Hi all.
I'm going to run a short campaign for a few newbies starting in precisely a week. The main villians will be undead; leveled ghouls, a Ghast and such, while their minions will be more like goblins, ogres a minotauer and the like.
The campaign starts out with one of the players inheriting an old inn from his uncle, along with the uncle's magical sword. They will of course need to find the secret entrance to the inn's basement and fight the monsters there, but in the end they will get the blade - Nemare.
Nemare is a bastardsword that deals 1 point of fire, plus 1 damage per 2 levels the wielder has, it also grants the user his charisma modifier (if any) as positive energy damage to undeads. Finally it grants the bastardsword proficiency if the wielder is good aligned and not doesn't make a habbit of hanging with the undead.
I know that this is probably a rather powerful weapon for a level 1-5 campaign, but prices and such aside; Is it interesting? :)
Oh! btw, I know that an item granting a feat should have an added cost of 10.000 gp per feat, but for proficiency it is just waaaaaaay overprized ;)
The weapon is very unusual in that it grants ability score and level dependend boni.
Therfore it is almost impossible to price.
Why not make it a +1 undead bane weapon?
I agree with lazar. Another option might be to pull out (if you have it) the Weapons of Legacy book and make it using that. Obviously that's not Pathfinder, but I thought there were some neat ideas in there.
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Screw the rules! You have creative design chops!
I say don't even bother pricing the damn thing. It's basically a re-fluffed, weaker version of the holy avenger. And I think it's perfect for a low-level game, where the fire damage and the positive energy damage can't get out of control.
I assume the sword is masterwork, also.
I love the idea. Unique, super-cool weapons that don't break down into +x flaming y are always welcome in my book. If you're just planning on using it in this small level 1-5 campaign, I think it's fine. If you were planning on extending the campaign, I might reduce the fire damage to 1 for every 3 levels they possess. But other than that, I think it's both fun and interesting. It's quantifiable without being a boring +x weapon, and I think any decent player (so long as they're playing a good martial character) would love to have it in their low level arsenal.
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