Just give it some crappy side power that nobody would be able to figure out. "You can not be sure, but it seems there may be an additional effect. But It is impossible to tell for sure." At some point, the item magically makes a 'kick me' note appear on the wearers back. >.> AND ITS CURSED!
I made a powerful magical hammer called Voldruumjir which uses "runes" instead of traditional spells or charges. A creature attuned to the hammer uses a spell slot of 1st (lesser rune), 3rd (greater rune) or 5th (master rune) to empower the corresponding set of magical effects the hammer can produce. After the spell slot is expended, the rune doesnt require concentration. Additonally, in order to cast a rune of a higher level, you must first cast one of a lower level. (The runes were inspired by warhammer fantasy by the way haha)
Thanks for the shout-out and link to the Net Libram. It's always nice to hear that people find it useful (or at least amusing), and I love to see the different ways that people incorporate it into their campaign. Keep up the great work!
There is only ONE magic item needed by any adventurer: Polk's Magical Flask.(Paul Kidd book) Given to him by a Faerie King, it pours out any liquid upon command word for an unlimited amount of time or until it is corked. Every liquor, every beer, every wine you can imagine. You need not be attuned to anything else.
I love that you made this a couple years ago and suggested a class/subclass that adds attunement slots, suggesting rogue or wizard. Now we've got the artificer, an arguably rogue/wizard hybrid that gains extra attunement slots. Great minds, and all that. Love your content, mate. thanks for all the years of dedicated work.
Best intro to date! Been awhile since I last commented on your videos, been horribly busy with work. Still I recall awhile back on one game session, our DM actually allowed us to attune to more than three magical artifacts. However he did warn us that there will be consequences to attuning to more powerful artifacts if we do this carelessly. So what happen... well one of our party members attuned to a few really holy and good items but then as she gripped a mantle to try it on before identifying it. She was cursed because the mantle belonged to an evil god that was an enemy to her patron god. Well... she is a cleric by the way, a battle cleric, and well... her god thought she betrayed her, the evil god was baffled why an acolyte of his enemy god was wearing a mantle with his blessings, and the other artifacts reacted to the evil power at close presence. In short... Our war cleric lit up like the America's Fourth of July fireworks display.
Love the idea of centaur horseshoes needing a command word, or saddles attuning to the mount, not necessarily the rider. I could see dragons in particular having saddles that attuned to them while providing a lesser bonus to the dragon's "familiar"
We already have the artificer for more attunements but there could be subclasses: the rouge could have an antiquitarian and the cleric has relicquarian.
👍👍Hearing about a mounted creature with a cumbersome enchanted saddle (you might be obligated to leave it behind quite often) made me picture a detachable enchanted saddle horn that could removed when your mount is "parked", like taking the radio out of your car 😁 It could potentially behave as a druid focus, a sending stone or anything when carried around on foot! CB radio shenanigans, anyone 😁?
For magical horseshoes, there were a few things with 3.5 that kind of covered it. Arms & Equipment along with some of the web stuff covered a lot of it.
I always felt like it would make narrative sense to have the limit based on an ability score such as Wisdom or Constitution. Of course, depending on the one used, it could make the gap between mages and non-mages that much more wide.
I'm honestly surprised there is no feat that gives you an extra attunement slot. Seems like just the kind of niche upgrade feats are designed to be. I think Matt Mercer put one in the Critical Role campaign guide, which also comes with a ribbon ability. Advantage on arcana checks concerning magic items or something like that.
So there sort of is cannonical a feat for that. Though it seems that only one particular drow badass has this feat. This is part of the stat block for a particular villain in waterdeep: dragon heist. Master Attuner. Jarlaxle can attune to up to five magic items, and he can attune to magic items that normally require attunement by a sorcerer, warlock, or wizard.
I’m assuming players can make they’re own magical items? A champaign where the players were gathering ingredients (including very rare and valuable ones) and creating a powerful magical item for themselves sounds like an awesome idea! “To those dangerous abandoned mines to get that rare ore! A hair from a specific unicorn! A magical dragon egg-shaped artifact in this dragons lair! Climb that mountain; we need the large red pearl at the top!” Sounds awesome to me! Maybe they have a special connection to the item(s) they made that lets them benefit more than others from using it?
Definitely a high caster type process. Rogues are already inclined to potions and poisons as are Warlocks. Druids, Clerics, Wizards, and Sorcerers would be very inclined towards rituals and processes that imbue some of their abilities into an item. Druids would be master staff and wand makers, and dabble into magic wooden shields. Clerics would make amulets, talismans, and armor over days through prayer and ritual. Sorcerers would be the best at making some of the most unique wonderous items through a twist of thought and weave. Wizard colleges 100% have no reason Not to make a profit by selling common magic items and janky uncommon items made by their students, so not only would Wizards be capable of making just about any magic item with time and practice, but they'd come equipt with things like self repairing clothes and minor wands. Depending on the level of magic in the world characters might even learn to create stronger items, though with janky rolls the item could end up cursed. Also, I imagine that Wizards would specialize by their college. No self respecting Illusion Wizard would be without a deck of illusions made by their own hand. Any Conjuration Wizard would be remiss if they were experimenting with making a Bag of Holding and they haven't mastered the basics of the common magic spice pouch
Felix Rivera “Hey Wizard, could you make me a magical sword that drains life (meaning hitpoints) from any enemy I cut with it and grants it to me (restores hitpoints)?” “Sure can if I get a master blacksmiths help! Let’s go get the ingredients to make it, then find this blacksmith who may or may not live by himself or in an isolated village in the middle of a stupidly dangerous swamp/forest!” Adventure!
One set of items I did use was interesting. The whole set required multiple attunement slots, unless you had the whole set then they all used 1 slot. For those who where wondering it was the main quest to find it and the list was: Helm Breastplate Pants Shoes Gauntlets Cowl
I usually watch the video before commenting, so I can make a somewhat relevant comment. Edit: Btw, maybe you will talk about trinkets? (Those that actually provide beneficial effects, and fluff. Mostly focusing on the useful ones.)
Off subject, maybe a video on adding weaponry to the standard listing, in the 5e manual? Edit: For example, my dear fletched javelins. ua-cam.com/video/cJotBsrqbwI/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/LBO7PxmHIFA/v-deo.html
Back on subject, I noticed that the attunement requirements seem more restrictive, in 5e? (At least from what I have seen many saying, that and the lack of being able to add various effects to magic items. Like having my hand axes, or my javelins return to me.....I guess it's understandable, I did throw them. :^) )
One of my Paladin characters is currently being held hostage by a suit of plate mail that tricked him to binding with it by claiming she was a gift from his god, and threatens to kill him painfully if he even LOOKS at another piece of armor. It's not going well, as you can guess. You may have to do a video on removing cursed items, like, soon.
. Have you thought about asking the Paladin's god? Removing the angry armor could require cutting a deal with another god or goddess. Maybe a powerful mage or some other type of powerful being. That or convince the evil bitch armor that he's not good looking enough for it.
befriend the armor and maybe the dm will let it start doing extra shit for you. an extra reaction here, rerolling a strength check there, maybe standing up and continuing to fight when the paladin is unconscious. wearing an animated set of armor could have all sorts of benefits if you can calm it's jealous paranoia.
@@TraciPeteyforlife I tried convincing it, rolled a Nat 1 and convinced it we're soul mates. And as for the dude's god, he's simultaneously pissed and amused that I just swore fealty to a crummy suit of steel that just gives me poison resistance. So, I don't think my patrons' gonna be much help. Might try the wizard thing, though.
