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khorboth · 09-22-2016, 01:30 PM

Ricky’s persistent daggers:
Four plain throwing knives in a black leather bandoleer designed to be worn across the chest. They may be used in melee as small knives dealing +2 damage. When throwing, the user may decide to release one two, three or all four as a single ready action. Once released, the enchantment takes over their flight. The daggers fly toward the designated target up to 100 yards away, attacking with a skill of 12 but ignoring range penalties. They always aim for the torso and inflict 1d imp on a successful attack. Any which are blocked or parried will circle around to attack again two rounds later. A dodge (or block with a wooden shield) which succeeds by two or more results in the knife being stuck in a suitable material such as wood or earth. If freed, the knife will resume the attack. The holder of the bandoleer can order all knives back to the bandoleer at any time, though individual control is not possible. Those which are stuck must be retrieved manually. Each knife will continue until it has struck, become stuck, or is called back to the bandoleer.

These were created by the wizard Shando in an effort to win magical duels. The thought was to distract his opponent with flying daggers while his slower spells had time to complete. Unfortunately for Shando, they were ruled to be weapons and therefore unusable in the duel. In his anger, he threw them over the wall of the compound. From there, the history of the knives is unknown until they reappeared in the hands of a thief named Ricky who mostly used them to distract opponents until his much larger adventuring companions could be brought to bear on a foe.

09-22-2016, 01:30 PM	#5
khorboth Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Denver, CO	Re: Dungeon Fantasy Magic Item Backstory Contest Ricky’s persistent daggers: Four plain throwing knives in a black leather bandoleer designed to be worn across the chest. They may be used in melee as small knives dealing +2 damage. When throwing, the user may decide to release one two, three or all four as a single ready action. Once released, the enchantment takes over their flight. The daggers fly toward the designated target up to 100 yards away, attacking with a skill of 12 but ignoring range penalties. They always aim for the torso and inflict 1d imp on a successful attack. Any which are blocked or parried will circle around to attack again two rounds later. A dodge (or block with a wooden shield) which succeeds by two or more results in the knife being stuck in a suitable material such as wood or earth. If freed, the knife will resume the attack. The holder of the bandoleer can order all knives back to the bandoleer at any time, though individual control is not possible. Those which are stuck must be retrieved manually. Each knife will continue until it has struck, become stuck, or is called back to the bandoleer. These were created by the wizard Shando in an effort to win magical duels. The thought was to distract his opponent with flying daggers while his slower spells had time to complete. Unfortunately for Shando, they were ruled to be weapons and therefore unusable in the duel. In his anger, he threw them over the wall of the compound. From there, the history of the knives is unknown until they reappeared in the hands of a thief named Ricky who mostly used them to distract opponents until his much larger adventuring companions could be brought to bear on a foe.