Maybe Indiana Jones is one of the PCs?
How to destroy an artifact?
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Maybe Indiana Jones is one of the PCs?
Hunter In Darkness
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Well In one game there was 8 artifacts of the deamon lord Justicar That needed gone.
Other then that It does pop up from time to time
Other then that It does pop up from time to time
blargney the second
blargney the minute's son
Ed_Laprade
Adventurer
The one or two times I've had a character who needed to we decided to toss it in the nearest volcano. If that didn't destroy it, someone else would have to deal with it... later.
I would link the destruction of the artifact to a manner of its nature or construction.
The One Ring, after all, had to be thrown into the fires of Mt. Doom, where it was forged.
If it's something related to fire, than for one day and one night it must be frozen in the center of an iceberg, in the coldest part of the world on the shortest day of the year. If it's a necromantic artifact, then worn by a mother giving birth somewhere that the Positive Energy plane bleeds through.
Look at the artifact's history, and ask yourself "What's appropriate for the theme of this item?"
The One Ring, after all, had to be thrown into the fires of Mt. Doom, where it was forged.
If it's something related to fire, than for one day and one night it must be frozen in the center of an iceberg, in the coldest part of the world on the shortest day of the year. If it's a necromantic artifact, then worn by a mother giving birth somewhere that the Positive Energy plane bleeds through.
Look at the artifact's history, and ask yourself "What's appropriate for the theme of this item?"
El Mahdi
Muad'Dib of the Anauroch
Yup. I played in an FR game where the Scepter of the Sorcerer Kings fell into our laps. Of course we didn't know what it was before our cleric started using it. After we found out no less than 5 priesthoods had lost contact with their patron deities, and did an indepth Legend Lore on it (with some info on destruction), we decided it was our duty to destroy it. Since one of the possible means of destruction was to kill a god with it, my slightly hyperactive and stupidly fearless Gnome character decided on a plan that would kill two birds with one stone: taunt Cyric until he showed up and then kill him with the scepter. Simple!
The ensuing scene with the rest of the group chasing my Gnome around, trying to catch him to shut him up (I was launching a steady stream of insults directed at Cyric), made for a very entertaining game night.
Not quite as epic a scene as Frodo destroying the One Ring, but it was memorable for us.
I like Hunter in Darkness's ideas, but I also tend to prefer a means of destruction that has something to do either with it's powers or it's creation.
I'm trying to imagine what kind of campaign that must have been for the Dwarf PC.
On second thought, no....
Hunter In Darkness
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I left it out but it always has something to do with the item, it's just a bit of a riddle and never what it seems.
The item about the Drawf. Well that came from a home brew. The ax of Gledoma'ggaden was a weapon of great power, forged by the lord of said nations before the raise of man. It's a bit fuzzy but think god of war for power and ya got it, mad ya into a one man army of death. The down side was ya killed anything and everything that stood in the way of the perfaact kingdom, even the citizens as they can never live up to the ideal. Any anyone trying to stop you and so on.
It lead to much wa r and death laying for many a year in old dead dwarf hold. In the end a Drawf Pc who had founded a nation sundered it in battle with it's wielder. He was A farther with a thousand children, his people
The item about the Drawf. Well that came from a home brew. The ax of Gledoma'ggaden was a weapon of great power, forged by the lord of said nations before the raise of man. It's a bit fuzzy but think god of war for power and ya got it, mad ya into a one man army of death. The down side was ya killed anything and everything that stood in the way of the perfaact kingdom, even the citizens as they can never live up to the ideal. Any anyone trying to stop you and so on.
It lead to much wa r and death laying for many a year in old dead dwarf hold. In the end a Drawf Pc who had founded a nation sundered it in battle with it's wielder. He was A farther with a thousand children, his people
