1001 Homebrew Magic Items

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108: The Sphere Of Planar Travel
Artifact

A multifaceted gem about 1 1/2 inches in diameter floats unmoving when released, but appears to weigh 50 pounds when stowed in a pack or pocket. When manipulated it appears to weigh like a gemstone of its size. The gem pulses in a variety of colors, generating light which allows normal vision at up to 20 feet.

When the item is researched for 30 - Spellcraft Ranks days, any character with the Spellcraft Skill can control the item and use its powers:

1) The gem can create a spherical Force Field centered on the gem with infinite hit points which can contain 1 medium-sized creature per caster level, (minimum = the wielder if not a spellcaster.) Nothing short of godlike power or another artifact can penetrate this force field, neither entering or leaving the sphere. Within the Force Field environmental conditions which suit the wielder.

2) The gem can allow the wielder to fly at will as the fly spell. If the Force Field is active, all occupants fly with the wielder. The gem must be in hand to be used for flight.

3) The gem can teleport the caster as the Teleport Spell. If the Force Field is active, all occupants teleport with the caster.

4) The gem can be used to travel the Astral Plane. If the Force Field is active all occupants within it travel with the wielder. Any plane contiguous with the Astral Plane may be visited but, outside of the Force Field, the gem offers no protection from the natural environment of any plane.

The gem cannot travel on or enter into the Etheral Plane. If the Plane Of Shadow is, like the Etheral Plane, contiguous with multiple Prime Material Planes, it is similarly inaccessible through use of the gem.

There are several drawbacks to owning this gem:

A) To attune the gem a character must permantly sacrifice one Ability Point. Thereafter, so long as no other creature attunes itself to the gem, that Ability Score may not be buffed by any means, though it remains subject to drains and healing. So long as the gem is attuned to a character, that character may not assign Ability Point Increases such as are gained via levelup or tomes to that Ability. Once the gem passes to a new owner, the Ability Score can be buffed and improved normally, but the sacrificed point can nevef be recovered, even via Wishes or the power of divine beings.

B) Outsiders not on their native planes have a -2 (-10%) Reaction to the wielder of this stone.

C) Creatures native to the Astral Plane are automatically Hostile to the wielder if they can see or otherwise sense the presence of the gem.