You get one magic item...

[jiriku]

If you (your actual real-world self) could have one magic item worth no more than 50,000 gp, what would you pick, and what would you do with it?

What if you could have any one item up to 200,000 gp?

[Glimbur]

Ring of Sustenance, hands down. Sleeping a quarter as long, not needing to worry about food... it would make life much easier.

[Ellington]

Bag of tricks.

[Hat-Trick]

I agree, the ring of sustenance. Nothing could really compare.

[Zaydos]

Headband of Int +6 ^__^ It would make studying so much easier, and boy would it help with tests.

[Berserk Monk]

Ring of Sustenance, hands down. Sleeping a quarter as long, not needing to worry about food... it would make life much easier.

I was gonna say a magic weapon or something to up my str, but yeah, a ring of sustenance is by far better.

[Reinboom]

You may wish to put more restrictions on things like this. Or describe how certain boundless items work. Alla, Candle of Invocation.

[taltamir]

a spellbook, specifically, a blessed book (28k) with 220 pages of spells (worth 100gp per page)

[Logalmier]

a spellbook, specifically, a blessed book (28k) with 220 pages of spells (worth 100gp per page)

But no one would be a spellcaster. You'd end up with a book filled with nonsense words and funny pictures.

[Berserk Monk]

But no one would be a spellcaster. You'd end up with a book filled with nonsense words and funny pictures.

So, a comic book?

[Sir Homeslice]

An item of at-will reverse gender. Orgasmic Vibrations if I can swing it.

[Logalmier]

So, a comic book?

I'd buy it.:smallbiggrin:

[Berserk Monk]

An item of at-will reverse gender. Orgasmic Vibrations if I can swing it.

You just caused part of my brain to explode.

[Vizzerdrix]

Honestly, I'd want a golem or homunculus, or several if I could. Either that, or the well of worlds if it fell into either price category, or what ever I could afford that would allow planar travel. (I'd get to Sigil, sell the item and live in comfort)

[sofawall]

Candle of invocation. Because, you know, Pun-Pun.

[UglyPanda]

50,000 gp, an item of at-will remove disease.

200,000, possibly an item of 1/day Animate Object (free power for the masses), but more likely an item of at-will Chain Remove Disease.

[Berserk Monk]

50,000 gp, an item of at-will remove disease.

200,000, possibly an item of 1/day Animate Object (free power for the masses), but more likely an item of at-will Chain Remove Disease.

That's pretty greedy of you: wanting an item that would help remove disease from the world. You're a selfish jerk!

[The Dark Fiddler]

Hmm... quite a difficult choice...

I'd say magic weapons and armor are right out - practically useless in today's society with my lifestyle...

If the manuals and tomes didn't cost so much, I'd probably get the CON boosting one, since I really need a better Con...

I think it'd have to be Ring of Sustenance... yeah.

Or a Ring of Three wishes.

[Temet Nosce]

Use activated item of Polymorph Any Object with a charges per day limit (to keep the price down).

[Quincunx]

An item of at-will reverse gender. Orgasmic Vibrations if I can scha-wing it.

Fixed it for you! :smallbiggrin:

[Triaxx]

50,000 gp? Once a day Dimension Door. 200,000 gp? At-will Cloak of Invisibility. Improved Invisibility.

[jiriku]

You may wish to put more restrictions on things like this. Or describe how certain boundless items work. Alla, Candle of Invocation.

If you want to Pun-Pun, that's a fair answer.

Myself, I'd probably go with a +6 Int item, although a +6 Cha item would be tempting.

If I had 200k, I think I'd get a mirror of mental prowess. Thought-reading plus voyeurism plus instant travel anywhere = win!

[Kallisti]

Myself, I'd probably go with a +6 Int item, although a +6 Cha item would be tempting.

If I had 200k, I think I'd get a mirror of mental prowess. Thought-reading plus voyeurism plus instant travel anywhere = win!

This, prettymuch. Although given 200k, it'd be a toss-up between the Mirror and a Belt of Excellence. No, scratch that. The belt. The mirror would tempt me, though.