AJ, have you already made a video on cursed items? I guess the threat of cursed items makes the Identify more valuable. Otherwise, I don’t see many players taking it. Some more fun ideas for cursed items would be appreciated.
I feel like instead of just having three slots, no ifs, ands, or buts, There should be a larger pool, (That increases with level.) but some items are more costly than others. For example: In the Chaotic Card game you had a deck of twenty attack cards. The best attacks would cost five points, while some cost 0 points but were basically stocking-stuffers. A Staff of the Magi or equivalent would be a five, whereas something like boots of levitation would be a 0 or a 1, a wand of fire-balls would be a 2 or a 3. (Not exact numbers, but a general idea.) Working from that, you could have characters get discounts to attuning different kinds of items. So a Red Dragon Sorcerer spends one less attunement point on the aforementioned wand of fire-balls. Perhaps that would come at the cost of a higher attunement price for frost-based magic? Or vary the attunement cost on whether the character class counts as Martial, Divine, Stealthy, Arcane, etc. So a wizard could have an axe enchanted to cast Tenser's Transformation when the command word is used, but because the physical nature is so opposite of what a wizard normally does it would be pretty costly. Edit: As for powerful character getting more attunement slots in general? I think the more your character grows in strength the more it becomes a staple of the world, opposed to an adventures. I'm not saying you get to level fifteen and then throw the whole damn thing out the window though.
a simple idea that has probable worked before, but what about a simple homerule of "you have an ammount of attunement slots equal to your proficiency bonus"
@@commenter1430 I've just been frustrated by the idea of lower-key magical items never getting used once a straight upgrade is found. Boots of Levitation? Who's going to use them when they take a third of your attuned slots and the Wings of Flying are better nine times out of ten? Most people will use the Wings of Flying even with this alternative system in play, it just creates a benefit for using a niche item for people who would rather have a slower vertical move speed in exchange for another ring. The additional ideas were just things I came up with on the spot, so whether they would work is pretty hit or miss.
@@commenter1430 Whatever works best for the table at hand. I do get that, as mentioned, it does sound like meta-gamer bait. I'd definitely want to look at different variants before I implemented it into a game.
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id even go as far as making a living weapon that requires a first attunment to use it and later on the weapon will speak telepathicly to the person to let them know they have met the requirements for second level attunement the reason for the second attunment would be to gain control of the weapons true power which is initaly locked away until that point
Ring of attunement: the wearer is always perfectly in tune whenever they attempt to create any musical effect using any instrument, even improvised, or their own voice, granting a +2 bonus to the effect of any bardic abilities. Cursed ring of attunement: the wearer perceives themselves to always be perfectly in tune whenever they attempt to create any musical effect using any instrument, even improvised, or their own voice, granting a +2 bonus to the effect of any bardic abilities upon the wearer, but reduces the effect on any others by 1d6 - and yes, it's possible to be so bad it effectively gives them a penalty instead
Oh those crazy magical items. Always wanting to control the wearer or person who has it. Because nothing says you belong to me. Like angry weapons that demand blood, praise, and to be polished every time they get used. That refuses to work if you don't bow down to it. Unless its a flying AX. Because we all know flying AX's are both classy an nice to you. Unless your a goblin, orc, or hobgoblin.
Thanks to your videos I am getting to be a better player. They are helping me to understand more of the game mechanics. As I improve as a player, the other player and DM are having greater fun. I now sing or say a rhyme for bardic inspiration. I'm going to work on an inspiration book to use. No more monsters have the power, sword of frag has struck the hour. Thank you Black Sabbath for that line in war pigs. Of course I changed it for the game but I still sing it like Ozzy. I think it was enthusiasm even if it's off key. We have a blast. 😁
I would say that attunement is a pretty good way to make a limitation for magic items easily workable into fluff. And honestly, after one seen 3.5e artificers, just covered under amount of magic items that is ridiculous even for "magical engineer" concept. To be fair, Unearthed Arcana Artificer does grant bonus attunement slots. And, funny you mention The Net Libram of Random Magical Effects. This great netbook, as they were called, was made back in good old 2e, when arcane spellcaster was "one with the book". As it is no longer true, one has to be more creative with many effects that target caster's spellbook. Despite that, I made it into a simple program that rolls for effect, amount, and escape clause anyway. I reserve it for natural 1 and 20 in wild magic areas.
Did Karsus go on to an afterlife after his folly? If so, I hope it is one where he was forever stripped of magic and shackled in place where the spirits of other magic users can stop by to kick him in the junk.
Never did like Attunement. Other versions had like alignment restrictions, class restrictions, or a maximum number of items per limb with no duplicate effects (IE two rings of protection +1 just grant one, null the other.), and so on and so forth. Attunement seems restrictive and laughably bad in ham-string'ing people.
Attunement should only be used on artifacts or extremely high level items. *(Continuation Pending)* The "multiple same item limit" makes sense, but I only use it for sufficiently powerful items 18 +1 rings vs 1 +18 ring set up. (I allow multiple rings on one finger under specific conditions, namely other rings effects) (9+2,6+3,3+6) The point here is that if you have the (whatever) power you need from one you might as well swap out to expand your "effect capacity". And items of higher quality than that one ring will require attunement regardless, 'ell, the ring itself might need it.
Five digits on a hand equals 5 rings to me! Would make sense to have more rings make things more cumbersome though. Difficult for a wizard to twitter his fingers correctly, or a fighter to hold a sword properly.
Ohhhh! You also read the "The Truth About Fingers" series? A mind blowing read. Who would have known that we have in fact, more than 2 fingers! And then the genius after years of study the genius reasoned himself to us having... It still gives me tingles to say it. WE HAVE ANOTHER HAND!!! It is amazing how far science has gotten us. All thanks to 'A very attentive individual' On a more serious note. I suspect the key reason for attunement, is to prevent loot hoarding by 1 member of the group. Or a Rouge killing or at least stealing a couple of rings, a weapon, armor and a glove from their fellow players. As long as the GM have given the dude 3, the motivation to steal more will at least be a bit lower.
I keep thinking about magical saddles now. If I had a saddle enchanted with charm monster, could I just throw it on any old monster and ride off into the sunset? If so, I know exactly what I'm doing with my next character
What if you strap the boot on to the stump left of your leg, and strap a wooden peg to the bottom of the boot? Would it work then since it’s equipped on the characters body physically or doesn’t it have to actually be on a foot?
DracotheDarkPrince yeah, but the point of what I was asking was how to take advantage of a pair of enchanted boots as a character with only one foot or leg. In the video he says that if it’s strapped on to a false leg(e.g. a wooden peg) the enchantment doesn’t work because it’s not actually on the body. I was seeing if this can be worked around.
DracotheDarkPrince Oh yes. But such dm’s do exist. And also I like to take into account the in game physics of magic. If the flow of magic energy in the item has to be connected to the flow of energy within the character, a prosthetic would be an area with no flow. So it kinda makes sense. Kind of a “putting a boot of speed on a mop wouldn’t make you clean a floor any faster” type of thing.
if high-powered Wizards can a tune to more than 3 items than you would think that powerful dragons should be able to do the same and I would think even moderately powerful artificer would be able to do the same
People seem to see attunement as just balancing, which it is, but in terms of lore, you are kind of making the magic item a part of you. It is where the sentient magic item's become of interest, AJ mentioned that character learns some things about the item, so the item can learn things about the character. A cursed item is like a virus. If 3 does not seem enough, I did make something like a series of magic item's that might take up only one attunement slot. Someone else mentioned a joke of a magic item that gives an attunement slot when attuned, but that gives me an idea. In truth you would not be attuned to it, the second item is attuned to the first item, which if sentient could choosing the effect works or not. I imagine a more useful version that could give 2 attunement slots, which gives a play a total of 4 slots. Sounds like only a good thing, until you realise you are not just attuned to it, but it is sentient and is attuned to the player with one of its own slots. The two slots the item gives to the player are its other two attunement slots, that the item could choose whether to give to the character. The player then has to placate the magic item's whims to get its benefits of extra slots.... this is of course before you reveal further something like it is a phylactery.
