Let's make apprentice created enchantments

[Fafnir]

Winterheart
ReAq 15, Unlimited uses
R:Touch, D:Inst, T:Part
This smooth, gnarled staff is awakened by the command "cheimochtypos" ("winterbeat"); the same command sends it back to sleep. When the staff is awake, the large aquamarine set in it pulses like a living heart, once every round or so. On each pulse, if the staff touches a body of water, it makes out of water a block of ice roughly 2 paces deep, 7 paces wide, and 20 paces long (the same proportions as the aquamarine heart); the ice block begins where the staff touches the water and its orientation follows that of the heart. The ice block will obviously be smaller if there is insufficient water; and the result may be somewhat less predictable in the presence of currents and whirlpools, since each is a separate Individual and Winterheart can only turn to ice the one it is touching.

Creatures and objects caught in the frozen area get trapped in the ice. The ice is mundane, and above freezing temperature it melts over time; though in most situations a large block of ice will take days to do so. If kept in large quantities in an underground cellar, it may easily last for months or even a whole year; in fact selling ice could reasonably provide a source of income (there are mundanes who already do so in some parts of Europe, like the kingdom of Sicily). Even if obtained from salt water, ice melts into sweet water - so Winterheart can be used as a source of drinkable water at sea. Ice naturally floats and supports weight: a square a pace to the side, two paces deep, can support a large man. As the freezing process is very fast but not instantaneous (approximately a human heartbeat), and the frozen water is still part of the original body of water, someone walking on the ice while dragging Winterheart along can effectively "extend" the ice into a solid bridge potentially miles long.

Base 3 [turn water into ice], +1 Touch, +1 Part, +10 unlimited uses
The aquamarine "heart" provides a +3 S&M bonus to the Aquam enchantment

[Fafnir]

Bacchus' Blessing
MuAq15, 1use/day
R:Touch, D:Moon, T:Ind
This well-crafted barrel can hold about 80 gallons (300 liters). The first time in any given day a certain prayer to Bacchus (engraved on the barrel) is recited, the barrel changes all the water within it into a nearly miraculous wine. The blessed wine tastes wonderful, warming in winter and refreshing in summer; it makes the drinker cheerful, brave, relaxed and inspired (and sexually potent!), but brings no loss of mental faculties; and it leaves no hangover whatsoever. Because it is still essentially mundane water, it is "nourishing" and a man can live happily drinking nothing else.

The barrel can produce enough blessed wine to keep all the grogs (and guests) of a typical PC covenant happily hooked on it, drinking nothing else. Alternatively, it can be exported to nearby communities, yielding a Lesser source of income - or possibly even Typical one if wealthy buyers are available. While it "spoils" in a fortnight or two, so does most ale of the period; and the blessed wine "spoils" into plain but still drinkable water rather than into something foul.

Base 3 [turn a natural liquid into a slightly unnatural liquid: "ideal" wine] +1 Touch +3 Moon
A barrel, as container, provides a +5 S&M bonus to "create or transform within"

EDIT: note that 80 (US) gallons/300 liters are already a base Individual of processed liquids (e.g. wine) rather than a base individual of water (which would be 100 times as much). I think that restricting the change to the volume of the most "difficult" liquid, while still allowing 1 volume of a liquid to yield the same volume of another, is both within the letter and within the spirit of the rules.

[cunningrat1]

@Fafnir

Base 3 [turn a natural liquid into a slightly unnatural liquid: "ideal" wine] +1 Touch +3 Moon

Based on my experience with wine, I would argue that wine which leaves no hangover is more than slightly unnatural.
Nevertheless, my first reaction on seeing this item was "OMG, that's bloody brilliant."

In my game, I'd probably insist on a Size modifier, since the base Individual for wine is 1/100th the size, just to avoid the cheese factor. I think "Object of Increased Size" doesn't affect noble metals for the same reason.

[ironboundtome]

Baton to Command an Attentive Handcart

An oiled oak baton inset with palm is carved with caricatures of dancing carts, chairs, and tables. When activated by lightly tapping the baton to a moderate sized wooden object, the user can control it's gross movement. Designed to assist movement of large loads using wooden platforms, carts, or tables. Palm grants a +3 bonus to animating wood.

