Wayfinder, Ioun stone and random power


Rules Questions


Hi ! I recently discovered the wayfinders and got really interested in them. For context, my GM ruled that we were going to use the second method for determining the resonant powers. A few questions ensued :

  • - What happens when you put a Cracked Ioun Stone and roll a 94, as it reads "Stone becomes cracked." Since it was already cracked, does it just stay that way ? Break ? something else ?
  • - Same goes for Flawed, Scorched etc.
  • - Would a combo of a stone and wayfinder resulting in a specific desirable effect (for exemple +2 Str) be able to be sold for more than the sum of the stone and the wayfinder ? This seems a bit gamebreaking, especially if those items were both sold by a merchant (meaning the merchant could've tested them himself).
  • - Since ioun don't always have a resonant power (75% for standard ioun stones, less for others), do you have to roll that percentage per wayfinder, or is it a proprity of the Iou stone itself (meaning, if it has a power in one wayfinder, it has a power in all, or if it didn't have a power in a wayfinder, it just never will have one, in any wayfinder)?

Thanks in advance for the help !

Sovereign Court

Presumably they became cracked or flawed somehow right?

So treat them as having already rolled the 94 (or 95 for flawed, 96 scorched) already. IE ignore all results over 90.

Combo: Probably, but that's up the GM. Something to keep in mind though, is that 7% of the combos (94-100) damage either the Ioun Stone or the Wayfinder. SO if they are testing the combos themselves they are eventually going to break something.

Percentage Resonant: Per stone. The Rules-text in the original source (Seekers of Secrets) mentions it in the Inferior Ioun Stone section. If there was an exception for Method 2, it would state it in the section for Method 2, and it doesn't.
Specifically, "Resonant Powers: Only 25% of cracked or flawed ioun stones have resonant powers (see Wayfinders and Ioun Stones on page 51) compared to the 75% chance for typical ioun stones; only 10% of scorched ioun stones have resonant powers."


Great, thanks for the answer, I'll check with my GM, but that would make some sense I guess

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