I think its less about balance really, and more about preventing one player from stealing and nabbing all the good stuff for themselves. Ok genius, you have 10 rings now. But you can only use 3 so f you. Give those back to your party members right this instant young man.
Personally i dislike atunment due to i feel like any item can be stolen and used against them in a fight. A foe should be able disarm a fighter and be able to use his flameing sword against him or a lich quietly using a mage hand mid fight to unclasp a amulet of magic protection mid evil speach then right as it comes loose use call item to turn it against the wizard
These rules definitely need a little tweaking. I'd want to track the understanding of the item separate from the spiritual link, both of which should be progressive as opposed to on/off. I definitely want there to be a chance that an item taken stealthily from an adversary too powerful to face in combat would still be under the influence of that entity, and I'd want there to be a potential for that influence to spread to the poorsoul who was courageous enough to link themself to it, hell maybe an item could have been crafted with the soul purpose that whoever uses it would have their lifeforce drained to restore the very enemy they had to slay in order to get the item in the first place. Three huh guess I wouldn't ask someone else to keep track of a thousand so this ones probably in there to spare the gm the extra leg work, but heres how I'd do it the weakest level of familiarity with an object would be tied to your intellect or magical proficiency just like double it or something, medium level tied to your chakra so you can have seven at that level(unless you're something funny then you get a funny amount) then the final level of attunment would actually be determined by the object itself you get 23 points to work with no negotiating on that but the average item costs 7(technically the average item wouldn't required this tear but the average legendary item would cost 7) weaker ones cost less stronger ones cost more, but at any rate you would typically be able to understand about three, I might even add items that have a number that could never be used, in fact every powerful demon should have atleast a few un-understandable relics. I'm thinking sorcerers dragonborn genasi and litches should all get exta mojo. Can I say that dragonborn should have extra chakra. So confused about warforged would they be beter or worse at this stuff you could argue that their whole nature is something akin to attunment so they should do it as easily as breathing but you could counter argue that they're using up their slots just keeping themselves in working order. I'm calling it on modrons through modrons are definitely worse do they even have chakra. Oh and one nap being all it takes oh excuse me two naps, absolutely not I mean sure for a basic understanding maybe but full familiarity should take a flash forward of several years or at least a workout montage and some raw eggs.
Wow.. that is a great idea! An enemies magic item that they are very strongly linked to, that can potentially mess with the player character who tries to use it. SO MUCH potential with that!
While I understand the reasoning behind attunement, I still think it is a shody mechanic and those that use D&D Beyond should be able to deactivate it if they don't want it in their campaign world.
Homebrew the item and remove the attunement requirement. Then players can use the item without attuning, and have the benefits properly displayed on their sheet. Takes about 3 clicks. "Create homebrew item"-"make copy of magic item"-"Requires attunement? (uncheck)"-"Save". Rename it to something different, or at least add "Attunement free". Players should then be able to find the item by searching for it.
@@Caleb_Plehn I didn't know that the system would allow you to do that, I thought it kicked out anything that was copyrighted by anyone else? Which the established magic items would fall under
@@ClanIceFyre You can homebrew copyrighted material as much as you like, so long as its private (not shared publicly) For instance, if you own the DMG physically, and don't want to purchase it on dndbeyond, you can homebrew all the magic items into the system for you and your players. You just can't share them and they won't display in site navigation tools. These items will display in the item search bar in the character sheet. If you are a dungeon master, the items will display for players in your campaigns. To get them to show up after creating them, you have to go to the first page of the character creation tool, and click to allow "homebrew content". Existing characters can also access this page in their "edit character" option. Hope this helps.
Well they are certainly capable of making dumb weapons... But in the game there is no reason why a character couldn't make a sentient weapon, it would just be very expensive, time consuming, and complicated. As a DM you might have to have a full campaign just for them to find the items and information needed to do it as well as the skill to create the weapon to start. Or you might have multiple characters working together towards it because its unlikely that your wizard (who will probably preform the binding ritual, or whatever to create the sentience in the weapon) will also be the one who is crafting the physical weapon (something better suited for a warrior or other physical endowed character class). Something to keep in mind is that most sentient weapons/items are typically morally ambivalent, corrupt, or outright evil, this could have to do with how it is created or that you basically have to trap an intelligent being into an item and that can't be good for your mental health. Additionally they tend to have the power to take over people if the person isn't strong willed enough to control the item, making them quite dangerous. If you are however running an evil campaign this might be quite good in the higher levels.
actually I don't mind physical components for spells that kind of makes sense using a ruby for True seed by looking through it using a piece of jer to raise the DeadI'll admit there are some that don't make sense like using copper rods to cast the spell call lightning it would make more sense they're using it to cast chain lightning or lightning bolt but apparently two copper rods calls down lightning from the heavens and then some spell should have material components like flame Striker blade barrier or creeping Doom
Well to be fair, the items used are more abstract for certain spells than others. The two copper rods may be a reference to lichtenberg (I think I spelled it right) figures where you put two nails into a piece of wood on each side, wet it and it burns capillaries into the wood. It may also use copper because it's one of the best conductors of electricity. Yeah. Some aren't as easy as grease, which requires a pat of butter. (Which means that you're just making the butter bigger and melting it)
I have never really liked the attunement system in this incarnation mostly because if you take a look through all the magic items in the book on what does and doesn't require attunement it is kind of wonky. All armors of resistance require attunement when in theory will have much less of an impact on game balance in comparison to + armors. Having a +1 AC will come into effect far more frequently then having resistence to a specific energy type unless there is a theme to your campaign that makes that energy type much more prevalent. Then you have cases like Armor of Poison Resistance requires attunement which gives your resistance to poison while a Periapt of Proof Against Poison doesn't require attunement but just makes your straight up immune to poison damage and condition. It makes no sense how the magic item with the lesser effect requires attunement while the item with a greater effect doesn't for some arbitrary reason. Granted the fact that the poison resistance armor is magical so can't be destroyed as easily but if you were to get magic armor with some silly effect that doesn't effect the game in anyway like you can make it sparkle whenever you felt like and the periapt you would have a much greater effect for essentially no cost. Then you have the War Wizard/Pact keeper sticks that are like + weapons but they don't add to damage just the to hit. They are more or less the caster version of + weapons but for some reason require attunement. Now yes they do add in extra effects like increase to spell save dc or ignore half cover but those additional effects really give as much as + to damage. This is even more prevalent for classes that can make multiple attacks. A level 20 fight with 4 attacks essentially is getting an extra 12 points of damage a round from a +3 weapon if they hit all 4 times. Which is highly likely due to the bounded accuracy system that makes it so enemy ACs above 20 are extremely rare and really not that hard to hit with a semi optimized build. Then you have some items like Ioun Stones which can be destroyed or taken away and really why wouldn't a semi intelligent enemy attempt to take/destroy the shiny rock spinning around your head, it is obviously magical. Granted it is a difficult task at a AC 24/DC 24 acrobatics check to hit or take it but with only 10 hit points and resistance to everything (which effectively makes it 20 maybe 21 hit points) it really isn't that difficult to destroy at much higher levels of play. Most CR 5 creatures have anywhere from a +6 to +8 to hit with multiple attacks or one attack that deals a lot of damage making it plausible for tier 2 creatures to take it away or destroy it. Yet every Ioun Stone requires attunement when the chances of it being taken or destroyed become much more likely the higher level you are. Honestly a magic item that has the chance of being taken or destroyed seems like enough of a counter balance to not require attunement. Now I do think that requiring attunement for some magical items does make sense for in some cases as to draw upon the full power of the item you must attach a small chunk of your solo or essence to it. This prevents people from just taking the big bads obviously magical weapon and using it against them to full effect so in that regard it does balance the game. Just in the aspect of limiting people to just 3 attunable magical items because the effects of some items are just to powerful and you don't need them excuse kind of falls flat on its face once you look deeply into all aspects of it from comparing individual items with similar effects to the actual math of the game.