Rego Herbam 15 (Base 3, +1 Touch, +1 Conc, +0 Ind) (+5 maintains concentration, +5 for 24 uses a day).

[ironboundtome]

An item to assist in reducing the costs in a covenant, or to add as a quality of life improvement.

Brush Offcuts into Soap
A heavy brush of oak and boar's bristle is enchanted to transform a large block of wood into a block of soap 1/10th its original size once per day. The soap block can then be split and used till its remains revert back to the original form. Variations on this effect might create any manufactured herbam based product such as oils or perfumes.

As a wooden item the enchanter is granted a +4 lab total bonus to affect dead wood.

Muto Herbam 15 (MuHe base 3 change a plant product, +1 for a manufactured item, +1 Touch, +2 Sun) (1 use per day)

[raccoonmask]

An idea I was looking at when pondering my Merinita's spell options.

Lantern for the Enchanted Flame (ReIg 13)
R: Touch D: Conc T: Ind
This enchanted lamp was created by a Merinita apprentice, used for moving his masters fire-duration spells from one area of his over-sized and mostly-empty castle to another. The lamp can pull an enchanted flame from a safe distance into itself, feed off of the oil within, and then jump to a new combustible home. Particularly large fires have a risk of hurting a careless lamp-bearer when transferring the ensorcelled spell to the lamp, and the fire will diminish in size during transportation to roughly that of a torch (unless, as the careless apprentice found one day, the fire catches on his robes during the act of moving a fire from one hearth to another). Should the fire diminish, it can be built up again through the usual means.
Base 3, +1 touch, +1 Concentration, +1 size; +3 6 uses/day

And an idea originally tested as a method of better teaching. Theoretically, Sun duration is the same as concentration+item maintains, but I prefer the latter for its ability to be extended or ended.

The Master's Words (CrMe 15)
R: Touch D: Conc T: Ind
A small opal stone set onto a leather band, often wrapped about the wrist of an errant student apprentice. It creates a sense of attentiveness and diligence in the one wearing it, helping the younger apprentices get through more trying and difficult lessons of Artes Liberales and Latin, when they'd rather be out playing hide-and-seek. It theoretically only needs a single use a day, as most classes halt when the sun sets and dinner is prepared. A particularly spiteful Tytalus, hearing of this item, had an item crafted that activated numerous times a day, and lashed his students to the chairs in his teaching oratorium.
Base 4, +1 touch, +1 Concentration; +5 item maintains concentration.

[ironboundtome]

Comb of Resplendent Grooming

Crafted from antlers fitted with a silver handle, this comb has been enchanted to groom the body hair of the target to a neat and respectable result; subject to a very easy Finesse check for overall effectiveness. When activated by holding the comb left handed just so, the target's hair is trimmed to their desire. The comb's designer also envisaged using the comb to collect arcane connections, and so included a minor amount of penetration in the device. This has never been performed.

Comb grants a lab bonus of +7.

Perdo Corpus 10, (PeCo base 3, +1 Touch, + 0 Momentary, +1 Part) (+2 for 3 uses a day, +3 for +6 Penetration)

[ironboundtome]

The Marksman's Bow

A beautifully carved and crafted bow of ash and yew, which is enchanted so that arrows fired are unerringly directed by the bowman. When activated by command word arrows can travel as far as the bowman can see, and cannot miss, but are also resisted by MR. When activated the arrows inflict +10 damage. Bow shape grants a lab bonus of +5 for "destroying things at a distance".

Rego Herbam 15 (Base 3, +3 Sight)(+5 levels for 24 uses a day)

Could also be written up as ReHe10 and created as a potion if vis was an issue and campaigns do not tend to have frequent battles.

[ironboundtome]

Sailor's Thirsty Desire

This thumb sized crystal is enchanted to instantly distill fresh water from either saltwater or an impure source. The effect emulates the work of evaporation, which will remove almost all sizeable contaminants and salt on up to 1000 gallons of water (or whatever barrel or container it is dropped into). To be effective the user must succeed a moderate Finesse check vs 9. Crystal grants the lab total a +5 bonus.

Rego Aquam 5 (Base 3 to change water to steam, +1 capture and move back, +1 Touch)
As a crystal potion this might be dropped into a barrel when used to activate.

