Crazy good rog tools https://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/

 https://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/

Says the RPG Reanimators on yt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faxWa6s9lGk&t=866s

Artists - D&D and LotR and such

 https://raggedclaws.com/2013/12/11/connections-john-newton-howitt-1934-and-the-brothers-hildebrandt-1979/

He https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2010/10/down-in-dungeon.html mentions ... of Frank Frazetta, the Brothers Hildebrand, and Ralph McQuarrie.

https://www.blackgate.com/2014/10/22/art-of-the-genre-the-top-10-dragon-magazine-covers-of-the-1970s-80s/

Animals France Belgium vid

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f0eO97NuDck&t=2583s&pp=0gcJCQMLAYcqIYzv

Time 43:05 the blue winged jay(?) using ants that spray acid(?) to clean parasites off wings. 

Time around 42:00 squirrel fight orange vs black. 

Around 30:00-35:00 bird bumps camera. 

Early on may time 15:00 … something interesting with a squirrel i think. ??? What was it. 

Lotsa free module dungeon links - GET THEM SOON

Here's another slew of free modules apparently (have not verified): https://rendedpress.blogspot.com/p/free-downloads.html

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GET EM. But beware of this blogger's words, he may be a danger to us all: https://alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com/p/pdf-adventure-archives.html

Via his blog:

With all my malice and disdain,

Enjoy your games,

 -- Gus L.

COLOR CODES

Anomalous Subsurface Environment:
These adventures are set in the world of Patrick Wetmore's Anomalous Subsurface Environment, the "Land of a Thousand Towers".  The setting is a gonzo science fantasy post-apoco0lypse and I still believe that the Anomalous Subsurface Environment represents the best of OSR design, especially in the transition phase between the forum based "Old School Revival" and Google+ based "Old School Renaissance".  I have long enjoyed writing in this setting, and with it's cheerful anarchy and absurdity had become the default OSR tone rather then grim darkness. Someday I hope Patrick finishes his dungeon or I work up the courage to buy the notes and maps off of him and spend three years doing so myself (this is very unlikely).
      
Fallen Empire/Crystal Frontier
My own "Off-Vanilla" fantasy setting, a sort of high magic apocalypse where the remnants of the Successor Empire are plundered by the rising "primitive" feudal powers of the Resurgent Kingdoms. Crystal Frontier is the Western edge of that empire, but these adventures are set in various other regions.

Other
Things written outside of any of these settings. Those frankly a lot aren't much outside of them.

Free Adventures

➽ Red Demon of the Vile Fens - 8/2012 
A lair adventure for levels 1 -5,  using the ruined war machine motif.  I still think there's good ideas in here, but it's very much a Patrick Wetmore influenced work.  The design and writing are rather raw, as I'd barely started talking to other creators.  It's more typical of the "off-vanilla" design popular in the early Old School Renaissance where the basic elements of D&D's implied setting are used to create a different sort of setting.  For example, one of the dangerous special munitions one can recover is described as powdered mummy dust that inflicts AD&D's mummy rot -- rather then being the Martian biological agent it was in own fiction.

➽ Prison of the Hated Pretender - 8/2012 An introductory lair adventure focused on monster encounters and a day and night activity cycle puzzle that allows movement through the otherwise very dangerous haunted location. The original uses the same sort of design as Red Demon, but the 2020 version linked here is much improved both in that it includes notes on how to run the adventure as a teaching dungeon, more art and better keying. It also includes a 5E conversion and some notes on the playstyle differences (though Prison is one of the rare OSR adventures I think can work in 5E as it's focused on encounters focused not exploration). I'm proud that it is frequently described as one of the three top OSR teaching dungeons, but it's still free. The tips go into my fund for buying other people's adventures mostly, and some tiny pittance goes to Hydra Co-op and offsets cost there.

➽ OBELISK OF FORGOTTEN MEMORIES - 9/2012 A level 1-3 adventure located on the ASE Denethix regional map proper (lower left corner), and the largest adventure I've written for ASE. A graveyard with a few mini-dungeons and faction intrigue with the representatives of three petulant orbital deities. At the time multiple tables and table nesting were very popular in OSR circles, and this

➽ Hel Crow's Final Rest - 9/2012 A Viking adventure. Low level, short, originally for a contest and I think a functional faction intrigue set up. Originally two pages. New version here is edited, and slightly longer due to layout considerations.

