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I was looking for special ingredients (part of item crafting flavour or mechanic adjustments) and I realized there's no special gems only rare ones. That is you have metals like mithral and woods like wyrwood but not gems. You have rare ones like rubies, sapphires, etc but no gems that have special properties and are hard to find. So does anyone know of any suppliments or lists of special gems that could be used in items? Things like Elessar, Black Dahlia, the chaos emeralds or the like. Though preferably less powerful as those variants as they're more individual artifacts than rare gems with special properties.
That is because for the most part you do not create items out of gems. You might add gems to an item, but you don’t use them to construct items. Most special gems are going to be more of a magic item than a special material. The closest you will probably come to something like this is material components for spells. Black Onyx for example is often used for necromancy. I would suggest looking over spell descriptions for some inspiration.
You may also find the Ars Magica shape and material bonuses useful for inspiration.
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I was looking for special ingredients (part of item crafting flavour or mechanic adjustments) and I realized there's no special gems only rare ones. That is you have metals like mithral and woods like wyrwood but not gems. You have rare ones like rubies, sapphires, etc but no gems that have special properties and are hard to find. So does anyone know of any suppliments or lists of special gems that could be used in items? Things like Elessar, Black Dahlia, the chaos emeralds or the like. Though preferably less powerful as those variants as they're more individual artifacts than rare gems with special properties.
There is D&D's Gem of Brightness.
IIRC, it's supposed to add to the value of other gems you might have if they're exposed to it or something?
It's been a while.
I want to run a campaign based on the other bits of the Starstone that must have been produced when Acavna and Amaznen "shattered the world-killing projectile into thousands of pieces" (wiki). I figure that there must be loads of little pebbles scattered all over Golarion, and these things have magical properties, which make them useful for making magic items.
The plot would be that the PCs find such an item, and Bad Guys (tm) try to steal it off them. The PCs uncover a plot by said Bad Guys to collect enough Starstone pieces to attain divinity, which would be a Bad Thing. Cue a race to find lots of magic items which are, naturally enough, in the possession of assorted monsters, nobles, temples, libraries and extra-planar weirdos of all CRs.
It would probably make a passable AP.