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Characters do not function at their best without a full set of gear. It's possible, but often inadvisable, to fight with more than one weapon at a time, if one has sufficient hands: this is called multiweapon fighting.

Items that are meant to be worn, such as armor or certain magic devices, must be sized to fit the creatures who wear them. The listed weight is for a 2 meter size creature; the weight for a creature of a different size is multiplied by half their weight, squared. For example, a 10 meter creature's armor or crown weighs 25 times as much as the listed weight. SMW::off

Ranged Weapons

Weapons can't be left loaded for more than a minute at a time; doing so wears down the mechanism or tires the wielder.

Melee Weapons

Even without any melee weapons, a character can fight in melee unarmed. If a melee weapon is wielded in two hands, it gets +1 Damage.

Armor

It is not possible to wear multiple suits of armor if those suits add to the same Defense.

Gems

Gems must be in contact with internal membranes to function, unless used to power magic items. Gems of the same color do not stack.

White Gem Magic Device

This is a smooth round stone, pearlescent white. It glows gently. White gems can grant power over light, death, and bone.

Value 2000 copper Weight 0.01 kilograms

Effects: Creatures in whom this is implanted gain the ability to make their teeth and bones grow brightly, or stop glowing, as a Lesser action. This brightly illuminates an area out to up to 20 meters.

The gem staves off death and regenerates damaged bones. At the end of its user's turn, they regain 1 HP if they took no actions that turn and have less than 0 HP.

Creatures in which this is implanted can use actions. Items in which this is implanted have their effects function.

Orange Gem Magic Device

This faceted transparent orange gem has peculiar refractive properties: light takes twelve seconds to pass through it. Orange gems can grant power over time, fire, and devouring.

Value 2000 copper Weight 0.01 kilograms

Effects: Creatures in whom this is implanted gain Heat Resist 1.

The gem can be used to accelerate the user. Once per round, they may gain an additional move action. Doing so puts stress on their very existence, however, reducing their Toughness by 1 for 1 minute. A character reduced to 0 Toughness in this way ages into dust.

Creatures in which this is implanted can use actions. Items in which this is implanted have their effects function.

Purple Gem Magic Device

This is a smooth round stone, a matte but marbled purple. It seems to leak ink when rubbed against nonliving objects, but never grows smaller or dry. Purple gems can grant power over words, space, and mind.

Value 2000 copper Weight 0.01 kilograms

Effects: Creatures in whom this is implanted gain a 5 meter teleport speed, or increase an existing teleport speed by 5 meters.

By concentrating as a standard action, the user of this gem can hear every word that was audible at their location for a specified 15-second interval at any time during the past hour.

Creatures in which this is implanted can use actions. Items in which this is implanted have their effects function.

Green Gem Magic Device

This cylindrical gem is painful to the touch. Green gems can grant power over toxic waste, mutation, and earth.

Value 2000 copper Weight 0.01 kilograms

Effects: Creatures in which this is implanted can attach theirselves to any solid surface in order to hang from it safely, or move along it using their land speed at half speed without running.

Creatures in which this is implanted melt into toxic waste when they die, keeping only their skeletons intact.

Creatures in which this is implanted can use actions. Items in which this is implanted have their effects function.

Magic Items

Inserting a gem into a held item is a move action, as is removing a gem from a held item.

Magic Weapons

Bonebiter Spear Magic Weapon

This spear is tipped with a large tusk or rib.

[ Muscle-Damage ], [ Piercing ]

Value 300 copper Weight 3 kilograms

Damage: 1d6 Physical

Handedness: Bonebiter Spears can be wielded in one hand, or two hands for +1 Damage.

Effects: The Bonebiter Spear brightly illuminates out to 10 meters.

The Bonebiter Spear deals Light damage instead of Physical.

If the Bonebiter Spear would wound an [ Undead ] creature, it instead grants complete control over them for 1 round per wound.

Special: Your reach with a bonebiter spear is 1 meter farther than it would normally be, but when attacking targets within 1 meter with it, it is not Piercing.

Blade of Purification Magic Weapon

This plain-looking sword has a polished ivory handle.

[ Muscle-Damage ]

Value 500 copper Weight 2 kilograms

Damage: 1d6 Physical

Handedness: The Blade of Purification can be wielded in one hand, or two hands for +1 Damage.

Effects: The Blade of Purification gets +1 damage for every color of gem implanted in the target or inserted in any of their magic items.

Special: The Blade of Purification may be used as a Piercing weapon.

Shadow Dagger Magic Weapon

This is a dagger with a white hilt.

[ Muscle-Damage ], [ Piercing ], [ Thrown ]

Value 300 copper Weight 1/3 kilograms

Damage: 1d6-1 Physical

Handedness: Can only be used one-handed.