[starwoof]

Decanter of Endless Cold Coca Cola. Failing that... Boots of Teleportation.

With 200k... Ring of Air Elemental Command.

[Schylerwalker]

There's no way I could possible choose. If some divine entity walked up to me and said "Here, have some magic items.", it would probably depend on my mood at the time.

Current mood?

50k: +5 Revolver. Muggers, beware!

200k: Toss up between Mirror of Mental Prowess and Rod of Security.

[Starbuck_II]

If you (your actual real-world self) could have one magic item worth no more than 50,000 gp, what would you pick, and what would you do with it?



Rod of Wonder that has necklace of adaptation/disease protection one. I like my chances.

[Chrono22]

I'd want a temple.. in which there is an altar that can be activated to cast Reincarnate on a single body once per day (1000 gp material component to be provided as part of the activation).
That's 11,200 gp... what to do with the rest?
Remove Disease chalice 5/day: +30000 gp
Cure Minor Wounds fountain: +3000 gp

If I had the full-blown 200,000.. I'd make the remove disease and reincarnate continuous. Possibly replace the reincarnate with raise dead.

[JerichoPenumbra]

50k: Ioun Stone with all the properties of the pearly white, iridescent, and clear spindles

200k: Toss up between Mirror of Mental Prowess and Belt of Magnificence +6.

[Grumman]

For the 200,000 gp limit, a Nolzur's Orb. Who wouldn't love the ability to paint things into existence, whenever you wanted?

[Overlord Nicy]

I'll just have a Bag of Holding or a variant, thanks.

[Draz74]

Some custom item with a crapload of minor magic abilities stacked onto it.

Or a Ring of Wishes so that I could wish for an array of minor magic items.

If I had to pick a single, non-custom item, Belt of Magnificence is a pretty cool option.

[JellyPooga]

<50,000? Ring Gates.

<200,000? Matched set of 5 Ring Gates :smallbiggrin:

I like Ring Gates.

[Jothki]

Does a phylactery count?

[Berserk Monk]

Does a phylactery count?

But, you can't cast spells so you couldn't become a lich.

[BizzaroStormy]

I would want a Dyrr's Impervious Vestment for the 200k item, and a +3 Keen, Brilliant Energry, adamantine, bastard sword for the 50k

[Dimers]

Ooh, skin of proteus!

For the higher-level item, I think I'd take the Vow of Poverty equivalent of 200,000 gp: AC+12, eight exalted feats, ability scores +6/+4/+2, DR 5/evil, freedom of movement, endure elements, sustenance, mind shielding, and resistance +2. :smallbiggrin:

[Brendan]

I would just go for an intelligent hat of disguise. Charm person either 3/day or at will. Think of the fun at parties! Instant access and control of most major diplomatic groups, and major nations. Also, I would always have the best halloween costume in school. As an added bonus, I have a hat I can talk to!

[shadow_archmagi]

Some custom item with a crapload of minor magic abilities stacked onto it.


OK, letsee... the SRD gives "Multiple abilities" as "Multiply lower item cost by 1.5"

I'm not sure what that means, but we'll be mean and say it means "Multiply every cost except the most expensive one by 1.5 and then add all the costs together"

Now, we'll start with a ring of sustenance, since everyone loves not having to eat or sleep as much.

Prestidigitation will make life fun; we'll pay the 1500 to make it at will.

Mage Armor all the time is another good bonus; who doesn't like being able to take a punch?

Another 3000 gone.

Now we'll tack on Hideous Laughter;

18,000 for the privilidge of being able to drop people at will.
Another 18,000 for Knock at will, because locks are SO inconvienent.

Another 1500 will go into Endure Elements all the time.

Another 1500 for Mending, at will. Fix anything, any time!

Another 2000 for Comprehend Languages.

The last 2000 will go into Disguise Self; because having to wear DIFFERENT clothes every day is lame.

I believe that brings us to 50k. So yeah, the magic ring allows it's wearer to clean and repaint at will, costume change instantly, read any language, survive in any weather conditions, pick locks, tell the most outrageous jokes and take a punch. I'm sure this isn't the most optimal setup, but it's still very attractive.