➽ Tempus Gelidum - 12/2012 A level 3-5 (more like 2-4) adventure on the Certopisan plains. Also a lair, an ancient clocktower home to a mechanical Gorgon. The treasure hoard is notable as is the experiment with description capsules covering room conditions.

➽ BritTLESTONE PARAPET -4/2013 My first entry I ever into the One Page Dungeon Contest and a winner (That year everyone won... it was a more egalitarian time) -- low level or something. I think it started my obsession with owlbears and the idea that they eat magic. Also includes crystals, magical pollution and cannibal bandits. A microcosm of every adventure I've ever designed. I'm not sure how playable it is, but think it works for a OPD.

➽ Adrift on The Sea Of Love - 9/2013 A level 1-3 pirate adventure. Generic enough, but I enjoy it. The dungeon in it is very much a set of traps, but I think they work, as does the island. Some of the ideas (such as the search for a boat) are borrowed from "N1-Treasure Hunt, a later TSR adventure I enjoyed in the 90's. It's nothing special design-wise, very standard B/X, but the keys are startign to get long and disorganized -- showing more "trad" influence then I'd like, though frankly this may be an issue for sea voyage based adventures. This was written quickly for Erick Jensen to use at a con I think so I suspect that I started regressing to the design style of all the early 90's dungeon magazines I read back in the day -- like a feral parrot sipping too much dark rum.

➽ Wreck of the ANubis - 2/2014 Level 2-3 and Written for an ASE Campaign, I don't know how successful it is largely because the key lengths are quite long, and it includes a matrix style intro key for each area that is far more elaborate then it should be. Otherwise it's a ASE wizard tower in another wrecked vessel with a swamp theme.

➽ Thunderhead Manse - 4/2014 Another one page dungeon and I think a finalist in the 2014 contest. I floating castle missing its wizard and now ruled by an increasingly slovenly band of flying monkey guards. Not explicitly and ASE adventure, but very much one in spirit and execution.

➽ Stone ShipS - 4/2014 A two page adventure that is my only experiment with procedural generation. Build an entire fleet of half sunken arcane warships. I like the idea, but this is too little space to do it justice. A failed design experiment that I should finish revisiting. There's no shortcut to a well designed dungeon adventure.

➽ KUGELBERG FLOOD - 5/2014 Another small adventure, that like Stone Ships started as a one page dungeon attempt and wouldn't fit. A sunken location suddenly revealed by a once a decade flood, with a time limit imposed by the returning waters. It could be a Fallen Empire location, and it's rather complex for an 11 key location, a dense and fairly terse four pages that manages to still have sufficient flavor. The text is lengthened by the same matrix style room description as a lot of my design from this time period, but it's more useful here then in some other examples.

➽ Along the road of Tombs - 7/2014 A larger sandbox and faction intrigue dungeon for 3rd - 5th level characters (I think - it has some nasty cultists in it) but designed rather organically without any attention to level balance -- meaning that it is rather dogmatic about mid-OSR design conventions. It's also a mess. One of my favorite messes, and something I mean to revise and republish without the constraints of the contest it was written for and which never finished (Road of Tombs was one of four finalists). It could be improved with editing, a less restrictive map, some new illustrations and a selection of smaller tombs (See The Grieving Road as an example of the style I think would work). With this I think it would make a very interesting sandbox with strong faction conflict firmly set in the Fallen Empire. I have thought of relocating it to the Crystal Frontier, but I think it's best if it remains within a few days walk (or more likely within the walls) of the Successor Empire's Capital. It's also an interesting adventure in the evolution of my design process - the keys are too long and disordered, it needs an edit, and again this is partially a process of quick writing, but it also drops the matrix design in favor of a bolded keys and stat blocks. This would evolve into my current style of bolding and sub paragraphs and to me represents an efficient and accessible way to write keys for complex and non-standard locations.

➽ Lone Colossi of The Akolouthos Sink 9/2014 Similar in design to Along the Road of Tombs (3rd level? There's a 10HD monster in there) a smaller dungeon in one of my favorite locations -- a wrecked war machine. I like some of it, but think the giant arcane "mecha" of the Successor Empire deserve something bigger. Also returns to the matrix keys of Kugelberg Flood, and less successfully as the longer description means each key is broken into two unconnected parts spread over almost a whole page. Usability isn't high here.

