Touch of the Fae
Aura strong transmutation; CL 9th
Slot neck; Price 110,000; Weight –
Description
This item appears to be a flower blossom with several fanciful ribbons tied to it. Used on intelligent creatures it has no magical effect, but on animals or plants it affects them as the spell awaken. There are some differences from the original spell. The awaken spell lasts as long as the animal or plant wears it. The wearer is not automatically friendly to the person who planted the item on them and will pursue its own animal agenda unless persuaded to do so otherwise. It will struggle to retain the Touch of the Fae as long as it can.
Construction
Requirements Craft Wondrous Item, awaken, 50,000 gp
Hello Pathfinder message boards! I'm pretty new to this, but I mean to a make a good impression. If I slip up somewhere (like this post should be elsewhere) feel free to let me know.
The magic item above was my submission to get into the Superstar contest. I'll admit, I didn't even know the contest existed until 24 hours before the deadline. When I read up on it, I knew right away I wanted a peice of that pie. I wouldn't forgive myself if I didn't at least try. Considering that I've only played Pathfinder once and had less than 24 hours to hammer it out, I'm proud of what I did.
Still, when compared to the entries that made it, I could tell it was lacking. So I'm posting it up now. I don't intend on submitting it again next year, so there's no reason to not make it available to the general gaming public to enjoy.
Also, I'm interesting in what people think of it. I can use this feedback to study for next year, and be fully prepared.
My reasons for creating the Touch of the Fae were several, mostly from a meta gaming aspect. I saw it as a toy players could not resist messing with. "Hey, let's put it on a hamster!" "Let's see what the jellyfish has to say." The opportunities for mischeif and abuse are rampant. It also seemed an easy way to have an animal NPC. Want an intelligent, talking T-rex? Tie Touch of the Fae to his arm.
In fact the genesis of the idea was a player awakening a T-rex in a jungle in the Dragon Empires and the T-rex composes a haiku before eating him.
T-rex eating you haiku are also acceptable feedback.
I really like the idea of selling that item and getting something better. Speak with Animals is considerably cheaper to cast. Hope that didn't sound too harsh.
Too harsh? You kidding? First of all, there's no point in putting something up for review if you are afraid of negative feedback.
Secondly, a good burn now and then is good for the soul! In your case, I might have put said something like "and sold it for something better... peace knots for my scabbards!" or something similiar.