[Kaerou]

Hard to choose...

Normal items...
Ring of Invisibility
Ring of Sustinance
Headband of Intellect.

Hm..

If I could make a custom item, likely an item with Polymorph Any Object / 1 or 2 per day. I -think- You can swing that within the 50k budget.. not sure.

If not, likely Alter self unlimited use (should be craftable within the budget) or extended Animal Shapes 1/day. (I guess I just want to be able to fly and get away with it, overland flight would attract way too much attention compared to becoming a bird.)

[dragonfan6490]

50k, War Wizard Cloak. Continuous Endure Elements and Feather Fall. Once per day, Mage Armor, Protection from Arrows, D-Door, and Sending.

200k, Vest of the Archmagi. :vaarsuvius:

[Randel]

50,000 gp item:

Crystal Ball of Scrying -
Put on a mask and call myself The Viewer. Use my crystal ball to spy on anyone anywhere in the world. I can get a crystal ball with see invisible for 50,000 gp... for 51,000 gp I can get one with detect thoughts (spy on anyone in the world and read their surface thoughts!). For 70,000 gp one with telepathy that lets me hold conversations with people across the world.

Any one of those could let me spy on people (the see invisible one doesn't add much unless there are secretly a bunch of invisible monsters hanging around that muggles can't see). The other two both let me read peoples minds or create a worldwide secret organization of people who get their orders through me beaming them into their minds. Somehow I'll find a way to make money off this in a way that doesn't attract attention. At the very least, I can spy on any supermodel I have a picture of... oh yeah.



200,000 gp item

Cubic Gate (164,000 gp)-
A cube with six sides, each side activating a gate to a specific plane.

1. Earth
2. Eberron
3-6. a bunch of other places

step 1: Get a machine gun
step 2: go to eberron
step 3: ???
step 4: level up and multiclass into artificer (take ranks in craft: machine gun and craft: ammo)
step 5: enchant my machine gun and make whatever magic items I want
step 6: ???
step 7: profit!
step 8: Take the renegade mastermaker prestige class
step 9: become a warforged and essentially immortal
step 10: equip myself with machine gun components
step 11: ???
step 12: go Epic
step 13: Win the game

[ShadowsGrnEyes]

I viote mirror of mental prowess. . . that would be fun

[Dusk Eclipse]

(Snip)
So yeah, the magic ring allows it's wearer to clean and repaint at will, costume change instantly, read any language, survive in any weather conditions, pick locks, tell the most outrageous jokes and take a punch. I'm sure this isn't the most optimal setup, but it's still very attractive.

Now thats an Item I would love to have, and for the 200k item..definietly a belt of magnifisence

[Draz74]

OK, letsee... the SRD gives "Multiple abilities" as "Multiply lower item cost by 1.5"

I'm not sure what that means, but we'll be mean and say it means "Multiply every cost except the most expensive one by 1.5 and then add all the costs together"
Yes, it's clarified in MIC and/or Rules Compendium. Your interpretation is correct.


Now, we'll start with a ring of sustenance, since everyone loves not having to eat or sleep as much.

Prestidigitation will make life fun; we'll pay the 1500 to make it at will.

Mage Armor all the time is another good bonus; who doesn't like being able to take a punch?

Another 3000 gone.

Now we'll tack on Hideous Laughter;

18,000 for the privilidge of being able to drop people at will.
Another 18,000 for Knock at will, because locks are SO inconvienent.

Another 1500 will go into Endure Elements all the time.

Another 1500 for Mending, at will. Fix anything, any time!

Another 2000 for Comprehend Languages.

The last 2000 will go into Disguise Self; because having to wear DIFFERENT clothes every day is lame.

I believe that brings us to 50k. So yeah, the magic ring allows it's wearer to clean and repaint at will, costume change instantly, read any language, survive in any weather conditions, pick locks, tell the most outrageous jokes and take a punch. I'm sure this isn't the most optimal setup, but it's still very attractive.

Yeah, that's more or less what I had in mind. Thanks for doing the time-consuming part for me. :smallbiggrin: I might tweak a few things around (casting Scholar's Touch at will is a must, and I don't really need Hideous Laughter much), but you got the gist of my thoughts.