Effects: The wielder is cloaked in shadow. They cannot be seen while in light that is dimmer than dim. If the shadow dagger wounds a creature it is thrown at, that creature counts as the wielder until it takes a Draw Item action to remove it from the wound.

Inferno Blade Magic Weapon

This is a hilt. When powered by an orange gem, it has a long blade of orange flame.

[ Muscle-Damage ]

Value 400 copper Weight 2 kilograms

Damage: 1d6-2 Physical

Handedness: The Inferno Blade can be wielded in one hand, or two hands for +1 Damage.

Effects: The Inferno Blade deals 1d6 Heat damage instead, and creatures it wounds are lit on fire.

Special: The Inferno Blade may be used as a Piercing weapon.

Fire Bomb Magic Weapon

[ Heavy ], [ Grenade ]

Value 10 copper Weight 1/3 kilograms

Range: 5m/10m

Handedness: Can only be used one-handed.

Effects: After it is thrown, the Fire Bomb waits until it has remained in the same place for 1 round, then it detonates, making a +2 Accuracy Demolition 3 attack against AD against all creatures and unattended objects in a 10 meter blast for 1d6+6 Heat damage. Wounded targets are lit on fire. The Fire Bomb is destroyed upon detonation, but the gem is unharmed. The detonation is audible from 1000 meters away.

Melter Cannon Magic Weapon

This golden device looks sort of like a crossbow, with an impressive golden tube.

[ Magic-Damage ]

Value 300 copper Weight 5 kilograms

Damage: 1d6+1 Heat

Range: 20m/50m

Handedness: Aiming and firing requires two hands.

Effects: The Melter Cannon cannot fire while unpowered.

The immense boiling heat of this weapon is positively Frightening 5 to anyone it wounds. It also gets +3 Demolition.

Gauntlet of Chewing Magic Weapon

This gold and red gauntlet has a toothy metal mouth in the palm.

Value 500 copper Weight 1 kilogram

Effects: When you inflict any wounds with an unarmed attack with this hand, you may inflict an additional wound as an immediate action.

People cannot disarm you of anything you hold with the gauntlet.

Spacehammer Magic Weapon

This is a laughably tiny hammer.

[ Muscle-Damage ]

Value 300 copper Weight 0.5 kilograms

Damage: 1d6-1 Physical

Handedness: The hammer can be wielded in one hand, or two hands for +1 Damage. If wielded in one hand as it expands, it is dropped after one attack.

Effects: The hammer can expand when used to attack. Doing so causes it to deal +2 damage and get +1 Demolition, but become a Heavy weapon for that attack.

Every wound inflicted by the hammer halves the target's size and reach for 2 rounds.

Magic Devices

Common wand

Portable Hole Magic Device

This is a silky purple cloth circle, with a sticky fringe.

Value 12000 copper Weight 0.2 kilograms

Effects: When stretched flat over a solid surface as a standard action, all but the fringe disappears, replaced by an extradimensional tunnel to the first large enough flat surface in a straight line from the portable hole, perpendicular to its surface. The extradimensional tunnel is as long as the straight line path was when the tunnel was created, and does not change if one or both of the surfaces are moved. The fringe becomes simultaneously extant at that location, and may be picked up from either end. Picking up the portable hole or destroying the surface it is on dispels the extradimensional tunnel. No extradimensional space is created if the tunnel would be more than 100 lightyears long. The portable hole has a Volume Ratio of 1 per every 5 meters of depth, rounded down.

Sack of Bones Magic Device

This is a large white sack.

Value 400 copper Weight 2 kilograms

Effects: This sack is always full of bones. Bones can be poured from it at a rate of 500 kilograms per round (approximately 0.175 cubic meters).

Mansion Door Magic Device

This appears to be a fancy door with doorframe. It is backed by steel on one side.

Value 9000 copper Weight 15 kilograms

Effects: The Mansion Door leads to an extradimensional cube, 20 meters on a side, with the only entry point being the door, in the center middle bottom of one side. Owners of Mansion Doors usually build expensive structures inside them.

Even while the Mansion Door is unpowered, the extradimensional cube exists. The entry point becomes a simple wall, however. The extradimensional cube has a Volume Ratio of 3.

Tight Clothing Magic Device

Those bindings don't look comfortable.

Value 300 copper Weight 3 kilograms

Chakra: Lung

Effects: The wearer's size and reach are halved. Their weight is divided by 4 and they get -2 to Muscle. They get +6 meters to sink distance.

Airboxing Suit Magic Device

This is a rather stiff looking purple suit.

