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gaming really is.  It is not <span style="font-size: xx-small;">Scrabble, Checkers or Tic-Tac-Toe</span>.  It might be <span style="font-size: x-small;">Monopoly, Sorry or Apples-to-Apples</span>, but let's be honest, that crap is for strict Christian family night at home or the church picnic.  Family's who's kids are one high school graduation away from being shown what the real world is (note: there is a time and place for everything and it's called college, if you didn't do stupid shit in college, you missed out).  Now quick, you can jump over to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabletop_game">Wikipedia</a> and read some douche bag's idea of what constitutes tabletop gaming...OR...we can toss your ass into the fire and see if it burns.</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Tabletop gaming comes in five basic styles: <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">Strategy</span>, <span style="color: blue;">Chance</span>, <span style="color: yellow;">Miniature</span>, <span style="color: lime;">Card</span> and <span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">Role-Playing</span></span></span>.</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh6dLEIWlCNg8FJa1BMRW07AY_P7Tay9WETVjY6RPHVhEnSjQMv1-tcqB520dmNbsOATiVRUffo7JihoylmRs8ehSX1UwGv4hkpI43hoQXL8o_EDA1S9lqKOQ6Thew4kOsda-fX9YuVDg/s1600/chess_pieces.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh6dLEIWlCNg8FJa1BMRW07AY_P7Tay9WETVjY6RPHVhEnSjQMv1-tcqB520dmNbsOATiVRUffo7JihoylmRs8ehSX1UwGv4hkpI43hoQXL8o_EDA1S9lqKOQ6Thew4kOsda-fX9YuVDg/s320/chess_pieces.jpg" width="320" /></a>            <span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Strategy</span> (sometimes called European) is based on planning your moves, anticipating what your opponent(s) will do and reacting to minor changes in the gaming environment.  <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9154451371428382863#editor/target=post;postID=8546806434655843882;onPublishedMenu=posts;onClosedMenu=posts;postNum=28;src=postname">Lords of Waterdeep</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcassonne_(board_game)">Carcassonne</a> are decent representations of this style.</div> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ_DICX2K2DRxqEmG3DneBOLiP3ACcQ_5POd_5wAZzL6syr5Kzn3kV7SH2OwGTSrSYrwS33J4k9k8VBrEmT4CO9f9w55OFEFUM5fKgsW38N2IzIBOMYGcfEJXFIBeYrJgp9Fnb50NdlrQ/s1600/chance-dice-random-numbers-1-AHD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ_DICX2K2DRxqEmG3DneBOLiP3ACcQ_5POd_5wAZzL6syr5Kzn3kV7SH2OwGTSrSYrwS33J4k9k8VBrEmT4CO9f9w55OFEFUM5fKgsW38N2IzIBOMYGcfEJXFIBeYrJgp9Fnb50NdlrQ/s320/chance-dice-random-numbers-1-AHD.jpg" width="250" /></a>            <span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Chance</span> (also called American) is based on random events that can radically change the game, game environment or game progression with a roll of the die or a pull of the card.  <a href="http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite.asp?eidm=30">Cosmic Encounter</a> is dice-less, but is so random that the game can turn on one card being pulled from the deck, while <a href="http://www.daysofwonder.com/smallworld/en/">SmallWorld</a> may or may not require dice depending on your decisions.</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> 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in their customizations.  <a href="http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/landing.jsp?catId=cat1300182&rootCatGameStyle=wh&amp;_requestid=544463">Warhammer</a> (and its 40K version) and <a href="http://www.catalystgamelabs.com/leviathans/">Leviathans</a> represent miniature gaming very well.</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC2DJiyX6ZhbMeb7VMxTuOPcd128LKLvN59rG_mburm6nJdlJ99XidLpUltX7WT1KR3hkjxXx4TJOhhdVgrswj0isM-XRno6p97OcS05UMEdfgSLElEC7JDfgQBCj4AYEv2zIl6H9CMKQ/s1600/200px-Magic_the_gathering-card_back.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" 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class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal">             Finally, we get to <span style="background-color: black; color: purple; font-size: large;">Role-Playing</span> games for the tabletop.  Traditionally, this has meant <a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/">Dungeons and Dragons</a> or any of its numerous derivatives.  However, <a href="http://company.wizards.com/">Wizards of the Coast</a> got the idea a few years ago to introduce a true board game version and they did it quite well with <a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/product.aspx?x=dnd/products/dndacc/207790000">Castle Ravenloft</a>, <a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/product.aspx?x=dnd/products/dndacc/214420000">Wrath of Ashardalon</a> and <a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/product.aspx?x=dnd/products/dndacc/355940000">Legend of Drizzt</a>.  However, others are there as well, <a href="http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite.asp?eidm=172">Game of Thrones</a> or <a 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/></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal">             So, now you have some idea of the plethora of games and game types available out there.  In the next installment, we look into some of the digitized versions of these games.