Start with jailer ring and prisoner rings and build from there or add jailer and prisoner enchantments after the rings do what you want.
The actual items are called dungeon rings from the apg
Another option which requires more adaptation is the soul bound eye from the rival guide.
Both ways give you lots of freedom designing your " rings of power" but the first option is cheaper and more clear cut as far as RAW goes in terms of it's creation.
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At the risk of asking some silly questions,
What were the powers of the one ring? lets say if Gandalf or Galadreil Saruman or Elrond were going to wield it?
What about the seven dwarven rings?
What about the elven rings of power? Gandalf's ring Narya, or ring of fire?
Galadreil's ring Nenya, ring of water?
or Elrond's ring Vilya, ring of air?
Im just curios....the magic wielded in the Lord of the rings series, wasn't very obvious to my memory.
Thanks
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I have thought through this some, and actually used the concept of having a similar "master" type item be the central point around a campaign world I made up. While the central idea was admittedly unoriginal, the flavor was different than middle earth and the setting worked really well for the group. The bad news was that we broke up before the campaign got really epic and the game play/balance of the artifacts never became an issue.
For my setting, the basic design was to have a number of tiers of special magical items, designed so that higher tiers (up to the master item) would give the ability to monitor and control users of the lesser magical items. The abilities could be anything from being able to easily scry on users wearing the lesser items, to being able to use compulsion like effects. The key here is to use existing spell effects and not creating a game breaking effect with no save.
Of course, just like the rings of old, there has to be a valid reason to use the lessor items, the "hook" if you will, so these items would have moderate to fairly powerful beneficial effects, along with a curse effect that would make it very difficult for a character to take off or stop using. Once more though, these effects should have a save/DC and while likely stronger than many normal curses, there should be a way to get out of the curse.
The central thing to considers is just how the players and the major NPC's are expected to interact with these artifacts. Having strong compulsion effects in the game can really upset some things, so considers every possibility and have a plan for when your players use these artifacts in ways you never dreamed of. Good luck.
The One Ring
Aura Overwhelming Evil, Illusion CL 20th
Slot ring; Price 160,000; Weight –
Description
This ring, when worn, provides the bearer continuous Greater Invisibility. The ring also operates as a Dungeon Ring, except that the “jailer" to this prisoner ring is the ring’s creator. This creator has no need of another ring to monitor the Status of this ring’s possessor. In addition, any creature of non-evil alignment that bears this ring must make a Will save (DC 20) for every day it remains in their possession. A failed save moves their alignment one point towards evil.
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IIRC MERP (the Middle-Earth Role Playing game by Iron Crown Enterprises) had a ton of stats on the various rings spread throughout the various suppliments. Not sure how close to the actual books they'd be, but those guys seemed to do their homework. All I can recall off the top of my head was that the things were insanely powerful compared to 'regular' magic stuff, so in d20 they'd all be artifacts with multiple powers. Oh, and the 'one ring', at the very least, has to be an intelligent magic item, right? One with a darned big ego score (if old white eyebrows himself was scared to even touch it lest he be corrupted by its power).
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I thought of the three elven rings as Rings of Elemental Command (Narya - Fire, Nenya - Water, Vilya - Air), with the seven dwarven rings being weaker versions of the Ring of Earth Elemental Command, with its powers divided up between them.
Dragon Annual 1 had an article that detailed some *ridiculous* magic items, including 'True Rings,' for 1st edition D&D. It's a fun read, although they'd have to be hugely toned down to be usable as anything other than end-game artifacts. In addition to being able to control the wearers of any other rings the wizard had created, the ring also had spellcasting ability equal to a magic-user with as many experience points as spent to craft the ring (300,000 exp, making *the ring* a 10th level magic-user, sitting on your finger!).
Magic in LOTR is a lot more subtle than Pathfinder, it wouldn't do anything overly "visible" beyond the invisibility. (which would really be more like an alternate plane.
In the hands of the powerful, you get the sense it would allow for the ability to raise, coordinate and control great armies. Hard to define in mechanical rules beyond perhaps a big CHA bonus and some kind of empathic control of one's minions.
As I recall, the "lesser" rings gave the wielders the ability to rule over their respective realms, a somewhat ambiguous statement I know.
Perhaps something like an advanced version of the leadership feat with various other large area based spells (control weather etc).
Also, the one ring would have allowed any of the other "Great" spellcasters to become as powerfull as the Great Lord himself, so maybe an increase in caster level and spellcasting attribute.
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A bunch of us were talking about making magic rings of various kinds and I jokingly brought up the one ring to rule them all. This prompted a discussion on how to make such a ring.
It turns out none in our group are fimiliar enough with high level magic item creation to know.So: can you make the Tolkien's one ring in Pathfinder and what would it take?
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using the opening sequence of the LOTR (the fight sequence) i would say a constant effect true strike ring would be pretty damn close.
From purely mechanical viewpoint I would have Rings Of Power grant high bonus to caster level or maybe even something akin to "positive energy levels" - granting bonus to all rolls and class abilities once someone taps their power. History of the one ring can be interpreted that Sauron, as a master of artifice bound part of his power (i.e. levels) within the ring.
In addition it has minor powers that grant constant greater invisibility that does not work against ethereal and semi-ethereal creatures, ability to see glimpse of the ethereal/shadow plane, longevity and some other lesser powers.