Value 20000 copper Weight 3 kilograms

Chakra: Lung

Effects: Your reach increases by 5 meters, because you can teleport your hands to locations up to 5 meters away at will, using skintight portals that keep them attached to your arms.

You can also teleport your feet to locations up to 5 meters away at will, allowing you to step on distant objects, effectively standing up to 5 meters away from any stable surface.

Seven League Boots Magic Device

These look like good, sturdy boots.

Value 15000 copper Weight 2 kilograms

Chakra: Foot

Effects: When you take an action which causes you to move using your Land speed, and you are not prone, you teleport precisely 38892 meters in that direction. You always teleport to the highest stable surface at those lateral coordinates: walking towards a mountain will land you at the peak, not inside a cave or high in the sky. Aiming steps with the boots is not easy; the teleport misses to the left or right by 1600 meters minus your Agility check times 80.

Crown of Fire Control Magic Device

This is an intimidatingly spiked golden crown.

Value 1500 copper Weight 2 kilograms

Chakra: Brain

Effects: The wearer of this crown gains Heat Resist 2.

As a move action, the wearer can cure any number of targets within 20 meters of the on fire condition.

Crown of the Lich King Magic Device

This is an ominous bone crown.

Value 1500 copper Weight 1 kilogram

Chakra: Brain

Effects: Creatures adjacent to the wearer of this crown can choose to die in order to heal the wearer of 1 wound as an immediate action.

Crown of Conviction Magic Device

This is a thin pink foil crown.

Value 1500 copper Weight 1 kilogram

Chakra: Brain

Effects: The wearer of this crown cannot be mind controlled, cannot have their soul assaulted, and cannot be convinced of anything they do not already believe.

Crown of Comprehension Magic Device

This is an exquisitely painted paper crown.

Value 1500 copper Weight 1 kilogram

Chakra: Brain

Effects: The wearer of this crown can understand every language. When the wearer speaks, they may be understood differently by different observers, as they choose. All creatures the wearer is unaware of must understand the wearer in the same way.

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Lantern Magic Device

This is a finely carved bone lantern, with a gem socket where the candle would be.

Value 200 copper Weight 2 kilograms

Handedness: The direction of the cone can be changed freely only if the lantern is held in one hand. Otherwise, it takes a move action.

Effects: This brightly illuminates a 100 meter spray. Shutters which are opened or closed as a move action toggle whether the spray is spherical or a 90 degree cone.

Crystal Ball Magic Device

This is a purple glass orb on a small wooden pedestal.

Value 22000 copper Weight 3 kilograms

Effects: By thinking hard about a creature while grasping the orb and speaking their name, you can make the orb display what that creature sees. This is a standard action, and the creature gets a DC 6 Will save to resist: if a creature resists, the orb goes blank and becomes unusable for 24 hours. Regardless of whether the creature successfully saves, the creature can clearly identify the direction to the crystal ball, and knows that you are watching them. You can only use the Crystal Ball to watch a creature you have met, and who has met you. The crystal ball continues to display whatever creature it was set to watch until deactivated or set to a different target, as a standard action.

Projection Sheet Magic Device

This is a plain white sheet with a loop for a gem at one corner.

Value 3000 copper Weight 4 kilograms

Effects: The sheet appears to transparently show what is beyond it, but living creatures and their equipment appear invisible when viewed through the sheet.

Recording Skull Magic Device

Close inspection of this skull reveals that each tooth is attached to a spring and labeled with a different symbol, and there is a gem socket on the inside of the skull.

Value 1000 copper Weight 3 kilograms

Effects: The skull can be used to record what it sees and hears: it can store up to 1 hour of recording data. If a section of data is recorded over, that old data is forever lost. Turning on the record function is a lesser action.

The skull can be used to display what it saw and heard: it renders a 1 cubic meter ghostly white hologram directly in front of itself, combined with a somewhat breathy and distorted soundtrack.

The user can make the skull skip to a specific point in its data (specified in terms of time) as a lesser action.

Corpse Mirror Magic Device

This fine standing mirror's rim is made of large rib bones.

Value 6000 copper Weight 20 kilograms

Effects: Creatures in the mirror look dead.

When a piece of body matter (hair, skin, blood, etc) from a dead creature touches the mirror, the mirror shifts to show that creature's corpse and its immediate surroundings, viewed from 1 meter above the largest portion. The body matter disintegrates after 3 rounds. When there's no body matter touching the mirror, it reverts to its normal reflective state.

Time Keeper Magic Device

This is a fine gold hourglass with orange sand, labelled "Start" on one end and "Reset" on the other.