Note - could be argued that the base needs to be higher if the water-steam-water process was too volatile, so I added an extra mag. Might need another, I’m not sure.

[Fafnir]

@cunningrat1

@Fafnir

In my game, I'd probably insist on a Size modifier, since the base Individual for wine is 1/100th the size, just to avoid the cheese factor. I think "Object of Increased Size" doesn't affect noble metals for the same reason.

I am already taking that into account! The barrel holds a base individual of processed liquids, not a base individual of plain water (which would be a pool 15 paces across and 2 deep - far more than 100 gallons).But I edited the post to make it explicit!

[ironboundtome]

@Fafnir

@cunningrat1

@Fafnir

In my game, I'd probably insist on a Size modifier, since the base Individual for wine is 1/100th the size, just to avoid the cheese factor. I think "Object of Increased Size" doesn't affect noble metals for the same reason.

I am already taking that into account! The barrel holds a base individual of processed liquids, not a base individual of plain water (which would be a pool 15 paces across and 2 deep - far more than 100 gallons).But I edited the post to make it explicit!

I don’t follow where the 10000 gallons of water is to make 100 gallons of wine. Don’t you need 100 times the source material to get the result? If you only have a few hundred gallons of water you only get 2 gallons of wine. What am I missing?

[Fafnir]

@ironboundtome

I don’t follow where the 10000 gallons of water is to make 100 gallons of wine. Don’t you need 100 times the source material to get the result? If you only have a few hundred gallons of water you only get 2 gallons of wine. What am I missing?

We don't play it that way, though I am not 100% sure whether it is a house rule or not For us 1 liter becomes 1 liter.
It just feels wrong (and is prone to abuse) that you can change volume so much just by changing the type of medium.

[Erik_Tyrrell]

Trinket of Instrumental Security
PeMe 5 (1 use per day)
R: Touch, D: Mom, T: ind.
This small opal set in a silver necklace is a lesser enchanted device that, when used, removes a single fact from the mind of the target. It was created by the student of a maga who wanted her apprentice to utilize her other enchanted devices in their work, but did not trust the apprentice to refrain from their use at other times. By use of the Trinket of Instrumental Security she was able to remove knowledge of the activation trigger for a single enchanted device from her apprentice's mind every day after the apprentice had finished their work. The laboratory text for this device includes +3 a material bonus for opal. With the material bonus, most apprentices are capable of creating more than one such device in a single season. Typically bound with the laboratory text for the Trinket of Instrumental Security is a matching text for the creation of the Gem of Mystery a nearly identical device - an enchanted opal that, once per day, when handeled removes any knowledge of what effect it is enchanted with.
(Base 4, +1 Touch)

[Tellus]

@Erik Tyrrell

Trinket of Instrumental Security
PeMe 5 (1 use per day)
R: Touch, D: Mom, T: ind.
This small opal set in a silver necklace is a lesser enchanted device that, when used, removes a single fact from the mind of the target. It was created by the student of a maga who wanted her apprentice to utilize her other enchanted devices in their work, but did not trust the apprentice to refrain from their use at other times. By use of the Trinket of Instrumental Security she was able to remove knowledge of the activation trigger for a single enchanted device from her apprentices mind every day after the apprentice had finished their work. The laboratory text for this device includes +3 a material bonus for opal. With the material bonus, most apprentices are capable of creating more than one such device in a single season. Typically bound with the laboratory text for the Trinket of Instrumental Security is a matching text for the creation of the Gem of Mystery a nearly identical device - an enchanted opal that, once per day, when handeled removes any knowledge of what effect it is enchanted with.
(Base 4, +1 Touch)

Oooh, I like it!

[Fafnir]

Out of sheer contrariness, to prove wrong the statement "Muto Vim effects can not be enchanted in a lesser enchanted device"

Soulcatcher
MuVi 15
R:Touch, D:Conc (maintained by item), T:Ind
+6 Penetration, 3 uses/day
This dagger, with a handle elaborately carved from cypress wood, can catch and hold up to 3 minor magic spirits of Might 5 or less (as per The Wicked Jar, RoP:I, applying to magic spirits instead of demons) if it comes in contact with them. In order to keep them imprisoned, the user must feed the blade a drop of his own blood at dawn and dusk; otherwise, they are released. Some spirit masters of the Order give soulcatchers to their grogs, and have them roam the countryside hunting for lesser ghosts, will-o-wisps, and other minor entities - that are eventually brought back to the spirit master to be enslaved. Many a hunter became a quarry and never returned; but when a soulcatcher is forged, three arcane connections are made to it that allow tracking it down and/or magically retrieving it.

