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2024-04-21, 06:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Question about my special metal stick?
How much could I conceivably do to one scimitar as a player? Is an +3 Adamantine Scimitar the farthest I can go?
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2024-04-21, 07:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Question about my special metal stick?
If I'm understanding this correctly....
There is no base system for crafting or creating magic items. As a player you have no ability to make or get any particular magic item (aside from the specific class features of the artificer class), unless the DM makes that kind of thing available to you as part of their own game.
That said - in terms of what items can do, they can get way more interesting than adamantine +3
A wakened Dragon's Wrath weapon (can be any weapon type) is a very rare weapon with a +2 enhancement bonus and deals an additional 2d6 damage with every strike of a damage type matching a particular dragon. 1/day it can unleash a cone of the same energy in a 30 ft cone that deals 8d6 damage and DC 16 Dex save to reduce it by half.
That's just one example. There's a ton of magic items.
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2024-04-22, 04:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-04-22, 05:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Question about my special metal stick?
As far as a DM says. Anywhere between nothing to rod of resurrection and beyond.
Black text is for sarcasm, also sincerity. You'll just have to read between the lines and infer from context like an animal
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2024-04-22, 06:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Question about my special metal stick?
I was referring to crafting systems, but in the event that three isn't this question is basically invalid lol but thanks for responses nonetheless!
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2024-04-22, 06:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Question about my special metal stick?
There is a magic item crafting system (technically, several).
What's important need to keep in mind is that a) you generally can't add magic past the first crafting b) unless your DM does things differently, you need to find the formula to craft the specific magic item, and a formula is generally one rank of rarity higher than the item itself.
An Artificier has different ways to craft magic items, but they're generally not long-term.
Other than that, well, only your DM can answer.
As for how powerful you can go, well, that depends what kind of power you want. A +3 weapon is pretty great, but many don't find +X options as interesting as, say, a Scimitar of Speed, which is a +2 weapon allowing to do one attack as a bonus action.
Which can be very good if you like using your main action to do something else than the Attack action.Last edited by Unoriginal; 2024-04-22 at 06:38 AM.
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2024-04-22, 08:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Question about my special metal stick?
There's no 'hard' magic item crafting system. There's two 'soft' ones - one in the DMG, one in Xanathar's - which are mostly mutually exclusive and also don't have much in the way of details, leaving it mostly up to the DM.
Can you make a +3 Vorpal Flametongue Scimitar of Speed that also rubs your head and calls you a good boy every time you kill an enemy?
Nothing really says no, nothing really says yes either.
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2024-04-22, 08:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Question about my special metal stick?
There are a number of artifacts that are +3 blades which have other features as well.
Take your +3 blade, make it adamantine, and then for each beneficial feature you add beyond that also add a non beneficial feature.
And there's your artifact.Last edited by KorvinStarmast; 2024-04-22 at 08:51 AM.
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2024-04-22, 01:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-04-22, 01:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Question about my special metal stick?
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2024-04-23, 10:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-04-23, 06:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Question about my special metal stick?
"Okay, so I'm going to quick draw and dual wield these one-pound caltrops as improvised weapons..."
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"Oh, hey, look! Blue Eyes Black Lotus!" "Wait what, do you sacrifice a mana to the... Does it like, summon a... What would that card even do!?" "Oh, it's got a four-energy attack. Completely unviable in actual play, so don't worry about it."
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2024-04-23, 07:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Question about my special metal stick?
As others have pointed out crafting is a very up to the DM type of deal. But that being said there are lots of generic variants that can be applied to scimitars (how many can be applied at once is again very much up to the DM).
But here's the list of applicable variants as close as I know it
+1, 2, 3
Adamantine
Bloodshed Blade
Crystal Blade
Dancing Sword
Defender
Dragon Slayer
Dragon's Wrath
Drow Weapon
Flametongue
Fool's Blade
Forcebreaker Weapon
Frost Brand
Giant Slayer
Hellfire Weapon
Holy Avenger
Luck Blade
Mind Blade
Moon touched
Nine lives stealer
Sword of Life Stealing
Sword of Sharpness
Sword of the Planes
Sword of Wounding
Sword of Vengeance
Vicious Weapon
Vorpal Sword
Weapon of Throne's Command
Weapon of Warning
And of course Scimitar of Speed as a special version of a scimitar specifically.
I probably missed a couple but that covers what I know.Last edited by kingcheesepants; 2024-04-23 at 07:57 PM.