them. I like to make each item a bit more special then simply “X Sword +1″ or “Amulet of Health.”

This series is sure to be useful to my game and will likely see prompt use! Any chance we’ll see similar ideas with armor, pendants and other miscellaneous items?

By: gamefiend

gamefiend — Mon, 25 May 2009 20:30:38 +0000

Thanks Asmor — glad you’re enjoying the blog! I’ve assembled a crack team with ethan, gentian (who also happens to be my wife ), milambus, and rudolf!

Yeah, I feel that magic is a bit what you make it in 4e. In my campaigns, we have garden-variety things and then we have really special items. I don’t think it would be too hard to tweak it to a more “magic is special” tilt though.

By: Asmor

Asmor — Mon, 25 May 2009 18:55:02 +0000

Great post! This is fact becoming one of my favorite RPG blogs.

@ethan: As opposed to 3.x, when… anyone with the right feat and enough gold could produce any item of their choice?

Magic’s as special as you make it.

By: ethan

ethan — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:31:56 +0000

Excellent collection of flavor. Does it bug you that 4e has given magic items that mass-produced feeling? Anybody with the right ritual and enough gold seems to be able to construct any magic item of their choosing. Kinda kills the point searching for “the legendary weapon” if you could make it yourself.