Lost Artifacts of Greyghast - A 5e Magic Item Compendium

I'm just glad you're enjoying them, Dallin. Have fun out there!

You know? We debated that for so, so long--whether to include that. Ultimately, we decided that because there were so many items (hundreds) and people are so particular about the ones they like that any table with all of them would be TOO random. So, then, we thought "Ok, so maybe a number of tables, like a dozen different tables) and even then we did mock ups and there were just too many to make it easy to work with.

Our priorities were (in order) Content (items), Navigation (ways of searching/finding items by many vectors of interest), and Usability (like the Notes sections and the like). Rollable tables would have been under the third.

You're not wrong, Seth--tables for random rolling would have been cool, but we figured of all the content we could provide? That was the easiest for owners to handle themselves.

Good tip, though. : )

Next time? We'll have to see about moving that up.

Josh, I swear... we went round and round on whether to include prices (in character). Lots of good arguments on both sides. We ended up passing on it because we wanted to keep the feeling that these things were "one of a kind" in any world. True "artifacts" that are sorta priceless for their history and whatnot, not just priced because of their power level.

But, you're in great company--the number one request we've had from fans has been "but, yeah, it'd still be helpful if I knew how much to sell one for by an NPC".

Here's my rule of thumb:

There are 3 levels of "complexity" for the items. For simple items, half the party's cash should be the price. For moderately complex items, all their cash. For the advanced complexity stuff, 1.5x their cash.

Give them reasons to spend treasure and have to find treasure. 5e doesn't really offer enough to spend the money on, we find. The NPC may have the awesome Crest, but...See more wants (you check their cash total and its 6200 gp) 9300 gp for it.

...better go find some monsters.

(also, fans have made their own price lists online--I've seen one or two... don't have a link handy, though)

Thanks for the response! Now I'm still kicking myself in the XXX for not getting the hardback. After the pdf came in I realized how terrible I am at referencing Pdf's while prepping or during game play. Although I know for some people, it's ideal.

I'll keep my eye out for these price lists or just think of yours...sounds like a good measure.

I'll send you a discount code for the hardcover--it won't be free (there are always printing/shipping charges, at the most), but I can knock it down to close to that for you. Email me at flannel@manysideddice.com

The price has certainly come down and I can only say that we put a lot of love and quality into the product. I hope you take it for a spin, honestly. I'm proud of the work.

Thanks for the feedback, Alex.

For Helm of Prey, to clarify:

A. No matter how the sneak or surprising attack is established (advantage, other reasons), once it is established (the attack is a Sneak Attack, getting the extra damage or other benefits), then that attack must be made at Disadvantage. It doesn't make the attack NOT a Sneak Attack, only makes the Sneak Attack peculiarly hard to land.

B. The item's system overrides the books, in this case--following the "more specific overrules general" idea. Many of the items do that. Normally, one doesn't get a Reaction if surprised. This item allows one to, but only for a narrow purpose--in response to being surprise attacked and for the purposes of moving afterward.

Thanks!

We're looking into that, right now, Paul. Thanks!

Yes, yes!

You can find our Errata (which will be put into an updated PDF for free download for people that own it already) at https://manysideddice.com/errata-for-lost-artifacts-of-greyghast/

170k words (or near about). That one single thing irks me. But thanks for calling it out! We'll make it all right, promise. Patrick!

He beat me to it!