Fantasy Role Playing Games – Enchanted Jewelry
Right up there with mythical swords that blaze with fire, legendary armors that can wreathe a hero in fire, wizard’s staves that…make the mage…better at casting fire…huh. Anyway! Right along those powerful if not versatile devices in fantasy stories and games are pieces of jewelry imbued with magical powers. From the religious jewelry or holy symbols that priest-class characters often use to cast or enhance their spells to powerful rings that can ward against harm to mighty amulets that can bind extra-planar creatures to the wearer’s will, magical jewelry is a staple of fantasy characters.
In most role playing games, there are limits to the amount of enchanted jewelry and other magical items you can have and use. This is often done as a sort of “body slot” system, where a given part of your body can only hold one magic item of a given type. This is often used as a balancing factor against an abundance of magical jewelry; if it weren’t for being allowed only one ring per hand slot, enterprising and wealthy characters would gladly equip a different ring for each of its ten fingers, or maybe two or three rings per finger.