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Jamallo Kreen
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Posted - 05 Sep 2008 :  19:17:16  Show Profile  Visit Jamallo Kreen's Homepage Send Jamallo Kreen a Private Message  Reply with Quote  Delete Topic
Would someone please give me a quick summary of the information for the Earring of Alignment Detection (from Dragon Magazine, issue 80, page 30 or thereabouts). Specifically, is the information it provides presented in visual form (one AD&D version gave each of the nine major alignments a color), in auditory form ("Yikes, chaotic E-vil, dude!"), or just a general impression?

Also, how was this earring used? The other one has a bizarre requirement that it must touch someone in order to detect their alignment, but it doesn't specify how one goes about meeting that criterion. (Is it, "Please touch my earlobe, darling ... that's enough!" or is it, "I shall put this earring through your earlobe like so ... and then place it in my earlobe like so ... and you don't have any blood-borne diseases I should have asked about first, do you?")

Further information will be appreciated.




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Faraer
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Posted - 05 Sep 2008 :  19:58:16  Show Profile  Visit Faraer's Homepage Send Faraer a Private Message  Reply with Quote
This is from the Ed Greenwood article "Treasures rare and wondrous" in Dragon #80:
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Earring; gold spring clamp with chain holding large, polished, irregular piece of clear sapphire (5,000-gp value): detects alignment of any creature touched, by turning color: LE=black, CE=red, NE=orange, N=brown, CN=gold, LN=steel grey, NG-green, CG=blue, LG=white.
It's a one-off unique gewgaw and was only classified as earring of alignment detection in the Encyclopedia Magica, where you probably read it. You presumably unclamp the jewel on its chain from the bit pierced through your ear and touch it to the target.
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Jamallo Kreen
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Posted - 06 Sep 2008 :  05:24:10  Show Profile  Visit Jamallo Kreen's Homepage Send Jamallo Kreen a Private Message  Reply with Quote
PERFECT! Thanks. I invite a seal upon this scroll....






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Jamallo Kreen
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Posted - 08 Sep 2008 :  11:04:38  Show Profile  Visit Jamallo Kreen's Homepage Send Jamallo Kreen a Private Message  Reply with Quote
The mysterious AD&D source which I couldn't locate, and which led to my question, was, in fact, Ed's article (for old D&D), which is available as a download from the archives here at Candlekeep as Ed's treasure list. I dare assume that its text is the same as Ed's Dragon article.






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