| choyer7 |
I have been working on balancing this item for about a day now and decided to bring it here. It started off as a normal item, but its effect clearly warranted artifact status. I have come here to ask how do any of you rate this item, it is supposed to be powerful but very dangerous to use.
Ring of Flowing Sands (Major Artifact)
Aura strong necromancy CL 15
Slot ring; Price ?; Weight -
Description
This beautiful platinum ring is crowned with the brilliant cut emerald that has a hourglass very faintly etched into it. This ring, considered by many to be the secret to immortality, allows the wearer once per week to project a 30 foot cone of aging that bestows two permanent magical age categories (Ref Half DC 16). It then projects another 30 ft cone behind the wearer that includes themself that removes a equivalent amount of age categories, divided by the number of people in the cone from each person. Those behind the wearer may also attempt to evade, but the wearer gains no save. Wish, Miracle or Heal casted by someone of CL 16 or higher can reverse these changes. This ring bonds with the person after their first use and does not come off until their death.
Age categories are as follows
Infant (-6 Str, -4 All), Child(+2 Dex, -2 All) , Adult, Middle age, Old, Venerable
As an added penalty to the infant category the affected lose their memories and require serious aid in the form of a seprate Wish or Miracle to regain them.
If the effect pushes them to a age category not on this list they are immediately slain (Will/Fort 20 Negates), Resisting this effect puts you in stable comatose.
Use magic device:
Reverse the effect so that you age: DC 20
Remove yourself from the effect: DC 40
Destruction: TBD