I will never forget one specific homebrew magic item that a green hag used in one of the campaigns I was in. My Ranger rolled a Nat 20 to identify the ring using Arcana, revealing instantly what it was -- the thing is, the hag appeared to us in the shape of a wholesome halfling grandma kind of character that we met earlier in the session when we visited her cottage. The effect of the ring? "You can take on the shape of the latest creature you killed within the last 24 hours". It broke my heart reading the card describing the effect of the magic item while everyone was waiting for me to explain what it does. It's not often a player gets to add to suspence with deafening *silence* .
My first campaign, session zero, my DM ended it with a reward safe with various items, including a random deck of cards. Everyone was freaking out, but I had an intuition, so I drew a card and threw it, and it turns out he created a magic deck (called a gambit's deck) which basically turns any thrown card into a dagger! Had it till the end of the campaign, and it saved me a few times. Also the only time I've used my gaming set: card proficiency (he let me use it to gain proficiency with the card attacks).
“The sorcerer turned into a potted plant, everyone is goats, what are we gonna do?” The answer is simple, the goats eat the potted plant in revenge, duh.
the "hat of disguise" instantly turns any stealth-related mission into one of those wacky HItman missions where you just keep piling bodies in a cupboard and steal their uniforms. I love the hat of disguise.
I had a game once where the dm gave one of our cleric a magical seed that would instantly grow a large tree when thrown onto the ground outside. We were fighting treants that were closing in on us when she decided to throw the seed underneath the treant resulting in what the DM described as a tree getting uppercut by another tree. The best magic items are those that allow people to be more creative in its application.
So that happened in a campaign i was in, accept it was a bean with a random magical effect from a bag, i decided i was going to be cool and catch it in my teeth, unfortunately the random magical effect was spawn a treant where it landed. so thats how i built a high level treant rogue.
@@Atlas_1127 The wand of thing: It has no purpose whatso ever, it doesn't provide or alter anything. But you can certinly change that. Once it is given a purpose however it is forever bound to that purpose.
One really hilarious thing I've seen once is during a Curse of Strahd campaign, during the final battle with Strahd, and Strahd was hovering and the party was more or less unable to reach him, then the Rogue shapeshifted into a Bat (its a long story), flew above Strahd, then shapeshifted back to normal, pulled out his Robe of Useful Items and SLAMMED A ROWBOAT INTO STRAHD'S FACE! Not quite as spectacular as the Fortress thing, but the sheer Looney-Tunes-Energy from that moment really stuck with me.
@@Wingdings_Dingus he most likely had a cloak of bat which allows its user to transform into a bat, you can also fly in dim or dark areas and have advantage on dex saves. That’s just a guess tho.
I can’t express how much I love the “useless” magic items like the Dread Helm or the Cloak of Billowing. Just seeing players having to get creative with them has been awesome.
when I was playing a rogue my dm gave me a magic dagger that made no noise so you could throw it and if it hit something it wouldn't make a sound. Unfortunately, it also had the minor drawback of glowing bright blue all the time so it pretty much became useless for stealth. We later found out that the dm had simply neglected to mention the inscription on the hilt when we first found it that when read enabled or disabled the glowing allowing it to either be a silent weapon or a makeshift torch instead of less functional than a regular dagger. the entire table exclaimed 'wait. you can turn it off?!' when he haphazardly mentioned a glowing inscription about 6 sessions later.
@@Ilzhain Yeah Im 98% sure that the dagger you have is called Reszur, and it's from Princes of the Apocalypse. Cool dagger, my players never use it other than for stabbing in combat, the sound thing never really comes into play because they hate throwing weapons that aren't easily replaceable, and they all have darkvision.
MY favorite magic item is definitely the immovable rod because i was playing a war forged artificer, so i would make them and slowly build them into my skeleton. all i needed was to succeed on one grapple check and they were pinned with next to no chance of escape (I also used it to make people think i was a god by just walking on air)
@Alastair Valyocsik presumably the warforged artificer found a way to rebuild himself in such a way that the rods buttons could be pressed within his body simply by “flexing certain muscles” so to speak.
Bag of Holding has always been my favorite magic times starting from when I did 126d4 piercing damage after I turned my bag inside out and all the daggers I collected in my campaign came flying at the BBEG. My dm hasn’t given me another bag yet :(
Had a Grippli(frogman in pathfinder) Who had to be around water and used one of those to be able to adventure long distances. We ended up getting trapped in a sealed room with a hard BBEG. Was really fast and hard to hit...so i told the group to pull their crossbows and hold their breath and flooded the room. I ended up using some of my frost magic to freeze him in a huge chunk and reopened the bag to get the water back into it.
