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Subject: Witch tools: Worth $5?

aprilrosanina opened this issue on Jul 15, 2003 ยท 13 posts


hauksdottir posted Tue, 15 July 2003 at 9:24 AM

aprilrosanina, I surely hope you take this in the friendly manner I intend it. Many of the items in your picture are already available as freebies in various places. I can not clearly see your knife for comparison. I have Ghastley's mortar and pestle, a couple of nice cauldrons, a chamberstick or three. I don't have DAZ's witchbroom, but IIRC, there is another one in my files. (Unlike Little Dragon, I go by memory rather than database.) For me to spend money on something I already have, it must be exceptional or a very different treatment. Your candle with drippy wax is exceptional, but almost certainly can't stand alone as a marketplace item. The broom base is interesting, but I'd prefer a twiggier top rather than the finished wood dowel to go with the overall homemade look. A similar item is wooden spoons. Many cultures carved the handles into interesting shapes. I believe that the Welsh still give wedding spoons? Museums have letter openers and walking sticks with reproductions of some of the old carvings, but I don't think I've seen any spoons or such with fancy handles here. If I was stirring up a love potions, I'd at least want a heart or something on the spoon (mostly so that I didn't accidently use it in my own soup later!). There are magical items and supplies which I've never seen available. Those would be worth buying if they should come up. Alchemical stuff would be particularly neat. The attached image is almost a decade old, and jpegging it has smooshed the details. :sigh: I did a couple hundred equipment icons for AD&D Core Rules Vol.1 using a bitmap program called DeluxePaint. I still enjoy doing pixel perfect art. Among the stuff was a crucible, for which I had no picture reference, just a good description. A crucible such as this and a mold would be useful for showing soldiers making bullets or mad scholars trying to turn make a philosopher's stone as well as the typical witch or warlock making magical amulets. (This widens your target market.) Little jars and boxes with displacement or bump maps for the scrawled label are good... no shelves are complete without pots of ingrediants or finished salves and magical dusts. Your wax technique could be used on seals, too. (Remember Gandalf sealing and stamping the envelope?) I don't think I've seen jars with seals, but since witches often deal with poisons, it would seem wise! Something which might be trickier... bunches of herbs tied upside down to dry. They are used to sweeten the air in a sick room, but also for cooking. We are starting to get a good selection of plants in certain categories, but I don't recall anything dried, not even a string of onions. Besides crystal balls, witches apparently also used "scrying mirrors". My catalogs (I'm on some pretty weird lists!) show two types: a horizontal polished black mirror and a shallow bowl to be filled with water, both usually kept covered and dust free when not used. Crystal balls are great if you live in a fancy tower, but the average hedge witch would need something less fragile and more affordable. The brazier in my picture actually has griffins on the corners, but something similar with or without a frame to hold it hand high would be useful. If somebody wanted to model a fancy one with beasties or other bas belief ornamentation, it would be a standalone item, for sure! It's hard for people to think of what they don't have until they need it for a picture, but I think you'll have better luck selling things if they aren't already available as freebies. Hopefully this will give you some ideas and others will jump in with suggestions or needs. Carolly