Post by donosaur on Jun 27, 2016 15:54:40 GMT
The Church Key
Very Rare Wondrous Item
Appearance: a battered iron key on a grimy leather cord or fob. The handle of the key doubles as a bar tool, such as a bottle opener or a tool for tapping casks, whichever is more appropriate to your setting.
Use: this iron skeleton key is usually found in the possession of a notable drunkard or tavern proprietor. It magically fits in the lock of any keg room of any bar, tavern, or other establishment that makes most of its money from selling alcohol.
When putting the key in the keg room door, the user can choose to either access the room beyond, or use the door to travel to the keg room of any other bar that they have had a drink in previously. Once in the keg room, they can open the door again normally and exit into the bar they traveled to. This allows them to teleport across great distances easily, but only if they've had a drink there before.
The Pickled Galleon
Legendary Wondrous Item
Appearance: An average-sized glass bottle, containing what appears to be a highly detailed modeled ship inside. The particulars of the vessel are up to you, but it should a tall ship of old design, with a unique, highly recognizable feature. Give the ship a suitably legendary sounding name. A moderately difficult History check reveals that this ship is legendary, having appeared throughout history numerous times despite being repeatedly destroyed, and for sometimes seeming to be in two places at once. A medium difficulty investigation check reveals that the sails and flag on the model ship appear to be rippling in a slight breeze inside the bottle. A difficult Arcana check reveals the bottle is enchanted with a powerful transmutation spell. Uncorking the bottle does nothing, but one can hear the sound of lapping waves and wind in the sails of the miniature ship.
Use: By breaking the bottle, the transmutation spell on the ship inside is broken, causing it to rapidly, even violently, return to its full size. If shattered over or under water, the ship will always emerge to the surface and float as it is expanding. It is stronger than a normal ship while it is expanding, so if the bottle is shattered inside a building, the ship will destroy the building before it falls to its side and collapses under its own weight. In a stone building or cave where the ship does not have room to fully expand, the timbers will splinter and explode instead.
If it survives the expansion process, the ship is a fully operational vessel of immaculate, if antiquated, design. It must be propelled by sail or current like any ordinary vessel, and does not man itself, so it does require a crew.
Regardless of whether the ship survives expansion intact or not, in the captain's hold there will be an empty glass bottle on a stand identical to the one that this ship emerged from. If the bottle remains in the captain's hold, the model ship will rebuild itself inside the bottle over the course of a week. If the bottle if removed from the ship, someone has to rebuild the ship inside by hand, which takes at least 3 months. Regardless of who builds it, the ship inside will always be the same ship; however, unless the person is highly skilled, they will build an inferior version of the boat, one that sails poorly or leaks, or take less damage before sinking. An imperfect ship does not pass its flaw on to the next bottled ship.
Rules: There can only be two boats at once. Once the bottle rebuilds a new ship inside, it can be taken from the ship and shattered to created an identical second ship. However, this ship's bottle will remain empty until the first ship is destroyed. If the second ship is destroyed, the first ship creates a new bottle and begins creating a new ship as usual.
The bottle cannot be permanently destroyed. If a bottle containing an incomplete ship gets broken, whatever exists of the ship at the time emerges and expands from the bottle. Somewhere in that shipwreck or pile of timber is the next bottle. If the ship sinks without the bottle being retrieved, it will continue rebuilding itself at the bottom of the sea before eventually floating to the surface, with an intact ship inside.
Very Rare Wondrous Item
Appearance: a battered iron key on a grimy leather cord or fob. The handle of the key doubles as a bar tool, such as a bottle opener or a tool for tapping casks, whichever is more appropriate to your setting.
Use: this iron skeleton key is usually found in the possession of a notable drunkard or tavern proprietor. It magically fits in the lock of any keg room of any bar, tavern, or other establishment that makes most of its money from selling alcohol.
When putting the key in the keg room door, the user can choose to either access the room beyond, or use the door to travel to the keg room of any other bar that they have had a drink in previously. Once in the keg room, they can open the door again normally and exit into the bar they traveled to. This allows them to teleport across great distances easily, but only if they've had a drink there before.
The Pickled Galleon
Legendary Wondrous Item
Appearance: An average-sized glass bottle, containing what appears to be a highly detailed modeled ship inside. The particulars of the vessel are up to you, but it should a tall ship of old design, with a unique, highly recognizable feature. Give the ship a suitably legendary sounding name. A moderately difficult History check reveals that this ship is legendary, having appeared throughout history numerous times despite being repeatedly destroyed, and for sometimes seeming to be in two places at once. A medium difficulty investigation check reveals that the sails and flag on the model ship appear to be rippling in a slight breeze inside the bottle. A difficult Arcana check reveals the bottle is enchanted with a powerful transmutation spell. Uncorking the bottle does nothing, but one can hear the sound of lapping waves and wind in the sails of the miniature ship.
Use: By breaking the bottle, the transmutation spell on the ship inside is broken, causing it to rapidly, even violently, return to its full size. If shattered over or under water, the ship will always emerge to the surface and float as it is expanding. It is stronger than a normal ship while it is expanding, so if the bottle is shattered inside a building, the ship will destroy the building before it falls to its side and collapses under its own weight. In a stone building or cave where the ship does not have room to fully expand, the timbers will splinter and explode instead.
If it survives the expansion process, the ship is a fully operational vessel of immaculate, if antiquated, design. It must be propelled by sail or current like any ordinary vessel, and does not man itself, so it does require a crew.
Regardless of whether the ship survives expansion intact or not, in the captain's hold there will be an empty glass bottle on a stand identical to the one that this ship emerged from. If the bottle remains in the captain's hold, the model ship will rebuild itself inside the bottle over the course of a week. If the bottle if removed from the ship, someone has to rebuild the ship inside by hand, which takes at least 3 months. Regardless of who builds it, the ship inside will always be the same ship; however, unless the person is highly skilled, they will build an inferior version of the boat, one that sails poorly or leaks, or take less damage before sinking. An imperfect ship does not pass its flaw on to the next bottled ship.
Rules: There can only be two boats at once. Once the bottle rebuilds a new ship inside, it can be taken from the ship and shattered to created an identical second ship. However, this ship's bottle will remain empty until the first ship is destroyed. If the second ship is destroyed, the first ship creates a new bottle and begins creating a new ship as usual.
The bottle cannot be permanently destroyed. If a bottle containing an incomplete ship gets broken, whatever exists of the ship at the time emerges and expands from the bottle. Somewhere in that shipwreck or pile of timber is the next bottle. If the ship sinks without the bottle being retrieved, it will continue rebuilding itself at the bottom of the sea before eventually floating to the surface, with an intact ship inside.
