[3.5] Intelligent Item powers

[Thurbane]

Just wondering: do any splat-books expand on the list of special powers and abilities available to intelligent magic items, beyond those presented in the DMG/SRD (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/intelligentItems.htm)?

Not talking about Legacy Items, Item Familiars or similar, specifically the list of Intelligent Item powers.

Cheers - T.

[unseenmage]

Pathfinder does.

[Saintheart]

This might not be directly on point, but FR's Magic of Faerun has good old Moonblades which seem to have an extra ability for each autograph of their owner carved into them. The table for these abilities includes "Any extra Primary Intelligent Item ability" or "Extraordinary Intelligent Item ability", but includes a lot of other random stufff - Vorpal, Ghost Touch, Keen, Everbright, Flaming, etc etc.

[unseenmage]

Again not exactly what you were after but I'll mention it anyway as a theoretical method of expanding Int Magic Item powers...


If the Int Magic Item is built as part of a Caryayid Column or Brass Golem or similar it is explicitly part of the Construct.

Since Int Magic Items can utilize their superpowers without their wielders permission AND the Int Magic Item and their wielder are one then theoretically the Int Magic Item could activate the wielders superpowers.

Ditto for Int Magic Item grafts or Embedded Warforged Component Int Magoc Items.

Apologies this isn't exactly what you were looking for.

[Bohandas]

I don't think so, but it's easy enough to extrapolate. 10 ranks in a skill is 5000 gp, a level 3 spell 3/day is 16000gp. A level 1 spell 3/day is 1000 gp, a level 1 spell at will is 7200 gp, etc.

[Thurbane]

Just stumbled upon a source for some new Intelligent item powers by chance - BoED of all places.

Several of the intelligent items (pages 116-118) have powers beyond those listed in the DMG:


Caduceus - ease pain 1/day, vision of heaven 3/day
Hwyrr, the Clarion Harp - elation 3/day, Faerinaal's hymn
Iasalas, the Watershod - water walk 3/day
Torvion, the Fifth Shield - eyes of the avoral
Zaethwar, the Sinflayer - ease pain 3/day, refereshment 3/day


Now I want to check intelligent items in other source-books and see if any other new powers have been slipped in there.