That, plus a 200k Belt of Magnificence +6, would make me pretty satisfied.

[stenver]

Potion of invisibility

[SilverSheriff]

Potion Ring of Greater invisibility

You want to be able to use this more than once bub.

[AslanCross]

Handy Haversack. It's just a container, but I can put a lot of damn useful stuff in it.

[Anonymouswizard]

50k: boots of teleportation (aka: seven legue boots). The cut down time on getting anywhere will be realy useful. If i've used three today, i'll activate the other boot (da bum toush).

200k: not sure, i don't have enough splatbooks. If i'm allowed several items, I'd get 20 bags of holding. If not, the tome of clear though, but when i die then i want it to turn into a tomb of clear thought.

[Milskidasith]

50k... lots of good suggestions.

200k: That belt that gives you +6 to all stats. Being, at the worst, significantly better than the human average at everything is nothing to scoff at. Or the PaO item. Or... you know what, there are too many magic items. :/

[Kyrthain]

How much would it be for constant incorporeality? There has to be a spell that does it, and now you're unkillable, until your natural lifespan runs out.
Maybe tack on some cure disease and whatnot, so no-one tries to kill you while you go corporeal for whatever reason.

[Duke of URL]

Some custom item with a crapload of minor magic abilities stacked onto it.

This.

I was actually thinking stacking unseen servant (continuous) on a ring of sustenance. The ring, of course, is awesome as noted above in a "real world" scenario. The unseen servant can handle all the housekeeping chores or other light work that needs to be done. Likewise, use-activated prestidigitation, light, and other 0th-level spells would be awesome to have. Some 1st-level spells wouldn't be amiss, either.

Heck, that should still leave enough GP limit (at 50k) to have a use-activated remove disease ability on it, for the altruistic tendencies.

Remove disease: spell level 3 x caster level 5 x 2000 gp = 30,000 gp
Unseen servant (or other 1st-level spell): spell level 1 x caster level 1 x 2000 gp = 2,000 gp
0th-level spells: spell level 1/2 x caster level 1 x 2000 gp = 1,000 gp each
Sustenance (list price): 2,500 gp

So, I could get use-activated remove disease, sustenance, continuous unseen servant, and still add tons of other continuous or use-activated low-level abilities.

[The_Werebear]

...

I really want to go with the headband of intellect...

But, Vest (cloak) of Charisma +6.

[ghashxx]

I believe that brings us to 50k. So yeah, the magic ring allows it's wearer to clean and repaint at will, costume change instantly, read any language, survive in any weather conditions, pick locks, tell the most outrageous jokes and take a punch. I'm sure this isn't the most optimal setup, but it's still very attractive.

Dude, this is awesome. Definitely my 50k pick. The 200k pick, hands down a Belt of Magnificence with a +6 to all stats instead of +4. That would be beyond amazing.

[CockroachTeaParty]

As tempting as a Ring of Sustenance or a Belt of Magnificence is, I think all I'd really want is Wings of Flying. Screw cars, traffic, airports, gasoline... just go anywhere, anytime.

[UnChosenOne]

50k: Headband of intellect +6.
200k: if serveral items allowed: Shooting Stars and Tome of clear thought +5.

[Tyrmatt]

Headband of Intellect +6 suits my current lifestyle the most but for a change of pace, I'd probably go for Boots of Teleportation. I feel like getting my Jumper on.

For 200k. I'd take a ring of Three Wishes, use one of the wishes to allow myself to come into possession of a Ring of Djinni calling that summons a noble djinni and just repeat the cycle from there until I'd gone through the entire population of noble djinni. Note that while you can't wish for more wishes, nothing says you can't wish for an item that lets you make wishes of a completely different djinni :)

Yes, this will bite me in the ass somehow. It's part of the whole genie deal. Phenomenal cosmic powers, willingness to screw over mortals who dare speak to them.

Just occurred that if I'm the only one with the rings, I could wish for all djinni to become noble djinni... :smallbiggrin:

[Narazil]

Note that while you can't wish for more wishes, nothing says you can't wish for an item that lets you make wishes of a completely different djinni :)
"I wish I was able to wish for more wishes!"

