2012-07-12

Stone of Retaliation

Had to come up with a prize for solving a puzzle in the 3rd level - here's my magic item of the day.  I like this one, because it encourages players to charge suicidally into combat once they've used identify to figure out what it does.


Stone of Retaliation
This artifact appears to be a twenty-sided die carved of softly glowing pink crystal. If a comrade is slain, and the possessor of this stone hurls it at the corpse within the next three rounds, it will both bring his comrade back to life and cause his killer to die instead. The stone may only be used once, and will explode in a burst of bright pink light as its power is expended.

Undead, constructs, robots, and others technically not “alive” will also be destroyed by the stone.
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3 comments:

  1. Roger G-SJuly 13, 2012 at 10:54 AM

    That would work best if you only got insight into what it does at the appropriate moment.

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  2. prof ChaosJuly 13, 2012 at 2:51 PM

    Picturing one of my PCs w/this Item... grand plans to kamikaze the Big Boss of Level Whatever, thwarted by a fatal sword thrust from some lucky 6HP Hobgoblin on a Random Encounter Table before ever reaching the dungeon... a Hobgoblin which promptly explodes!

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  3. JonasJuly 14, 2012 at 9:17 AM

    I actually have ping glow in the dark d20 die, now I know what to do with it.

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