So I was laying about thinking of awesome stuff, as I am wont to do, and it occurred to me that one of the things I don't tend to see a whole lot of in Alliance LARP (this is an anecdote, your mileage may vary, see below) that is more common in fantasy novels, tabletop roleplay and video gaming is the Named Piece of Treasure.
You know the kind. The Sword of Truth. Sting. The Talisman of Triumph. Mjolnir. The Eye of Vecna. Excalibur. The Arkenstone.
Instead, we get a lot of "The Statuette of 1/d Sleep" and "The Ring of 30 Assassinate, Must Be Worn To Be Used."
Now, I'm only speaking from my admittedly limited personal experience. I realize that plot teams are 99% booked solid with trying to get all of the amazing stuff they have already written, and treasure policy being as deliberately random as it is there isn't really a lot of time or ability to write out epic backstories and names for all the junk that gets looted.
All the same, I think it can be said that most people would prefer to Undertake A Perilous Journey and go gallivanting after the Beast Glatisant, and be rewarded with "Solidus, the Ring of Assassins" which incidentally allows me to use the Assassinate skill once per day.
My questions to you, Gentle Reader, are these: Have you ever acquired an artifact of legend? Do you own any named blades, hallowed armor, jewelry of which bards have sung? How did you get them? What are their stories? Did you forge them yourself, or were they a gift, a reward hard-won? BOTH?
Do you, as a plot writer, ever send out Ye Mystick Artefacts?
You know the kind. The Sword of Truth. Sting. The Talisman of Triumph. Mjolnir. The Eye of Vecna. Excalibur. The Arkenstone.
Instead, we get a lot of "The Statuette of 1/d Sleep" and "The Ring of 30 Assassinate, Must Be Worn To Be Used."
Now, I'm only speaking from my admittedly limited personal experience. I realize that plot teams are 99% booked solid with trying to get all of the amazing stuff they have already written, and treasure policy being as deliberately random as it is there isn't really a lot of time or ability to write out epic backstories and names for all the junk that gets looted.
All the same, I think it can be said that most people would prefer to Undertake A Perilous Journey and go gallivanting after the Beast Glatisant, and be rewarded with "Solidus, the Ring of Assassins" which incidentally allows me to use the Assassinate skill once per day.
My questions to you, Gentle Reader, are these: Have you ever acquired an artifact of legend? Do you own any named blades, hallowed armor, jewelry of which bards have sung? How did you get them? What are their stories? Did you forge them yourself, or were they a gift, a reward hard-won? BOTH?
Do you, as a plot writer, ever send out Ye Mystick Artefacts?