[taltamir]

OOOH!!!

I got it... I want an item that can send me to a dimension where I can learn to be a wizard.

The problem with a lot of those items is that someone will kill you and take them off of your corpse. Although, remove disease is probably best... start with a famous rich person who has aids. cure him of aids for millions. Hire a bunch of guards, and keep the process up, curing people daily of incurable diseases for lots of money. Invest said money. Then you can go around curing as many people as you need a day (even if they can't pay) safe from people who want your item.

Another nice item... something of planer binding... summon celestials, get them to teach you magic.

[taltamir]

"I wish I was able to wish for more wishes!"

nothing happens since you were already capable of wishing for more wishes.

I think you meant: I wish that if I wished for more wishes I would get more wishes as I intended when I made my wish.

[Loxagn]

With a 200,000 GP budget...

1 pair bracers of mental might (1800)
1 pair bracers of improved infinite blades (45,000)
1 pair gloves of storing (4200 gp)
1 pair hedge wizard's gloves (840 gp)
2 paragon gems of colloquy (become fluent in french, spanish, german, and japanese; 26,000 gp)
1 pair goggles of night (21,000 gp)
1 ring of feather fall (21,000 gp)
12 sticks of eternal chalk, all different colors (4320 gp)
2 immovable shafts (26,000 gp)
1 Skeleton Key (5000 gp)
1 Ring of Aquatic Ability (25,000 gp)
1 Endless canteen (4200 gp)
1 Map of Orienteering (4200 gp)
1 gray bag of tricks (3400 gp)
1 feyswarm staff (I'M COVERED IN BEEEEEEES!)(840 gp)
1 pair goggles of aura sight (1000 gp)
1 Hat of disguise (5000 gp)
1 pair reading spectacles (520 gp)
1 cape of the mountebank (1000 gp)
1 viper belt (840 gp)
1 everlasting provisions (840 gp)
1 bag of holding (1000 gp)
1 boots of spider-climbing (1000 gp)
1 pair of wavestrider boots (840 gp)
3 elixirs of aptitude (150 gp)

That's pretty much 200k, right on the button. Everything I could ever want. ^^

[Draz74]

I don't recognize quite a few of those ... and I own MIC ...

[PhoenixRivers]

Hm.

Ring of Invisibility = 50,000 or less
Luck Blade = 200k or less

[Tyndmyr]

But....all I really want to do is unleash a deck of many things on the world. Is that so wrong?

[Kosjsjach]

Let me start by saying I love this thread.

Next, shadow-archmagi's post got me thinking about adding spell effects to a ring of sustenance: a terrific idea. His math is a little off (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/creatingMagicItems.htm) (continuous and use-activated spell effects of varying durations have different cost modifiers), so here's my modified ring:

ring of sustenance: 2'500

use-act remove disease 1/day: 9'000
cont delay disease: 1'500
cont endure elements: 1'500

use-act mending 1/day: 300
use-act lay of the land 1/day: 600
use-act silent image 2/day: 1'200
use-act rope trick 1/day: 3'600

cmd prestidigitation: 1'350
cmd cure minor wounds: 1'350
cmd comprehend languages: 2'700
cmd scholar's touch: 2'700
cmd unseen servant: 2'700
cmd charm person: 2'700
cmd alter self: 16'200

TOTAL: 49'900

cmd = command word activated
use-act = use-activated
cont = continuous

It works out to an ultimate-globe-trotter type utility ring.
Endure elements lets you survive in any clime (as a 24-hour-duration spell, the "continuous" cost is halved);
cure minor wounds, delay disease and 1/day remove disease make you a pretty spectacular healer;
the three-hour duration of a 1/day rope trick is plenty of time for a new-and-improved full-night's rest thanks to the ring of sustenance;
I love scholar's touch too much to give up being able to cast it an unlimited number of times per day... ...and the others are pretty self-explanatory.

There's a downside in that you have to continually re-cast alter self every half-hour, so you can't turn into a small-to-large-size animal and just run with it, but it's a small grievance.

