Object Reading Dark Blades/Spears

GaredBattlespike · Fri Jul 30, 2004 8:38 pm

What is a Psychic P.C.C. likely to find out from doing this? Overwhelming EVIL and little else? Are the Hounds/Hunters individual enough to leave a "personal" imprint upon the weapon besides the EVIL?

Thanks,

GaredBattlespike

Specter · Unread post by **Specter** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 11:00 am

Misfit KotLD wrote:I would say the cruelty and torture inflicted upon the victim used to make the blade will be the only thing a psychic will get from it with rare exception.

Darkblades are rune weapons? Didn't know that.

Tinker Dragoon · Sat Jul 31, 2004 6:31 pm

Specter wrote:
Misfit KotLD wrote:I would say the cruelty and torture inflicted upon the victim used to make the blade will be the only thing a psychic will get from it with rare exception.

Darkblades are rune weapons? Didn't know that.

They're not, but a great many of them are manufactured using slave labor (Nightlands, p. 76), and the Nightlords aren't the nicest taskmasters.

drewkitty ~..~ · Sat Jul 31, 2004 6:47 pm

Misfit KotLD wrote:I would say the cruelty and torture inflicted upon the victim used to make the blade will be the only thing a psychic will get from it with rare exception.

Along with a greater then most possiblity that they will be 'possessed'.

Specter · Unread post by **Specter** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 1:56 am

Tyciol wrote:How could the weapon possibly possess you?

No... the blade might be possesed by an angry spirit... not possess the psychic doing the read.

drewkitty ~..~ · Sun Aug 01, 2004 5:49 pm

Using object read opens the PSI to possession, and if there is 'something' there it would not be friendly.

Borast · Unread post by **Borast** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 12:42 pm

The king of all migranes.
His/Her mind rebelling to the point of being unable to "open" for a couple of days.
Instant unconciousness, and no memory of what the y saw.

I have an interesting method of adjudicating "Detect Magic" and "Detect Evil" in my AD&D game. A player detects magic on a +1 dagger sees a faint alteration aura around the weapon. The same player detects magic on a major artifact, and is immediately forced to squint to avoid temporary blindness from all the magic on the artifact. The same player (foolishly) Detects magic while surrounded by high-level magics in a magic realm, and is blinded for several days due to the sensory overload.
For Detect Evil, it ranges from the shiver down the back ("someone walking on my grave") level, to instant unconciousness from the sheer magnitude of the headache created by the pure evilness...

My players have quickly learned to be very careful when using these spells...infact, some of the other DMs in our group liked it so much that they have adapted it too!

drewkitty ~..~ · Tue Aug 03, 2004 3:33 pm

It might be a phyological blindness caused by the mental block that makes it so the mage/PSI can't cast/use sense magic.

Borast · Unread post by **Borast** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 4:15 pm

Actually, the stronger the magic, the brighter the aura.

If the aura is bright enough, your optic nerve is (temporarily) overwhelmed.

Borast · Unread post by **Borast** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 7:54 am

Misfit KotLD wrote:Must be a change with 3E then. We had that debate a long time ago.

Couldn't tell you. Don't play E3+

I play 2nd Ed. The only thing I've recently done about 3rd is to convert the Sorcerer to 2nd Ed.

Tinker Dragoon · Wed Aug 04, 2004 3:41 pm

How you do things in non-Palladium games is irrelevant to this topic.