The Judge in my long-running home game chose that the Chronicle “Contains a few dangerous artifacts.” He left them alone to start, but recently they set out to hunt down a sorcerer deep in the Great Wood. They knew they’d be taking the fae pathways of the waystones, and he wouldn’t be able to bring his iron hammer. “Are any of the dangerous artifacts in the Chronicle hammers or other weapons?” he asks.
Well, with an invitation like that… of course. I had him roll a bunch of times on the minor arcana generator. We got:
> Origin: Primordial Power
>> Aspect: Diminished/fragmentary/shattered & roll again
>> Aspect: Creation/shaping/invention
> Shape: practical item >> tool
> Extraordinary property: absorbs __ and stores its power
> Limit: indiscriminate
So… a diminished/shattered primordial tool that absorbs something and stores its power, involved in creation/shaping and its power is indiscriminate.
Here’s what I gave him:
(EDIT: Crap. I just realized that the second bullet should say “Tell the GM how many charges you expected, and ASK what happens next.”)
And here are my notes on what happens with each charge. (Steriling/Brian/Hobbes… stop reading!)
• 1 charge: +1d6 damage, forceful+
• 2 charges: +2d6 damage, forceful+, messy+
• 3 charges: +3d6 damage, forceful+, messy+, area, tremors
• 4 charges+: +4d6 damage, forceful, messy, area, ignores armor, tremors, rifts
The Judge used the original charge to bash down an opening in a wall. He then picked up a charge taking out the sorcerer. Now they’re getting ready to fight their way out of the giant-spider-infested ziggurat that the sorcerer was holed up in, and in preparation the Judge has charged the thing up to 4 charges.
The Seeker, who can see and sense energy flows, is terrified.
This is awesome!
JER CAN I READ THAT COMMENT YET
Yes, Hobbes. The hammer has gone “boom.”
Jeremy Strandberg I was being a good player and not peeking, but I only have so much self-control.
edit: oh dear god