Ta-daa! What do you think?

EDIT: I never noticed the mirror of mental prowess. That is my 200k gp choice.

[Frog Dragon]

Ring
Create Food&Water 2/Day (12000)
Remove Disease 1/Day (9000) [21000]
Unlimited Prestidigitation (1500) [22500]
Unseen Servant 2/Day (1200) [23700]
Fox's Cunning 1/Day (3600) [27300]
Unlimited Mage Hand (1500) [28800]
Disguise Self 2/Day (1200) (30000)
Fly 2/Day (18000) (48000)
Unlimited Mending (49500)

There we go. I can create infinite sustenance. Do random stuff with prestidigitation. Fix stuff. Have an invisible drone do stuff for me. Ability to get a lot smarter (good for those hard tests!:smallsmile:). Minor Telekinesis. Some fly and removing diseases. Also I can Disguise Self.

[jiriku]

With a 200,000 GP budget...

1 pair bracers of mental might (1800)
1 pair bracers of improved infinite blades (45,000)
1 pair gloves of storing (4200 gp)
1 pair hedge wizard's gloves (840 gp)
2 paragon gems of colloquy (become fluent in french, spanish, german, and japanese; 26,000 gp)
1 pair goggles of night (21,000 gp)
1 ring of feather fall (21,000 gp)
12 sticks of eternal chalk, all different colors (4320 gp)
2 immovable shafts (26,000 gp)
1 Skeleton Key (5000 gp)
1 Ring of Aquatic Ability (25,000 gp)
1 Endless canteen (4200 gp)
1 Map of Orienteering (4200 gp)
1 gray bag of tricks (3400 gp)
1 feyswarm staff (I'M COVERED IN BEEEEEEES!)(840 gp)
1 pair goggles of aura sight (1000 gp)
1 Hat of disguise (5000 gp)
1 pair reading spectacles (520 gp)
1 cape of the mountebank (1000 gp)
1 viper belt (840 gp)
1 everlasting provisions (840 gp)
1 bag of holding (1000 gp)
1 boots of spider-climbing (1000 gp)
1 pair of wavestrider boots (840 gp)
3 elixirs of aptitude (150 gp)

That's pretty much 200k, right on the button. Everything I could ever want. ^^

Only one! You have to pick.

[Loxagn]

I don't recognize quite a few of those ... and I own MIC ...

4th Edition Adventurer's Vault.

@ Jirikku: fine, I'll take my one item.

Banquet Ring (65,000) with bonus enchantments:
Ring of Feather Fall (No fall damage: 31,500)
Magician's Ring (Cantrips at-will: 31,500)
Ring of Aquatic Ability (Breathe underwater + fast swimming: 37,500)

There. I'm immune to ingested poisons, I can't get hurt from a fall, I can breathe underwater, and now I'm a magician too. Forget the ring of sustenance, I'll take this little beauty and run.

[The White Knight]

Decanter of endless water, the water from which grants the benefits of Goodberry and Remove Disease when drunk.

Use-activated Remove Disease = 30,000
Use-activated Goodberry = 2000 * 1.5 = 3000
Decanter of endless water = 9000 * 1.5 = 13,500

Total = 46,500 gp. Hunger, thirst, disease and bodily damage all vanish. Furthermore, the water can be harnessed to provide some degree of perpetual, clean energy to a limited number of consumers. Remove Disease being an instantaneous effect would unfortunately prohibit the shipment of the water to diseased populations, but at least the non-power-plant version is portable. Oh, and depending on the interpretation of the Goodberry effect (will it grant healing and sustenance, or imbue berries to grant you healing and sustenance?), you may have to BYOB (bring your own berries).

On a 200,000 budget, I'd simply want to somehow augment the same item somewhat. Since these augmentations aren't exactly accommodated (to my knowledge) within the RAW, these would be contingent upon a benevolent DM:
1) somehow increase maximum flow so as to be made practical for mass production of electricity.
2) make the water produced able to be bottled for extended periods and still bestow its recuperative effects.
3) place a duration on the water produced so that after an extended period of time (which will define the shelf life in item #2 above) it ceases to exist. This is to prevent us from ultimately ending up in a Kevin Costner movie.

