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Unwilling Sacrifice Wisdom Check
Wisdom Check Result Percent of Total Experience Drained
26+ 5%
23-25 10%
20-22 15%
18-19 20%
16-17 30%
14-15 40%
Less than 14 50%
sacrifice holds dangers beyond merely obtaining less
experience points than expected. An unwilling sacrifice
may very well ruin the item entirely.
Forcing a traumatised soul into the delicate process of
magic item creation can have a number of unexpected
effects on the final product. A resisting sacrifice may, as
his last, unwitting act of defiance, alter or spoil the item
fabrication procedure, making the item less useful, utterly
useless or even quite dangerous to touch. Despite these
concerns, the opportunity to offset half the experience
point cost of creating a magical item is more than enough
incentive for most drow spellcasters to use lifebinding
whenever possible.
The exact effects that a resisting sacrifice can have on
the lifebinding ritual vary with the nature of the item
under construction. To determine what, if any, impact
the unwilling soul has on the final magical item, find
the appropriate table below and roll 1d20. This roll is
modified by the difference in levels between the spellcaster
performing the lifebinding ritual and the unwilling sacrifice.
For this purpose, only the spellcaster’s level in the class he
is using to create the item is counted (for example, a drow
with four levels of fighter and five levels of wizard would
be counted as a 5 th level character). However, the total
levels of the sacrifice (before the loss of any experience
points due to the lifebinding) are counted for the purposes
Potions
Roll Effect
1-14 Potion functions normally
15-16 Potion functions normally, but with additional unwanted effect
17 Potion is inert
18 Poison I
19 Poison II
20 Poison III
of this check. Therefore, if the drow mentioned above were
to be an unwilling sacrifice, rather than the performer of
the ritual, he would be counted as a 9 th level character. For
every level by which the spellcaster exceeds the sacrifice,
subtract one from d20 roll. Conversely, for every level the
sacrifice exceeds the spellcaster, add one to the d20 roll.
No matter what the result, the experience points of both the
sacrifice and the spellcaster are considered spent.
Monsters as Lifebinding Sacrifices
A drow may certainly use a monster as his sacrifice for
the lifebinding ritual. The only true stipulation is that the
sacrifice must be sentient, as the gods of the drow will be
unimpressed if one of their followers kills a simple gursk
in hopes of making a magical item. To assess the number
of experience points that can be gleaned from a monster
as a lifebinding sacrifice, simply determine its effective
character level by adding together its Hit Dice and its level
adjustment (if any). Assume the monster has the minimum
experience required to meet its effective character level.
Potions
The lifebinding ritual is rarely used to prepare potions, as
their cost in experience points is slight enough that it is
simply not worth the time, trouble or risk to a spellcaster.
However, many inexperienced drow cut their teeth in the
lifebinding ritual by first using it in the creation of potions.
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