A "helmet" that can be placed on a medium sized creatures head. An apparatus or two on it then bores into the unfortunates head and extracts a particular portion of the brain which is then distilled into a "Brain Elixir" or "Thought Distillate" which when drunk imparts to the imbiber certain thoughts. Probably favored by Ixian Necromancers.

Cool about the artifact idea!
Yeah, I remember those items from reading your campaign threads. Good stuff, really like the campaign write ups! I'll post more ideas for magic items, can really let the twisted stuff shine in AS&SH!

RedJowel wrote:

Any thoughts to weopons with extended crit ranges? perhaps only effective when weilded by fighters with appropriate weopon mastery? Or are crits something we agree should be kept as rare as possible to stay in line with the feel of assh

Most magical weapons in my campaign crit on a natural 19 or 20, but on the other hand I don't use +1, +2, etc. to denote a "magic" item, they're almost always artefacts of power with histories, lore and potentially nasty side-effects. The +1, +2, type stuff is all made from superior materials and craftsmanship and they don't have an increased critical hit range.

Last edited by NAJones (5/09/2014 12:47 am)

Yora wrote:

I havn't been using critical hits at all, so far. Are those even in the rules?

Yes.  They're an optional rule on p.221 of the Players' Manual.

Personally, I wouldn't use any kind of extended crit ranges except maybe as a special ability of a tiny set of unique weapons.  I'm not that big of a fan of effects that trigger based on the natural die roll in general (it feels wrong to me that, if your chance to hit sucks, then that increases the proportion of hits which are crits), plus the very phrase "extended crit range" reminds me unpleasantly of 3e...

Handy Haversack wrote:

I think it's more AS&SH style to let the enchantment add to the 1d6 one rolls to see what type of critical hit is scored, increasing the odds of getting X2 or X3 damage.

That would never have occured to me, I like it, as it would still be limited by the individualised charts for the different classes.  I'm assuming you would treat rolls greater then a six as a six, or would you follow the pattern and let magic weopons break the crit chart?

Handy Haversack wrote:

Explosions, witherings, soul stealing, eyebiting, that kind of thing.

Oh man,  I just might have to put in an (cursed?) item, of what's true purpose is eyebiting  
              that being said, any interesting cursed items being brought to the table? just knowing they exist gives me fear to be the first to pick up anything that could be magical, but most cursed items become obvious shortly after picking them up.  How about something that is almost worth the curse, and simply realised by the weilder to be so only after a while? although,  maby this falls under the "sentient" category of magic items

 

I taken to doing this sort of thing lately. A character recently found a ring of warmth the powered itself by draining the characters constitution by one point. He gets the point back after removing the ring, which he can do at will.