Implanting Ioun Stones - still slotless?

[KCWM]

Normally, ioun stones do not take up a slot, as they float around the head. A question has come up from a new player regarding implanting the stones in the body, as per the rules in Seekers of Secrets, regarding whether or not the implanted stones take up a slot.

I can see both sides of the coin and the rules don't state that they do. Is the fact that ioun stones are slotless an inherent characteristic of the stone itself or is it because it floats around the characters head?

I did a search and couldn't find anything, but I might have overlooked it.

[Amuny]

I don't see why having a stone carved in your arms make it unusable for a Weapon. Neither I see why having a stone in your forehead a la diablo would prevent you from wearing a headband that could even cover it.

The rule doesn't state it suddenly take a slot either.

No, ioun stone doesn't take a slot. And that's why they have an higher cost than some other wondrous item that could give the same bonuses.

[KCWM]

The reason it came up was because, normally speaking, you can not have two magic items in the same slot and get the benefit. The question arose because you're taking something that normally orbits the body and putting it into a specific area of the body, areas of the body that are normally governed by the whole "one item per slot" rule.

Because the rules didn't say one way or another, I ruled that they didn't take up the slot, but we wanted to make sure this was the intent of the rule as it would change how our group handled ioun stones.

No harm in asking for the sake of clarification, right?

[Amuny]

KCWM wrote:

The reason it came up was because, normally speaking, you can not have two magic items in the same slot and get the benefit. The question arose because you're taking something that normally orbits the body and putting it into a specific area of the body, areas of the body that are normally governed by the whole "one item per slot" rule.

Because the rules didn't say one way or another, I ruled that they didn't take up the slot, but we wanted to make sure this was the intent of the rule as it would change how our group handled ioun stones.

No harm in asking for the sake of clarification, right?

Nope, did I sound agressive? If so I'm sorry, it was indeed to clarify.

Ioun stone indeed does not use any usual inventory slot, and you could have multiple ioun stone. I don't think there's a limit by RAW, at least I don't see it anywhere. But you could houserule one easily. There's even some place they specify that if someone have two ioun stone, they will not collide.

I don't know if you could implant two ioun stones in the same arm though.

[Sean K Reynolds]

Implanting them does not change their nonslottedness. :)

[Pathos]

You know, this thread just gave me an idea to have some extra cheap rings made slotless (cost x2).

I don't know why I never thought of this before...

[Loren Peterson]

Go look at the runelords, if implanted Ioun stones took up slots, well daaaaamn that is a lot of slots.

[KCWM]

Thanks to all that responded, especially SKR. It seemed obvious, but our group was unfamiliar with SoS, so we wanted to be sure. Excellent stuff!