Value 35000 copper Weight 1 kilogram

Effects: When the Time Keeper is turned so that the label saying Start is facing upwards, it pours sand for 3 rounds. Then, the person who turned it and all of their equipment are reverted to the state, memories, and location they were in when they turned the Time Keeper. For some mysterious reason, charges are not reverted. This effect only works if all of the sand was in the other section to begin with. This is a [ Time ] effect.

When the Time Keeper is turned so that the label saying Reset is facing upwards, the Time Keeper's revert functionality is canceled. After a number of rounds equal to the number of rounds it spent in the Start state, maximum 3, all of the sand is returned to this section.

Special: Turning the Time Keeper is a Lesser Action.

Jetpack Magic Device

Value 3500 copper Weight 5 kilograms

Chakra: Lung

Effects: When strapped properly to your back, you gain a 50 meter fly speed with 20 meter aerobatics distance. At the beginning of each of your turns while the Jetpack is powered, roll a d6: on a 1, you hurtle straight upwards 40 meters; colliding with a ceiling deals falling damage to you as though you had fallen the distance you traveled in this way.

Sympathetic Fireplace Magic Device

Whoever decorated this fireplace was really obsessed with fire.

Value 100 copper Weight 5000 kilograms

Effects: The Sympathetic Fireplace is Thermosympathetic. Examining the flames inside it closely allows you to locate things exactly as easily as if you had a Thermosympathetic sense.

Skeleton Key Magic Device

This appears to be an ordinary skeletal finger. The bones are fused together.

Value 1000 copper Weight 0.05 kilograms

Effects: The Skeleton Key fits any lock.

Dark Sun Magic Device

This 2 meter diameter obsidian sphere can actually be split in two, to gain access to the tiny gem socket at the very center.

Value 2000 copper Weight 11000 kilograms

Effects: The Dark Sun dims all light in a 1000 meter spray. No light within that area can be brighter than dim.

Cataclysm Staff Magic Device

This staff is covered with intricate images of fire, and has an intimidating claw at its base.

[ Magic-Damage ]

Value 33000 copper Weight 2 kilograms

Effects: The staff can be plunged into the ground as a standard action. It immediately releases a thunderous boom which can be heard from 3 kilometers away. Five rounds later, the sky above the staff for 1 kilometer around begins to release a heavy rain of fire. On that round and every later round, everything that is outside and beneath the sky area takes 1d6-1 Heat damage, and is lit on fire on a successful wound. As a standard action, anyone can remove the staff from the ground, ending the rain of fire and the corresponding Heat damage.

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Magic Armors

Nothingness Armor Magic Armor

This armor is made of portals, such that things pass by the wearer harmlessly, except for the eye slit, gauntlets, and boots. When unpowered, it seems to be just a fancy but impractical suit of full plate.

Value 32000 copper Weight 35 kilograms

Chakra: Heart

-1 AD, -1 Stealth, -2 Agility, -2 Legerdemain

Effects: The portals activate, becoming full-body entry points to a body-shaped extradimensional space, with walls only for the behind-the-eyes area, and the hands and feet. This gives +2 AD, and makes it so you can only be seen from a quarter of the normal distance. However, a tendency to fall through the floor when not standing means that the stand up action becomes a standard action for you. Nothingness Armor has a Volume Ratio of 0.

Special: While the portals are inactive, Nothingness Armor counts as an obstacle for firing through, or total cover, attacker's choice. Its AD is the same as its wearer's, and it has 3 HP and 8 Toughness.

Illusory Armor Magic Armor

This full body robe of chainmail is made of intricately carved bone rings.

Value 4000 copper Weight 15 kilograms

Chakra: Heart

-1 Stealth, -2 Agility, -2 Legerdemain

Effects: You may begin generating bright light in the directions of your choice out to up to 20 meters or disable this as a Lesser action.

You may disguise yourself with a Decent disguise as a Move action.

Special: Illusory Armor counts as an obstacle for firing through, or total cover, attacker's choice. Its AD is the same as its wearer's, and it has 1 HP and 8 Toughness.

Reactive Armor Magic Armor

This full plate armor seems to be made out of hardened explosions. The fact is, they're not hardened, they're frozen in time. Small amounts of explosion unfreeze when struck, softening the blow.

Value 9000 copper Weight 30 kilograms

Chakra: Heart

-1 AD, -1 Stealth, -2 Agility, -2 Legerdemain

Effects: All attacks against AD that deal damage get a -2 penalty to damage against you.

Creatures that attack your GD and hit take 1d6+1 Heat damage if they're within 5 meters.

Special: Removing the Orange Gem from the Reactive Armor makes it explode, attacking all creatures and unattended objects within a 20 meter blast for 1d6+3 Heat damage, with an Accuracy of +3. The attack hits you automatically. The explosion is audible from 1000 meters away.

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