Then build a self-powered bottling facility/power plant around it, and start a not-for-profit that ships my elixir of life around the globe in hydrogen powered craft, the fuel for which would come from my super power plant. Perhaps fund this endeavor by adding wishes to the item with any remaining funds in the 200,000 gp budget, and using the wishes to gain mundane material wealth (25,000 gp = 500 pounds of gold, which is worth approximately $8,800,000 USD at the time of posting. Per wish. Yum.).

[Studoku]

Belt of gender changing.

[Medic]

Orb of Storms - Control Weather would be great for making my farm rocking.

[The White Knight]

Orb of Storms - Control Weather would be great for making my farm rocking.

So would something granting the effects of Plant Growth (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/plantgrowth.htm). If you could extrapolate the 1/day math further to 1/year, that'd end up pretty cheap.

[Cyanic]

How come everytime someone writes Good Berry I think goodburger ?


4 50k: The composite ring listed above.

4 200k: A greatly enhanced version of the same.

[Adumbration]

Heh, it's funny how everyone would want a ring of fabulous power.

... Oh, all right, I would want one too. :smalltongue:

[industrious]

2 Rings of 3 Wishes.

[Anonymouswizard]

"I wish I was able to wish for more wishes!"

If their smart: "I wish that wishing for wishes was a wishable wish".
or
"I wish I hadn't used up all my other wishes."

Also, custom item with at will charm person sounds great, as well as greater teleport. Could someone make me a 50k version (if not, normal teleport). Core items please unless you can give me the stats.

[Kosjsjach]

...custom item with at will charm person sounds great, as well as greater teleport. Could someone make me a 50k version (if not, normal teleport). Core items please unless you can give me the stats.

Unfortunately, teleport's spell level is prohibitively high: a 3/day teleport item would cost 48'600gp (or 16'200gp per daily charge), and a 1/day greater teleport (which is what you really want, to avoid any chance of getting "scrambled" :smalleek:) costs 32'760gp. The 1/day greater item doesn't sound too bad, and you can tack on unlimited charm person for 2'700gp for a total of 35'460gp. For more unlimited goodness, you can add on 0-level spells for 1'350gp and 1st-level spells for 2'700gp until you reach your 50'000gp limit.

On another note, here's my personal new-and-improved ring. I bumped a few spells to command-word activation for a 10% reduction in cost, and it let me throw on unlimited acid splash. :smallamused:


base ring of sustenance 2'500
1/day remove disease (cmd) 8'100
rope trick (cmd) 3'240
lay of the land (cmd) 540
mending (cmd) 270
2/day silent image (use) 1'200
@will alter self (cmd) 16'200
charm person (cmd) 2'700
comprehend lang. (cmd) 2'700
delay disease (use) 1'500
scholar's touch (cmd) 2'700
unseen servant (cmd) 2'700
acid splash (cmd) 1'350
cure minor w. (cmd) 1'350
prestidigitation (cmd) 1'350
cont endure elements (cont) 1'500

TOTAL 49'900
As before, "cmd" means command-word-activated (I'd have to think of a bunch of command words), "use" means use-activated (I'm thinking a simple touch for the delay disease ability and a twist of the ring for the silent image ability), and "cont" means continuous effect.

[Jacey]

50k - Create greater undead 1/day. If lich is out, turning your friends into vampires could still work.

200k - cubic gate, with a secondary enchantment of constant comprehend languages (Having to learn a new language every time you shift would be annoying) with a link to at least one late 20th century tech level world (I would miss things like toilet paper, shampoo, cola, etc too much in any fantasy setting), one gate to a safe and stable magic rich community (where I can learn a spellcasting class), and one to DRAGONLANCE to make me RICH. An once of gold on earth is worth $1150, an ounce of steel in dragonlance is worth 10 onces of gold. Sell 50 lbs of scrap metal and get 500 lbs of gold, or about $9 mil. Even if the dealer gives you half that, because he has to melt it down, and you get ripped off on the exchange, you're still looking at several million. Per trip.

