07-18-2015, 09:13 AM
I only have an answer for #2, we made it a +2 enhancement cost.
We have also talked about items that grant an AC bonus as being able to hold material also (like bracers of armor and robes of archmagic, corset of dire witchcraft, etc.) When we started with FFd20 there was "cloth" armor- basically a t-shirt mages could wear and enhance like armor and it could hold material. But that category has since been discontinued so it left some of our caster's a little miffed.
The enhancement cost hasn't been too game-breaky so far. Though I paired it with a Golden Amulet so... I will probably be what causes it to be ruled out.
It might be interesting to create some homemade items and ONLY have multi material slots available in found loot. Then you could control it. OR have certain items with permanent material slotted in them. That might be a way of correcting. Like a Sword with a material slot AND a permanent Fly material slotted to it.
We have also talked about items that grant an AC bonus as being able to hold material also (like bracers of armor and robes of archmagic, corset of dire witchcraft, etc.) When we started with FFd20 there was "cloth" armor- basically a t-shirt mages could wear and enhance like armor and it could hold material. But that category has since been discontinued so it left some of our caster's a little miffed.
The enhancement cost hasn't been too game-breaky so far. Though I paired it with a Golden Amulet so... I will probably be what causes it to be ruled out.
It might be interesting to create some homemade items and ONLY have multi material slots available in found loot. Then you could control it. OR have certain items with permanent material slotted in them. That might be a way of correcting. Like a Sword with a material slot AND a permanent Fly material slotted to it.