➽ Pretender's Dread Machine - 10/2014 I think this is a good 3rd-6th level adventure. A multi-session expedition featuring a region to explore, and containing two dungeons. Like Prison of the Hated Pretender it involves the legacy of a rather nasty despot and one of his magi-tech creations. In this case a building size machine (the primary dungeon) that can resurrect the dead. As a piece of adventure design, I rather enjoy the ideas in it, but think both the experiment with isometric mapping in its first dungeon fails, long keys and the matrix also make another unwelcome appearance. It deserves a editing pass, redesign and rerelease I think. I'd also like to add the 5th - 8th level third part of the Pretender sage "The Divine Wight" which I started but never finished because I couldn't figure out how to write a certain puzzle. Perhaps one day there will be an omnibus.

➽ FALLEN THRONE - 4/2015 I dislike this adventure. Mid-level maybe, a one page dungeon contest entry that I wrote in about 3 hours. It's basic idea, a throne of heaven (sort of a divine marble space station) falls into a city and begins to destroy it with angelic cruelty. The issue is that that's a big idea, as in it needs a big dungeon. One page can't offer a big dungeon so instead it's the sketch of an idea and terse compromises with a region based map. Honestly it reminds me of many of the small Post-OSR adventures that I don't have much time for, big ideas done too fast, too sloppy and without the space, design knowledge, or diligence to complete them. It is also my only OPD contest entry so far that hasn't placed. Read it only as a lesson in how not to design adventures (or OPDs).

➽ Comes the Mountain - 5/2015 A short (failed OPD) adventure for higher levels based solely on the drawing/map included. I think it's got a good idea, but the scope is too big for four pages. Again a sandbox about climbing up a walking volcano to turn it away from it's destructive path could be a very good high level adventure, but running this would require a lot of work. ➽ HMS APOLLYON PLAYER'S GUIDE - 8/2016 Not a dungeon. Perhaps the most time consuming piece here. The most detailed set of my house rules (an old version) for a setting based variety of LBB/OD&D. Contains such nonsense as steam powered mech suits and a lot of mid-OSR mechanics borrowed, stolen, modified and tested over several years of online play. It has some good rules, I still use many, but it's not streamlined in ways I'd like it to be and doesn't include various modifications that I think make this sort of ruleset better and have been using since.

➽ GRAVESAND BEACH - 4/2017 A one page dungeon that I submitted, but there was a typo in the license so it wasn't included in the contest I think. I enjoy the washed up sea elf pirate/giant turtle wreck, but am not sure where the seagull things came from. Fun ideas, but once again badly constrained by the OPD format.

➽ Maw of snails - 8/2020 Another One Page Dungeon, 2nd place I think in the 2020 OPD contest. It works, but it's fairly sparse. I've written a whole post on its design here so I don't think I will go into detail. I like it, but it's a One Page Dungeon which means a design test at best and usually a stunt.

➽ THE GRIEVING ROAD - 6/2022 2022 One Page Dungeon entry -- as a OPD it's a stunt, but a fun way to test out side-view maps and a 90's style jewel tone palette (faded for proper 2020's retro vibes). I think it would make a decent set of companion tombs for Along the Road of Tombs, or a small Crystal Frontier location set along the descent from the Maiden Tombs.

(Late 70s)1981! More old reptilian green orcs. AZmountaineer's color art.

Down in the Dungeon / Exploring Zarakan's Dungeon, 1981, but art was late 1970s says AZmountaineer. Absolutely awesome stuff. So inspirational, I gotta use it soon.

This artist/author combo loved reptiles, I approve. Maybe b/c they (the company making this) were from Texas?

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=--XFX2U4PJE&t=382s

https://www.vintagerpg.com/2020/05/down-in-the-dungeon-1981/

Better views of art at monsterbrains https://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2010/10/down-in-dungeon.html?m=1

Found art via https://unwinnable.com/2022/12/05/down-in-the-dungeon/

Orcs at Time 6:25.

