User:Red kangaroo/YANIs/Items/Artifacts

First gifts

Several ideas for varied first gifts, randomizing the artifact the player gets for his or her sacrifices.

Archeologist

Mattock of Earthquakes

• lawful dwarf archeologist favouring dwarvish mattock
• deals double damage to cross-aligned
• invoke for an earthquake

Orb of Detection

I really like the Itlachiayaque patch, as it gives archeologists a thematically appropriate quest artifact. However, why not to reuse their (reworked) vanilla artifact as a first gift? The powers are changed mostly because I don't feel they actually work with the detection flavour.

• unaligned archeologist-favouring orb of enlightenment
• carried grants searching
• apply for enlightenment
• invoke for magic mapping

Trowel of Pillaging

• neutral gnome archeologist favouring silvered gnomish shovel
• carried causes all monsters to drop some gold or gems as an additional death drop (the chance is based on luck)
• read to learn Dig spell

Monk

Hempen Rope of Asceticism

• lawful monk-favouring rope
• grants double its enchantment to AC
• worn prevents loosing consciousness while fainting
• invoke to toggle slow digestion

Robe of Stars

• neutral monk-favouring robe
• worn grants light radius as a lamp
• acts as a luckstone
• invoke to create several silver stars

Snakeskin

• chaotic monk-favouring robe
• grants double the normal robe effects
• worn grants poison resistance, hallucination resistance and half physical damage

Noble

Silver Spoon of Feasting

• unaligned noble-favouring silvered spoon
• deals double damage
• returns to quiver when thrown
• carried grants increased hunger while satiated and decreased hunger while hungry or worse (same as convicts)
• wielded or quivered grants unbreathing

Tourist

Luggage

• neutral tourist-favouring chest
• can be #looted as any normal chest
  • always generated with a tin whistle inside
  • using any whistle on the same floor as is the Luggage will teleport it under the player’s feet
• applied acts as a bag of tricks, but requires no charges

Wizard

Magicbane

Staff of the Magi

• unaligned wizard-favouring quarterstaff
• grants +1d5 to hit and deals double damage
• wielded grants double ray and beam damage

Mantle of Spell Resistance

• unaligned wizard-favouring cloak of magic resistance
• worn grants half spell damage

Crowning gifts

Barbarian

Claymore

• neutral barbarian-favouring silvered two-handed sword
• grants +1d5 to hit and deals double damage to humanoids
• wielded grants automatic searching and improves searching
• can be applied to plant a mine on an adjacent square

Wizard

Elder Wand

• lawful wizard-favouring silvered wand of magic missile
• can be recharged indefinitely
• zapped deals ((XL/2)+1)d6 damage, as the spell
• grants +1d5 to hit and +1d10 to damage, plus casts melee magic missile (similar to the attack of angels) without using up charges
• wielded grants reflection
• can be multizapped (similar to multishot of ranged weapons)
  • uses Stakes or Attack spells skill, whichever is higher
• invoke for long-lasting protection

Wizzard's Hat

• neutral wizard-favouring dunce cap
• carried grants magic resistance
• worn grants double normal robe effects and amnesia resistance
• invoke to restore energy
• read to learn Teleport away spell

Sceptre of the Witch-King

• chaotic wizard-favouring wand of draining
• can be recharged indefinitely
• grants +1d5 to hit and +1d10 to damage, plus can drain life of struck monsters
  • draining life has 50% chance to heal the player and 50% chance to add one charge to the wand
• wielded grants drain resistance, death resistance and half spell damage
• read to learn Finger of death spell