You are a level 20 mythic wizard, with two daughters. You need to enchant them a dress.

[Vagabond?]

As listed in the title, you are an epic wizard who has to make a pair of dresses for your two daughters. You have one million gold to spend on enchanting the dress. What enchantments do you perform on the dress. You can use any items from pathfinder, 3.5, spheres of power and psionics, plus any custom item using the pathfinder item creation rules. What do you add to the dress?

Presume that your daughter lives in your demiplane- However, you will frequently have adventurers, dragons, and outsiders visit your demiplane, and not all of them will be friendly. So you should be prepared for level 5 characters to attempt to attack your daughter, or to manage to convince her to go adventuring. In addition, you should be keenly aware that you could quite plausibly die.

[Snowlilly]

I give them each Living Garments.

If they scream for more, they are just spoiled brats.

[lemeres]

This set up makes me think that this is going to be a fairy tale. Hopefully not one of those german ones- those get pretty darn bloody.

My immediate question is 'a' dress? When you have two daughters? Shouldn't it be two dresses?

Is someone going to get murdered in jealousy, or ironically murdered for trying to steal the dress?

[Anguish]

1} The ability to change shape and colour at will (applies to footwear).
2} The ability to appear of a different body-shape than reality.
3} The ability to vary visible cleavage based on attractiveness of the observer.
4} The ability to be wrinkle-proof.
5} The ability to be self-cleaning.

But seriously, the question is missing details. What are the daughters going to do in these dresses? If we're talking about adventurer daughters, the needs are very different from court ladies-in-waiting types.

Also, the correct answer is "whatever they want".

[thejeff]

Depends entirely on the levels of the daughters. They need to stay within WBL, after all. :)

[Vagabond?]

lemeres wrote:

This set up makes me think that this is going to be a fairy tale. Hopefully not one of those german ones- those get pretty darn bloody.

My immediate question is 'a' dress? When you have two daughters? Shouldn't it be two dresses?

Is someone going to get murdered in jealousy, or ironically murdered for trying to steal the dress?

Well, they might end up being sent into a german fairytale- Hence the question of what you enchant the dress with. They're the daughters of a high level mage, adventure is just begging to attack them.

Fixed the singular issue, and no, nobody is going to get murdered for the dress. At least, hopefully.

Anguish wrote:

1} The ability to change shape and colour at will (applies to footwear).

2} The ability to appear of a different body-shape than reality.
3} The ability to vary visible cleavage based on attractiveness of the observer.
4} The ability to be wrinkle-proof.
5} The ability to be self-cleaning.

But seriously, the question is missing details. What are the daughters going to do in these dresses? If we're talking about adventurer daughters, the needs are very different from court ladies-in-waiting types.

Also, the correct answer is "whatever they want".

Let's say that you don't know much about your daughters, because they are not yet born, and the artificer said that he could create a epic artifact worthy of being used by your daughters by when they turn 13.

As for what your daughters will do with these dresses, I have added a bit of info. But TL;DR, you have no idea, and have to prepare for anything that might happen on your demiplane.

[GeneticDrift]

Living garments is good, but since i can...
Status as the spell (linked to me) [all spells constant unless otherwise stated]
Stoneskin as the spell
Protection from evil, good, law, and chaos as the spells
Plane shift (only to our house) 3 times a day
Protection from fire, cold, acid, and lightning
Pockets of holding ( as 1 bag of holding)
Feather fall
guiding star
water breathing
Life bubble
Create food and water 3/day

Not sure how to price this, most of this can probably be done another way.

[NenkotaMoon]

I thought you can only make Living Garments if you are a Drow?

[Alzrius]

Isn't this the kind of problem that glamered armor was made to solve?

[Doomed Hero]

If you give someone an item that is beyond their means to defend, all it does is make them a target.

A low level character with a million gp item is going to end up super dead super fast. Sure, you can bring them back easy enough, but you are going to need to waste an afternoon scrying on the dress, teleporting to the thief, obliterating them, and slowly prestidigitating the dress clean . It's going to be a lot of unnecessary work.

I suppose you could make it very clear that it's your daughter and that anyone who messes with her is going to end up a greasy smear, but that kinda seems like a good way of making sure she never finds a date. Gotta let the girl spread her wings.

