

Sometimes a player doesn’t show up and so her character just seems to vanish. There’s a certain suspension of disbelief that even the most intricately plotted and deliberately planned RPG session requires. The place is at the game table, and the people are GMs. There’s a place where people besides villains and heroes might find the power of artifacts to hand-wave certain game elements useful, though. This wiggle room allows a necessary flexibility for exciting items without existing analogs, concepts that buck established guidelines, or ideas that simply prove too elaborate to quantify. One purposeful gap in the rules exists for artifacts, however. A GM confounded by how a bead of force works need only look to something that creates a similar effect, like resilient sphere, for an explanation of a comparable function. This game is designed to be a game of details, explanations, and options.

Crown of Infernal Majesty (Major Artifact).Crook and Flail of Kings (Major Artifact).Codex of the Infinite Planes (Major Artifact).Cloud Castle of the Storm King (Major Artifact).Chronicle of the Righteous (Major Artifact).Chalice of Enchantment (Major Artifact).Calabash of Last Draughts (Major Artifact).Book of the Damned: Demonic (Major Artifact).Book of the Damned: Daemonic (Major Artifact).Book of the Damned (A&L Major Artifact).Bloodstones of the Valiant (Major Artifact).Barding of Pleated Light (Major Artifact).Axe of the Dwarvish Lords (Major Artifact).Each should have only a single, specific means of destruction. Unlike all other magic items, major artifacts are not easily destroyed. These are the most potent of magic items, capable of altering the balance of a campaign. Major (or Legendary) artifacts are unique items-only one of each such item exists. Tentacle of the Vaults (Minor Artifact).Talisman of Ultimate Evil (Minor Artifact).Talisman of the Sphere (Minor Artifact).Talisman of Reluctant Wishes (Minor Artifact).Staff of Eldritch Sovereignty (Minor Artifact).Sphere of Annihilation (Minor Artifact).Screaming Spear of the Sun (Minor Artifact).Runescarred Dragonship (Minor Artifact).

Rod of Spell Sundering (Minor Artifact).Phylactery of the Failed (Minor Artifact).