</div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/02271949439779455688' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/02271949439779455688' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>Plagueale</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://plagueale.blogspot.com/2013/12/of-teaching-of-tables-of-tops.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://plagueale.blogspot.com/2013/12/of-teaching-of-tables-of-tops.html' 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class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Many years ago, I asked my father why he was a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals.  He responded with some long drawn out diatribe on why the Cardinals were a great franchise and why true mid-westerners rooted for the "Cards" and not the "Cubbies" or some other random team in the mid-west.  Then he went on to say that, he did not like to think of himself as a "fan", but rather someone who enjoyed the games played by the Cardinals.  "Huh, why don't you want to be a 'fan'?  Because fan is short for <b>fanatic</b> and I don't want to be considered crazy."</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <b>Fanatic</b> - a person with an extreme and uncritical enthusiasm or zeal, as in religion or politics.  Synonyms: <i>enthusiast</i>, zealot, bigot, hothead, militant...you get the idea...</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Therefore, this got me thinking about the word 'fantasy' and its origins.  </div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <b>Fantasy</b> - imagination, especially when extravagant and <i>unrestrained</i>.  <b><i><u>OH THERE IT IS!!!!</u></i></b> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <i>Unrestrained</i>, sounds a lot like <i>enthusiast</i>, which just happens to tie into <b>fanatic</b>, which brings me around to FANTASY FOOTBALL, aka Dungeons and Dragons for jocks (yes, you've seen the meme).  </div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a 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awaiting a specific day of the week, or going overboard and participating multiple times a week.  Initially it starts out cheap, free leagues, borrowing a friend's books; before long, you are buying used copies and paying just a $5 entry fee.  Somewhere down the line, you have started your own league <span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(gaming group)</span>, have hundreds of dollars tied up in franchise players <span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(dice, rulebooks, beloved PCs)</span>.  You have a completely new group of friends <span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(more like you, less like...people)</span> that you see and talk too regularly, your old friends are still around, but they do not get you now.  Entities that you have no <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">reasonable expectation </span>of ever interacting with have become critical to your <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">happiness,</span> <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">completion </span>and <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">success</span>.  How does one cope?  How does one go on?  How does one make sure not to bench the RB3 who is going to have a monster game against a defense rated 25th against the run?  It will be ok, right?  I can bench Tony Gonzalez and play Vernon Davis against the depleted Arizona secondary this week, right? Wait, am I playing the Arizona defense this week in my PPR league?  Do I go with swinging a 2-hander or sword and board, with the plate armor? </div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal"> After all, it is just fantasy...right?</div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/02271949439779455688' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/02271949439779455688' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>Plagueale</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://plagueale.blogspot.com/2013/10/of-fans-of-fantasy-of-football.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://plagueale.blogspot.com/2013/10/of-fans-of-fantasy-of-football.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2013-10-07T07:30:00-05:00'>7:30 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='http://plagueale.blogspot.com/2013/10/of-fans-of-fantasy-of-football.html#comment-form' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/9154451371428382863/7859854111476235358' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-536418699'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=9154451371428382863&postID=7859854111476235358&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=9154451371428382863&postID=7859854111476235358&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=9154451371428382863&postID=7859854111476235358&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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href='http://plagueale.blogspot.com/2013/09/accursed-kickstarter.html'>Accursed Kickstarter</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-7775391774131819961' itemprop='description articleBody'> Some time ago, I thought that I would have time to actively run an interesting blog.  That time has come and gone unless something happens that really changes the status quo.  In the meantime, here's a kickstarter for a friend of mine's game - he's a long-time professional in the gaming industry.  