Base 3 [Transform a spirit of Might 3+2 magnitudes so it becomes part of the item], +1 Touch, +1 Conc, +5 levels maintains concentration, +2 levels 3 uses/day, +3 levels Penetration +6.
Cypress lends a +3 S&M bonus for spirits

[Erik_Tyrrell]

@Fafnir

Out of sheer contrariness, to prove wrong the statement "Muto Vim effects can not be enchanted in a lesser enchanted device"

achievment unlocked

[ironboundtome]

For PeVi against fae

Faerie Poker

This cast-iron fire poker has been enchanted to reduce the magical potency of faerie creatures. If the effect penetrates the faerie’s MR it loses 5 points of might. The poker is limited in power so it acts more as a deterrent rather than a true weapon. Iron adds a +7 lab bonus.

Perdo Vim 10 (Base effect, +1 Touch)(+3 levels for +6 Penetration)(+2 levels for 3 uses per day)

The poker is cheap and easy to craft due to the +7 lab bonus. This could also be a single use potion shaped as iron knives instead of a fire poker, to be thrown, as:

Perdo Vim 10 (Base effect, +1 Touch)(+5 levels for +10 Penetration)

[ironboundtome]

@Fafnir

Out of sheer contrariness, to prove wrong the statement "Muto Vim effects can not be enchanted in a lesser enchanted device"

Soulcatcher
MuVi 15
R:Touch, D:Conc (maintained by item), T:Ind
+6 Penetration, 3 uses/day
This dagger, with a handle elaborately carved from cypress wood, can catch and hold up to 3 minor magic spirits of Might 5 or less (as per The Wicked Jar, RoP:I, applying to magic spirits instead of demons) if it comes in contact with them. In order to keep them imprisoned, the user must feed the blade a drop of his own blood at dawn and dusk; otherwise, they are released. Some spirit masters of the Order give soulcatchers to their grogs, and have them roam the countryside hunting for lesser ghosts, will-o-wisps, and other minor entities - that are eventually brought back to the spirit master to be enslaved. Many a hunter became a quarry and never returned; but when a soulcatcher is forged, three arcane connections are made to it that allow tracking it down and/or magically retrieving it.

Base 3 [Transform a spirit of Might 3+2 magnitudes so it becomes part of the item], +1 Touch, +1 Conc, +5 levels maintains concentration, +2 levels 3 uses/day, +3 levels Penetration +6.
Cypress lends a +3 S&M bonus for spirits

Are you sure this effect is valid? I think this effect might be invalid because the MuVi spell is still targeting something which is not in the dagger?

[Fafnir]

@ironboundtome

Are you sure this effect is valid? I think this effect might be invalid because the MuVi spell is still targeting something which is not in the dagger?

Yes. It is not a "metamagic" spell. Check out the Wicked Jar in RoP:I.

[ironboundtome]

A candidate for the InIm item, which also happens to be inspired by a webcomic about roleplaying, ref: d20monkey's webcomic.

Hat of Many Eyes - a tall bulbous brown leather hat (or is that fur, or both? yuk) which has been "treated" with ointments and solutions to retain peak moistness, elasticity, and shape of whatever foul creature was used to craft it. The hat is covered in palm sized green eyes with yellow highlights, which periodically blink and weep. The hat appears altogether unnatural and disturbing.

When activated the wearer may concentrate to shift their perspective to any direction around them. Inside the rim of the hat is a clear glass lense set in a silver frame, which grants a lab bonus of +5.

Intellego Imaginem 16 (Base 1, +1 Touch, +2 Sun, +3 Special Target (based upon Room +1 as used in Sight as through a Plethron Distant from MoH p.101))(+1 level for 2 uses per day)

(could also be made as a small clear glass lense worn as jewelry or a nick nack if the hat is just too repulsive/silly "charm of the watchful parent"?).