[Telchar of Nogrod]

This is the entry in the artifact section of my 1979 Dungeon Masters Guide.

Machine of Lum the Mad - Perhaps this strange device was built by gods long forgotten and survived the eons since their passing, for it is incredibly anchient and of workmanship unlike anything known today. The Machine was udes by Baron Lum to build an empire, but what has since become of this ponderous mechanism none can say. Legends report that it has 60 levers, 40 dials and 20 switches (but only one half still function). Singly or in combination, these controls will generate all sorts of powers and effects.

The Machine is delicate, intricate, bulky and very heavy (5,500 lbs.). It can be moved normally, and any serious jolt will set off and destroy 1-4 functions of the artifact which can never be restored. It has a booth of a size suitable for four man sized creatures (4'x5'x7') to stand inside, and if a creature or object is placed therein and the Machine's controls are worked, something might happen.

You must matrix the 60 levers, 40 dials, and 20 switches, showing which will preform what functions. You may opt to include powers and/or effects of your own devising.

In the back of this section there were three tables of powers and three of side effects, each table was more powerfull/devastating than the one before it. Under the entry for each artifact there were a list of how many powers and side effects each artifact posessed. There was a strange problem though, each table of effects were listed by letter (a, b, c....), and not by %. It was very dfficult to randomly generate the powers (one table had 27 entries, another had 34 and so on). Oh, Lum has ONE m.