Check it out:<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1231173913/accursed-rpg?ref=tag">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1231173913/accursed-rpg?ref=tag</a><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://rosswatson.blogspot.se/2013/09/accursed-my-first-kickstarter.html"><img border="0" 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carving wood or stone or pretty much any skill even remotely related to *ancient* craftsmen, I have seen and read enough to at least speculate on some of the things necessary to craft items in a fantasy setting.<br /> <br />   So without further delay, here are some of the things one might take into consideration when crafting magical items:<br /> <br /> The <span style="font-size: large;">specific person (or thing) crafting the item</span>.  I list this because chances are, your character isn't a master craftsmen, if they were, what are they doing adventuring?<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS8Hv9d4bNUFhdsbvW7UMeHPXLAh0JRNVR3WGZvpPSbG1b_7zNaOzLKJfKE1mWQ7bWunB3dPzkbJC34xjsqtlYIxXef18fI6gwc7tGxl5-vPotv5lft8p1BgJPT8E_r4709CIq6_4Z9vY/s1600/Iron-Pour_imagelarge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS8Hv9d4bNUFhdsbvW7UMeHPXLAh0JRNVR3WGZvpPSbG1b_7zNaOzLKJfKE1mWQ7bWunB3dPzkbJC34xjsqtlYIxXef18fI6gwc7tGxl5-vPotv5lft8p1BgJPT8E_r4709CIq6_4Z9vY/s320/Iron-Pour_imagelarge.jpg" width="320" /></a>    <span style="font-size: large;">Master Craftsmen</span> (racially dependent) - years of training, followed by years of skill perfecting lead to perfecting the ability to match an item to the user (most useful for weapons and metal armors)<br />     <span style="font-size: large;">Planar Entity</span> - physics on other planes make items on the prime plane more effective (think manufacturing in space as a real world equivalent)<br />     <span style="font-size: large;">Divine/Abyssal/Infernal Entity</span> - hey, an angel isn't going to fail you and an item crafted by a devil/demon is gonna advance their own agenda (not saying you will be advancing their agenda though)<br />   <br />   <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUhIcX2TsVFjlvDJY4RpTuUWUwOFRg_QolCSh7dLzUjxLJAF6RKSPIIR0VDadUEoWlqiTAAUxXFWf2Cc5-5Isx3wOMQHXvjQzQeFf22lV76wcGYv2wfrNrkar8eNCk_pyCk-KRpLnDSfg/s1600/quenching.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUhIcX2TsVFjlvDJY4RpTuUWUwOFRg_QolCSh7dLzUjxLJAF6RKSPIIR0VDadUEoWlqiTAAUxXFWf2Cc5-5Isx3wOMQHXvjQzQeFf22lV76wcGYv2wfrNrkar8eNCk_pyCk-KRpLnDSfg/s320/quenching.jpg" width="240" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: large;">Quenching Fluids</span> (used in the forging of metal: swords, axe, hammer and arrow heads, wands, etc.)<br />     <span style="color: red;">Blood </span>- used to give an item SEEKING, HATED, SLAYING, LIFE STEALING, just need the blood of X (i.e. vampire) for effect against X (i.e. vampire)<br />     <span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Milk </span>- used to give an items HEALING,<br />     <span style="color: #783f04;">Natural Oils</span> (olive, peanut, etc.) - used to give an item nature based effects<br />     <span style="color: #444444;">Petroleum Oils</span> - used to give an item SLICKNESS, SHADOW<br />     <span style="color: cyan;">Holy</span>/<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Unholy</span> <span style="color: blue;">Water</span> - used to give an item the Holy or Unholy ability, also potentially for use against divine/abyssal/infernal targets<br />     <span style="color: #a2c4c9;">Salt Water</span> - used on an item designed for use underwater<br />     <span style="color: #073763;">Elemental Water</span> - used to give an item power against elementals<br />     <span style="color: red;">Your own Blood</span> (likely mixed with something from above) - should give the item more power (at least in your hands), or possibly increase the likelihood of an intelligent weapon.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <div 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   <span style="font-size: large;">Gibbous </span>- Chaos, Performance, Knowledge<br />    Half - Insight, Wards, Balance<br />    <span style="font-size: x-small;">Crescent </span>- Wisdom, Creation<br />    <span style="font-size: xx-small;">New </span>- Stealth, Subterfuge<br /> While these aren't necessarily *powers*, one can see how they might be used in conjunction with the intent of the item being created.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Seasons</span><br />    <span style="background-color: #ea9999;">Spring </span>- Life, Growth, Chaos, anything that involves increases<br />    <span style="background-color: #0b5394;">Summer </span>- Heat, strength, power, anything that involves stability (note: this is different that stasis)<br />    <span style="background-color: #b45f06;">Fall </span>- Decay, anything that involves decreasing<br />    <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Winter </span>- Cold, Death, weakness, stealth, anything that involves stasis<br /> <br /> So how does all of this work together you might ask, well that's mostly up to you and your DM.  Personally, I like to think of these things working in conjunction to boost the overall power of an item.  In game mechanics terms, something along the lines of a +1 of every component you might be able to use.  Case in point, how many +5 items (weapons or armor) do you see in a standard game, probably not many unless your DM is <a href="http://www.frontiernet.net/~jamesstarlight/CampaignTypes.html">Monty Haul</a>.  