Intelligence Check: Play That Deadly Music, Baby

[Alzrius]

The latest post over on my blog, Intelligence Check, deals with weapons that are also built to be musical instruments.

There's little mechanical reason for such things, but you know what? When your character is a ranger that's dressed in green, sometimes you just want a dagger that can be played like a flute. Go figure. As such, I've written basic rules for weapon-instruments, with a couple of examples given.

Check them out here: Play That Deadly Music, Baby.

[Name Violation]

the dragon dagger, you went there!!!!! awesome

in my game i just gave the bard a mithral "electric" guitar (its strings are made of force) that splits into a mithral +1 longsword that lets him add 1/2 his level to damage when performing and attacking, and a mithral heavy shield that gives sonic resist 5

[Spes Magna Mark]

Stop reading my mind. First it was the love stuff. Now this. Just yesterday, I added the elven songsword to my campaign's wiki.

:)

Mark L. Chance | Spes Magna Games

[Felgoroth]

I've made an evil Bard with this before. I also played a Bard once that had an extra string on his lute that was actually a bow string, it was pretty funny.

[Alzrius]

Spes Magna Mark wrote:

Stop reading my mind.

And lose access to such great inspiration? No way!

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First it was the love stuff. Now this. Just yesterday, I added the elven songsword to my campaign's wiki.

Awesome weapon there, far more practical in terms of mechanical benefits than what I wrote. I just wasn't sure to what degree to assign additional penalties or bonuses based on the modifications of adding musical functionality to a weapon, so in the end I stayed fairly middle of the road, leaving it to be more of a flavor change than anything else.

[Spes Magna Mark]

Alzrius wrote:

And lose access to such great inspiration? No way!

Aw, shucks! Now I feel all bromantic. :)

Mark L. Chance | Spes Magna Games