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[webkilla]

they were a thing in 2nd edition - and I haven't moved up to 3rd yet......

[webkilla]

my 2 cents:

I have a rule when it comes to differentiating artifact 1 and 2 stuff.

Artifact 1 'merely' rivals really good/handy mundane stuff - artifact 2 equates to the very limit of what mundane means can replicate.



Ledger of the Minister - This ledger book has 200 pages in it. It however seems to never run out of blank pages. If the owner rights what they re looking for on the first page of the ledger the ink disappears but the book will flip the the needed page.
- should be artifact 1. A book that wont run out of pages, and automatically...

[webkilla]

ya - a lot of classic fantasy tropes fly out the window when you present it to exalted people.

A zenith crafting-specialist would probably be able to find a way to take the ring apart. An abyssal would probably just shrug and toss the ring into oblivion. A tricky eclipse-caste solar might just run off with the ring and ditch it so far in the wyld that it would disolve instantly....

[webkilla]

so... DB monks are charged for maximum nut. Oh gods hilarious

[webkilla]

"You ruined my pocket sand!"

"I stunt my essence-regeneration by resting in [players] lap"

"I scrape the slurry off the ground for later use as pocket slurry"...

[webkilla]

Make the players her crack team of "trouble-shooters" - they're her top agents who go out and deal with unruly spirits, raiding warlords and other "small scale" issues that isn't big enough for her to pay attention to.

...and then maybe set up a system to allow the players to call in the queen in case they get into trouble, to make the players appreciate that they have a heavy-hitter to call on

[webkilla]

here's one

Retired DB agent of the All-Seeing-Eye (Realm secret police) is trying to reconnect to his estranged daughter who with her mother and wealthy patrician step-father, but one day while she's in Nexus on a shopping trip she's kidnapped by guild slavers!

Cue a madcap hunt through the realm and the east, as the DB has to infiltrate, expose and destroy the business operations of the cruel and corrupt guild factor who has his daughter up for auction.



Here's another:

A young child is born with a supernatural sense of smell -...