Artifacts are more than just items; they can shape the story and influence the world around them.

Learn to love your army of skeletons as this powerful necromantic wizard.

What Is An Artifact?

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Sentient Artifacts

Not all artifacts are sentient, but the most fun ones are.

An artifact can only haveup to four minor beneficial properties.

you could roll on the table in the book to help determine these.

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Formajor beneficial properties, an artifact canonly have up to two.

Learn about them here.

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Wizard’s Spellbook via Wizards of the Coast

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Art by Chris Rallis.

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Bestowing a Supernatural Gift by Axel Defois

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Baba Yaga by Randy Vargas

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Art by Olga Drebas

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Art by Conceptopolis

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Player creating a Bastion by Noor Rahman

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