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B RUCE R. C ORDELL , K OLJA R AVEN L IQUETTE ,

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A D D I T I O N A L D E S I G N

J ENNIFER C LARKE W ILKES

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Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

More than Meets the Eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

What’s Inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

What You Need to Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

Chapter 1: The Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

What Is a Weapon of Legacy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Why Use Items of Legacy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Items of Legacy in Your Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Introducing Legacy Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Artifact or Legacy Item? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Designing Legacy Adventures . . . . . . . . . . .7

Wielding an Item of Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Summary: Discovering a

Legacy Weapon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Legacy against Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

A Legacy Defeated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Enhancing an Item of Legacy . . . . . . . . . . .11

Chapter 2: Heroes of Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Legacy Feats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Channel Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Curative Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Empower Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Greater Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Least Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Legacy Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Lesser Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Master Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Quicken Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Swift and Immediate Actions . . . . . . . . . . .15

Transfer Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Spells of Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Spell Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Legacy Psionic Powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Prestige Class: Legacy Champion . . . . . . . . . .19

Chapter 3: Items of Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Reading the Legacy Item Entries . . . . . . . . . .23

Reading the Statistics Block . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Legacy Item Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Bloodcrier’s Hammer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

New Feat: Monkey Grip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Bones of Li-Peng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Bow of the Black Archer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Shevarash, the Black Archer . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Bright Evening Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Bullybasher’s Gauntlets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

The Streetﬁghter and

Bullybasher’s Gauntlets . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

Caladbolg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47

Caput Mortuum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Alternative Progression

for Caput Mortuum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51

Celdoriath’s Clarion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

Coral’s Bite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

Variant: Greater Legacy Abilities

for Coral’s Bite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

Crimson Ruination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

Desert Wind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64

Devious and Vicious . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67

Divine Spark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

Durindana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75

Dymondheart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78

Exordius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80

Amulet of Death’s Calling . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82

Fiendkiller’s Flail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83

Variant: Greater Legacy Abilities

for Fiendkiller’s Flail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84

Flamecaster’s Bolt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86

Flamecaster’s Bolt in Faerûn . . . . . . . . . . . .89

Flay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90

Frostburn’s Wrath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93

Full Moon’s Trick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96

Full Moon’s Trick in Eberron . . . . . . . . . . .98

Ghostfolly’s Gloves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99

Guurgal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Hammer of Witches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Inﬁltrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Lorestealer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Mau-Jehe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114

Mau-Jehe as a Mind Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Merikel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Mindsplinter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Notched Spear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Planeshifter’s Knife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Quickspur’s Ally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

How to Handle a Joust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Rod of Trimeg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Scales of Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Scarab of Aradros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

The Scarab of Aradros in Eberron . . . . . 140

Shishi-O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141

Simple Bow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Zen Archery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145

Skull Lash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147

Sling of the Dire Wind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Useful Feats for Sling Wielders . . . . . . . 153

Staff of the Torrent Moons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

The Twin Tides Monastery . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Stalker’s Bow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Steadfast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Halﬂing Outriders and Steadfast . . . . . . .161

Stormchaser’s Cudgel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163

Thanifex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Treebrother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169

Treebrother in Eberron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Treebrother in Faerûn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Ur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Alternative Histories of Ur . . . . . . . . . . . .175

Wargird’s Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .176

Chapter 4: Founding Legacies . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Founding Legacy Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

The Decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

The Founding Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Summary: Founding Legacy Items . . . . 180

The Candidate Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Designing Founding Rituals . . . . . . . . . . 181

Behind the Curtain: Legacy Item

Founding Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

General Legacy Ritual Examples . . . . . 182

Assigning Legacy Abilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Behind the Curtain:

XP Costs for Founding Rituals . . . . . 183

Omens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Legacy Abilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Setting Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Sample Cost Progressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Example Legacy Item Design . . . . . . . . . 187

Legacy Ability Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Omen Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Ability Menu A (Least) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Ability Menu B (Least) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Ability Menu C (Least) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Ability Menu D (Lesser) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Ability Menu E (Lesser) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Ability Menu F (Lesser) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Ability Menu G (Greater) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Ability Menu H (Greater) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Ability Menu I (Greater) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Chapter 5: Optional Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Alternatives to Knowledge (History)

Checks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Other Knowledge Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Bardic Knowledge and Lore . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Magical Divination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Mutable Legacy Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Designing a Mutable Item . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Using Variable Components . . . . . . . . . . 207

