Ah, but you explicitly get only one feather per vrock.
Of course the effects aren't that special. The Chromatic Dragon Heart just gets you a 30% chance of +2d6 damage (and only to a good-aligned target), so about 2.1HP per 6GP. The eye (in the description, "child's eye") gives a 20% chance of doubling spell duration. If I'm going to go to the trouble of blinding children (the noise alone is a good reason to have one's minions do this somewhere else) I want a bit more benefit out of it than that!
BoVD is from 2002. I don't remember when Alderac did their infamous-cover archer splatbook, but I think it would have been around then.
Oh, so collecting vrock feathers is a doubly-qualified job. Not only do you need to be skilled enough to kill them, you also need the skill to identify the One Special Feather? Bah.
Vrock feathers don't give a bonus, it turns out - unless I'm missing something, they are used only as a material component for Stunning Screech (Bard 3, Demonologist 2), which wants "Feather of a large bird or a vrock".
I don't know about you, but I think I'd rather buy a goose. I guess it must cost about the same and you can eat the goose afterwards.
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Of course the effects aren't that special. The Chromatic Dragon Heart just gets you a 30% chance of +2d6 damage (and only to a good-aligned target), so about 2.1HP per 6GP. The eye (in the description, "child's eye") gives a 20% chance of doubling spell duration. If I'm going to go to the trouble of blinding children (the noise alone is a good reason to have one's minions do this somewhere else) I want a bit more benefit out of it than that!
BoVD is from 2002. I don't remember when Alderac did their infamous-cover archer splatbook, but I think it would have been around then.
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I don't know about you, but I think I'd rather buy a goose. I guess it must cost about the same and you can eat the goose afterwards.
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(These days my games are more likely to include Saracen the Goose than a Cancer Mage.)