[Randel]

Yeah, my choice was either a crystal ball (scrying would be awesome in our world) or a cubic gate between earth and DnD worlds.

Get access to a DnD world, buy some guns in our world, use guns to kill monsters from far away, the get loads of XP easily and just level up into whatever spellcasting class you want.

lvl 1 guy with a machine gun/ lvl 5 wizard with ranks in Craft (machine guns and ammo).

[ravenkith]

50k or less: Portable hole. It'd make robbing banks easy.

200k or less ring of three wishes.....

[GallóglachMaxim]

Well starting with Kosjsjach's well-arranged Ring of Crazy Awesomeness, some things (italicised) switched around by preference.


ring of sustenance: 2'500

use-act remove disease 1/day: 9'000
cont delay disease: 1'500
cont endure elements: 1'500

use-act mending 1/day: 300
use-act lay of the land 1/day: 600
use-act expeditious retreat 2/day: 1'200
use-act locate object 1/day: 3'600

cmd prestidigitation: 1'350
cmd cure minor wounds: 1'350
cmd comprehend languages: 2'700
cmd scholar's touch: 2'700
cmd unseen servant: 2'700
cmd true strike: 2'700
cmd protection from arrows: 16'200

TOTAL: 49'900

cmd = command word activated
use-act = use-activated
cont = continuous

[I'm not familiar with magic-item enhancement rules, so the changes were all spells of the same level switched in. If that's wrong I'll go back and dig through the book for it]

Not all of it would be useful every day, but it's all good stuff. Ring of sustenance is so much more epic in the sad reality plane.

[Kosjsjach]

Well starting with Kosjsjach's well-arranged Ring of Crazy Awesomeness, some things (italicised) switched around by preference.

"Ring of Crazy Awesomeness". I like that. :smallbiggrin:


[I'm not familiar with magic-item enhancement rules, so the changes were all spells of the same level switched in. If that's wrong I'll go back and dig through the book for it]
Unfortunately, your expeditious retreat and locate object swaps don't work; a use-activated or continuous spell effect with a duration normally measured in minutes has its cost multiplied by 2. You could make them command-activated for 1080gp and 3240gp respectively.

Command use is really the best way to go for adding spell effects. For each additional spell, add ([spell level]*[caster level]*1800*1.5); if you want to use a spell less than unlimited or 5 times a day, divide by (5*[number of desired uses per day]).

On another note, here's my new version of my newly-dubbed Ring of Crazy Awesomeness (I really like that name :smallwink:):

base alter self [cmd] 10'800
add ring of sustenance 3'750
1/day remove disease [cmd] 8'100
knock [cmd] 3'240
rope trick [cmd] 3'240
lay of the land [cmd] 540
sleep [cmd] 540
chalkboard [cmd] 270
mending [cmd] 270
2/day silent image [use] 1'200
@will charm person [cmd] 2'700
comprehend lang. [cmd] 2'700
scholar's touch [cmd] 2'700
unseen servant [cmd] 2'700
acid splash [cmd] 1'350
prestidigitation [cmd] 1'350
cont. cure minor w. [cont] 1'500
delay disease [use] 1'500
endure elements [cont] 1'500

TOTAL: 49'950
(This is the last version, I'm sure. Well, 95% sure. Er, make it 80-something%.)

The biggest changes were using a command-activated item of alter self as the base and making the ring of sustenance a secondary effect (saving 4'150gp), adding 1/day knock, sleep and chalkboard (a nifty 0-level spell from Dragon Magazine #324), and making cure minor wounds continuous instead of command-activated (so that if I'm injured and knocked unconscious, I'll auto-stabilize and heal back up).

@GallóglachMaxim: not that there's anything wrong with the power of super-sprinting, never losing your keys, the ability to connect practically any blow, or magic bullet-proofing... but I think I'll stick with the power to make anyone see what I want them to, an invisible extra-dimensional tent, the ability to make anyone my best friend (however briefly), and the power to become anyone ever (in half-hour increments). :smallcool:

[Shademan]

ring of wish/candle of invocation. dosn't matter. I'll break em (the rules that is) so hard that I'll dominate this planet!