Honestly, I played the Pre-WOTC AD&D and alot of these rules simply wouldn't have flown. You NEEDED to have a magical arsenal at high levels if you wanted to do some epic level stuff. The class xp system was much more rigorous and rewarding. I love watching Critical Role, but Attunement is one of the dumbest things. I guess it goes in with WOTC's attempt at streamlining the game to a video game level of mass production. I don't know how many of the new generation of players knows about the old game, but I bet you'd be amazed. Yes, the math was sideways (if not backwards at times) but the possibilities were much greater. It seems like they bumped up the Hit points and DPS to give the game a more inflated feel. I don't have so much a problem with skill checks and saving throws are borderline to me. Combat seems inflated and xp is nerfed. Drastically. But I'd put my AD&D 22nd level mage/16th level fighter against any character from 5e. "Streamlined" doesn't mean better. It just means easier. I just can't bring myself to update to 5e.
They need some love please i'v terrorized my group with them for years wished they were in 5e. I made one player to play surgeon on his brother by having him cut out over 6 larval xill from his stomach surprisingly he survived the encounter
I wonder what is the best way to create a magic item. I always have ideas, but there is always that fact that each one idea can be written differently than what one might think of or what it might do based to another person.
Side Trick: Before this video, I was planning to make the PCs fight Carrion Crawler that ate a guy who had a ring of water walking. Since the hand turned almost skeletal (the ring remained intact) and the ring does not need attunement, the Carrion Crawler can now walk on water.
Magic item Attunement is such a crappy game mechanic. Supposedly, it's there for balance reasons but that's nonsense. Balance is maintained by the dungeon master. Also, why only 3 magic items for everybody? It seems to me that that kind of stuff should vary by class and also very with intelligence, charisma and wisdom. Attunement is there for half ass DM's who can't maintain balance themselves and rather than learn balance they Nerf the game for themselves and their players. It's sad.
So if your characters get frisky with their magic items you're either gonna prevent them from aquiring more of them, limiting their fun and rewards, or you're going to forcibly remove/have them sacrifice their magic items when You decide they're too strong for the good of the game? It sounds like this was a halfassed complaint that didn't take into consideration that limitations and easly understood rules are to the benefit of the players and dm, especially the dm who has plenty to manage without having to stop and worry every time they want to reward their players. Not to mention if the dm wants to make the party more powerful around the attunement rule they can just give out non-attuned items.
Several points presented here are homebrewed and not valid RAW. E.g.. you need to identify an item before attuning, sorcerers can apply sorcery points to effects using charges from items. These might be a fun thematic additions, however should be couched appropriately.
Dan Saathoff It depends on the source. If it’s a creature from the MM then rules as written no, but could be an easy discussion with a DM. It’s always risky to give too many attunement options to for henchmen or pets, can result in souped up Pokémon trainers.
Thomas Sierp thank for answering my question. I’m making a Artificer for the first time and this is my second d&d character, I was trying to make a homunculus servant jetpack wing’s and a suit. The suit part is because then it can put on the gauntlets of ogre power and fly me around. And I’ve been finding so many new creative ways to use my artificial which is my first spell casting class I have, so you can imagine how hard it is to find out about all these things when you don’t have a handbook and there being so many. 🙂
I actually don't like 5th Ed. attunement or the concentration by most spells. Much prefer playing Pathfinder, as no one plays 3.5 ed. anymore. I started with the blue book and the paper chits [for dice] that the game came with. There were no dice that I knew of at that time other than your standard six sided. As far as I'm concerned the game has gone downhill since first edition, where the casters power was basically unlimited -no dice caps on the spells, just your level to determine power [a 25th level fireball did 25 die 6 damage].
I always thought a ring of attunement would be a great gag magic item, Allows for one additional attunement slot :Requires attunement:
But it could also carry some funny rules that allow an elf to pass attunement to a dwarf for restricted items
Just having an attuned item might be useful though, like a default magic resistance thing provided for being attuned.
Just give it some crappy side power that nobody would be able to figure out. "You can not be sure, but it seems there may be an additional effect. But It is impossible to tell for sure."
At some point, the item magically makes a 'kick me' note appear on the wearers back. >.> AND ITS CURSED!
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There’s already gloves of attainment that dose this and this would be useable by an artificer
I made a powerful magical hammer called Voldruumjir which uses "runes" instead of traditional spells or charges. A creature attuned to the hammer uses a spell slot of 1st (lesser rune), 3rd (greater rune) or 5th (master rune) to empower the corresponding set of magical effects the hammer can produce. After the spell slot is expended, the rune doesnt require concentration. Additonally, in order to cast a rune of a higher level, you must first cast one of a lower level.
(The runes were inspired by warhammer fantasy by the way haha)
Thanks for the shout-out and link to the Net Libram. It's always nice to hear that people find it useful (or at least amusing), and I love to see the different ways that people incorporate it into their campaign. Keep up the great work!
Making your casters pay attention to spell components is a good way of keeping them from running away with the campaign.
There is only ONE magic item needed by any adventurer: Polk's Magical Flask.(Paul Kidd book) Given to him by a Faerie King, it pours out any liquid upon command word for an unlimited amount of time or until it is corked. Every liquor, every beer, every wine you can imagine. You need not be attuned to anything else.
I'd open a pub and retire!
I love that you made this a couple years ago and suggested a class/subclass that adds attunement slots, suggesting rogue or wizard. Now we've got the artificer, an arguably rogue/wizard hybrid that gains extra attunement slots. Great minds, and all that.
Love your content, mate. thanks for all the years of dedicated work.
Heh! Yeah, seemed like a logical progression for the game.
Best intro to date! Been awhile since I last commented on your videos, been horribly busy with work.
Still I recall awhile back on one game session, our DM actually allowed us to attune to more than three magical artifacts. However he did warn us that there will be consequences to attuning to more powerful artifacts if we do this carelessly.
So what happen... well one of our party members attuned to a few really holy and good items but then as she gripped a mantle to try it on before identifying it. She was cursed because the mantle belonged to an evil god that was an enemy to her patron god. Well... she is a cleric by the way, a battle cleric, and well... her god thought she betrayed her, the evil god was baffled why an acolyte of his enemy god was wearing a mantle with his blessings, and the other artifacts reacted to the evil power at close presence.