Dual Legacy Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Designing a Dual Legacy Item . . . . . . . . 208

Sharing a Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Monsters of Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .210

Ironheart, Servant of Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . .210

Livonia Darktongue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Shuluth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Vhuuksssh the Destroyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . .214

Creating a Monster of Legacy . . . . . . . . . 215

Standard Magic Items

as Items of Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .216

Converting Standard Magic Items

to Legacy Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .216

Sample Item Conversions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Legacy Holy Avenger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Legacy Staff of Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Epic Legacies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Epic Legacy Rituals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Assigning Epic Legacy Abilities

and Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Epic Legacy [Epic, Legacy] . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Epic Legacy Ability Menus . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Example Epic Legacy Weapon:

Bloodcrier’s Hammer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Introduction

The raging red eye wept hellﬁre tears.

Aedwar, called He of the Steely Heart, gazed into

the heart of the inferno. The fiery portal returned

the look—undaunted, uncaring.

Chanting fiends surrounded and bolstered the

portal’s appalling intrusion. Summoned by the Dire

Cabal, the demons were immune to the threats of

mortal steel and magic. With each syllable they

repeated, the searing aperture yawned wider.

But Aedwar had something that the Dire Cabal

had not reckoned on.

He of the Steely Heart flipped back his cloak,

revealed in grip a dull black blade, scribed with

runes of grim promise. Once a blade of storied

guile and soul-swallowing repute, it was now a

blade redeemed.

It was Exordius .

White light streamed from Exordius’ s edges, and

rays of brilliant clarity ﬂooded from the jewel in

its pommel. The demons ﬂinched, and their chant

faltered, but resumed a moment later. After all, what

need had they to fear a mortal blade? While they

maintained their rite, they were immune to the cuts

and insults of all weapons, even those consecrated

by the powers of good.

But the dull black blade had a legacy behind it, a

convoluted story of loss and gain, transformation and

redemption. Exordius’ s powers were not conﬁned to

the merely mortal, or even the merely good.

Aedwar waded in, and as the slaughter began, the

dull black blade began to glow as it drank in the lives

of the foulest spirits of the Abyss.

Such is the power of a weapon of legacy.

Evening Star , whose radiance illuminates the darkness

and sears its enemies. And who wouldn’t trade a +1

crossbow for the chance to wield Flamecaster’s Bolt , that

storied weapon prized for its lethal sway over ﬁre?

Finding these items of legacy, forged in the heat of

momentous events and wielded by legendary heroes,

is just the ﬁrst step. Prospective wielders must also

learn how to unlock their powers before using them

to their fullest capacity.

WHAT’S INSIDE

Weapons of Legacy describes magic items that are more

than what they seem, granting great power to those

who can discover their nature.

The ﬁrst chapters present the basic rules for items

of legacy, as well as information for adding them to

your campaign. They also detail a variety of options

available to characters who wield legacy items, from

feats to spells to a new prestige class.

The book then offers forty-nine fully detailed

items of legacy, including swords, staffs, and won -

drous items. Full histories of each item are included,

along with rituals to unlock their mysterious powers

and adventure seeds to introduce them to a cam-

paign. Sections on tailoring the items to a F ORGOTTEN

R EALMS or E BERRON campaign are also provided in

many cases.

DMs and players then learn how to create cus-

tomized items of legacy as their characters and

campaigns evolve, as well as explore a range of

variants on the legacy item rules, such as mutable

legacies, epic legacy items, and even monsters that

embody legacy abilities.

WHAT YOU NEED TO PLAY

Weapons of Legacy is intended for use in any D UNGEONS

& D RAGONS game. You will need the three D&D

core rulebooks— Player’s Handbook, Dungeon Master’s

Guide, and Monster Manual . In addition, it includes

references to material in the Epic Level Handbook,

the Expanded Psionics Handbook, Complete Adventurer,

Complete Warrior, and Races of the Wild, among other

supplements. Although possession of any or all these

supplements will enhance your enjoyment of this

book, they are not strictly necessary.

MORE THAN

MEETS THE EYE

Mythic history is replete with tales of singular weapons

of legendary champions, magic staffs of remarkable

heritage, and rings that grant powers undreamed by

most mortals. Such wonders stand in ability as far

above standard magic items as a magic item surpasses its

mundane counterpart. A ring of feather falling is a handy

thing to have, but few would not give it up for Bright

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