dehro
2023-01-20, 08:53 AM
Story time:
My very first game of dnd, happened when I was 15, back in the summer of 1993, in a summer camp in France.
It occurred with a bunch of other noobs from various parts of the globe, so at the table you could hard swearing in about 6 different languages.
This is back when elf was a class and came with a bow, so yeah, I named him Legolas.
Putting aside the plot, which saw us waste half the session on strategizing how to enter the home of the guy who, as it turned out later, just wanted to meet us to give us our mission, there was an interesting device hat still stands out in my memory:
Object of our quest was to find a sword that was absolutely dangerous, in that it did a lot of damage, but also sucked a lot of hit points from the wielder, way more than any first level character such as we were could possibly have. The only way to wield the sword safely was to wear a matching amulet that would dampen it's powers, making it still a good sword, but nowhere near as powerful as it would be, but simultaneously stopping it from dealing damage to the wielder.
I have always remembered this device fondly and have occasionally looked into modules and books to see if i could find it somewhere. I can't remember having encountered it anywhere since.. Not in 3.5 and definitely not in 5e.
Does anyone have recollection of something similar, or was this an original idea from the DM of the day?
My very first game of dnd, happened when I was 15, back in the summer of 1993, in a summer camp in France.
It occurred with a bunch of other noobs from various parts of the globe, so at the table you could hard swearing in about 6 different languages.
This is back when elf was a class and came with a bow, so yeah, I named him Legolas.
Putting aside the plot, which saw us waste half the session on strategizing how to enter the home of the guy who, as it turned out later, just wanted to meet us to give us our mission, there was an interesting device hat still stands out in my memory:
Object of our quest was to find a sword that was absolutely dangerous, in that it did a lot of damage, but also sucked a lot of hit points from the wielder, way more than any first level character such as we were could possibly have. The only way to wield the sword safely was to wear a matching amulet that would dampen it's powers, making it still a good sword, but nowhere near as powerful as it would be, but simultaneously stopping it from dealing damage to the wielder.
I have always remembered this device fondly and have occasionally looked into modules and books to see if i could find it somewhere. I can't remember having encountered it anywhere since.. Not in 3.5 and definitely not in 5e.
Does anyone have recollection of something similar, or was this an original idea from the DM of the day?