D20:Magic Items: Artifacts Rules

Artifacts are extremely powerful. Rather than merely another form of magic equipment, they are the sorts of legendary relics that whole campaigns can be based on. Each could be the center of a whole set of adventures?a quest to recover it, a fight against a opponent wielding it, a mission to cause its destruction, and so on.
No table has been included to randomly generate specific artifacts, since these items should only enter a campaign through deliberate choice on your part.

Minor artifacts are not necessarily unique items. Even so, they are magic items that no longer can be created, at least by common mortal means.

Described below is a selection of the most well-known (not necessarily the most numerous) minor artifacts.

• Book of Infinite Spells
  
• Deck of Many Things
  
• Hammer of Thunderbolts
  
• Philosopher's Stone
  
• Sphere of Annihillation
  
• Staff of the Magi
  
• Talisman of Pure Good
  
• Talisman of the Sphere
  
• Talisman of Reluctant Wishes
  
• Talisman of Ultimate Evil
  

Major artifacts are unique items?only one of each such item exists. These are the most potent of magic items, capable of altering the balance of a campaign.
Unlike all other magic items, major artifacts are not easily destroyed. Each should have only a single, specific means of destruction.

• The Moaning Diamond
  
• The Orbs of Dragonkind
  
• The Saint's Mace
  
• The Shadowstaff
  
• The Shield of the Sun
  

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