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Gellion
Learned Scribe
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 Posted - 13 Oct 2004 : 00:40:40
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I got this idea yerterday. What if where the weave was particularly strong in an area, magical stones were formed. In color these stones would be obsidian with blue specks and a blue aura around it, it would however, be constantly changing from blue specks with a blue aura to purple specks with a purple aura. So lets say one day an alchemist stumbles upon one of these and takes it back to his lab to study. A friend of his drops in and he shoves the stone in a drawer to hide it. He goes to talk to his friend, only to eventually notice that his back room is on fire. Him and his friend put the fire out eventually, and when he searches through the remains, thinking the stone destroyed, he finds it perfectly fine next to an alchemists fire that must have been in the drawer with it. It has been knocked away from the alchemists fire some, so he takes it outside on a stine surface and puts the stone next to the alchemists fire again. He finds that the alchemists fire shoots out a rather sizeable gout of flame. He also notices that some of the alchemists fire has dissapered, presumably used by the stone to power the fire.
So he devises a device that can store multiple alchemists fires in a container on his back, along with the weavestone, and a way for them to be transferred through a metal tube that goes to his from where he can hold it, thus he now has a flamethrower. However its source of power is magical in nature. The stones could be used for many Magitech esque devices that the player could come up with.
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"Paladine, you see the evil that surrounds me! You have been witness to the calamities that have been the scourge of Krynn... You must see now that this doctrine of balance will not work! I can sweep evil from this land. Destroy the ogre races. Bring the wayward humans into line! Find new homelands far away for the dwarves and the kender and the gnomes, those races not of your creation... I demand that you give me, too, the power to drive away the shadows of evil that darken the land!"- THE REIGN OF ISTAR, Tales IV |
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George Krashos
Master of Realmslore
Australia
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Posted - 13 Oct 2004 : 05:49:19
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Or he could use the 'burning hands' spell. 
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Bookwyrm
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 13 Oct 2004 : 06:58:26
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| Sounds like you're copying Eberron's dragonshards. Of course, magic power-stones aren't exactly a new idea anyway. |
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Gellion
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 13 Oct 2004 : 21:05:34
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Originally posted by Bookwyrm
Sounds like you're copying Eberron's dragonshards. Of course, magic power-stones aren't exactly a new idea anyway.
I had not idea what the Dragonshards do before you just sort of told me. So I just made this up on my own. |
"Paladine, you see the evil that surrounds me! You have been witness to the calamities that have been the scourge of Krynn... You must see now that this doctrine of balance will not work! I can sweep evil from this land. Destroy the ogre races. Bring the wayward humans into line! Find new homelands far away for the dwarves and the kender and the gnomes, those races not of your creation... I demand that you give me, too, the power to drive away the shadows of evil that darken the land!"- THE REIGN OF ISTAR, Tales IV |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 13 Oct 2004 : 22:37:50
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Originally posted by Bookwyrm
Of course, magic power-stones aren't exactly a new idea anyway.
That's true. I've dreamed up a couple different versions, myself. |
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Bookwyrm
Great Reader
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Posted - 13 Oct 2004 : 22:51:58
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I never said you were copying it. It's a common sort of theme, and I was just pointing out that dragonshards do that sort of job in a D&D campaign world now. As far as I can tell, that one's the first one in D&D, so I just figured I'd mention it.
In other words, if you'd just have had that idea a year ago . . . |
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Gellion
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 14 Oct 2004 : 02:05:03
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Originally posted by Bookwyrm
I never said you were copying it. It's a common sort of theme, and I was just pointing out that dragonshards do that sort of job in a D&D campaign world now. As far as I can tell, that one's the first one in D&D, so I just figured I'd mention it.
In other words, if you'd just have had that idea a year ago . . .
Ehh, truth be told weavestones are old hat to me now. That happens a lot with me and my ideas. |
"Paladine, you see the evil that surrounds me! You have been witness to the calamities that have been the scourge of Krynn... You must see now that this doctrine of balance will not work! I can sweep evil from this land. Destroy the ogre races. Bring the wayward humans into line! Find new homelands far away for the dwarves and the kender and the gnomes, those races not of your creation... I demand that you give me, too, the power to drive away the shadows of evil that darken the land!"- THE REIGN OF ISTAR, Tales IV |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 14 Oct 2004 : 02:59:56
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Originally posted by Gellion
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Originally posted by Bookwyrm
I never said you were copying it. It's a common sort of theme, and I was just pointing out that dragonshards do that sort of job in a D&D campaign world now. As far as I can tell, that one's the first one in D&D, so I just figured I'd mention it.
In other words, if you'd just have had that idea a year ago . . .
Ehh, truth be told weavestones are old hat to me now. That happens a lot with me and my ideas.
I've had that happen, too. One day I've got this great idea, the next day I'm bored with it... Six months later I find the piece of paper where the idea was scribed down, it undergoes a radical revision, and then I don't do anything else with it! |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 14 Oct 2004 : 05:59:37
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Originally posted by Bookwyrm
In other words, if you'd just have had that idea a year ago . . .
Actually, it was more (or less) than a year ago, depending upon when you consider a campaign concept "usable". The general idea behind the dragonshards has been part of Keith's home campaign for several years. However the current intrepretation of the dragonshards is largely due to the work of several of the contributing authors for the campaign setting.
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Bookwyrm
Great Reader
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Posted - 14 Oct 2004 : 06:51:46
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| Well, while I own the ECS (interesting book, haven't gone through as much as I'd like), I'm not grabing every Eberron scrap I can, so you'd know much more than I would. Dragonshards aren't what I'd really call magic power-stones, but they're close. You store spells in them, you store elementals in them to power your trains and boats and airships, etc. To me, that's close enough to a power-stone for D&D, where you always have to worry about game balance. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
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Posted - 14 Oct 2004 : 07:43:46
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Originally posted by Bookwyrm
Well, while I own the ECS (interesting book, haven't gone through as much as I'd like), I'm not grabing every Eberron scrap I can, so you'd know much more than I would. Dragonshards aren't what I'd really call magic power-stones, but they're close. You store spells in them, you store elementals in them to power your trains and boats and airships, etc. To me, that's close enough to a power-stone for D&D, where you always have to worry about game balance.
The origin of the dragonshards was detailed in one of the earlier issues of Dragon this year, so you're not likely to learn too much about the out-of-game origin from the EBCS itself.
And, the dragonshards don't exactly function with the Lightning Rail in the same way as ships of both the air and sea variety, but, you'll likely get to that soon enough .
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Weavestones- An idea