I, as a DM wouldn't have allowed that, simply because an aimed attack with force behind it is different than just dropping a dagger randomly hoping it does something. I think I would have rolled a 6d20 to see how many hit with the blade side and that's how many d4 you get.
i would have said the daggers fly in random directions, not only at the BBEG, but at the party. 126 attack rolls and each one would hit a random target. . . or use the "mob combat rules" and be like, "x amount of these automatically hit, now i'll roll randomly to see who they hit"
I had a game where we recreated "Yu-Gi-Oh" in D&D to some extent. The cards from the Deck of Illusion made it into some sort of magical circulation and became trading cards. People would duel with the illusions, and it was a cool concept overall. We didn't really go too deep into it, but I might just return to it sometime.
"wanna know my fav item? daern instant fortress" "oh cool you can live in it and stuff" "you can throw it at people" *heavy breathing* "its a ref save or it does 10d10 damage"
I gave my players two very simple homebrewed magic items: the glasses of appraisal and sending ink. You can see the prices of everything around you. That house is 15,000g, each plank is 5 silver, your rogue is worth 450,000g, etc. Then, sending ink that writes a message on the nearest paper to whomever it’s addressed to and can only fill 2 pages. They’re really neat, and a great addition if your players are trying to do a million things that aren’t always combat. A great drawback to the glasses is that they can cause intense disassociation and force the character to *only* see things and people as monetary value if they wear them for too long.
@@spaceblockb5284 absolutely, it’s able to used pretty creatively. Unlike sending stones, you can send an image, or a diary entry, or if your wizard is REALLY smart…. A spell
@@bookbook9495 The ink is like a messaging app in a phone, and those glasses can be used as a detect magic, but if these are in the right hands, it is good stuff. However, if a klepto rogue gets those glasses the party will be wanted *everywhere*.
In my first ever Pathfinder campaign, my DM let us each have one magic item to start at level 5. I gave my monk the boots of haste. By the end of the campaign, he was the fastest thing on land, lol. My DM had many regrets when my monk took the bad guy's maguffin right out of his hands and was some 300 feet away by the end of the turn, lol.
Add that to a tabaxi with some rogue levels. I did the math and clocked him at 0-60 mph in 6 seconds if he dashed twice in a turn. The DM just stopped having me count squares because he could run around our grid 3-4 times in one turn lol. He was also a kensei monk for the longbow proficiency and I gave him the sharpshooter feat and played him as a hyper mobile sniper that could hit you from 600 feet away and reposition
Same here. My epic level monk has ridiculous speed. 160 feet when boots of haste and sudden speed are active. These boots are one of the best items in pathfinder.
Pathfinder has good structure for character wealth by level, with no one item being worth more than half a character's total suggested wealth. So, a 5th level character should have no more than 10,500gp in a standard setting, with no one item being worth more than 5250gp. Combined this with Pathfinder's approach to bonuses of the same type not stacking, and it's a very balanced and pragmatic approach to loot. (ie; an Amulet of Deflection and a certain kind of Ioun Stone both give an "enhancement" type bonus to AC, so only one can be in effect at once)
“Snake staff” makes me think of my kobold pc’s great weapon of snake on a stick, I tied a snake to a stick and I poke people with it and the first time I used it I got a nat 20. All shall fear the snake on a stick
Jacob: *abuses the crap out of the little beholder* Beholder: "I will not tolerate this! I'm out of here!" Other toys: "No, you can't escape this place! He will find you and punish you!" Beholder: *falls off the shelf* Jacob: "Oh... he escaped, lol" *puts the beholder on a lower shelf, devoid of any figurines and toys* Beholder: "Is... Is this solitary confinement???" *internal screaming* Other toys: "We tried to warn him..."
@@anastasijahabarova1533 I've never played, and I watch DnD videos and make characters I want to play one day. **cries in no friends and dnd-is-demonic parents**
@@doubleslashkarma **also cries in no friends** Yeah, I feel that. I wonder what percentage of us watching these channels don't actually play, but wish they could.
Jacob: The immovable rod won’t break your game! My one player who made boots with immovable rods in them so he could fly for free: Now this looks like a job for me
@@Basshead004 i'm just guessing but maybe he activates both so he is still in midair then turns off the foot he wants to move, activates it again and repeat so you're basically walking but really slowly
I was like, "Wait a minute. Scrolls no good because just some feature you could get in another way in tangible form that makes it accessible to anyone (but not really how that works). Potions are awesome, but they literally do exactly that!" Defending this position by saying potions are one-time-use, so they won't break the game is fine, but how is that not identical to how scrolls function?
@@dangerous1580 That is a feature for a particular class (and some ritualists). If the DM is that worried about it, there are controls. Don't provide enough down time; cash; special inks; or whatever to scribe it. When you present the situation for that scroll to be useful, it might be used. If the player chooses to save it to scribe later, that's a player exercising agency. Also, can't scribe spells that aren't on your class list, so not really applicable to scrolls in general. More importantly, don't do this. