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cupkeyk
2007-01-10, 06:27 PM
Is there a spell that will restore broken magical items to their full glory? Say the BBEG got hit by a resonant bolt and it stripped him of all his items making himeasy kill for the party but thhe party cannot revel in the apparent (non-XP) fruits of their labor since all his magic stuff was creamed by the resonant bolt?

Make whole can only make them whole but does not bring back their magical properties, right?

Aasimar
2007-01-10, 07:26 PM
Two things to think about, spells like mending for one, and the other is gathering up all the pieces, and reforging the item at half the cost...since you're really just repairing the old one.

I think that would be allowed by most reasonable DMs, unless there was some particular reason for why the pieces won't work again.

cupkeyk
2007-01-10, 07:29 PM
uhm, they were hit by a (fairly powerful, 3rd level) spell that specifically targets objects

Jack_Simth
2007-01-10, 07:54 PM
Is there a spell that will restore broken magical items to their full glory? Say the BBEG got hit by a resonant bolt and it stripped him of all his items making himeasy kill for the party but thhe party cannot revel in the apparent (non-XP) fruits of their labor since all his magic stuff was creamed by the resonant bolt?

Wish. Maybe. The safe "Undo Misfortune" clause lets you re-roll a saving throw.

It will, however, teach the party not to use such mega-weapon spells....


Make whole can only make them whole but does not bring back their magical properties, right?
That would be correct.

tarbrush
2007-01-10, 07:56 PM
Candle of invocation. What you can't do with Gate isn't worth doing.

KoDT69
2007-01-11, 07:29 AM
Ooooh what about Soverign Glue? That stuff is awesome, make your player roll a craft weapon check and he better make it the first time :smallbiggrin:

pestilenceawaits
2007-01-11, 09:52 AM
I would let wish do it but depending on the loot it may not be worth the cost.

silvermesh
2007-01-12, 12:25 PM
Magic items lose their properties when destroyed, they can be repaired, but only by someone with the appropriate craft feat, and the only real benefit is that you wouldn't need to supply the material cost, you're just enchanting the same object again with the same abilities...
as far as wish is concerned, I'd say it will only create or "re-create" a magic item with an XP cost quite a bit less than it's own XP cost.