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5 months ago ::
Dec 31, 2012 - 10:27PM
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The ritual 'Hallowed Temple' and the magic item 'Exodus knife" could each allow you to protect them for 8 hours.
I second the recomendation of opening a portal to the astral sea, and hiding them in a leomunds chest on some distant earth mote. You could also use the item "gloves of storing" to hold 2 of them a piece. This ensures that he will not get them without incapacitating the party.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 02, 2013 - 5:26AM
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The group I DM for are trying to keep a sword with a necroshard away from a group of Necromancers who want to use the shard to raise an army. They found a higher level wizard who cast Aura Mask (lvl 8 ritual) on the sword to make it appear nonmagical. They also secured a golden eye to the scabbard, so as long as the sword is sheathed or within 20 squares of the sheathe, the ritual remains in effect. He taught one of the group's casters the ritual, but since it uses an arcana role to set the DC of magically detecting the sword, the original caster's DC is probably higher than the players can achieve at this point.
It does not, however, prevent the bad guys from tracking the PCs themselves ...
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5 months ago ::
Jan 02, 2013 - 8:19AM
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The group I DM for are trying to keep a sword with a necroshard away from a group of Necromancers who want to use the shard to raise an army. They found a higher level wizard who cast Aura Mask (lvl 8 ritual) on the sword to make it appear nonmagical. They also secured a golden eye to the scabbard, so as long as the sword is sheathed or within 20 squares of the sheathe, the ritual remains in effect. He taught one of the group's casters the ritual, but since it uses an arcana role to set the DC of magically detecting the sword, the original caster's DC is probably higher than the players can achieve at this point.
It does not, however, prevent the bad guys from tracking the PCs themselves ...
This is definitely one of those cases where my first thought would be 'Let's see if we can destroy this thing'. 
Another day, another three or four entries to my Ignore List.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 02, 2013 - 8:37AM
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The group I DM for are trying to keep a sword with a necroshard away from a group of Necromancers who want to use the shard to raise an army. They found a higher level wizard who cast Aura Mask (lvl 8 ritual) on the sword to make it appear nonmagical. They also secured a golden eye to the scabbard, so as long as the sword is sheathed or within 20 squares of the sheathe, the ritual remains in effect. He taught one of the group's casters the ritual, but since it uses an arcana role to set the DC of magically detecting the sword, the original caster's DC is probably higher than the players can achieve at this point.
It does not, however, prevent the bad guys from tracking the PCs themselves ...
This is definitely one of those cases where my first thought would be 'Let's see if we can destroy this thing'.
Yeah, they are looking into that, but it leads them into much more dangerous territory, and the group decided the weapon still would be safer with them than trying to hide it somewhere.
Not everyone is prepared to march into Mordor 
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5 months ago ::
Jan 04, 2013 - 4:01AM
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Date Joined:
Jul 23, 2012
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I'd do the cool bag trick and then make a load of fakes and give them out to the party. Make sure that nobody knows about the fakes outside the party. If a party member is then in a situation where they have to give up an orb they can just yell "NEVER!" and distroy it, or better yet make him think you ported it to another dimention so he has a chance of running off on a pointless quest. Make sure you all have clear plans on how to distroy the fakes in a way that looks real. (Villan running off and leaving his home base ungarded is also a cool plot-hook)
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5 months ago ::
Jan 04, 2013 - 8:03AM
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Swallow them
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5 months ago ::
Jan 04, 2013 - 8:19AM
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Swallow them
Holy simple and awesome bat-man.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 04, 2013 - 8:22AM
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And then he can't get it without a cutting weapon and a willingness to hurt people, and he doesn't have any of those, right? 
A character sheet is a player's love letter to the DM. If someone wants to do something and they want to do it well, let them. Encourage them. Have fun with it. -Unknown
An adventure is a DM's love letter to the players. If the DM wants something to happen in the game, let it. Encourage the DM. Have fun with it. -Centauri I'd love for input as to what it should be rather than arguments against why I shouldn't have it at all. -lialwyn Best defense that I've read in favor of having alignment systems as an option
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That makes sense. However, it is not fair to continually attack those that benefit for being, somehow, deviant for deriving enjoyment from something that you cannot. Instead, alignment is continually attacked...it is demonized...and those that use it are lumped in with it.
I think there is more merit in a situation where someone says "This doesn't work! It's broken!" and the reply is "Actually it works fine for me. Have you considered your approach might be causing it?" than a situation where someone says "I use this system and the way I use it works really well!" and the back and forth is "No! It is a broken bad system!" because the former posits that improvement could be made...the latter only undermines the enjoyment of the person who is using alignment. -YagamiFire
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5 months ago ::
Jan 04, 2013 - 10:45AM
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And then he can't get it without a cutting weapon and a willingness to hurt people, and he doesn't have any of those, right?
Or waiting for a while ...
Another day, another three or four entries to my Ignore List.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 04, 2013 - 12:27PM
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And then he can't get it without a cutting weapon and a willingness to hurt people, and he doesn't have any of those, right?
Or waiting for a while ...
Cut back on fiber consumption and eat some hardtack. That'll keep those bad boys backed up for a while
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The Silent God of the House of Trolls
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