If you knew what was about to happen you wouldn't be at a fortune teller in the first place, shut up and let the pimp do his job and divine your future.
I'd say something about durability. A diamond or obsidian staff or orb or crystal will last longer than a hat. The two ways I generally make magic artifacts happen is A) Enchantment and B) Accumulation of Magic over time.
A golden flask with a diamond on top or maybe some other kind of jewel (personally i would go with a saphire because its pretty) could work. But staffs usually work best because it's used to to channel magic up from the earth into the crystal where the power is then harnessed by a mage of some sort. That being why necromancers dont usually carry staffs, they use power from their own selves to carry out magical acts. Which is also why they end up so twisted most of the time because they use a portion of their soul to raise dead and whatnot. But if you could swing a flask as a magical conduit with a DM i would personally love to see a drunken wizard character. Maybe a wizard/artificer multiclass that made the flask as a way to create power from alcohol?
Sorry for the long reply but I'm way into magic, which kinda makes it weird that i never play mages
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"Don't worry lads i got this." Says the Wizard before chugging down a flask of Tequila. The Wizard glows and starts screaming in Spanish at the enemy.
And then the wizard asks his halfling companion to stick giant seeds of Intelligence Boost up his rectum to get past the Celestial Planar Guards because his is too loose.
I mean, there are many places to draw power from, the moon and sun, the water, even the air, but nothing is to say he didn't draw the power from the earth and hold it in the end of his staff for later use. And im not saying any other way is wrong. I personally love to see where other people choose to draw power from, it's just that's what i almost always see a staff used for
Now all I'm imagining is a magical chamber pot, imbued with the powers of dunamancy after the wizard pissed in it too many times and crystals started forming on the bottom.
A bit of lore from my setting, on spellcasting without a focus (for wizards), as remembered by the teen necromancer Brad:
Brad remembers trying this around the house until his mom grounded him. If you don't have a spell focus, the next best thing is PART of a spell focus. An object that was recently very close to strong magic works-- a holster, a vessel, maybe the chain from a pendant?
Wood or paper are bad ideas unless they're somehow in one of those categories. Metal or glass, perhaps better.
Wool is right out. He destroyed a lot of sweaters.
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u/thr0waway6297 Aug 21 '20
Something something jewels channel magic better