Ghost touch ability


Rules Questions


Can you add the ghost touch ability to wondrous items?


No. It's a special ability for armor, shield or weapon only.

Exception: a wondrous item may have this ability if it is written in its description.
Amulet of Mighty Fist
"...Alternatively, this amulet can grant melee weapon special abilities, so long as they can be applied to unarmed attacks...."

Shadow Lodge

a little bit more information would be useful. There are alot of spells out there and some of them may be applicable.

But no, the Abily Ghost touch is only for armor, shield and weapons. or the Amulet of Mighty Fists.


Here are the rules that govern Wondrous Items in the corebook.

"Special Qualities: Roll d%. An 01 result indicates the wondrous item is intelligent, 02–31 indicates that something (a design, inscription, or the like) provides a clue to its function, and 32–100 indicates no special qualities. Intelligent items have extra abilities and sometimes extraordinary powers and special purposes (see Intelligent Items).

Wondrous items with charges can never be intelligent."

Also, when reading the intelligent items section there is nothing with a ghost touch ability that I can see.

I would say no, you should not be able to add ghost touch to a wondrous item per RAW. If you were to allow that it would be house rule/homebrew specific.

My .02


Ok thanks for the input.

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