In short... Our war cleric lit up like the America's Fourth of July fireworks display.
Love the idea of centaur horseshoes needing a command word, or saddles attuning to the mount, not necessarily the rider.
I could see dragons in particular having saddles that attuned to them while providing a lesser bonus to the dragon's "familiar"
Having the cut instead of command word is pretty cool.
We already have the artificer for more attunements but there could be subclasses: the rouge could have an antiquitarian and the cleric has relicquarian.
I like it
This was worth it just for learning about the Book of 10,000 random magical effect.
👍👍Hearing about a mounted creature with a cumbersome enchanted saddle (you might be obligated to leave it behind quite often) made me picture a detachable enchanted saddle horn that could removed when your mount is "parked", like taking the radio out of your car 😁
It could potentially behave as a druid focus, a sending stone or anything when carried around on foot! CB radio shenanigans, anyone 😁?
For magical horseshoes, there were a few things with 3.5 that kind of covered it. Arms & Equipment along with some of the web stuff covered a lot of it.
I always felt like it would make narrative sense to have the limit based on an ability score such as Wisdom or Constitution. Of course, depending on the one used, it could make the gap between mages and non-mages that much more wide.
I was hoping you'd delve into "Attunement to other planes" and how that functions in a lore sense. I hope to hear about that in the future!
Ioun Stones coming soon?
I really love the saddle idea!!...
I'm honestly surprised there is no feat that gives you an extra attunement slot. Seems like just the kind of niche upgrade feats are designed to be. I think Matt Mercer put one in the Critical Role campaign guide, which also comes with a ribbon ability. Advantage on arcana checks concerning magic items or something like that.
So there sort of is cannonical a feat for that. Though it seems that only one particular drow badass has this feat. This is part of the stat block for a particular villain in waterdeep: dragon heist.
Master Attuner. Jarlaxle can attune to up to five magic items, and he can attune to magic items that normally require attunement by a sorcerer, warlock, or wizard.
@@sanctobellum290 Aha! thanks, very good to know.
Jarly-boi does like his trinkets.
I always figured he'd be some kind of Rogue/Artificer in practice anyways.
I’m assuming players can make they’re own magical items? A champaign where the players were gathering ingredients (including very rare and valuable ones) and creating a powerful magical item for themselves sounds like an awesome idea! “To those dangerous abandoned mines to get that rare ore! A hair from a specific unicorn! A magical dragon egg-shaped artifact in this dragons lair! Climb that mountain; we need the large red pearl at the top!” Sounds awesome to me! Maybe they have a special connection to the item(s) they made that lets them benefit more than others from using it?
Definitely a high caster type process.
Rogues are already inclined to potions and poisons as are Warlocks.
Druids, Clerics, Wizards, and Sorcerers would be very inclined towards rituals and processes that imbue some of their abilities into an item.
Druids would be master staff and wand makers, and dabble into magic wooden shields. Clerics would make amulets, talismans, and armor over days through prayer and ritual. Sorcerers would be the best at making some of the most unique wonderous items through a twist of thought and weave. Wizard colleges 100% have no reason Not to make a profit by selling common magic items and janky uncommon items made by their students, so not only would Wizards be capable of making just about any magic item with time and practice, but they'd come equipt with things like self repairing clothes and minor wands.
Depending on the level of magic in the world characters might even learn to create stronger items, though with janky rolls the item could end up cursed.
Also, I imagine that Wizards would specialize by their college. No self respecting Illusion Wizard would be without a deck of illusions made by their own hand. Any Conjuration Wizard would be remiss if they were experimenting with making a Bag of Holding and they haven't mastered the basics of the common magic spice pouch
Felix Rivera “Hey Wizard, could you make me a magical sword that drains life (meaning hitpoints) from any enemy I cut with it and grants it to me (restores hitpoints)?” “Sure can if I get a master blacksmiths help! Let’s go get the ingredients to make it, then find this blacksmith who may or may not live by himself or in an isolated village in the middle of a stupidly dangerous swamp/forest!”
Adventure!
One set of items I did use was interesting. The whole set required multiple attunement slots, unless you had the whole set then they all used 1 slot.
For those who where wondering it was the main quest to find it and the list was:
Helm
Breastplate
Pants
Shoes
Gauntlets
Cowl
Well crap. I love this video. And it got the juices flowing in a haunted house and cursed magical items...
Not bad A J! I love the Krull references....a really great movie and I love the "Glaive" an excellent psionic weapon if there ever was one! 😁
I usually watch the video before commenting, so I can make a somewhat relevant comment.
Edit: Btw, maybe you will talk about trinkets? (Those that actually provide beneficial effects, and fluff. Mostly focusing on the useful ones.)
Off subject, maybe a video on adding weaponry to the standard listing, in the 5e manual?
Edit: For example, my dear fletched javelins.
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Back on subject, I noticed that the attunement requirements seem more restrictive, in 5e?
(At least from what I have seen many saying, that and the lack of being able to add various effects to magic items. Like having my hand axes, or my javelins return to me.....I guess it's understandable, I did throw them. :^) )
One of my Paladin characters is currently being held hostage by a suit of plate mail that tricked him to binding with it by claiming she was a gift from his god, and threatens to kill him painfully if he even LOOKS at another piece of armor.
It's not going well, as you can guess. You may have to do a video on removing cursed items, like, soon.
. Have you thought about asking the Paladin's god? Removing the angry armor could require cutting a deal with another god or goddess. Maybe a powerful mage or some other type of powerful being. That or convince the evil bitch armor that he's not good looking enough for it.
befriend the armor and maybe the dm will let it start doing extra shit for you. an extra reaction here, rerolling a strength check there, maybe standing up and continuing to fight when the paladin is unconscious. wearing an animated set of armor could have all sorts of benefits if you can calm it's jealous paranoia.
@@TraciPeteyforlife I tried convincing it, rolled a Nat 1 and convinced it we're soul mates. And as for the dude's god, he's simultaneously pissed and amused that I just swore fealty to a crummy suit of steel that just gives me poison resistance.
So, I don't think my patrons' gonna be much help. Might try the wizard thing, though.
@@EvelynNdenial so, the taming of the shrew, then? Might make for interesting role-playing, if I survive.
AJ, have you already made a video on cursed items?
I guess the threat of cursed items makes the Identify more valuable. Otherwise, I don’t see many players taking it. Some more fun ideas for cursed items would be appreciated.
I feel like instead of just having three slots, no ifs, ands, or buts, There should be a larger pool, (That increases with level.) but some items are more costly than others.
For example: In the Chaotic Card game you had a deck of twenty attack cards. The best attacks would cost five points, while some cost 0 points but were basically stocking-stuffers. A Staff of the Magi or equivalent would be a five, whereas something like boots of levitation would be a 0 or a 1, a wand of fire-balls would be a 2 or a 3. (Not exact numbers, but a general idea.)
Working from that, you could have characters get discounts to attuning different kinds of items. So a Red Dragon Sorcerer spends one less attunement point on the aforementioned wand of fire-balls. Perhaps that would come at the cost of a higher attunement price for frost-based magic?
Or vary the attunement cost on whether the character class counts as Martial, Divine, Stealthy, Arcane, etc. So a wizard could have an axe enchanted to cast Tenser's Transformation when the command word is used, but because the physical nature is so opposite of what a wizard normally does it would be pretty costly.
