Charm of Favor (Magic Charm)

When deities and other powerful beings are pleased with the deeds of a mortal, they sometimes give him or her a charm of their favor. This is a small object, sometimes a statuette, usually of semiprecious material and 2 or 3 inches in size, which represents the god or one aspect of the god.
The charm is rather like a limited wish. It represents a favor that the deity will perform for the character at some time in the future. To use it, the owner must throw the item on the ground so hard that it breaks, and then call out the request. The request must have something to do with the attributes of the god, it's no use asking the goddess of love to dry up an oasis into a desert, or to ask the god of earthquakes for a fog to hide the adventurers.
The gods requested favors. And they, in the guise of the DM, evaluate all requests. If the favor is one that pertains to one of the god's attributes, and if the god does not think that the character is making the request out of mere greed or selfishness, and if the favor does not conflict with any of the god's other aims or desires, the favor is usually granted.
So, it would be appropriate to ask the god of insects to send a cloud of bees to rout one's enemies, or to ask the goddess of love to cause some NPC to fall in love with a PC, or to ask a deity of the earth to cause fruit-trees to grow and save the characters from death by thirst and starvation.
Because the deity evaluates the character's request, the character cannot expect an outrageous favor to be granted. And most who would steal a charm from a character cannot use it successfully; one might take it, hurl it to the ground and break it, adding a request, only to discover the cranky god stomping on him and freeing the faithful PC. (This, however, constitutes using the favor.) But an NPC friend of the charm's owner might be able to get the item and ask the god to help the charm's true owner-particularly if he or she is ill or kidnaped and cannot act.
Any character of any class may receive such a charm as a favor. But when they are found in treasure, they are useless; they are not intended for the character who finds them, after all. The charm of favors does not radiate magic. 
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