Creating Artifacts

[scifan888]

I remember reading something about creating artifacts a while back. I think it was a third party product with rules for researching and creating minor and major artifacts. If I recall correctly in creating a major artifact you had to sacrifice points from your ability scores, but I could be wrong.

Does anyone know what this product was or what company produced it or who wrote it? Any information would be appreciated.

[Alleran]

I'm pretty sure that it would indeed have to be third-party. The only way to create artifacts in 3.5e otherwise (at least that I'm aware of) is through Divine Salient Abilities (one of which is "Create Artifact" and happens to be very unexplained).