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Magical Minds #1 – Wedding Dress of Resurrection

1 February 2010 in Magical Minds by Iain M Norman

Ever since my six year old daughter helped me with 100 post apocalyptic junk items, she’s wanted to do more lists of things with me. So this weekend, as she lay in bed suffering with chickenpox, she decided to create a small list of magic items for Dungeons & Dragons.

It’s from that list that I’m taking inspiration for a short series. She came up with names for items and a brief description of their powers. I’m trying to make balanced game sense of them one by one, and today I’d like to present the first of them.

Wedding Dress of Resurrection

When I asked my daughter why this even existed she said a powerful mage was due to be married to the love of his life, but she died on the morning or their wedding, so he created this powerful arcane item to raise her from the dead. The only problem is she had to wear it for the rest of her life.

Wedding Dress of Resurrection

This ornate wedding dress is embroidered with gold and inset with diamonds. It has the power to raise the dead temporarily.

Level: 8
Price: 3,400 gp
Item Slot: Waist

Power (Monthly • Healing):Donning the dress has the same effect as the ritual Raise Dead upon the wearer. Performance time is 1 hour instead of 8 hours. The effects only last as long as the dress remains worn.

This can be worn by either male or female characters. Even if worn under your armour it should still show a little at the cuffs and the long trailing dress. Drawing strange looks should be part and parcel of not being dead!

More from Magical Minds later, if I can work out how to make some of the more mental ideas even close to playable!

Please let us know what you think in the comments and I’ll make sure that I pass them on to the young creator.

Since the dark days of the late '70s, Iain has been playing and running RPGs of one type or another. When not with his wife and children or working as a software engineer/Photoshop monkey he spends spare time either shooting pointy sticks at pointless paper targets or spending time enjoying the varied worlds of role playing.

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6 Comments to Magical Minds #1 – Wedding Dress of Resurrection

  1. Ooh, this feels like some of the old school stuff. I like it and I’m looking forward to seeing the rest. Especially the more mental ones.

    2. Epidiah Ravachol on 1 February 2010

  2. She has a vicious streek, and hasn’t grasped that magic items are in the main intended to be beneficial to those that use them. Not sure what I’m going to do with “The Necklace of Death”. *giggles*

    3. Iain M Norman on 1 February 2010

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  4. This one is great! Personally, I’d have the wearer not be able to wear anything else -but- the dress, but I may give it a moderate amount of AC. The downside? You have to put up with the echoes of all who have worn the dress before you, and some of them are not happy… or sane. The whole concept reminds me of this image:

    http://movies.apple.com/…/thebride_qtmedium.jpg

    5. Esspkay on 2 February 2010

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