Magic Items!
THE QUEST REWARD MEME
You won! Congratulations, the world is safe, the bad guy is defeated and all of the happy villagers are safe. Ho hum. The REAL reason you just risked your life today was for all the sweet loot in the villain's lair. So now it's time to sort through it all.
Unfortunately for you, this villain had a taste for unusual magic items. Check the chart below combined with your handy dandy RNG to see what that magic ring/sword/helmet/MP3 player/WHATEVER does, or choose one yourself. The most important thing of all, though, is that until you figure it out by experimentation, there is NO WAY to know what these items do.
1 Intelligent - This magic item has a mind of its own, and speaks to you in a voice that only you can hear. It might tempt you to do evil acts or great deeds, or it might just point out the great butt on that guy/girl over there. Either way, it NEVER SHUTS UP.
2 Cursed - While you carry this item, foul luck follows you wherever you go. This wouldn't be such a problem, except that you just can't put it down. It seems to have fused to your body and won't come off! Have fun dodging terrible luck until you can find a wizard who knows how to decurse things.
3 Lucky - While you carry this item, things just go a little bit better for you. The line at the store moves a bit faster, that secret crush is a bit more likely to notice you, the brand of cereal you like is more likely to be on sale, and you're just a bit more likely to notice things you might not have noticed before.
4 Invisibility - Simple enough, while you're wearing or wielding this item you cannot be seen. Will you use your new found power for good or for awesome?
5 X-Ray vision - Okay, lets be honest here. There's really only one way you're planning to use this one.
6 Mind affecting - This magic item has a mind of its own, but rather than speaking to you directly, it tries to mess with your head to make you act more like it wants you to. You might become a heroic crusader of justice, a sinister scheming bastard, a penny pinching cheapskate or just about anything else you can imagine.
7 Useless - This magic item has a property that you can't really imagine a use for. Swords that can change color, shirts that play a theme song when you wear them, rings of teleportation with a max range of four inches and other things of that ilk come from this pile. Better try and pawn this one on your fellow adventurers before they figure it out.
8 Transformation - This magic item fuses to you when you put it on and transforms you into some other form. Your fellow adventurers better find the magic word that turns you back or you're stuck as a camel/leopard/ostrich forever! It's probably SOMEWHERE in this pile.
9 Badass - Flaming swords, arrows of accuracy, glasses of eye lasers. These things are just plain cool. Be sure to call dibs.
10 Telepathy - While wearing or holding this item, you can now hear what everyone around you is thinking! Time for secrets to come out!
11 Make it up - Naturally I didn't cover every awesome thing out there. Prove it to me by showing me what I missed.
You won! Congratulations, the world is safe, the bad guy is defeated and all of the happy villagers are safe. Ho hum. The REAL reason you just risked your life today was for all the sweet loot in the villain's lair. So now it's time to sort through it all.
Unfortunately for you, this villain had a taste for unusual magic items. Check the chart below combined with your handy dandy RNG to see what that magic ring/sword/helmet/MP3 player/WHATEVER does, or choose one yourself. The most important thing of all, though, is that until you figure it out by experimentation, there is NO WAY to know what these items do.
1 Intelligent - This magic item has a mind of its own, and speaks to you in a voice that only you can hear. It might tempt you to do evil acts or great deeds, or it might just point out the great butt on that guy/girl over there. Either way, it NEVER SHUTS UP.
2 Cursed - While you carry this item, foul luck follows you wherever you go. This wouldn't be such a problem, except that you just can't put it down. It seems to have fused to your body and won't come off! Have fun dodging terrible luck until you can find a wizard who knows how to decurse things.
3 Lucky - While you carry this item, things just go a little bit better for you. The line at the store moves a bit faster, that secret crush is a bit more likely to notice you, the brand of cereal you like is more likely to be on sale, and you're just a bit more likely to notice things you might not have noticed before.
4 Invisibility - Simple enough, while you're wearing or wielding this item you cannot be seen. Will you use your new found power for good or for awesome?
5 X-Ray vision - Okay, lets be honest here. There's really only one way you're planning to use this one.
6 Mind affecting - This magic item has a mind of its own, but rather than speaking to you directly, it tries to mess with your head to make you act more like it wants you to. You might become a heroic crusader of justice, a sinister scheming bastard, a penny pinching cheapskate or just about anything else you can imagine.
7 Useless - This magic item has a property that you can't really imagine a use for. Swords that can change color, shirts that play a theme song when you wear them, rings of teleportation with a max range of four inches and other things of that ilk come from this pile. Better try and pawn this one on your fellow adventurers before they figure it out.
8 Transformation - This magic item fuses to you when you put it on and transforms you into some other form. Your fellow adventurers better find the magic word that turns you back or you're stuck as a camel/leopard/ostrich forever! It's probably SOMEWHERE in this pile.
9 Badass - Flaming swords, arrows of accuracy, glasses of eye lasers. These things are just plain cool. Be sure to call dibs.
10 Telepathy - While wearing or holding this item, you can now hear what everyone around you is thinking! Time for secrets to come out!
11 Make it up - Naturally I didn't cover every awesome thing out there. Prove it to me by showing me what I missed.