• From 1981, could THESE be the first green orcs, and especially repitlian (sort of)?!
• TWO types of orcs. Me n the kid spotted it before we heard the details... 
• Man-orcs are the taller slightly more orange ones. Couldnt be halforcs. 
• 1983 dns cartoon grren reptilian with dog noses
• 1983 Gamorrean guards, pig noses
• 1983 warhammer… ? I guess the ones similar to warcraft 1.
• Great art all around  magic users, man-orcs, orcs, gold dragon, gargoyle, ancient Egypt stuff, cool surrounding painted rocks, caves, paths, water. 

I don't think they see this giant lizard. This isn't the same lizard that the wizard lizard has, but enlarged,huh? 

From a distance you see a knight with shining armor astride a black warhorse. Perhaps friend, perhaps not. (approach). Then you notice, it is no horse, but a reptilian monster with feet like dinosaur. 

The orcs have very reptilian feet here. Note some have 3 fingers+thumb some have 4+thumb. 

Orc leg on right has scales. Ones on left show facial hair. 

Wizard with Lizard. He's too snakelike to the giant one, huh?

Assassin/thief style backstab. 

No Exit. Only deeper (undrawn possibility at "the end"). 

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BTW, buyer beware here, but seems to host some free 1 page dungeons: https://alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com/p/pdf-adventure-archives.html

Pathfinder Roll20 macros, figuring it out.

 Need Burning Hands... note my CL is 2 instead of 1 due to Varisian Tattoo. SO I can't use their default calculation, eh? And I get +3 per die dmg (on fire spells, it'd be +2 per non-fire). 

&{template:default} {{ Burning Arc=Insert an image or flavor text here }} {{ Range=[[ [[ floor((@{Selected|caster1_level}+2)/2)*5 ]] + 25 ]] ft. }} {{ Save=Reflex }} {{SR=[[ 1d20 + @{Selected|caster1_level}  ]]}}  {{ Primary=[[ [[@{Selected|caster1_level}]]d6 ]] Fire   **DC** [[@{Selected|caster1_dc_level_2}]] }} {{ Second=[[ [[floor(@{Selected|caster1_level}/2)]]d6 ]] Fire   **DC** [[@{Selected|caster1_dc_level_2} - 2]] }} {{ Third=[[ [[floor(@{Selected|caster1_level}/4)]]d6 ]] Fire   **DC** [[@{Selected|caster1_dc_level_2} - 2]] }} {{ Note=All targets must be within 15 ft. of each other }}

&{template:default} {{ Burning Arc=Flames Erupt!}} {{ Range=[[ [[ floor((@{Selected|caster1_level}+2)/2)*5 ]] + 25 ]] ft. }} {{ Save=Reflex }} {{SR=[[ 1d20 + @{Selected|caster1_level}  ]]}}  {{ Primary=[[ [[@{Selected|caster1_level}]]d6 ]] Fire   **DC** [[@{Selected|caster1_dc_level_2}]] }} {{ Second=[[ [[floor(@{Selected|caster1_level}/2)]]d6 ]] Fire   **DC** [[@{Selected|caster1_dc_level_2} - 2]] }} {{ Third=[[ [[floor(@{Selected|caster1_level}/4)]]d6 ]] Fire   **DC** [[@{Selected|caster1_dc_level_2} - 2]] }} {{ Note=All targets must be within 15 ft. of each other }}

WORKS NEEDS MODIFY (remove SR, fix DC):

&{template:default} {{ Burning Hands=Flames Erupt!}} {{ Range=[[ 15 ]] ft. }} {{ Save=Reflex }} {{SR=[[ 1d20 + @{Selected|caster1_level}  ]]}}  {{ Fire Dmg =[[ [[@{Selected|caster1_level}]]d4+6 ]] Fire   **DC** [[@{Selected|caster1_dc_level_2}]] }}   {{ Note=Burn baby burn }}

GOOD:

&{template:default} {{ Burning Hands=Flames Erupt!}} {{ Range=[[ 15 ]] ft. }} {{ Save=Reflex }} {{SR=[[ 1d20 + @{Selected|caster1_level}  ]]}}  {{ Fire Dmg =[[ [[2]]d4+6 ]] Fire   **DC** [[16]] }}   {{ Note=Burn baby burn }}

/me raises forth a hand, palm down with fingers spread, and utters, "Oth Zevrill"!

&{template:default} {{ Burning Hands=Flames Erupt!

