Inspired by the incredibly excellent Weird Magic Item generator over at Donjon.bin.sh, I've been coming up with a few of my own system agnostic weird magic items to put in the many games I run, be they 13th Age or Beyond the Wall...
Eventually I want to try and put them into a randomizer, but I need to generate a few first. I'm going to try and post one every other Wednesday. Please let me know if you end up using an item I've created in your own game. You can find the entire series here...
This battered bronze breastplate features the gruesome image of a Manticore upon it and functions as a +1 magic breastplate. Once a week the wearer can call upon the magic of the breastplate to transform into a Manticore for up to an hour. During that time the wearer possess their own mind but has the physical attributes, including the hit points and attacks, of a Manticore. All of the user’s equipment is magically absorbed into the new form and unavailable until the transformation ends. The effect ends at the end of an hour or when the wearer is reduced to zero or fewer hit points. If the effect ends because the wearer is reduced to zero hit points or fewer they are returned to their normal form, unconscious but with 1 hit point. Before the breastplate can be used again the wearer must devour the raw and bloody heart of a freshly killed foe that was slain by their hand (or manticore claw, etc) within the last hour. The wearer can devour the heart in either the manticore form, while the transformation is in effect, or in their normal form, but until they consume a foe’s heart they can neither remove the breastplate nor call upon its power of transformation, though they still receive its armor bonus as normal.
Eventually I want to try and put them into a randomizer, but I need to generate a few first. I'm going to try and post one every other Wednesday. Please let me know if you end up using an item I've created in your own game. You can find the entire series here...
Breastplate of the Manticore
This battered bronze breastplate features the gruesome image of a Manticore upon it and functions as a +1 magic breastplate. Once a week the wearer can call upon the magic of the breastplate to transform into a Manticore for up to an hour. During that time the wearer possess their own mind but has the physical attributes, including the hit points and attacks, of a Manticore. All of the user’s equipment is magically absorbed into the new form and unavailable until the transformation ends. The effect ends at the end of an hour or when the wearer is reduced to zero or fewer hit points. If the effect ends because the wearer is reduced to zero hit points or fewer they are returned to their normal form, unconscious but with 1 hit point. Before the breastplate can be used again the wearer must devour the raw and bloody heart of a freshly killed foe that was slain by their hand (or manticore claw, etc) within the last hour. The wearer can devour the heart in either the manticore form, while the transformation is in effect, or in their normal form, but until they consume a foe’s heart they can neither remove the breastplate nor call upon its power of transformation, though they still receive its armor bonus as normal.
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