Let's make apprentice created enchantments

[cunningrat1]

@Erik Tyrell

Does anyone know how to make nice looking links on this board? I'd like to link item names on the original post to the post where the description of each item is, but not if I have URL's stretching all over the page.

Like this?
Ring of Translation

[url=https://forum.atlas-games.com/t/lets-make-apprentice-created-enchantments/12072/1]Ring of Translation[/url]

[Erik_Tyrrell]

Yes, exactly like that. I'd always tried to put the url in quotation marks before, that's why it never worked. Thank you.

[cunningrat1]

Ring of the Intrepid Seeker
InVi 13, 50 uses per day.
R: Touch, D: Mom, T: Touch
This item is meant to assist young magi looking for places to found a covenant, or simply exploring mystic sites. It is a ring of hazel wood that goes around a walking staff. When someone touching the ring enters a magical aura, they feel a shiver. The strength of the shiver is proportional to the strength of the aura.
The laboratory text includes a +3 material modifier for hazel (divination). The creator's sigil usually modifies the sensation transmitted by the ring: shiver, prickling, heat, cold, etc.
(Design: Base 2, +1 Touch range, +1 Touch target. +3 levels Environmental trigger (change in aura), +6 levels 50 uses/day. Final effect level 13.)

Note: this item incorporates no Penetration, and thus has to be carried by a grog. Users are also warned that, while the item activates every time you enter or exit any mystical aura, the shiver only occurs if the aura is magical: if you are wandering through lots of intersecting auras, the item might run out of uses mid-day and you'd never know. A version of the lab text with Effect Level 17 (outside the scope of this exercise) allows for unlimited uses per day.

[Erik_Tyrrell]

@cunningrat1

A version of the lab text trades a 7-year effect expiry for unlimited uses and +10 penetration: sufficient to overcome a novice maga's Parma and Vim resistance.

Effect expiry can not be used for lesser enchantements and even for an invested device, expiry wouldn't come in to play when using a lab text. A lab text already allows the "magus" to instill the effect in a single season so no time could be saved.

[cunningrat1]

@Erik Tyrrell

Effect expiry can not be used for lesser enchantements and even for an invested device, expiry wouldn't come in to play when using a lab text. A lab text already allows the "magus" to instill the effect in a single season so no time could be saved.

I stand corrected, and the item entry has been modified accordingly.

[Erik_Tyrrell]

Axe of Firewood
CrHe 10 (1 use per day)
R: Touch, D: Sun, T: Group
This enchanted axe is capable of summoning a large pile of firewood, equivalent to a good sized tree chopped up into cubit sized logs and sticks one time per day. The created wood lasts until the next sunrise or sunset. This means that if a fire is burning using only wood created by the axe, the fire is going to disappear at sundown or sunup. This device was created specifically to be enchanted with only one pawn of vis, in the covenant where it was created vis was more valuable than the work of a very young apprentice. The laboratory text uses a material bonus of +4 to effect dead wood.
(base 1, +1 touch, +2 Sun, +2 group)

[Erik_Tyrrell]

Hearth of Clean Air
MuIg 5 (2 uses per day)
R: Touch, D: Sun, T: Ind.
This hearth is enchanted as a lesser enchanted device so that, when activated, any fire burning upon it will produce drastically less smoke than normal. The laboratory text for this device includes a shape bonus for the hearth.
(base 1, +1 touch, +2sun, +1 level 2 uses per day)

[cunningrat1]

This pair of items were originally created for a covenant in the highlands of Scotland, where the covenfolk (in complete defiance of history) wore plaids. They would work just as well for cloaks, though.

Warm Plaid for the Whiny Shepherd
CrIg 15, unlimited uses per day
R: Touch, D: Sun, T: Ind.
This item takes the form of a flat basalt disk with a large hole through the center, set vertically on a stone base. It is activated by passing an outer garment (highland plaid, cloak, blanket) through the center hole. The garment becomes warm to the touch, and stays warm until the next sunrise/sunset. The lab text includes a modifier for basalt (+3 Ignem).
(Design: Base 2, +1 Touch, +2 Sun, +10 levels for unlimited use.)

Dry Plaid for the Whiny Shepherd
ReAq 15, unlimited uses per day.
R: Touch, D:Sun, T:Ind
This item takes the form of a crystal set into the bottom edge of the hole (see above). Passing an outer garment through the hole (see above) drags it across the crystal as well, which activates this effect. Water touching the garment beads and runs off, as per "Cloak of the Duck's Feathers". The lab text includes a material modifier for crystal (+5 water, likely limited to +3 by creator's Magic Theory).
(Design: Base 1, +1 Touch, +2 Sun, +1 slightly unnatural control, +10 levels unlimited use.)

I'm kind of proud of this pair of items: my magus created them as a demonstration of Doing Cool Things Despite Terrible Relevant Arts. The covenfolk loved us for them.

[Erik_Tyrrell]

To get unlimited uses per day out of a level 15 enchantment is pretty cool.

No charged devices yet so here:

Oil of Elevation
ReCo 10 charged device
R: Touch, D: Diam., T: Ind.
This thick oil, when applied to an object such as an arrow or a whip, will effect the first person that it hits. That person will rise slowly into the air for 1 minute and then slowly descend back to the earth for a second minute reaching as high as 20 paces in the air at maximum. Durng this period they may be blown by the wind or, if they manage to grab some object, propel themselves in some horizontal direction. They will not, during this time be able to walk or run. The purpose of this enchantment is to stop violence by removing the oponant's ability to reach you, but it has frequently been put to other purposes. The lab text specifies oil containing finely ground amber from which a +3 material bonus is used.
(base 4, +1 touch, +1 diameter)

[ironboundtome]

The Axe description has a typo of CrIg instead if CrHe.