Edit: As for powerful character getting more attunement slots in general? I think the more your character grows in strength the more it becomes a staple of the world, opposed to an adventures. I'm not saying you get to level fifteen and then throw the whole damn thing out the window though.
a simple idea that has probable worked before, but what about a simple homerule of "you have an ammount of attunement slots equal to your proficiency bonus"
@@commenter1430 I've just been frustrated by the idea of lower-key magical items never getting used once a straight upgrade is found. Boots of Levitation? Who's going to use them when they take a third of your attuned slots and the Wings of Flying are better nine times out of ten? Most people will use the Wings of Flying even with this alternative system in play, it just creates a benefit for using a niche item for people who would rather have a slower vertical move speed in exchange for another ring.
The additional ideas were just things I came up with on the spot, so whether they would work is pretty hit or miss.
@@commenter1430 Whatever works best for the table at hand.
I do get that, as mentioned, it does sound like meta-gamer bait. I'd definitely want to look at different variants before I implemented it into a game.
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id even go as far as making a living weapon that requires a first attunment to use it
and later on the weapon will speak telepathicly to the person to let them know they have met the requirements for second level attunement
the reason for the second attunment would be to gain control of the weapons true power which is initaly locked away until that point
Ring of attunement: the wearer is always perfectly in tune whenever they attempt to create any musical effect using any instrument, even improvised, or their own voice, granting a +2 bonus to the effect of any bardic abilities.
Cursed ring of attunement: the wearer perceives themselves to always be perfectly in tune whenever they attempt to create any musical effect using any instrument, even improvised, or their own voice, granting a +2 bonus to the effect of any bardic abilities upon the wearer, but reduces the effect on any others by 1d6 - and yes, it's possible to be so bad it effectively gives them a penalty instead
Oh those crazy magical items. Always wanting to control the wearer or person who has it. Because nothing says you belong to me. Like angry weapons that demand blood, praise, and to be polished every time they get used. That refuses to work if you don't bow down to it. Unless its a flying AX. Because we all know flying AX's are both classy an nice to you. Unless your a goblin, orc, or hobgoblin.
Good video AJ
Jarlaxle has an ability to attune to 5 items maybe you could homebrew a feat to achieve this ability for your player characters just a suggestion!
You could call it Master Attuner and add that it allows you to attune to things meant for a wizard, warlock, or sorcerer.
I always as an artificer wanted to make a attunement extender based off war forged lol
You could house rule that due to a paladens mystical bond to its mount it is connected to the paliden much like casing through a familiar
Thanks to your videos I am getting to be a better player. They are helping me to understand more of the game mechanics. As I improve as a player, the other player and DM are having greater fun. I now sing or say a rhyme for bardic inspiration. I'm going to work on an inspiration book to use. No more monsters have the power, sword of frag has struck the hour. Thank you Black Sabbath for that line in war pigs. Of course I changed it for the game but I still sing it like Ozzy. I think it was enthusiasm even if it's off key. We have a blast. 😁
How would you put the Glave from krull in a game? Sense it's the thumbnail?
A video on Ioun Stones themselves could be interesting if you haven't done one on them already.
I would say that attunement is a pretty good way to make a limitation for magic items easily workable into fluff. And honestly, after one seen 3.5e artificers, just covered under amount of magic items that is ridiculous even for "magical engineer" concept. To be fair, Unearthed Arcana Artificer does grant bonus attunement slots.
And, funny you mention The Net Libram of Random Magical Effects. This great netbook, as they were called, was made back in good old 2e, when arcane spellcaster was "one with the book". As it is no longer true, one has to be more creative with many effects that target caster's spellbook. Despite that, I made it into a simple program that rolls for effect, amount, and escape clause anyway. I reserve it for natural 1 and 20 in wild magic areas.
Wouldn't mind seeing "krull" remade
what if i attach the other boat of eleven kind to my stump?
So could I attune my favorite sandwich to taste even better? For the Mega-Reuben!
One day I should make a video on my supreme sandwich making skills.
Did Karsus go on to an afterlife after his folly? If so, I hope it is one where he was forever stripped of magic and shackled in place where the spirits of other magic users can stop by to kick him in the junk.
Karsus was condemned to a cursed and deathless state, similar to a divine vestige.
Never did like Attunement. Other versions had like alignment restrictions, class restrictions, or a maximum number of items per limb with no duplicate effects (IE two rings of protection +1 just grant one, null the other.), and so on and so forth. Attunement seems restrictive and laughably bad in ham-string'ing people.
Attunement should only be used on artifacts or extremely high level items. *(Continuation Pending)*
The "multiple same item limit" makes sense, but I only use it for sufficiently powerful items 18 +1 rings vs 1 +18 ring set up. (I allow multiple rings on one finger under specific conditions, namely other rings effects) (9+2,6+3,3+6) The point here is that if you have the (whatever) power you need from one you might as well swap out to expand your "effect capacity".
And items of higher quality than that one ring will require attunement regardless, 'ell, the ring itself might need it.
I will separate my table rules from my suggestions once I've written it all down.
Five digits on a hand equals 5 rings to me! Would make sense to have more rings make things more cumbersome though. Difficult for a wizard to twitter his fingers correctly, or a fighter to hold a sword properly.
Ohhhh! You also read the "The Truth About Fingers" series? A mind blowing read. Who would have known that we have in fact, more than 2 fingers! And then the genius after years of study the genius reasoned himself to us having... It still gives me tingles to say it. WE HAVE ANOTHER HAND!!! It is amazing how far science has gotten us. All thanks to 'A very attentive individual'
On a more serious note. I suspect the key reason for attunement, is to prevent loot hoarding by 1 member of the group. Or a Rouge killing or at least stealing a couple of rings, a weapon, armor and a glove from their fellow players. As long as the GM have given the dude 3, the motivation to steal more will at least be a bit lower.
I keep thinking about magical saddles now. If I had a saddle enchanted with charm monster, could I just throw it on any old monster and ride off into the sunset? If so, I know exactly what I'm doing with my next character
Love that idea😂 I'm going to equip the trassque!
Cool vid A.J.
what is a Attunement ??
AJ is that picture at 6:26 a picture of your swords?
I only own one sword, and it is just a replica of the Sword of Leonidas from the movie 300.
What if you strap the boot on to the stump left of your leg, and strap a wooden peg to the bottom of the boot? Would it work then since it’s equipped on the characters body physically or doesn’t it have to actually be on a foot?
You could probably flavor it as a cap on the bottom of the peg leg, and just call it a boot
DracotheDarkPrince yeah, but the point of what I was asking was how to take advantage of a pair of enchanted boots as a character with only one foot or leg. In the video he says that if it’s strapped on to a false leg(e.g. a wooden peg) the enchantment doesn’t work because it’s not actually on the body. I was seeing if this can be worked around.
@@Im-Not-a-Dog it'd take a real stickler of a DM not to consider a prosthetic as part of a body
DracotheDarkPrince Oh yes. But such dm’s do exist. And also I like to take into account the in game physics of magic. If the flow of magic energy in the item has to be connected to the flow of energy within the character, a prosthetic would be an area with no flow. So it kinda makes sense. Kind of a “putting a boot of speed on a mop wouldn’t make you clean a floor any faster” type of thing.
@@Im-Not-a-Dog Ah, I get it. Maybe the prosthetic could be made of magically conductive material?
if high-powered Wizards can a tune to more than 3 items than you would think that powerful dragons should be able to do the same and I would think even moderately powerful artificer would be able to do the same
Oh definitely dragons
the artificer can attune to up to 6 items at 20th level
That was my thinking too I would also think certain Abominations would be able to as well as well as certain aberrations given their inherent nature
makes sense
So if your doing more magic items do you have any plans on talking about iconic Wonderous item
yes.