Taking this slightly more seriously, if I were going to give a lower level character an expensive magic item, it would be some kind of horribly overpowered magical tattoo. Then id make it vanish with Secret Page and conceal the secret page effect with a permanent Magic Aura.

I'm thinking, it would cast Summon Monster 9 automatically, every round that my lovely daughter is in danger.

I'd enchant the dress with some kind of color changing glamour and tell her that it was the dress that was popping out giant angels and living mountains when she got in trouble, but it would actually be her the whole time.

Gotta have a moral of the story and shit.

[Snowlilly]

GeneticDrift wrote:

Status as the spell (linked to me) [all spells constant unless otherwise stated]
Stoneskin as the spell
Protection from evil, good, law, and chaos as the spells
Plane shift (only to our house) 3 times a day
Protection from fire, cold, acid, and lightning
Pockets of holding ( as 1 bag of holding)
Feather fall
guiding star
water breathing
Life bubble
Create food and water 3/day

Not sure how to price this, most of this can probably be done another way.

Clothing is a bad place to put defenses.

If creating a protective item, go for a ring or use a tattoo.
Be discreet, the item should not be readily apparent.

[ShroudedInLight]

Wouldn't it make sense to make a bunch of dresses?

I mean, your daughters are not going to wear just one dress right? Unless it automatically kept itself in perfect condition they'd have to wash it now and then.

[Doomed Hero]

ShroudedInLight wrote:

Wouldn't it make sense to make a bunch of dresses?

I mean, your daughters are not going to wear just one dress right? Unless it automatically kept itself in perfect condition they'd have to wash it now and then.

Permanent prestidigitation is cheap.

[David knott 242]

And it is a cantrip that is usable at will. Just cast it whenever the dress (or the daughter) gets dirty.

[Kobold Catgirl]

+5 mithral glamered heavy fortification undead controlling etherealness ghost touch greater shadow invulnerability reflecting greater slick studded breastplate with a Heightened magic aura cast on it by myself.

Even if thieves beat the save and recognize it, the etherealness should be sufficient to allow them to escape. And anybody staring at the armor for three rounds with Identify will be pretty easy to spot.

These daughters are gonna be adventurers, right? They need to carry on the family legacy!

[Snowlilly]

ShroudedInLight wrote:

Wouldn't it make sense to make a bunch of dresses?

I mean, your daughters are not going to wear just one dress right? Unless it automatically kept itself in perfect condition they'd have to wash it now and then.

Just like living garments, which also adjust their cut and fit to match the wearers preferences.

[Kobold Catgirl]

Look, if they're my daughters, they'll be becoming wizards, just like their old parent! No daughter of mine will be gaining levels in a class that doesn't grant prestidigitation at-will! I could disown over less!

[David knott 242]

One idea is to give each of them a Ring of Transposition. If either daughter ever finds herself in an unpleasant situation, she is only one command word away from switching places with an angry and powerful wizard. Presumably this demiplane is small enough that neither of the girls is ever more than 800 feet from her father.

[Snowlilly]

Kobold Cleaver wrote:

Look, if they're my daughters, they'll be becoming wizards, just like their old parent! No daughter of mine will be gaining levels in a class that doesn't grant prestidigitation at-will! That's a disownin'!

So ... eldritch scions and magi.

[Bandw2]

Vagabond? wrote:

As listed in the title, you are an epic wizard who has to make a pair of dresses for your two daughters. You have one million gold to spend on enchanting the dress. What enchantments do you perform on the dress. You can use any items from pathfinder, 3.5, spheres of power and psionics, plus any custom item using the pathfinder item creation rules. What do you add to the dress?

Presume that your daughter lives in your demiplane- However, you will frequently have adventurers, dragons, and outsiders visit your demiplane, and not all of them will be friendly. So you should be prepared for level 5 characters to attempt to attack your daughter, or to manage to convince her to go adventuring. In addition, you should be keenly aware that you could quite plausibly die.

I instead lock them in a tower and use the money making a magical floating castle. their dress is a castle.

edit: looking around, i feel i'm not alone in this conclusion.

