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Rating:3.66666667
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Submitted:
January 19, 2009, 2:40 am
Updated:
January 19, 2009, 2:40 am





Daymen's rock
By: Grey

"Hey, I actually enchanted something! Wow!"

Full Item Description
Daymen’s rock is simply a small rock, the size of a fist. It looks like a normal rock. When angry, it appears to crack along a jagged line that almost bisects it down the middle, and uses the jagged edges as teeth.

History
The luckless wizard Daymen Scarb tried many things in an attempt to find some form of magic he was good at. This was the first and last time he ever enchanted something.
Trying to simply enchant a rock to glow, possibly the easiest enchantment to do, he found that like with all his other magic it simply didn’t work right. At first, it did glow, though rather dimly. Then it exploded into a stony maw, which proceeded to chase Daymen around for the better part of a half hour. After it seemed to grow bored of that, it returned to looking like a normal rock, and calmly rolled out the door.

Magic/Cursed Properties
The rock seems to be somewhat sentient. That is to say, if it notices something moving (which isn’t always, rocks have notoriously poor eyesight) it bursts into a rocky maw and tries to bite it with extreme prejudice. It moves in two ways, depending on if it’s in mouth form or not. If it isn’t, it simply rolls along the ground, as though down a gentle slope. When it is a maw, it moves in leaps by opening itself quickly, generally chomping at the apex of its jump.
Though occasionally docile, the best way to get a reaction out of it is simply to hit it with a stick or, if you’re brave enough to pick it up, throw it at whatever you want it to attack. It’s about as smart as a rock, so it doesn’t realize that someone threw it. As far as it knows, it hit something, so that something is going to get a faceful of rocky teeth.



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Voted Cheka Man

2009-01-19 11:14 AM
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Owch, not a rock to sit on or your bottom will get a really nasty bite. Does it eat or drink anything? 4.5
 
Grey

2009-01-19 11:56 AM
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It's been known to munch gemstones when the mood strikes it.
Voted valadaar

2009-01-19 11:48 AM
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I found this quite amusing and quite usable. Leave it in a chest for PCs to find during looting. Hours of fun :P
Well, maybe not hours...
Voted Pieh

2009-01-19 09:10 PM
Link: [5575#69558|text]
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A lovely little item with a good back story, also usable and amusing. I really enjoyed the part about rocks having notoriously poor eyesight. Sounds like a pet rock gone bad.
Voted Murometz

2009-01-19 09:30 PM
Link: [5575#69559|text]
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What val said!
Voted klauston

2009-01-19 10:06 PM
Link: [5575#69562|text]
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Funny trick item to include in a chest or in a ruin. Very usable, well written with a great background.
Cheka Man

2009-01-19 10:31 PM
Link: [5575#69564|text]
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This will get an HOH from me later.
Voted Scrasamax

2009-01-21 11:53 AM
Link: [5575#69588|text]
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Nice, chompy rocks

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The creation of intelligent magical weapons is not an exact science and there are occasional failures, as such think of causing a little more stress to your players by "rewarding" them with an insane magical weapon eg: Agrophobic, refuses to come out of the scabbard without a strength check to draw it. Haemaphobic: afraid of blood, fight at a penalty against any blooded creatures but really good against undead, elementals etc Schizophrenic, not just one mind in your sword, lets have half a dozen minds in there, all different and bound to cause confusion the possibilities are endless
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