Adventurer's Guild Badge

Any character that has completed a task in the Adventurer's Guild can get a badge from the guild. The badges serve as a status symbol as well as being able to enhance the abilities, skills, and statistics of the character who wears the badge. There are five things that can be upgraded on the badges as a character earns Bounty Points through the Adventurer's Guild: the material, the bounding, the device, the motif, and the gem. A badge can only have a value of the lifetime bounty points that a character has accumulated. The first upgrade for an item on the badge is valued at 10,000 BP. The second upgrade is 20,000 BP, while the third upgrade is 30,000 BP, so a character with 60,000 lifetime bounty points could have 3 upgrades for the material (10,000 + 20,000 + 30,000) and nothing else, or 2 upgrades on the material (10,000 + 20,000) and two upgrades on the binding (10,000 + 20,000) for a total of 60,000 bounty points.

It has been proven that the greatest enhancive potential of the badge can be obtained by evenly upgrading items on the badge (i.e. each part to level 1, then each part to level 2, and so on). Enhancive potential is based on the total number of upgrades, not the strength of the upgrade.

Enhancive Bonuses: Every 5 badge upgrades permit an enhancive bonus of +1 to any skill rank or stat bonus, or +2 to any skill bonus or stat. It also suspected that the badge rounds up at 3, 8, 12, etc upgrades such that skill bonuses and stats can have odd numbered bonuses.

List of Upgrades

Binding

• Level 0 - tin, lead, copper
• Level 1 - brass, turquoise, coral
• Level 2 - pewter, pyrite, obsidian
• Level 3 - lapis lazuli, platinum, ivory
• Level 4 - ora, faenor, invar
• Level 5 - alexandrite, gornar, alum
• Level 6 - drakar, zorchar, mithglin
• Level 7 - glaes, rhimar, laje
• Level 8 - vaalorn, razern, vaalin
• Level 9 - rolaren, eonake, kelyn
• Level 10 - veniom, golvern, eahnor

Material

• Level 0 - rat-hide, ceramic, linen
• Level 1 - leather, kobold skin, maoral
• Level 2 - bronze, goblin skin, or silk
• Level 3 - suede, orc pelt, snakeskin
• Level 4 - steel, granite, ebonwood
• Level 5 - spidersilk, troll hide, ironwood
• Level 6 - silver, marble, deringo,
• Level 7 - gold, ogre bone, orase
• Level 8 - mithril, kiramon chitin, faewood
• Level 9 - imflass, myklian scale, witchwood
• Level 10 - vultite, vruul skin, fireleaf

Device

• Level 0 - a single coin, a nicked dagger, a magic wand
• Level 1 - several coins, a rusty sword, or a small crystal
• Level 2 - a small stack of coins, a sharp falchion, an ancient scroll
• Level 3 - a modest pile of coins, a flanged mace, an old staff
• Level 4 - a glittering gem, a pointy pike, a rune-inscribed amulet
• Level 5 - a bulging moneybag, a pair of crossed broadswords, a jewel-encrusted ring
• Level 6 - several precious stones, a mighty longbow, a large crystal orb
• Level 7 - a silver bar, an engraved battle axe, an artifact surrounded by sparks of energy
• Level 8 - a chest full of jewels, a gleaming war hammer, an arcane spellbook
• Level 9 - a triangular stack of silver bars, a deadly flamberge, an orb-capped runestaff
• Level 10 - gleaming piles of silver and jewels, a flaming longsword, a powerful burst of magical energy

Motif

• Level 0 - a worn pair of hiking boots, a snarling rat, a knapsack full of supplies
• Level 1 - a fleeing kobold, a skinning knife, or a walking stick
• Level 2 - a cowering orc, a patched traveler's cloak, a pack mule
• Level 3 - a howling troll, a piece of an old map, an old leather saddle bag
• Level 4 - a confused ogre, a long dusty trail, a long-maned riding horse
• Level 5 - a drooling spider, a tarnished compass, a rusty mining cart
• Level 6 - an evil spirit, a crossed shovel and pick, a graceful stallion
• Level 7 - a clicking kiramon, an X-marked treasure map, a package-laden carriage
• Level 8 - a raging golem, an extended telescope, a rugged dwarven juggernaut
• Level 9 - a prancing ki-lin, a towering haunted castle, a tall sailing ship
• Level 10 - a foul ravenous beast, a distant mountainscape, a fantastic elven airship

Gem

• Level 0 - a quartz crystal, a zircon, a topaz
• Level 1 - a bloodstone, an onyx, an azurite stone
• Level 2 - a malachite stone, a peridot, a tourmaline
• Level 3 - an ametrine, an amber cabachon, an agate
• Level 4 - an eostone, a heliodor, an amethyst
• Level 5 - an opal, a jade stone, a garnet
• Level 6 - a pearl, a beryl, a jacinth
• Level 7 - a sapphire, a starstone, a dreamstone
• Level 8 - a ruby, a moonstone, a glimaerstone
• Level 9 - an emerald, a sunstone, a feystone
• Level 10 - a diamond, a blazestar, a firestone

References

• Adventurer's Guild Badges (saved post)