Magic Items!
I continue to write Markets & Mages: Or, how adventurers pay the rent.
Its about what happens after the adventure; how you manage the financial, social, and community obligations that come from adventuring.
This game doesn't need magic items like a +1 sword or a holy avenger.
It may need magic items like this:
http://gamerblog.twwombat.com/2016/09/maslows-purse.html (Jim White).
I'd make some changes to this for it to work in this system.
What other magic items would you want to see?
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So for ex, here's how Maslow's purse would work:
ReplyDeleteWhen you pay the rent, Maslow's Purse always provides enough coin to cover the required Assets.
If a Wizard improves The Purse, then you can always use a bond without erasing it when paying the rent.
If a Wizard improves The Purse further, you can use a Credit without erase it when paying the rent.
That is: baseline, it provides enough money. Next step, it also ensures you have companionship. Highest, you also always have a place in a community.
You ever look at ACKS? I understand it has a lot of realm-building stuff. Maybe not "idle time for adventurers" but maybe it'd be inspirational.
ReplyDeleteA fairy-godmother's blessing that any time the godchild throws a party, everyone coming to attend will bring something that the party actually needs. One person will bring dip (not five). Somebody will remember cheap plates and cups. Two people will show up with musical instruments, and their choice (and skill levels) will actually harmonize. At the end of the party there will have been enough of everything, and needless leftovers of nothing.
ReplyDeleteA magic feather: Once per week, you may place this before your lips and breathe a weary sigh through it to activate its magic before a conversation with one other person. That other person will understand your words as you intended them, even if it would be easier for them to assume ill intent, or ignorance, upon your part.
ReplyDeleteTechnically, this doesn't lend any particular magical persuasiveness, but...
Todd Sprang Whose idle? You gotta raise those kids!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the share, William Nichols! I'm looking forward to seeing more items like this.
ReplyDeleteSome others:
ReplyDelete-- Farmer's Butter: Anything made with this butter will be the paragon of its type of food, no matter the quality of the cook.
-- General's Champagne Flutes: Any toasts made with these flutes will be satisfied
-- Surveyor's Spectacles: Any two objects, people, or communities seen through these glasses are judged on an equal footing, without preexisting beliefs getting in the way.
- The Gunne: Shoot it and someone dies.
ReplyDelete-- The Diswasher: It prevents disease from your dishes.