Isle
2008-01-12, 10:07 AM
First some background information: I'm running a campaign in a city that is run by wizards. In the future it will be run by the children of wizards, who will, surprisingly become wizards. It works the way aristocracy works.
I want to give the wizard one of my players is playing, an opportunity to get her share of in game attention. The other players have gotten it, because a fighter is important in a fight, a rogue is perfect for doublecrossing and the last one, well he never seems to run out of funny ideas.
My idea is to give the wizard a magical gown. The gown is only usefull for people who are able to cast arcane spells. It's sort of like a debutante-dress. You do not wear it very often. If you wear it, there are a lot of wizards around you. You can't move around in it (dex) but everyone will think you look gorgeous (cha). And since its a wizards-town, int is considered to be the most important stat, so it has a bonus on that. But I can also find reasons for penalties on str or con, and for a bonus on wis.
In short:
dex: -2 (reducing AC to 10, unless she buys bracers)
str: -2 (reducing it to 8)
int: +4 (for bonusspells, makes it 22)
cha: +4 (because its gorgeous. The wizard doesn't have anything with cha though, it would make a 14)
btw: she's level 7, DnD v3.5
The other players will also receive something, e.g. a pricy gem, a pricy necklace, perhaps +2 gloves or another +2 item. The dress should be the best gift though.
Does this make sense? What is your opinion about it? Would you be happy with it? Would you perhaps be too happy with it? Would you want to mend it if someone else received +2 gloves of dex?
I want to give the wizard one of my players is playing, an opportunity to get her share of in game attention. The other players have gotten it, because a fighter is important in a fight, a rogue is perfect for doublecrossing and the last one, well he never seems to run out of funny ideas.
My idea is to give the wizard a magical gown. The gown is only usefull for people who are able to cast arcane spells. It's sort of like a debutante-dress. You do not wear it very often. If you wear it, there are a lot of wizards around you. You can't move around in it (dex) but everyone will think you look gorgeous (cha). And since its a wizards-town, int is considered to be the most important stat, so it has a bonus on that. But I can also find reasons for penalties on str or con, and for a bonus on wis.
In short:
dex: -2 (reducing AC to 10, unless she buys bracers)
str: -2 (reducing it to 8)
int: +4 (for bonusspells, makes it 22)
cha: +4 (because its gorgeous. The wizard doesn't have anything with cha though, it would make a 14)
btw: she's level 7, DnD v3.5
The other players will also receive something, e.g. a pricy gem, a pricy necklace, perhaps +2 gloves or another +2 item. The dress should be the best gift though.
Does this make sense? What is your opinion about it? Would you be happy with it? Would you perhaps be too happy with it? Would you want to mend it if someone else received +2 gloves of dex?