1:50 blame you? No no I would done that anyway you just help added something to the list
What's an ion stone?
forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Ioun_stone
Thanks for the vid sir.
One of tiamat's symbols, nice
sounds like fun aj! hmmm!
People seem to see attunement as just balancing, which it is, but in terms of lore, you are kind of making the magic item a part of you. It is where the sentient magic item's become of interest, AJ mentioned that character learns some things about the item, so the item can learn things about the character. A cursed item is like a virus.
If 3 does not seem enough, I did make something like a series of magic item's that might take up only one attunement slot.
Someone else mentioned a joke of a magic item that gives an attunement slot when attuned, but that gives me an idea. In truth you would not be attuned to it, the second item is attuned to the first item, which if sentient could choosing the effect works or not. I imagine a more useful version that could give 2 attunement slots, which gives a play a total of 4 slots. Sounds like only a good thing, until you realise you are not just attuned to it, but it is sentient and is attuned to the player with one of its own slots. The two slots the item gives to the player are its other two attunement slots, that the item could choose whether to give to the character. The player then has to placate the magic item's whims to get its benefits of extra slots.... this is of course before you reveal further something like it is a phylactery.
I think its less about balance really, and more about preventing one player from stealing and nabbing all the good stuff for themselves. Ok genius, you have 10 rings now. But you can only use 3 so f you. Give those back to your party members right this instant young man.
to be honest, I didn't click because of the subject of the video but I love the movie krull :D
I see you blacksky eyeball.
I love seeing Soulsborne shit in random places.
Personally i dislike atunment due to i feel like any item can be stolen and used against them in a fight. A foe should be able disarm a fighter and be able to use his flameing sword against him or a lich quietly using a mage hand mid fight to unclasp a amulet of magic protection mid evil speach then right as it comes loose use call item to turn it against the wizard
well, we do have a word for that, we call it "Dick Move"
*_How many intros do you have!?_*
Many
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How many?!
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I need numbers man!
Yes
These rules definitely need a little tweaking.
I'd want to track the understanding of the item separate from the spiritual link, both of which should be progressive as opposed to on/off.
I definitely want there to be a chance that an item taken stealthily from an adversary too powerful to face in combat would still be under the influence of that entity, and I'd want there to be a potential for that influence to spread to the poorsoul who was courageous enough to link themself to it, hell maybe an item could have been crafted with the soul purpose that whoever uses it would have their lifeforce drained to restore the very enemy they had to slay in order to get the item in the first place.
Three huh guess I wouldn't ask someone else to keep track of a thousand so this ones probably in there to spare the gm the extra leg work, but heres how I'd do it the weakest level of familiarity with an object would be tied to your intellect or magical proficiency just like double it or something, medium level tied to your chakra so you can have seven at that level(unless you're something funny then you get a funny amount) then the final level of attunment would actually be determined by the object itself you get 23 points to work with no negotiating on that but the average item costs 7(technically the average item wouldn't required this tear but the average legendary item would cost 7) weaker ones cost less stronger ones cost more, but at any rate you would typically be able to understand about three, I might even add items that have a number that could never be used, in fact every powerful demon should have atleast a few un-understandable relics.
I'm thinking sorcerers dragonborn genasi and litches should all get exta mojo. Can I say that dragonborn should have extra chakra.
So confused about warforged would they be beter or worse at this stuff you could argue that their whole nature is something akin to attunment so they should do it as easily as breathing but you could counter argue that they're using up their slots just keeping themselves in working order.
I'm calling it on modrons through modrons are definitely worse do they even have chakra.
Oh and one nap being all it takes oh excuse me two naps, absolutely not I mean sure for a basic understanding maybe but full familiarity should take a flash forward of several years or at least a workout montage and some raw eggs.
Wow.. that is a great idea! An enemies magic item that they are very strongly linked to, that can potentially mess with the player character who tries to use it. SO MUCH potential with that!
Can some one please tell me the name of the movie that the throwing weapon in this videos thumbnail is from? I forgot long a go.
Krul? (Something like that)
Yep, as Ron said, its the movie called 'Krull'. Cheesy 80's fantasy film at its best lol.
3 attunement slots? why not 5?
5th ed works on the rule of 3 very often. Call it a psychology thing if it makes it make sense for you.
While I understand the reasoning behind attunement, I still think it is a shody mechanic and those that use D&D Beyond should be able to deactivate it if they don't want it in their campaign world.
Homebrew the item and remove the attunement requirement. Then players can use the item without attuning, and have the benefits properly displayed on their sheet. Takes about 3 clicks. "Create homebrew item"-"make copy of magic item"-"Requires attunement? (uncheck)"-"Save". Rename it to something different, or at least add "Attunement free". Players should then be able to find the item by searching for it.
@@Caleb_Plehn I didn't know that the system would allow you to do that, I thought it kicked out anything that was copyrighted by anyone else? Which the established magic items would fall under
@@ClanIceFyre You can homebrew copyrighted material as much as you like, so long as its private (not shared publicly) For instance, if you own the DMG physically, and don't want to purchase it on dndbeyond, you can homebrew all the magic items into the system for you and your players. You just can't share them and they won't display in site navigation tools.
These items will display in the item search bar in the character sheet. If you are a dungeon master, the items will display for players in your campaigns. To get them to show up after creating them, you have to go to the first page of the character creation tool, and click to allow "homebrew content". Existing characters can also access this page in their "edit character" option.
Hope this helps.
a 20th level artificer can attune to up to 6 items at once
Is that official, homebrew or playtest material?
it is in both unearthed arcana and a version on dm's guild, so the latter two
also, i just checked, the UA version has 5 normal ones and then the Soul of Artifice class feature, which is the same as the dm's guild version
Thanks Ned
I did make rings of attunemt and it was a hit with the players but it was not that impacting on the game play over all.
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Can playing characters make intelligent weapon
Well they are certainly capable of making dumb weapons...
But in the game there is no reason why a character couldn't make a sentient weapon, it would just be very expensive, time consuming, and complicated. As a DM you might have to have a full campaign just for them to find the items and information needed to do it as well as the skill to create the weapon to start. Or you might have multiple characters working together towards it because its unlikely that your wizard (who will probably preform the binding ritual, or whatever to create the sentience in the weapon) will also be the one who is crafting the physical weapon (something better suited for a warrior or other physical endowed character class).
Something to keep in mind is that most sentient weapons/items are typically morally ambivalent, corrupt, or outright evil, this could have to do with how it is created or that you basically have to trap an intelligent being into an item and that can't be good for your mental health. Additionally they tend to have the power to take over people if the person isn't strong willed enough to control the item, making them quite dangerous.
If you are however running an evil campaign this might be quite good in the higher levels.
I waited a while so I could binge watch many videos in a row.
Cursed items are my favorite
Hit points shouldnt be used to fuel many items because they are to expendable and arbitrary, exhaustion may be better
It only takes 5 points of exhuastion to kill you though
I've never heard of attunement like this before. It sounds terrible, overly restrictive, and unnecessary.
>magical horses
:O
Lol artificer is a mix of rogue n wizard and can attune 6 items at 18
nah you'll want to ramp up to 6 over levels like spell slots.
actually I don't mind physical components for spells that kind of makes sense using a ruby for True seed by looking through it using a piece of jer to raise the DeadI'll admit there are some that don't make sense like using copper rods to cast the spell call lightning it would make more sense they're using it to cast chain lightning or lightning bolt but apparently two copper rods calls down lightning from the heavens and then some spell should have material components like flame Striker blade barrier or creeping Doom
Well to be fair, the items used are more abstract for certain spells than others.