}} {{ Range=[[ 15 ]] ft. Cone }} {{ Save=Reflex }} {{SR=[[ 1d20 + @{Selected|caster1_level}  ]]}}  {{ Fire Dmg =[[ [[2]]d4+6 ]] Fire   **DC** [[16]] }}   {{ Note=Burn baby burn }}

BASIC:

Fire Dmg =[[ [[2]]d4+6 ]]

INSIDE THIER THING, just CLICK NAME OF SPELL:

[[{(1*@{2}),5}kl1]]d4+6

[[{(1*2),5}kl1]]d4+6

[[{(1*@{caster1_level}),5}kl1]]d4

[[{(1*@{caster1_level}),5}kl1]]d4

[[{(1*2),5}kl1]]d4+6

WORKS:

/me cups his palm as though he were standing on a mound in a field and chants the verbal component "Uncto"!

[Grease]

DC[[14]] Ref Neg | SR:No

[[10]]ft. radius or single object for [[2]] minutes

/me raises forth a hand, palm down with fingers spread, and utters, "Oth Zevrill"!

[Burning Hands]

DC[[16]] Ref Neg | SR:Yes

[[15]]ft. cone

Hit:[[1d20+5]] for [[1d6+3]]dmg.

Hit:[[]] for [[2d4+6]]dmg.

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To calculate the Spell DC:

    10 + spell level + ability modifier (e.g. Wizards use INT, Clerics use WIS, Bards use CHA)

books stuff - gonna read some old Elric finally

 

1. Here is a great repository of fantasy and SF ("speculative fiction") -- https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?60466
2. it lists every know publication of a book/story. As you can see, this one has been published like 60 times!

Looks like it was included in "Appendix N: Weird Tales from the Roots of Dungeons & Dragons", so that book is definitely worth tracking down

1. https://readerslibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Dreaming-City[dot] pudda eff
2. Iffin ya seE urchIN for da awwtah, find more.
3. =====

stormbringer.fandom.com

https://stormbringer.fandom.com › wiki › Melniboné

Melniboné | Moorcock's Multiverse Wikia | Fandom

Melniboné, (pronounced mel-NIH-bo-nay), also known as the The Dragon Isle and The Bright Empire, is an island nation ruled by a 10,000 year old dynasty of emperors. Melniboné is populated by the Melnibonéans, elfin non-humans who worship Chaos. Melniboné's domination of the world is a result of 

AZdungeoneer's - Judge's Guild Archaic Names; Hand Drawn Weapons

 

Treasury of Archaic Names: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fcKH25MNJE

Hand drawn weapons time 5:55 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--XFX2U4PJE

Love hand drawn weapons. Reminds me of the D&D 3.0 / 3.5 books. 

Find poll results June 1, 2026: Bob the W.Bldr ... TTRPG popular poll

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ-8_dwoglU&t=320s

I am curious, even if it's a perfect poll, it's a pretty good one. 

Speed of a lightning bolt

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8sjDzU9Dxpo&t=198s

Time 4:30  

Dragon mag #12. 

PF familiars- details and compare

 Have to wait to get imprvd familiar feat at level  7 for Faery Dragon (altho i might wait till Level 13 bcuz i need them other feats yo) .  ONly level 3 for the Beheaded familiar, and it is GOOD. 

Normal Familiar

• Small dino good for init +4.

Improved familiars https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2p4h4 and https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2tq34

• Faery dragon (CG) can use wands n scrolls too, eh?! https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2tq34
• Languages Common, Draconic, Elven, Sylvan; telepathy 100 ft.
• Faerie Dragons are already Sorcerers, too, so they shouldn't even need UMD to cast Sorc/Wiz spells.
• Except Faerie Dragons, who are lvl 3 sorcerors (and thus can use any Wizard scroll or wand) 
• And have several little spells, like SLEEP, mage hand, grease, minor image, ghost sound. 
• Greater inviz x3!!
• Dancing Lights (so i should pick a diff Cantrip)
• Faery dragon good. Low level. Actually it is GOOD ALL AROUND... can use wands. Can cast magic naturally (no UMD check they say)
• https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2tq34
• Beheaded (tiny undead familiar, improvd, level 3 u can get) - https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/undead/beheaded/severed-head
• Beheaded can be created with any of the following special abilities. For every two abilities the beheaded possesses, increase the beheaded’s CR by +1 (except swarming which counts as 2 abilities by itself.)
• Spits energy (acid or something pick once) 30 ft, 1d6 ranged touch att
• Fire IMMUNITY, so FB all good
• Scream = fear (but affects all in 30 ft)
• 
  
