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I have not had characters craft in my games (I run mostly one shot games if I play at all). But if I had a campaign and someone said they wanted to craft an item greater than minor, I would add some of this to the game. "You need this exotic ingredient." And then I would make sure they had opportunity to find it with some interesting difficulty. Totally role play it.

We have rules for that.

Jason Dandy wrote:

Nazard wrote:

The year of the filigree meme, my backup item had been actual magical filigree. It was a net of magical filigree that could be applied/overlaid on a holy symbol and done neat stuff.

Probably best I left that one in the drawer.

To see filigree on items these days means either the designer never checked out the past advice/critique threads, or else was gutsy enough to put out an item that was guaranteed to get a bit of heckling from the peanut gallery.

yeah, it's just disappointing (and again, i didn't go the filigree route myself) that a valid descriptive word results in downvotes independent of the quality of the submission, all because it's become an "inside joke" for the votingest voters in voteworld. yet those same folks believe they are voting for the best items. :/

Who said they're being downvoted for the word "filigree?" I certainly didn't. I just snark about it because after you read some words time and time again, over and over, they cease to have any meaning. Just because a person snarks about an item, it doesn't follow that they're never voting for the item. I, and most voters, I'd like to think, vote for the better of each pair, whether or not they have to groan over an overused word or turn of phrase, such as "this item is prized by...".

Also, I don't believe I'm voting for the best items. Hopefully no one believes that. What you should be confident in is that you're voting for the best item out of a pair. Every time. That's what makes the system work. Sometimes I may be voting between two of the worst items in the contest, but the better of the two always gets the vote, whether or not it has filigree on it.

I'm up voting many of the items I snark on.

Ghostbusters is still in?

For the few chances I may ever need that,I will buy a damn scroll!

If your item is a strict improvement to an existing weapon property, it shouldn't be cheaper.

You see "that's" the improvement!

So what DC for my perception skill do I need to be astute?

Every time you come up, I try to figure out why you picked that spell for construction. Another similar spell is a much better fit both mechanically and thematically, so I find myself wondering why you didn't go with the obvious choice.

It's a small thing that I shouldn't be concerned about...and I'm upvoting you anyway, but it will drive me nuts again next time I see you.

Being obvious is no fun

DmRrostarr wrote:

Ugh...thinking you read too much "Order of the Stick" when I see your item.....

I saw your avatar and did a triple take...I haven't seen anyone else using this on these boards and I was confused because I clearly did not remember writing that post!

Well be thankful you don't have the same name!

Oh you well written and clever joke item that actually works vs the other one that shares none of those qualities. This is why you still any probable will remain in the game despite being a joke.

I think there is a creative writing group that said, hey we have this competition you all need to write something for, and this is our theme this year "Booze".

Still wondering what's with all the items that act like mood rings.

I think a movie is to blame!

Whips and feather and leather oh my!

You get my vote, only because I love anything "Rat" themed and only because.

So I think I will just mount that on a ring, so I can use it the way you want me to and I wont LOSE it!

With the Harpies, if you could change one to the male sex I think it would only sire female harpies. I idea being even if you change the physical sex its genetics are still female and that can only produce a female.

Jaragil wrote:

Raven Leather

I really liked this one. I had an cloak idea that did basically the same as the second effect, but I think the first effect is just perfect. I do expect it suffered from the "oh its an wondrous item?"

With my "that's so better than what I was thinking" I didn't see the price, that is much but still a great item. Owen asked " There's no particular reason this is raven leather, rather than a cloak of the raven, or a ring of the raven -- and no real reason it's a raven rather than a hawk, or crow, or bats." Why raven? Because ravens and shadows go together, Pathfinder steals so much from real word Mythology and Religion you would expect them together.

Raven Leather

I really liked this one. I had an cloak idea that did basically the same as the second effect, but I think the first effect is just perfect. I do expect it suffered from the "oh its an wondrous item?"

That is a interesting item and I like it but, by the time I can afford it me or my mage friend will have Greater Teleport and it will be redundant for me.

quibblemuch wrote:

Thunderfrog wrote:

My only concern is all the talk about "pit crews".

If I know the name of all my friends items, and we are rolling 10 deep, that's a circle of 10 people each voting for our friends items over and over when they pop up.

Also - you have 10 friends? Like, real ones and stuff? Are you, like, a celebrity or something?