The two copper rods may be a reference to lichtenberg (I think I spelled it right) figures where you put two nails into a piece of wood on each side, wet it and it burns capillaries into the wood. It may also use copper because it's one of the best conductors of electricity.
Yeah. Some aren't as easy as grease, which requires a pat of butter. (Which means that you're just making the butter bigger and melting it)
I'm not dyslexic, but I certainly know how it feels after reading your comment.
(Translation: Please spell check/ correct your punctuation.)
Krull
Henlo
I want to hugs you.
I have never really liked the attunement system in this incarnation mostly because if you take a look through all the magic items in the book on what does and doesn't require attunement it is kind of wonky. All armors of resistance require attunement when in theory will have much less of an impact on game balance in comparison to + armors. Having a +1 AC will come into effect far more frequently then having resistence to a specific energy type unless there is a theme to your campaign that makes that energy type much more prevalent.
Then you have cases like Armor of Poison Resistance requires attunement which gives your resistance to poison while a Periapt of Proof Against Poison doesn't require attunement but just makes your straight up immune to poison damage and condition. It makes no sense how the magic item with the lesser effect requires attunement while the item with a greater effect doesn't for some arbitrary reason. Granted the fact that the poison resistance armor is magical so can't be destroyed as easily but if you were to get magic armor with some silly effect that doesn't effect the game in anyway like you can make it sparkle whenever you felt like and the periapt you would have a much greater effect for essentially no cost.
Then you have the War Wizard/Pact keeper sticks that are like + weapons but they don't add to damage just the to hit. They are more or less the caster version of + weapons but for some reason require attunement. Now yes they do add in extra effects like increase to spell save dc or ignore half cover but those additional effects really give as much as + to damage. This is even more prevalent for classes that can make multiple attacks. A level 20 fight with 4 attacks essentially is getting an extra 12 points of damage a round from a +3 weapon if they hit all 4 times. Which is highly likely due to the bounded accuracy system that makes it so enemy ACs above 20 are extremely rare and really not that hard to hit with a semi optimized build.
Then you have some items like Ioun Stones which can be destroyed or taken away and really why wouldn't a semi intelligent enemy attempt to take/destroy the shiny rock spinning around your head, it is obviously magical. Granted it is a difficult task at a AC 24/DC 24 acrobatics check to hit or take it but with only 10 hit points and resistance to everything (which effectively makes it 20 maybe 21 hit points) it really isn't that difficult to destroy at much higher levels of play. Most CR 5 creatures have anywhere from a +6 to +8 to hit with multiple attacks or one attack that deals a lot of damage making it plausible for tier 2 creatures to take it away or destroy it. Yet every Ioun Stone requires attunement when the chances of it being taken or destroyed become much more likely the higher level you are. Honestly a magic item that has the chance of being taken or destroyed seems like enough of a counter balance to not require attunement.
Now I do think that requiring attunement for some magical items does make sense for in some cases as to draw upon the full power of the item you must attach a small chunk of your solo or essence to it. This prevents people from just taking the big bads obviously magical weapon and using it against them to full effect so in that regard it does balance the game. Just in the aspect of limiting people to just 3 attunable magical items because the effects of some items are just to powerful and you don't need them excuse kind of falls flat on its face once you look deeply into all aspects of it from comparing individual items with similar effects to the actual math of the game.
Honestly, I played the Pre-WOTC AD&D and alot of these rules simply wouldn't have flown. You NEEDED to have a magical arsenal at high levels if you wanted to do some epic level stuff. The class xp system was much more rigorous and rewarding. I love watching Critical Role, but Attunement is one of the dumbest things. I guess it goes in with WOTC's attempt at streamlining the game to a video game level of mass production. I don't know how many of the new generation of players knows about the old game, but I bet you'd be amazed. Yes, the math was sideways (if not backwards at times) but the possibilities were much greater. It seems like they bumped up the Hit points and DPS to give the game a more inflated feel. I don't have so much a problem with skill checks and saving throws are borderline to me. Combat seems inflated and xp is nerfed. Drastically. But I'd put my AD&D 22nd level mage/16th level fighter against any character from 5e. "Streamlined" doesn't mean better. It just means easier. I just can't bring myself to update to 5e.
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They need some love please i'v terrorized my group with them for years wished they were in 5e. I made one player to play surgeon on his brother by having him cut out over 6 larval xill from his stomach surprisingly he survived the encounter
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Hey, first comment.
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I wonder what is the best way to create a magic item. I always have ideas, but there is always that fact that each one idea can be written differently than what one might think of or what it might do based to another person.
I tried to triple attune, but alas, it can't be.
Side Trick: Before this video, I was planning to make the PCs fight Carrion Crawler that ate a guy who had a ring of water walking. Since the hand turned almost skeletal (the ring remained intact) and the ring does not need attunement, the Carrion Crawler can now walk on water.
That would be quite a shock to the local fisher folk!
Magic item Attunement is such a crappy game mechanic. Supposedly, it's there for balance reasons but that's nonsense. Balance is maintained by the dungeon master. Also, why only 3 magic items for everybody? It seems to me that that kind of stuff should vary by class and also very with intelligence, charisma and wisdom. Attunement is there for half ass DM's who can't maintain balance themselves and rather than learn balance they Nerf the game for themselves and their players. It's sad.
So if your characters get frisky with their magic items you're either gonna prevent them from aquiring more of them, limiting their fun and rewards, or you're going to forcibly remove/have them sacrifice their magic items when You decide they're too strong for the good of the game?
It sounds like this was a halfassed complaint that didn't take into consideration that limitations and easly understood rules are to the benefit of the players and dm, especially the dm who has plenty to manage without having to stop and worry every time they want to reward their players.
Not to mention if the dm wants to make the party more powerful around the attunement rule they can just give out non-attuned items.
Several points presented here are homebrewed and not valid RAW. E.g.. you need to identify an item before attuning, sorcerers can apply sorcery points to effects using charges from items. These might be a fun thematic additions, however should be couched appropriately.
Good points, thanks Thomas.
Thomas Sierp do you know if a construct can be attune to magic items?
Dan Saathoff It depends on the source. If it’s a creature from the MM then rules as written no, but could be an easy discussion with a DM. It’s always risky to give too many attunement options to for henchmen or pets, can result in souped up Pokémon trainers.
Thomas Sierp thank for answering my question. I’m making a Artificer for the first time and this is my second d&d character, I was trying to make a homunculus servant jetpack wing’s and a suit. The suit part is because then it can put on the gauntlets of ogre power and fly me around. And I’ve been finding so many new creative ways to use my artificial which is my first spell casting class I have, so you can imagine how hard it is to find out about all these things when you don’t have a handbook and there being so many. 🙂
I actually don't like 5th Ed. attunement or the concentration by most spells. Much prefer playing Pathfinder, as no one plays 3.5 ed. anymore. I started with the blue book and the paper chits [for dice] that the game came with. There were no dice that I knew of at that time other than your standard six sided. As far as I'm concerned the game has gone downhill since first edition, where the casters power was basically unlimited -no dice caps on the spells, just your level to determine power [a 25th level fireball did 25 die 6 damage].
Oh, people play 3.5 alright. Just not as many as those who play Pathfinder (and Starfinder).
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