Thus, you could say that if a sword were crafted by a master sword smith (+1) during the Full Moon (+1), in the mid-Summer (perhaps specifically on the summer solstice) (+1), using a gallon of your own blood (+1) mixed with Holy Water (Holy) would result in a +4 Holy Sword *when you are wielding it, +3 Holy Sword in the hands of another.<br /> <br /> Finally, enough has been stated about the necessary spells used in magic item construction so I won't go into those.  But, I would like to point out that spells used to improve the crafting environment (endure elements), skill of the craftsman (bless, bull's strength) and assistance to the craftsman (unseen servant) might be of importance to a DM.<br /> <br /> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/02271949439779455688' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/02271949439779455688' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>Plagueale</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://plagueale.blogspot.com/2013/01/building-magical-item-crafting-process.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' 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class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjodM5aI-18jS55-oiiyv4eExs2CrRDan1IjLutUVESd0CFvyFbI4NhHTWC1pqEFNiM1L71Gri4iJGp0Ue0PxvvNw6Tzc9E5mbRjNHzMk4KTmeC31N-Mgl90ZhQAc6aafhWpYt-uYQlGpM/s320/sword-making-diagram.jpg' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='9154451371428382863' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='1727884933968765747' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='1727884933968765747'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='http://plagueale.blogspot.com/2013/01/building-magical-item.html'>Building a magical item</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-1727884933968765747' itemprop='description articleBody'>     <span style="font-size: large;">I love my gaming group</span>, I love my gaming group, <span style="font-size: x-small;">I love my gaming group</span>, well sometimes not so much.  Life, loves (or at least lusts), work, play, family, all seem to plague this group of people that constitute my gaming group.  We barely maintain an every-other week game after trying for about a year to have a weekly game - 2 hours a week just doesn't cut it for me, but I understand the demands of other's work requirements, so I try not to complain when they had to end or leave a gaming session at 8.  Perhaps I'm just a little spoiled in previously having a gaming group that played for 5-ish hours at a time, every week.  But this is mostly off-topic, what brings me to my point is that we are shifting game systems, likely to one that isn't as "highly magical" or "magically active" and the Pathfinder/D&D default worlds (yes, I know that the various D&D worlds vary in their magic-isity) in that magic items (weapons, wands, staves, rods, etc.) are going to actually be defined by their make-up.  If you want a magic wand, unless you find it, <span style="color: red; font-size: large;">you aren't going to go to the store and "buy" a wand of magic missiles</span>, so you have to make it, finding a special (perfect) tree branch or bone or having a craftsman make one.<br /> <br />    Well, what makes up a magic item?  That varies from item to item:<br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjodM5aI-18jS55-oiiyv4eExs2CrRDan1IjLutUVESd0CFvyFbI4NhHTWC1pqEFNiM1L71Gri4iJGp0Ue0PxvvNw6Tzc9E5mbRjNHzMk4KTmeC31N-Mgl90ZhQAc6aafhWpYt-uYQlGpM/s1600/sword-making-diagram.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="294" 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Wood from a certain type of tree might be used for the grip. A certain design (snake, vines, holy symbol) might be used for the guard.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlqCGNWPWfk8bRIErbQJ1FkwUZwxijhcq30Osu9eoo-fk0aJ9hdRot_vZbgP_WgBaTww8vb6f2kpU5-GoTF2FAFrNyXPsyCRXa2eE7qOIWlVRDKiN0yawouQkOwKE7kFnjkotBPztoc88/s1600/parts-axe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlqCGNWPWfk8bRIErbQJ1FkwUZwxijhcq30Osu9eoo-fk0aJ9hdRot_vZbgP_WgBaTww8vb6f2kpU5-GoTF2FAFrNyXPsyCRXa2eE7qOIWlVRDKiN0yawouQkOwKE7kFnjkotBPztoc88/s320/parts-axe.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /> What about an <span style="font-size: large;">axe </span>you might ask, well:<br /> metal for the head - mithril, star metal<br /> leather for the grip - umber hulk, drow skin<br /> metal or wood for the haft - oak, trent<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> -C over at <a href="http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2011/05/on-magic-weapon-table-part-i.html">Hack&Slash</a> has <a href="http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2011/05/on-magic-weapon-table-part-ii.html">3 good posts</a> of <a href="http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2011/10/on-magic-weapon-table-part-iii.html">random materials</a> for item creation and that's a fine place to start.<br /> <br /> But ultimately this information is only a side issue of where I'm headed with this series of posts.  What I'm really striving for is what "<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">things</span>" you might need to craft a <span style="background-color: red;">flaming burst great axe +3</span> or a <span style="background-color: cyan;">dancing long sword</span>. 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