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A ways back my group played Earthdawn for a while when we had gotten a little burned out on second edition AD&D. We played it for a time and enjoyed it overall, but when we eventually jumped back into D&D with 3.0 and through 3.5 and now into Pathfinder one thing we find we really missed from Earthdawn was how it handled magic items.
Magic items were legitimately special. They had a history, the PCs had to form bonds to them, research them and spend resources to unlock new powers and abilities. Now while I know they don’t want this to be the case for every single item they find but they really like the idea of magic items that “grow” with their characters. In fact these items ended up becoming a major portion of the characters identities themselves.
So I was wondering if there is anything out there like this for PF. I know Weapons of Legacy tried something similar to this concept, but I didn't feel it was all that successful. I remember reading some write ups in a Monte Cook sourcebook that also attempted to tackle the subject, also not quite what I was looking for. So my question is has Pathfinder tried anything like this yet? Maybe in a supplement I haven’t pick up or something?
Any advise would be appreciated, even if its just “nope they've never done anything like it” or “They kind of did, but you're going to need to modify it a lot.”
Thanks!