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New page! The material is revealed! Possibly the most destructive object in the universe! Can it be remade into a handy dandy balded weapon of DOOM?!!! And if so, who will wield its unfathomable POWER?!!! Time will tell on that front…. Getting very close to the next issue now and a return to the tomb of Mortubera 🙂
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Funny thing, there’s actually a 9th level spell called “Black Blade of Doom’ in the Spell Compendium for 3.5 edition that summons the exact thing being asked for. That being a sword whose blade is forged from the same stuff as a Sphere of Annihilation, though it is a temporary self-animated construct that can’t be held. There’s also a species of Grim Reaper inspired creatures in an obscure side book (the kind of thing you need to look into to surprise a group made up of mostly fellow DMs) who wield scythes whose blades they can transform into blades of annihilation, but the transformation is inherent to the creature and not the scythe itself. Those are completely non-magical for any other species. So technically neither of these directly help the situation, but they do set the precedent that such a thing IS possible. Also, the captive is having the appropriate reaction to learning that they’ve been carrying around something as infamously dangerous as a Sphere of Annihilation on their head.
I never had the spell compendium but I did have a red and a blue book from 3rd party publishers. Blue for divine and red for arcane magic. Some good stuff in there. Maybe that spell? I don’t think I ever ran a wizard high enough level to get 9th level stuff. I tended to run clerics more (particularly warrior clerics with a focus on buffing magic). Interesting that someone else should have the idea, though not that surprising, I suppose 🙂
I’ve had this idea for Darksoul to provide a sphere to create possibly the most deadly blade ever for a long time. Good to finally get there. I was a little disappointed to see the modern sphere just does 4D10 force damage on contact. My DMs always ran them as instant destruction for anyone that even grazed one, which I think I prefer. These things should be truly terrifying 😀
You can find some pretty interesting first party stuff as well if you look around online a bit. I think I’ve mentioned this in a comment before, but there’s a first party book that was made as a joke called “Nymphology:The Book of Blue Magic”. I bring this particular book up because it is a joke book of… a particular type of humor, full of ideas you could make use of. One of the first things you see in this thing is a credit to a wizard named “Onestrum Fiddler” as the writer of the book just to show where this is going.
And yeah, if players aren’t in need of new pants after hearing that they’re dealing with a Sphere of Annihilation you’re not doing it right. Though there’s another book called “The Stronghold Builder’s Guide” that actually suggests setting one of these set up as a trash disposal if you can manage to get one. Now THAT would be one hell of a flex, an artifact of the purest destruction capable of obliterating the very soul being used as your personal trash can. Makes being tossed in the trashcan a FAR more terrifying actual threat in that situation though.
interesting take on a sphinx, she is rather delightful and her tail -what i can see of it- looks well proportioned.
Glad you like her. She’s Darksoul’s seer (every evil overlord should have one). She was in some of the very early pages. Being naked I was able to show more of her true form. Half sphinx and half infernal fey creature. Well spotted on her sphinx side 🙂
which is Brahan and which one is Etna?
Nevermind… I figured it out… I was not paying attention to the speech bubbles
You got it! Etna for volcano (being a very powerful fire mage) and Brahan the seer named after the 17th century Scottish seer 🙂