:)

NOTE: It has been pointed out to me that the above joke could have been misunderstood. It was meant as a self-deprecating jab at my own (nigh-hermetic) introversion, nothing more. I do apologize if anyone took it otherwise due to poor phrasing on my part.

Good, because my elven friends who are very real and I were very offended.

Just found this years version of last years Charlatans Symbol

codpiece are always necessary!

I'm sure thats not how they work. and if that was my job and I had that item, I'd sell it, quit, and go live like a noble.

I believe the term you want is technically Theriocephaly. But that would have been over most off our heads.

A good one vs a new good one!

weeding item that does not require a wish to undo!

Grats!

My brother and his fiancee aren't going to be showing up until later tomorrow so my wife and I are trying to waste some time. I'm voting on items and watching a Die Hard marathon... think I've got a bit more voting in me tonight.

It just doesn't fell like Xmas with out a Die hard Marathon. " You're the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time."

You are f-ing brilliant, Brilliantly circumvent the rules by following them. I don't think it will fly but I salute you for doing it.

Wow lots of new items for me today and some good ones.

Cutlass of LongPork
Aura moderate necromancy; CL 5th
Slot none; Price 2,315 gp; Weight 4 lbs.

Description
This blood stained +1 Cutlass can be used unlimited times per day to create 5 meals from any sailor.

Construction
Requirements Craft Magic Arms and Armor ; Cost 1,315 gp

Cutlass of LongPork
Aura moderate necromancy; CL 5th
Slot none; Price 2,315 gp; Weight 4 lbs.

Description
This blood stained +1 Cutlass can be used unlimited times per day to create 5 meals from any sailor.

Construction
Requirements Craft Magic Arms and Armor ; Cost 1,315 gp

I'm just short a walkie talkie item for my bingo card

You just haven't seen it YET!

nkerklaan wrote:

I think scythes are the most underrepresented weapon. I thought I'd see at least one Scythe of Death or whatever.

Do sickles count?

I want to ride my Bi-sickles?

I'm surprised that so few have "Pickled Orc's Feet" on their lists, I expected to see it in the top 32. I had a great image of young Drow racing them for fun.

To kill time between counts I went back and searched last years posts, I was looking for the first reference to the "CULL" for RPGSuperstar. I believed it had been my post "mine" but Anthony Adam had beaten me by 12 hours with this. All ways the bridesmaid.

Found my item post cull, and wow hat typo stand out!

WHY arn't you people entertaining me, I had to go play candy crush between voting, I was looking forward to two weeks of no candycrush, Damn you!

Feros wrote:

Actually, most of the one hand gloves have a "this uses up both hand slots and cannot be combined with another hand slot item, including itself" or something similar. Which makes for a hand that can't wear a magic glove.

Exactly. It doesn't make sense in-game to only be able to wear one glove, but is necessary for game balance. If you need to wear two gloves for the magic to activate, it doesn't always make sense. If you can get away with only one glove, it doesn't make sense (in-game) that you can't wear a second glove.

I'm sure someone could make a complicated argument about magical interference between two disparate gloves, but it really just gets overly complicated.

Some gloves are one-handed. Some are two-handed. Both take up the entire hands slot; the reasoning of why is up to the game group.

"We live in a spaceship, dear"

Wow body parts item I like!

Intellectual's Clay Pipe was great, and I loved the beardforge

Wow, I want to congratulate the person with the item that's effect was one of the effects of the item I wanted to enter. Not only did you have the wisdom to stop at that one effect but in doing so made an item that is far more useable than mine would have been. I hope to see you in the top 32.

OK, Durations, a lot of items have said things like, "You have a pool of time length A, which must be spent in increments of B, which do not need to be spent consecutively" - that's a lot of words.

I think you will find that used a lot in PFRPG stuff, I remember reading that many times in the new "Advanced Class Guide" for many of the class powers. And yes it is a bit cumbersome.

Hello rainbow poo,you have been upvoted!

Two new items! will need some time to read them both.

There's an item this year that basically summons a gelatinous cube around the user.

Dude that was way to specific, delete thread, burn burn!!!

Jester items are stalking me.

Considering all I can think of is the creepy MtG Jester's Cap illustration from Ice Age, it is not a happy thing.

Just what I was thinking.

Oh my item how nice to see you, you have been up voted!

I think I will go into 3pp, first book "Diabolical dentistry" I see a big demand for that one. "Evil Optometry" looks good to.

Found mine the first night, also found format mistake I made for no apparent reason?

@#$%.5gp How?