• Azata, Lyrakien  - https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/azata/azata-lyrakien/
• 2nd best. More defensive. Detect magic and evil all day. 
• Imps and such can ise wands n scrolls And some inviz all day till attack. 
• This talks about which ones can do wands... and https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2p4h4
• I saw something about compatible alignment... what??? https://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/general-feats/improved-familiar/

Tidbits:

1. at 5th level ALL familiars gain the ability to talk because of the Speak with Master familiar ability.
1. BUT Speak with Master (Ex): If the master is 5th level or higher, a familiar and the master can communicate verbally as if they were using a common language. Other creatures do not understand the communication without magical help.

2. It has been argued that way but the 2 lines in the description that states "using a common language" & "can communicate verbally" pretty much kills that idea. A common language lets them discuss anything their intelligence score can handle and a command word is exactly that, a single word that activates the magic item.

   Worst case imaginable with the worst GM in the game you just have the command word on that wand/item be in that shared language the wizard/familiar use and keep going.

2.  The actual requirements for a wand are that you hold it in "whatever passes for a hand," that you point it in the general direction of the target, and that you speak a command phrase.

3.  Mike Brock made a post about it on This thread

   Mike Brock wrote:

   Wand use doesn't require the book for those few improved familiars - brownie, faerie dragon, imp, lyrakien azata, mephit, quasit, sprite familiars - gained with the Improved Familiar feat

   It can use a wand since it is slotless. It uses its master's UMD. No other animal companions or familiars can activate a magic item.

Guy says:

Faerie dragons fall into the biped category of familiars, meaning wand use is no problem (I know it's weird, but dragons can use their front feet as hands, and a faerie dragon is still a dragon). Having them become a target may or may not be a problem. The share spells class feature can do a lot to protect a familiar, but so can stuff like natural flight, which a lot of familiars get. Also false life on the familiar can be a life saver.

As for best, Faerie Dragon, or if they're not available, Lyrakien Azata is my personal favorite.

PF Spells I wanna try. And link to a useful Pathfinder spell and dmg site, math .edu

Useful search for any spell with criteria, and has a dmg calc:

 https://people.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/Pathfinder/

• Simulacrum, lesser. - cool descr on the Ring on the d20pfSRD site below, about snow and ice and original melts away. 
• Ring of the Shadow Victim THIS HAS THE COOL DESC  https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/rings/ring-of-the-shadow-victim/

This smooth, lusterless gray ring is crafted of dark glass and has the image of a body carved into its band. Once per day, the wearer of this ring can perform a complex mental and verbal ritual, repeatedly whispering the ring’s command word, while touching any humanoid corpse that has been dead for less than 1 week. The creature must have had 7 Hit Dice or fewer in life. This ritual can be as short as 1 round or could last up to 24 hours. It requires both total focus and constant contact between the ring, the wearer, and the target corpse. Interruption of any kind spoils the ritual, requiring the wearer to begin anew. The wearer of the ring chooses how long this ritual will last, but that decision must be made before she begins the ritual.

On the ritual’s completion, an illusory duplicate of the creature touched—partially real and formed of animate ice cloaked in magical shadow—springs into existence. This functions as lesser simulacrum in all ways unless stated otherwise. The wearer of this ring gains a +10 bonus on the Disguise check when performing this ritual. The shadow creature appears in all ways to be hearty and full of life, equipped with all of the gear and clothing that was carried or worn by the corpse throughout the ritual. At the same moment the shadow creature is completed, the targeted corpse and all of its attendant equipment vanishes, melting away like snow.

The false creature brought into existence by the ring of the shadow victim has the same base ability scores, type, and subtype as the targeted corpse. It appears in all ways to be the same individual as the corpse touched, and it retains the general personality, attitude, abilities, and intellect of that creature.

However, this duplicate doesn’t possess any memories that the wearer of the ring doesn’t also possess, has no spell-like or supernatural abilities, can’t use activated extraordinary abilities, can’t gain the benefits of healing, can’t gain levels or increase its abilities, and can’t have more than 3 Hit Dice.

