Custom Enchanted Quality: opinions?

[Corvo]

I'm working on the Magica Treasure Index for my fellowship, and I'm thinking about a variation upon the Warding-spell quality:

Protection-spell (better name?)
Craftsmanship: Elven
Item: Armour, Headgear, Shield
Special: Bane
An item bestowed with such a Quality gives you a bonus to your Valour or Wisdom roll when resisting Fear, Corruption or Dreadful Spells caused by a Bane creature. The Bonus is equal to your Wisdom or Valour, whichever is lower.

Do you see any problem with it?

[Glorelendil]

I'm working on the Magica Treasure Index for my fellowship, and I'm thinking about a variation upon the Warding-spell quality:

Protection-spell (better name?)
Craftsmanship: Elven
Item: Armour, Headgear, Shield
Special: Bane
An item bestowed with such a Quality gives you a bonus to your Valour or Wisdom roll when resisting Fear, Corruption or Dreadful Spells caused by a Bane creature. The Bonus is equal to your Wisdom or Valour, whichever is lower.

Do you see any problem with it?

I like it conceptually, but there's a lot of "or" in that description, which makes it sound like a swiss army knife enchantment. Some options:
- "...when using Valour to resist a special ability of a Bane creature, add your Wisdom to the roll"
- The inverse: add Valour to Wisdom rolls
- Both? That's again sounding a bit too much to me, though. It could be two separate qualities, so that if you really want both it uses 2 slots.

I'd also make it only a helm. The things you're resisting are all mind-effecting, not physical effects, so shield or armor feels like a poor fit to me. Or maybe close combat weapons.

[arthyn]

armor feels like a poor fit to me

I see what you did there.

And how about Limsanar for a better name. Roughly Clear Mind using a mix of Sindarin and Quenya.

[Glorelendil]

armor feels like a poor fit to me

I see what you did there.

And how about Limsanar for a better name. Roughly Clear Mind using a mix of Sindarin and Quenya.

Colorful, but I think I'd vote for ease-of-use over literary value. Not many players will be able to translate Quenya and Sindarin on the fly.

Maybe call one "Strength of Mind" (add Valour to Wisdom rolls) and the other..."Better Part of Valour"? Ok, too clever...

[Corvo]

I'm working on the Magica Treasure Index for my fellowship, and I'm thinking about a variation upon the Warding-spell quality:

Protection-spell (better name?)
Craftsmanship: Elven
Item: Armour, Headgear, Shield
Special: Bane
An item bestowed with such a Quality gives you a bonus to your Valour or Wisdom roll when resisting Fear, Corruption or Dreadful Spells caused by a Bane creature. The Bonus is equal to your Wisdom or Valour, whichever is lower.

Do you see any problem with it?

I like it conceptually, but there's a lot of "or" in that description, which makes it sound like a swiss army knife enchantment. Some options:
- "...when using Valour to resist a special ability of a Bane creature, add your Wisdom to the roll"
- The inverse: add Valour to Wisdom rolls
- Both? That's again sounding a bit too much to me, though. It could be two separate qualities, so that if you really want both it uses 2 slots.

I'd also make it only a helm. The things you're resisting are all mind-effecting, not physical effects, so shield or armor feels like a poor fit to me. Or maybe close combat weapons.

Thank you Elfcrusher, I think you are right on both points:

The object I'm working on is effetvely a Helm, with a Bane against Spiders.
I was looking at something that give protection against the spiders spells and lures (in DoM there are a lot).
Probably I would settle on bonus to Wisdom rolls equal to Valour... Or maybe twice the Valour, like the greater enchantments?

[Woodclaw]

Following Elfcrusher's suggestion maybe it would be better to make this quality apply only to either Wisdom or Valour rolls, both is chosen twice.

[Corvo]

What about:

Protection-spell (again, I need a better name)
Craftsmanship: Elven
Item: Headgear, close combat weapon
Special: Bane
An item bestowed with such a Quality gives you a bonus to your Wisdom rolls when you are fighting against a Bane creature equal to your Valour.

[Woodclaw]

What about:

Protection-spell (again, I need a better name)
Craftsmanship: Elven
Item: Headgear, close combat weapon
Special: Bane
An item bestowed with such a Quality gives you a bonus to your Wisdom rolls when you are fighting against a Bane creature equal to your Valour.

I don't get what you mean with "equal to your Valour", is it a reference to the creature's Attribute Level?

[Hermes Serpent]

"An item bestowed with such a Quality gives you a bonus to your Wisdom rolls when you are fighting against a Bane creature equal to your Valour." should probably read:

An item bestowed with such a Quality gives you a bonus equal to your Valour on any Wisdom rolls while fighting against a Bane creature.

[Corvo]

I copied the format from Rivendell's Warding-spell:
"An item bestowed with such a Quality gives you a bonus to your Parry rating when you are fighting against a Bane creature equal to your Wisdom or Valour, whichever is lower".
But Hermes Serpent's wording is clearer