[Erik_Tyrrell]

@ironboundtome

The Axe description has a typo of CrIg instead if CrHe.

Yes it did, thanks for pointing that out. I was rather hoping you in particular would deign to write up a few items for us. I enjoy your blog so much.

[ironboundtome]

Ha! I was just skimming the spell guidelines thinking of a few items. You know me too well.
The trick is to have items that are thematically appropriate for apprentice characters.

[Erik_Tyrrell]

Creo Aquam looks all alone up there.

Envenomed Sword
CrAq 15
R: Touch, D: Mom T:Ind
The first time this enchanted sword stabs a creature each day it ejects a corrosive liquid on to the target doing +10 damage to it (damage and soak are calculated separately from the weapon damage). It is not particularly unlikely that this liquid will also end up on the sword, damaging it. It is not common for sword enchanted in this fashion to last more than three activations before being too damaged to function as enchanted device (and not work particularly well as swords either). This item was first developed in a covenant where the frequency of violence was low enough that the sword's self destructing nature was not especially important, they did not expect to be in armed conflict more than two or three times in their lives. The laboratory text for this device uses the +4 shape bonus from swords for harming humans and animals.
(base 10 +1 touch)

The guideline for this effect reads as follows "Create a corrosive substance doing +(Level) damage. Increasing the range to more than Touch is a very good idea." I'm wondering if duration momentary is sufficient. Might the corrosive substance be gone before it has a chance to actually corrode anything?

[jason72 (Jason)]

Mirror of Inclusion
Cr(Re)Im 15, 24 uses/day
R: Touch, D: Conc, T:Ind
This small silver hand mirror is enchanted as a lesser enchanted device to cast the spell Ager Belli (Apprentices, page 58) on command, allowing apprentices who cannot otherwise do so(due to not knowing the spell, Flaws, etc.) to participate in Bellum matches. The laboratory text for this device uses the S/M bonus for a mirror (+7 illusions, HP page 26).
(Base 1 (illusion affecting 1 sense), +1 Touch, +1 Conc, +2 coordinate complex movements of the illusion, +1 Rego requisite, +5 Levels for 24 uses/day.)

One obvious item that "borrows" from existing sources.

[Erik_Tyrrell]

@jason72

One obvious item that "borrows" from existing sources.

Yes, I've previously thought that a device like this, or casting tablets for the spell, would have to exist for the game to work as presented. It's very apprentice appropriate.

[Berengar]

Apprentice's Ever-Burning Nightmare
CrAq 9
R: Touch, D: Sun, T:Ind
This large oil lamp with several nozzles and a large fuel chamber fills with good olive oil two times per day, at sunrise and and sunset.
Calibrating nozzles and fuel chamber right to keep the lamp burning continuously without spilling or fiddling with the wicks was a task devised by a stereotypical Tytalus master.
(Base 2 (create olive oil in a container), +1 Touch, +2 Sun, +1 Level for 2 uses/day, +3 levels for environmental trigger. +5 S&M bonus for the container)

Cheers

[ironboundtome]

Disguised Doorway
This small bronze charm is attached to a doorway or portal. When placed the effect creates an illusion over an entryway, archway, or portal to conceal the area making it appear the same as the surrounding wall visually and by touch. When crafted into a lesser device the design of the illusion must be set for a specific place as the device has no ability to perceive the walls around it. Designed as a constant device.
Variants of the device can obscure pathways to groves, or a any number of other concealing effects.
Creo Imaginem 14 (Base 2, +1 Touch, +2 Sun, +0 Ind, +1 larger size)(+1 for two uses per day, +3 environmental trigger)

[Erik_Tyrrell]

I'd wager that bronze charm is in the shape of a mirror with a tiny little reflective surface so our apprentice can get a shape bonus for it.

Unless you're like me and think the purpose of the shape and material rules is to encourage the creation of devices that make thematic sense, a charm placed upon a door to hide it makes sense, a mirror less so.

[Erik_Tyrrell]

Trinket of Imposed Civility
ReIm 15
R:Touch, D: Sun, T: Room
This lesser enchanted device is a down feather encased in a drop of somewhat transparent glass. When activated, it prevents sound in the room where it was activated from rising above the level of normal conversation until the next sunrise or sunset. This device was first developed in a covenant where there were simultaneously three apprentices beneath the age of 11, who often became too loud for the comfort of their paters/maters when in one another's company. the laboratory text uses a +3 material bonus from down.
(Base 2, +1 touch, +2 sun, +2 room)

The rego imaginem guidelines don't address controling volume.... but they should.

Edit: I see Aurelentus from Magi of Hermes did this with Perdo at base 3. I'm judging that putting a cap on volume is equivelent to moving the sounds 5 paces away (out of the room), is that too low?

[Erik_Tyrrell]

Magical Plow
ReTe 14 (unlimited uses)
R: Touch, D:Mom., T: Part
This enchanted shovel when used by pushing in to the ground along with saying a command word, digs a furrow in the ground twenty paces long as if opened by a plow. The laboratory text uses a shape bonus for the shape of the shovel
(base 2, +1 touch, +1 Part, +10 levels unlimited uses)