Eldan
2011-01-04, 06:35 AM
"While fireworks do make nice, pretty lights, they are so fleeting, gone almost before you know it."
-Xenobia
Ridgewell's Eternal Spark is a tiny alchemistic masterpiece, created by modern alchemists from the notes and sketches done by the legendary dwarven alchemist Rothgar Ridgewell. While it is said that in Ridgewell's time, he created huge balls of flaming fire, called Eternal Conflagrations, most of the secrets of their creation has been lost, leaving modern followers of Ridgewellian tradition with only tiny sparks.
Many exotic and volatile ingredients go into an eternal spark, and the process is complicated and dangerous enough that only master alchemists should attempt it. They keep the exact formula well hidden, but it is known that the end product is a mote of elemental fire trapped in an inch-diameter crystal of elemental ice.
Effects: The eternal spark is a tiny sphere of flame about an inch in diameter. It gives of light like a candle, but is much hotter, dealing one point of fire damage per round to any liquid or solid object touching it, though, by a strange fluke of planar atomics, does not heat up surrounding gases. The spark is available in a variety of colours, most commonly red and yellow, but green, blue and purple sparks aren't unheard of.
The spark hovers in mid-air, between two and three feet over any surface it's brought into contact with, bobbing gently up and down. It can be easily moved by being pushed, or by any wind. Light to moderate winds move it at a speed of five feet per round, strong and severe winds at ten feet per round, windstorms or stronger at twenty feet per round.
The spark is, while made from elemental material, not technically magical in nature, and therefore survives dispelling, antimagic fields or similar treatment unharmed, though being brought on any plane where fire-magic is impeded temporarily extinguishes it.
Creation: Creating an eternal spark takes a DC 30 craft: alchemy check and [amount] worth of rare ingredients.
Inspired by the above quote from one of my players. My question to you, fellow homebrewers: how breakable is this? What should it cost?
-Xenobia
Ridgewell's Eternal Spark is a tiny alchemistic masterpiece, created by modern alchemists from the notes and sketches done by the legendary dwarven alchemist Rothgar Ridgewell. While it is said that in Ridgewell's time, he created huge balls of flaming fire, called Eternal Conflagrations, most of the secrets of their creation has been lost, leaving modern followers of Ridgewellian tradition with only tiny sparks.
Many exotic and volatile ingredients go into an eternal spark, and the process is complicated and dangerous enough that only master alchemists should attempt it. They keep the exact formula well hidden, but it is known that the end product is a mote of elemental fire trapped in an inch-diameter crystal of elemental ice.
Effects: The eternal spark is a tiny sphere of flame about an inch in diameter. It gives of light like a candle, but is much hotter, dealing one point of fire damage per round to any liquid or solid object touching it, though, by a strange fluke of planar atomics, does not heat up surrounding gases. The spark is available in a variety of colours, most commonly red and yellow, but green, blue and purple sparks aren't unheard of.
The spark hovers in mid-air, between two and three feet over any surface it's brought into contact with, bobbing gently up and down. It can be easily moved by being pushed, or by any wind. Light to moderate winds move it at a speed of five feet per round, strong and severe winds at ten feet per round, windstorms or stronger at twenty feet per round.
The spark is, while made from elemental material, not technically magical in nature, and therefore survives dispelling, antimagic fields or similar treatment unharmed, though being brought on any plane where fire-magic is impeded temporarily extinguishes it.
Creation: Creating an eternal spark takes a DC 30 craft: alchemy check and [amount] worth of rare ingredients.
Inspired by the above quote from one of my players. My question to you, fellow homebrewers: how breakable is this? What should it cost?