Greetings /tg/
I am building up a crafing system for mage staves.
Mage PCs can assemble upt to four pieces: the stick, the head, the trinkets and the core.
The core should be the thing that powers up the staff, by recieving the incantation the mage casts and storing it, making the staff an actual magical object instead of just a puzzle of inert parts.
It can be the classic gem of power, it can be a pulsating heart, it can be some kind of magical fluid inside a vial.
It can even be something immaterial, a sacrifice that binds the soul to the staff.
What else can you suggest it to be, /tg/?
Thanks in advance
System is WFRP, but it's not that important: anything that is enough low fantasy will be fitting.
Skull of a magical beast
Skull of a parent you personally killed
Fallen star
A small rodent kept in a cage
The solidified soul of your ex
Giant's kidney stone
Bezoar
>>47135807
> a small rodent kept in a cage
I see what you did there.
Going to steal this for my more mechanical-oriented mage.
A hunk of cheese more than a hundred years old
A saint's pinky-bone
The sound of a cat's footsteps
The blood drained from a small dog
A live snake
Ten green pearls
A rock. Just a rock. But it's an awesome rock.
That stuffed animal you always slept with as a kid
Monkey brains
Human brains
Hunk of ambergris
The fingernails of your most hated enemy
A piece of wood in a funny shape
Broken sword
Page of a holy book
Frog in a stone
Naturally mummified rat
A hollow egg
Chunk of dried dogshit with an uncanny resemblance to a holy figure
Two natural magnets
The hand of a hanged man
The dick of a hanged man
Just, any part of a hanged man, those were apparently very magic
Your first lost tooth
An ancient coin
Amber containing a lizard
Horn removed from a very old woman
Dragon's claw
Rock with a naturally-formed hole in it
Six diamonds, one for each color in the color wheel
Pig fetus
A song on the flute, played perfectly
Skull of a pure black cat
A sealed clay jar filled with magical herbs
A piece of bread so old that it's basically a rock
A jar of starter yeast
A six-leaved clover
A hunk of lead used in at least a hundred divinations
A garter worn by a virgin every day for a year
A dying man's last breath
A candle burned at both ends
Whale's penis bone
Sealed ball of glass containing a small, self-sustaining habitat
The ashes of a sacrifice to the gods
The hair trimmings from a child's first haircut
An empty hourglass
Uterine fibroid
Calcified fetus
Moss-covered rock
Three sprigs of mistletoe
A ball made of human skin (tanned, of course), stuffed with human hair
The bones of a man's extra toe
A glass vial filled with holy water (don't break it!)
Horseshoe
A bent nail
Ancient arrowhead
Plant root shaped like a person
Plant root shaped like a hand
Plant root shaped like a dick
Owl pellet
Piece of jewelry found in the stomach of a fish
Ball of wax
Twenty feet (or more) of found string, tied together
A bee
A fossilized footprint
Owl pellet
An amputated foot
Five brand-new pennies
a perfectly-round stone
The flowers grown from a grave
An eyeball
Thanks a lot for contributing friend, I am actually amazed you had this many ideas all alone, how the hell did you manage that?
>>47137778
Practice! And I read too much.
>>47138031
No such thing as too much reading friend, keep doing that shit.
The sound of a fish's laughter
The hair from an eagle's breast
The final meal of a dying wolf
The sound of a mountain's breath
A chain that bound two stars
A chalice of the deepest water
bamp
A gnarled, leathery hand.
An insect fossilized in amber.
A sigil in blood upon vellum parchment.
Soil from one's home town.
A blade that has slain one hundred and eight.
A disturbingly large glob of earwax.
Items bought from a general store that aroused the suspicions of the seller.
>only glanced over the suggestions.
If i were to create such a system. i would probably provide an example list of like 10 items and how well they work as a core and then leave it to the P(C)s to find something appropriate on their own.
They can make checks before hand to try and find out how effective the Core will be, but only the fully assembled staff shows how powerful the core really is, or if the PC just miscalculated.
Also;
bones (or pieces of them), organs or whole body parts of exceptonally mighty or magical creatures are always good.
Shards or Pieces of once mighty artifact, weapons or armor
A lovers handkerchief
A family heirloom
A cog from a very old clock
A toy that belonged to your dead child
A general idea could be that items which a strong feelings associated with them work very well.
As an addition the staff would only work for its creator, since the core only has a meaning for them.
