Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Artifacts: The Bronze Arrow

The Black Arrow of Zumzack style I wrote up was inspired by a former PC from a while back, Zumzack son of Grimzak.  Zumzack was a Goblin fighter-mage who focused on the Movement college (I think he had one-college only Magery).  His main focus was on Flight and Hawk Flight, though he also used Haste and Great Haste a lot.  During the campaign, he found The Bronze Arrow, an artifact-level arrow, and used with Winged Knife to great effect from then on.

The Bronze Arrow

This is an arrow fashioned entirely from bronze-like metal, though it's much tougher than ordinary bronze.  It counts as Very Fine, in addition to being enchanted with both Accuracy and Puissance 3.  It's also Loyal and has Quick-draw.  It's greatest benefit is that it's immune to any magic not performed by its current owner.  Missile Shield, Reflect Missile, and the like fail, any magical DR doesn't count against it, a target can Blink away, but Phase fails, and so forth.

Stats when launched with Winged Knife:

Weapon
Damage
Acc
Range
Wt
RoF
Shots
Cost
ST
Bulk
Notes
Bronze Arrow
1d+7 imp
4
20/40
0.2
1
1
-
-
-1
[1]
[1]: Base damage is calculated as if fired from a Longbow.


Cost:  As with all Artifacts, effectively priceless.  An owner was offered twenty pounds of gold ($400,000) for it once but the offer was refused.  The last known owner was Rupert the Otyugh Mage.
Component spells: Known: Accuracy, Loyalty, Puissance, Quick-draw.  Suspected: Shatterproof, Magic Immunity (?).  It appears unmarred despite decades of constant use so it may be able to repair itself.

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