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*Spoilers Alert!*
*Too many possible spoiler information to hide behind a Spoiler button
I got hold of this AP recently and I'm planning to run it in the near future.
While reading the first book, I noticed that the "clear spindle ioun stone", specifically its resonance's power, is an important plot device.
Namely, the clear spindle ioun stone used to grand a permanent mind protecting effect as per protection from evil as its resonance power and this effect is part of the AP's story.
However, in the newer Adventurer's Guide, this was changed to a daily casting of protection from. Or as an immediate action to cast protection from, but doing so as an immediate action would render the ioun stone powerless forever.
Checking through the books, clear spindle ioun stones are given as possible loot in the other books.
So which version of the clear spindle ioun stone's renounce power should these stones have? The original permanent version that the story itself relies on or the newer weaken version in the Adventurer's Guide?
Or alternatively choose to use the newer version as "weakened over time" versions of the original?
*Side note: I'm flabbergasted that the AP actually relies on an item's power that was "nerfed" just months before the AP published as an important plot device.
The APs are written well in advance, so at the time the author did his homework the Ioun Stone would have still worked as described in the book. That being said Azlant is known for its incredibly potent magic, so saying the stones simply were more powerful back then is very believable.
I'd use the most recent version.