Another 30 I used extensively ... pretty much with two hours notice, when I had to whip up the students and faculty of an academy of music, from which the contestants in a major musical competition were drawn.
Nifty item, and I don't think it's too powerful ... I don't, for instance, presume that the "lore of hell" includes every conceivable secret ever known to mortalkind. The memory effects alone are a nasty drawback, never mind that the wielder would likely get a reputation for blood magic he might find hard to live down -- or live through.
It could stand a little more info. How long do the memories last? How long do they take to find? I'd also throw in another drawback - that the wielder get compulsively secretive over revealing the ring's power, going to some lengths to disguise his true source of information.
I wish I could give it a higher vote, but to a degree, I'm with EchoMirage: I do understand that goons are extras, but without any personality traits attached to the list at all, this is just a list of possible goonish positions in a Big Bad's entourage ... and most GMs can figure out that much anyway. One or two personality traits per Goon would make this more than a collection of red shirts.
Nicely done. I'm fishing today for a few extra wizards to put into a hitherto unvisited city, and just ganked this fellow for the queue.
Nice, and I like that these are better fleshed out than most of the '30' subs. I'd give a slightly higher vote were it not for some typos and that the names sounded a bit too much like they came from a random name generator.
Heck of a sub ... good as the senior prelate for pretty much any faith in a large city.
Terrific concept, and makes perfect sense ... heck, some of the armchair theorizing about "mithril" and other fantasy metals have had them come from the transuranic "island of stability."
Beyond that, what's "technological" about this? Radiation is a naturally occurring phenomenon. Uranium is a naturally occurring metal. No one would call rules for what happens when a character is struck by lightning "technological," however much electricity is ubiquitous in our modern world.
NPCs (Minor) (Mercantile)
Heh, this is pretty cool. I can just see a wildeyed fellow dashing through the streets, loudly imploring his friends to get their iron spikes before THEY'RE ALL GONE!!!!
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