I have and I really like it. I used it when making the sword Mindsplitter for Serith and have also started using legacy weapons in my campaign. When I made each PC of the original 10 PC's my players got to roll for, I gave each PC an item, non-magical, sometimes masterworked, but special to the character in one way or another.
One character (no one has gotten him yet) is a dwarven sun cleric.
His village was sacked and the inhabitants used for sport by the bandits. He (at the time basically a commoner) was captured and staked out spread-eagle in the hot desert sun and the bandits watched and tormented him for a while. He swore revenge on them and the leader, being rather sarcastic, threw an obsidian dagger into the earth next to him and told him that if he could free himself then maybe he would be able to get his revenge some day; the dagger was about a foot away from his bindings and out of reach.
So they left and he was still staked to the ground. Hours and then a few days went by, and he was dying. He swore that if he would do anything to get free and avenge his village. His vow was heard and the Sun Lords made a pact with him- his worship and servitude to the Sun for his freedom and the power to get his revenge. He agreed and the sun seemed to shine brighter, and the dagger which was still planted out of his reach, caught the light of the sun within a crystal mounted within the pommel and acting as a focus for the suns rays, burnt through the bindings of his left arm; allowing him to free himself.
Thanking the Sun Lords, he took up the dagger, buried his dead friends and neighbors, and then gathered some supplies and left the ruins of his old life behind him.
The dagger, while non-magical at this point, I decided to allow (when someone takes him) that it may become a legacy weapon for him and it also works as his divine focus for spell casting.
Has anyone done anything similar to this?
Does anyone use the Weapons of Legacy book?
I have and I really like it. I used it when making the sword Mindsplitter for Serith and have also started using legacy weapons in my campaign. When I made each PC of the original 10 PC's my players got to roll for, I gave each PC an item, non-magical, sometimes masterworked, but special to the character in one way or another.
One character (no one has gotten him yet) is a dwarven sun cleric.
His village was sacked and the inhabitants used for sport by the bandits. He (at the time basically a commoner) was captured and staked out spread-eagle in the hot desert sun and the bandits watched and tormented him for a while. He swore revenge on them and the leader, being rather sarcastic, threw an obsidian dagger into the earth next to him and told him that if he could free himself then maybe he would be able to get his revenge some day; the dagger was about a foot away from his bindings and out of reach.
So they left and he was still staked to the ground. Hours and then a few days went by, and he was dying. He swore that if he would do anything to get free and avenge his village. His vow was heard and the Sun Lords made a pact with him- his worship and servitude to the Sun for his freedom and the power to get his revenge. He agreed and the sun seemed to shine brighter, and the dagger which was still planted out of his reach, caught the light of the sun within a crystal mounted within the pommel and acting as a focus for the suns rays, burnt through the bindings of his left arm; allowing him to free himself.
Thanking the Sun Lords, he took up the dagger, buried his dead friends and neighbors, and then gathered some supplies and left the ruins of his old life behind him.
The dagger, while non-magical at this point, I decided to allow (when someone takes him) that it may become a legacy weapon for him and it also works as his divine focus for spell casting.
Has anyone done anything similar to this?
Inventive backstory, I like it
