[To Bloom Below the Web] lens of focused fear

[Waldham]

Hello, I have a question about lens of focused fear.

Spoiler:

Quote:

As a young man, he traveled to the distant ports of Taldor and Cheliax, where he obtained a

lens of focused fear: an unholy device crafted by dedicants of Zon-Kuthon that solidified victims’
terrors into physical forms. In short, it created brainchildren, and Yohoi used it to launch his career.

Are there a book that describes the item (stats...) ? If yes, which ?

Thanks for your future answer.

[Hilary Moon Murphy]

I just looked this up, since I am running Season of Ghosts.

There are two types of items that appear in adventures:

1) Actual items intended for treasure
2) Story elements intended for plot only.

As the Lens does not appear in the adventure backmatter for any of the 4 volumes of the AP, I'm assuming that it is just a story element and not statted out.

[Hilary Moon Murphy]

Hello Overworked Moderators -

I see this discussion got moved from General to Rules, but I'm not sure it is really a Rules discussion. Is there any chance it can get moved to the Season of Ghosts forum, since this is a question really specific to the AP?

Thank you!
Hmm

[Finoan]

Hilary Moon Murphy wrote:

I see this discussion got moved from General to Rules, but I'm not sure it is really a Rules discussion.

Yes. From a rules perspective, the item does not have stats. Which isn't really a rules problem.

If stats are needed, use the Building Items rules to give it stats to use for a particular gaming table.

[Maya Coleman]

Hilary Moon Murphy wrote:

Hello Overworked Moderators -

I see this discussion got moved from General to Rules, but I'm not sure it is really a Rules discussion. Is there any chance it can get moved to the Season of Ghosts forum, since this is a question really specific to the AP?

Thank you!
Hmm

Moved! Thank you, Hilary!

[James Jacobs]

The lens is 100% meant to be a GM inspiration element at this point—it's not an actual part of the Adventure Path and I doubt we'll do much more with it going forward. And could be a really interesting element to lean into for a potential home-brew sequel to Season of Ghosts.