Item creation guide/tutorial?

[Fingersniffer]

I have been looking around the forums here and through Google to try and find something that will help me use the editor to create some random generated items from our campaign. Ring are my current issue but I have no idea what 90% of the fields actually do and I'm not finding any helpful documentation etc.

I'm not saying there isn't any out there, but I guess I've just not been lucky enough with my keywords to find it.

If someone could show me some links to help me or be willing to talk me through it i would appreciate it.

My Example is:
Ring of Bestow Curse
28 charges
lvl 3/5
-4 penalty to attack rolls, saves, ability checks, and skills
-6 decrease to one ability score
Each turn 50% chance to act normal or do nothing

Thank you in advance for your time.

 

[Aaron]

Can you give me a little more information? I'm afraid your example is a bit confusing.

28 charges - Do you want the ring to have a limited number of uses and then be exhausted forever (similar to how a Brooch of Shielding or any Wand works)? If so then create your blank ring in the editor, then scroll down to the Castable Spells button, click on that, click "Click to add another Bootstrap", choose Bestow Curse spell, then in the field next to it, enter 28, and for Usage period choose "charges"

lvl 3/5 - Is this in reference to the spell level maybe?

-4 penalty to attack rolls, saves, ability checks, and skills
-6 decrease to one ability score
Each turn 50% chance to act normal or do nothing

This is text from the effects of the spell, yes? This doesn't need to be anything but text in the description, if even that. The item spell should have more than enough information.

 

[Aaron]

As for documentation, the editor has info buttons, grey circles with a white "?" in the middle, scroll down through the different lines of the editor and check those out to start. You can also usually copy an item which does something similar (although in this case, there aren't many rings which cast spells as a wand, so it may not have helped here). And there are a selection of youtube videos to introduce you to the editor as well.

 

[Fingersniffer]

Actually I am incorrect, it was a wand I must have had a stroke while writing it down. But I am interested in using the editor to make more custom items.

 

[Aaron]

Well at least for custom wands you can create them without the editor. On the Magic Tab just add a Custom Wand and then choose the spell and number of charges.