This false creature behaves much like the target did in life, except it has a starting attitude of helpful toward the ring’s wearer and is generally willing to assist the wearer in any endeavor. The shadow creature will take nearly any action to aid the wearer of the ring, including dangerous, foolish or suicidal actions. This semi-illusory creature remains in existence for a duration equal to 7 × the length of the initial ritual that created it, until the wearer removes the ring of the shadow victim, until the wearer activates the ring again, or until the creature is destroyed by violence, whichever comes first. At that time, the duplicate vanishes and the original corpse, unchanged from when the initial ritual was completed, appears in its place.

 

PF Bonded Items - let's compare.

 Bonded Items, let's straight compare them. 

https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/

Recharging Charged Magic Items

The standard rules don’t allow item creation feats to recharge charged items such as wands. This is because wands are the most cost-effective form of expendable spellcasting in the game (the minimum price is 15 gp per charge, as compared to a minimum price of 25 gp per use for a scroll or 50 gp per use for a potion). Allowing wand recharging devalues scrolls and potions in the game, especially as using a wand does not provoke attacks of opportunity. A wand‘s lower price increment would also mean that partially recharging the wand is easily done with a short downtime period (10 charges per day for a 2nd-level wand, 4 per day for a 3rd-level wand, and 2 per day for a 4th-level wand), making the wand even more useful and cost-effective.

A GM who wants to allow wand recharging can require a minimum of 25 charges added to the item to help offset this advantage, as it forces you to spend a larger amount of gold at once instead of smaller amounts more frequently.

RINGS

• Ring of Spell Knowledge - Can store 1 spell, up to level 4 if it is the best one: https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/rings/ring-of-spell-knowledge
• the wearer can gain the knowledge of a single spell in addition to those allotted by her class and level. A ring of spell knowledge I can hold 1st-level spells only, a ring of spell knowledge II 1st- or 2nd-level spells, a ring of spell knowledge III spells of 3rd level or lower, and a ring of spell knowledge IV up to 4th-level spells.
• the wearer must still encounter a written, active, or cast version of the spell and succeed at a DC 20 Spellcraft check to teach the spell to the ring. Thereafter, the arcane spellcaster may cast the spell as though she knew the spell and it appeared on her class’s spell list.
• Ring of Protection... +1,+2, etc.
• Ring of the Troglodyte!  -- the kid said combo with an imp. YES, an inviz all day imp using this would be incredible! I think they'd stay inviz, b/c no actual Attack!!
• Ring of energy resist - different levels of
• Ring of Wizardry - This special ring comes in four varieties, all of them useful only to arcane spellcasters. The wearer’s arcane spells per day are doubled for one specific spell level. A ring of wizardry I doubles 1st-level spells, a ring of wizardry II doubles 2nd-level spells, a ring of wizardry III doubles 3rd-level spells, and a ring of wizardry IV doubles 4th-level spells. Bonus spells from high ability scores or school specialization are not doubled.
• $100K for the best one
• Ring of 3 wishes (Level20 only... does that mean restricted or who can make?)- https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/rings/ring-of-three-wishes
• Ring of spell storing MAJOR, CL 17 (Char. Level 17) required, holds up to 10 levels of spells. - https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/rings/ring-of-spell-storing-major
• Ring of Shooting Starts CL 12, (Indoors/cave weaker, outdoors incredible - Ball Lightning, then semi fireballs, 3 per week) - can trick enemy with dancing lights which look just like ball lightning. Shooting stars are INCREDIBLE...   https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/rings/ring-of-shooting-stars/
• Ring of the Elemental - CL 15.

Amulet

• CL 7 -Spell Cunning = up to 3 levels of spells  (costs 5000gp if you do it bonded, would be 10,000gp feat craft style in other words)
• CL 11 - Spell Mastery = up to 6 levels of spells (11,000gp if SKIP spell cunning and do it first, otherwise you can do it 2nd and pay the full 22,000gp)

Wand - Normally, charged items have 50 charges at most (10 for staves).

• Magic missiles
• fireball

Staff - CL 11 to start? - Normally, charged items have 50 charges at most (10 for staves).

• combo stuff right like:
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