[Berti Blackfoot]

This would be the only thread where "rouge school" would be permissible.

If these characters are going to come up, have one wear a dress and the other wear pants. Most women I know wear pants in the real modern world. Wizard daughters might wear who knows what. Unless he's a troglodyte and keeps them in the dungeon and forces them to go to "rouge" and "knitting" school.

"but dad we said we wanted to go to rogue and knight school!"

"It's knitting and rouge for you young ladies!"
Then the players could really rescue them from the father while breaking out of his dungeon.
Perhaps the rogue is actually an investigator, and throws smoke bombs that are colored red - after all the only materials she has to work with is the rouge from her tutor.

[Atarlost]

Intelligent item (+500 gp)
+6 dex/con/wis (144000 gp) (x1.5 multiplier for two of the stats included)
resistance +5 to all saves (37500 gp) (x1.5 multiplier included)
+5 enhancement bonus to AC (37500 gp) (x1.5 multiplier included) (base item cost exceeds 200001 gp giving 12 ego)
CL is 20 because it's a custom item made by a level 20 wizard who wants its CL as high as possible because that's the CL of the spells it casts. If he has CL boosting gear or mythic abilities it may be higher.

Custom Special Purpose: defend the daughters of the crafter or avenge them (+2 ego, +4 against people acting against the purpose)
cha 10
int 20 (8000 gp) (+5 ego)
wis 20 (8000 gp) (+5 ego)
telepathic (1000 gp) (+1 ego)
blindsense (5000 gp) (+1 ego)
casts prestidigitation at will (1000 gp) (+1 ego)
casts mage hand at will (1000 gp) (+1 ego)
casts magic aura on itself at will (2000 gp) (+1 ego)
casts liberating command 3/day (1200 gp) (+1 ego)
casts feather fall 3/day (1200 gp) (+1 ego)
casts air bubble 3/day (1200 gp) (+1 ego)
casts resist energy 3/day (2400 gp (+1 ego)
item has 10 ranks of sense motive (10000 gp) (+2 ego)
item can change shape into one other form of the same size (leotard suitable for use as either swimwear or sleepwear) (10000 gp) (+2 ego)
item casts dimension door 1/day (11200 gp) (+2 ego)
item can cast nondetection 3/day (18000 gp) (+2 ego)
item can use true resurrection on wielder, once per month (200000 gp) (in service of its purpose only) (+2 ego)
ego 42 (46 against a wearer acting against its purpose)

Total 499700 gp not including the dress itself. 300gp is adequate for a dress befitting the daughter of an archmage, bringing the total up to a half million even.

That's assuming that's a million gp for two dresses, not a million each. If it's a million each dress we can add a few purpose bound high level spells at will. And a bunch more cheap ego raising abilities because the whole point of this item is to have such a high ego that nobody can survive using it after stealing it from its rightful owner.

And, yes, it's quite deliberate that the archmages daughters will run into ego checks if they try to do anything self destructive or to harm each other. When they're wise and high level enough to overcome a DC 42 will save they're probably wise enough to realize that ditching a chaperone that can cast true resurrection on them once a month is not a good idea and when they can overcome it reliably they probably don't need it.

[Drahliana Moonrunner]

Doomed Hero wrote:

If you give someone an item that is beyond their means to defend, all it does is make them a target.

They are targets by their very existence a level 20 mythic wizard is going to make enemies by his being who he is.... giving them goodies like this is just bonus.

Their only real protection are mythic mind blanks and blending into the crowd.

[Generic Villain]

NenkotaMoon wrote:

I thought you can only make Living Garments if you are a Drow?

Nope. Only a few items from Advanced Race Guide (that book has a creepy name without any context) have a racial requirement for crafting them, and those are specifically noted for each particular item. For example, a few of the gnome goodies can only be made by either gnomes or wizards specialized in particular schools. Living garments have no such additional requirements. Anyone with the Craft Wondrous Item feat can churn one out.

[the David]

Dress of Resistance with a Ring of Protection, Amulet of Natural Armor and Bracers of Armor?

And I suppose that adding in the Living Garments bit would be wise if you want to keep your daughters happy.