I'm looking for some opinions on the Weapons of Legacy book. Is it good? Can someone give a good overview of what it is exactly? It looks pretty cool in the store but I'm on the fence as to if I want to shell out the cash for it.
Thanks!
Weapons of Legacy (or items, they need not all be weapons) are awesome. It allows for the finding of truly amazing items at relatively low levels.
Mechanically, they siphon out power from their wielders. This comes in the form of a few hp, a few skill points, a penalty to attack, saves, skill checks, or caster level. (Note, not all of these, the worst penalize at most four of these categories) Additionally, they ultimately cost rougly 70,000 gold by 20th level, while a regular non-legacy weapon made with the same progression of powers could easily clear 250,000 gold.
I personally made a completely new system of level adjustment from the penalty system in this book. I highly reccomend it.
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Nah - I don't like it. The book is okay, rather the idea is okay. I let my players 'level up' their weapons for free, instead of finding new, more powerful ones. Y'know, your +2 sword becomes a +3 instead of finding another sword with +3. You can make up the wealth by level deficit by giving them more gold/items (if that's important to your game). There are much better done books to spend your hard earned cash on.
But the book is NOT overpowered, you can introduce it without fear of breaking your game (even if only one player wants to use it).
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Peace,
tfad
The ideas behind the book are not very original. The idea has been in many, many books, movies, and the like. That being said the book is really well done. It not only prvides a use full rule set on how to add them to your campain but also how how to found your own legacy. It also has really cool rules on what happons when you defeat anouther person with a legacy item or even an artifact. It shows two examples on how to turn high level items good only for hight level camapin into legacy items, to give out sooner. Also has some really cool fiction on the 50 or so items in the book. The fiction is genearal enough to add to any campain. It even provides a few detail on how to add some items to a Eberron or Forgoten Realms game. I used the book to make the Kingdom Hearts weapons of Sora, Donnald, and Goofy as legacy weapons and posted them on this site. I hightly recomend the book. In the game I am running all my players have a legacy item. Two of my own makeing and two that are from the book. They love how the items level up with them and have really cool back stories.
I would put it as a low priority.
The book is well done, in that the rules a clear, concise, and well done. As someone else said, none of the items are especially original or brand new, and none of it is likely to immediately make it into your game. It is a decent book, but reminds me of Heroes of Battle: good if you have never done it before, but redundant otherwise.
I would recommend a number of books before it. If you are looking for new items or abilties to add to your game, and you really want something new, get the Magic of Incarnum.
Worth a look at. I like the idea reminds of Inuyasha. But I never purchased it and can borrow from a friend.
I'm looking for some opinions on the Weapons of Legacy book. Is it good? Can someone give a good overview of what it is exactly? It looks pretty cool in the store but I'm on the fence as to if I want to shell out the cash for it.
Thanks!
I think Weapons of Legacy is great - there are currently 7 active Items of Legacy in my two campaigns, and another couple are on my way. The players and I love them.
They are balanced, they offer the ability to be significant items throughout the PCs careers, and because they keep gaining new powers (often unknown to the players before they get them), there is always a sense of mystery about them.
Cheers,
Merric
I would have to agree with the "its not bad, but its not high on the priority list" theme here. Its a cool idea, and its not gamebreaking, but it doesn't scream for me to include it.
As far as recent D&D core books that have come out, I would definately rank it above Races of the Dragon or Magic of Incarnum, but behind Tome of Magic, and perhaps even with Complete Psionic, the breaking point being if you use psionics enough in your campaign to need fresh ideas . . .
Buy it if your going to use it (you know if you will or not once you take a thorough look through it). That's my opinion.
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I'm looking for some opinions on the Weapons of Legacy book. Is it good? Can someone give a good overview of what it is exactly? It looks pretty cool in the store but I'm on the fence as to if I want to shell out the cash for it.
Thanks!
I like it, but I would never use it "vanilla" style.
As noted by Majeed, the penalties get nasty fast, particularly on the better items.
However, if you throw out the penalty rules and instead just dock money from loot drops, the book provides an excellent system for creating really cool, unique magical items that get more powerful the longer the characters own them.
I also just really liked some of the neat unique magic item abilities that only appear in that book. I don't know how much you're looking to spend on it, but I'd say it's worth $15 (the amount I paid for my used copy) for that alone.
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What they said. Also congratz on the 11 year necro, that's actually impressive ^w^
Wow, I did not notice that. I was wondering when the OP talked about buying it, but I thought maybe they found it used. Or maybe in pdf or something.
I noticed this one last night and decided to leave the rather impressive thread necromancy alone.
I agree as well. Those penalties are really nasty. I had a GM that thought about making a bow I used into a WoL after a rather impressive shooting at nearly max range. We decided against it based on the penalties and such though. Wish I had the idea back then to just talk to him about dumping gold rather than my stats.
Oh well, that was a mistake a teen 'me' made.
I use a version of magic items from earthdawn...the only thing they pay to level up magic items is xp...and of course knowledge and going a'questing for rare herbs and such.