How do you create Clerical Magic Items
Jun 29, 2017 12:40:40 GMT -5
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Post by captaincrumbcake on Jun 29, 2017 12:40:40 GMT -5
What are the spells/methods for creating clerical magic items? What level are they? How do you obtain/learn them. What are the rituals and secrets surrounding creating these items?
There are so many variables, from sect to sect, deity to deity, and all that goes between.
I guess, to start somewhere, I would not let clerics of--
a non-warrior type deity the ability to make magic weapons.
a death deity the ability to make healing items (staves, potions, etc.)
And go with this pattern of logic.
The older I get, the longer I contemplate the whole thing, the more I believe that magic (its use, manufacture, etc.) in the game, kills it.
Sure, its fantasy! (So was LotR and dozens of other examples in literature). But does it have to be reduced to the level of mundane just to make it fun and worth playing? Not to me.
But I'm not a total grog-a$$. I think there is room for a smidgen, and I mean slight, amount of magic, just to remind the players it is a fantasy game. (Let all the strange races and creatures do the bulk of that work!)
Ergo, I would not, in any case (if I had a campaign up and running) give players the impression that they could create magic spells, or items. Such things could be found, after extensive expeditions into endless numbers of dungeons.
That said, I have no qualms about taking the "magic" of the + away from the magical, and making it simply a mechanic that could be acquired from master weapon and armor smiths at ungodly prices, taking months if not years to produce! For example, a +5 sword could be bought, from a Master sword smith, for a price of 50,000 GP, and requiring 6 to 12 months to produce. Same for a shield, or armor. See where that is going? Simple things do not require magic to explain them.
So, then, who did make (or is still making) the actual, magical items that might be found? Perhaps Immortal beings of ages past. Powerful demons or saints. Things used in a war between good and evil that has never really ceased.
There is no, 1, simple answer to address everything. The Game Referee must do the work.
So it goes.