<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=111184.msg4855918#msg4855918">Quote from: AlexStone on 29-06-2011, 02:23:13</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">That does seem a bit little to pay for something that good.  We could add some disadvantages to it, for starters.   Or make it work in certain circumstances.  After all, that seems to fit Infernal things: you get really good effects, but they have to fit certain themes.  What sort of effects are you looking for?</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Well, in practice, I think the normal demon ink tattoo is really boring; it's an interesting idea to have a living thing tattooed onto you as an artifact, but having the effect be 'you get a bunch of free dots!' isn't very interesting (although it's certainly very powerful, no doubt).<br/><br/>I wonder about making a sapient artifact that has no artifact qualities beyond its sapience (which is a 'background' that allows the character to use a number of Spirit Charms, with a drawback of having to deal with the sapient artifact's urge and penalties that come with failing to observe that Urge.)