Choirmaster's Legacy Artifact System

Ever have your PCs lament over the constant need for upgrading their equipment as they gain levels? Ever want to have an item that required more than a simple 100gp to identify? Ever want to have an item that would change its name when identified? Ever want to customize the restrictions on an item? The Legacy Artifact System makes all of this possible. 

The Legacy Artifact System was built for the Cold Shadows gameworld and is designed for creating new and exciting artifact-level items for modules and PWs. With this system a builder can design an item that will grow in power as the PC advances in level. Any combination of item properties that your module allows can be added at specified character levels by simply adding a coded string variable to an item. The system uses classic tag-based scripting (all items tagged CS_It_Legacy), so if you are not employing this technique, some modification will be required. 

There is also a robust restriction system that will disallow full use of an item if the requirements are not met. A single coded string variable handles this as well. Race, alignment, class, and base ability scores are all included. This could also be easily expanded to handle skill levels, feats, deity, etc. These restrictions only apply to added legacy properties and are hard coded so that even Use Magic Item skill will not help. Items can be coded with base properties usable by anyone (assuming there is not some other restriction in play). 

Expansion: I've added an identification system. This is apart from the identification system in the game. In general, powerful artifacts should require a little more in-depth research or consultation of knowledgeable sources in order to be identified. I leave the method of identification to individual builders (the demo mod has one simple example). Basically, you will call one function to identify a Legacy Item. This will remove the ID flag and will replace the original name with the identified or "true" name of the item. 

I also added a Use Magic Device override. You can configure an item to allow PCs with a sufficient base UMD skill level to override the item restrictions and gain the Legacy Properties. 

The download contains a demo mod, a readme, and an erf containing the two scripts.