Collar of Perpetual Attendance slot?

[qwertyu63]

I was just reading through the Fabulous Cats (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/fools/20030401c) article, and I noticed something odd. The item Collar of Perpetual Attendance sounds like it should take up the throat slot (it is a collar after all); however it uses Forge Ring to make, which implies it takes up a ring slot... So, which is it?

[Deaxsa]

well, how big is your finger?

in all seriousness, is there anything to suggest "collar" means nothing more than a band of material that fits around something? does it suggest that it is the size of a pet collar? if not, it's probably a ring. of course, your dm may decide differently, etc, etc, but i do not think the word "collar" means "cannot be put on a finger"

[KillianHawkeye]

Protip: Don't expect material from an April Fool's article to be well edited or well balanced.

[Ravens_cry]

Protip: Don't expect material from an April Fool's article to be well edited or well balanced.
Still would ask to use it if my DM let me play an Awakened Cat.
As for what slot, I'd rule neck slot since it doesn't say and that makes the most sense to me.

[maximus25]

I'd play a cat with any of those feats.

[rot42]

Short answer: April Fools' Day article. Neither choice seems odd or imbalanced so ask your DM.

Long answer: The cost is straight out of the magic item creation guidelines. Looking at the affinities table in the DMG, collar seems perfectly reasonable as well as being on-flavor. There is a ring of telekinesis that might work for a comparison item.

[PlusSixPelican]

It's on the neck, since it's a cat-collar. Magic items resize to work with whoever's wearing them, as I understand them. So be prepared to walk around with a little bell around your neck and looking like you're into bondage and pet play, but Unseen Servant at-will is pretty boss.

[Slipperychicken]

It's on the neck, since it's a cat-collar. Magic items resize to work with whoever's wearing them, as I understand them. So be prepared to walk around with a little bell around your neck and looking like you're into bondage and pet play, but Unseen Servant at-will is pretty boss.

In D&D, bondage is pretty tame, as far as messed-up **** goes. You get people wearing hands around their necks, and no-one even mentions it.

But adventurers might as well be masochists, with how much they enjoy a) being knocked unconscious by physical trauma, b) living like roaches while thousands of gp rattle in their pockets, and c) picking fights with everything they see.

[Curmudgeon]

Magic items resize to work with whoever's wearing them, as I understand them.
No, that's not generally correct. Only magic garments resize. Jewelry is assumed to be worn in an adaptive fashion (wear a ring for a Large creature's finger on a Medium creature's thumb, for instance). Necklaces can be worn long on smaller creatures or choker-like on larger creatures.

[SciChronic]

No, that's not generally correct. Only magic garments resize. Jewelry is assumed to be worn in an adaptive fashion (wear a ring for a Large creature's finger on a Medium creature's thumb, for instance). Necklaces can be worn long on smaller creatures or choker-like on larger creatures.

"look at this awesome belt!"
"where'd you get it?"
"it used to be a dragon's pinky ring."

[Chronos]

IIRC, the entry for some giantish monster or another (I think the one with three arms, whatever it's called) says that they like jewelry, and often wear things intended as bracelets as rings.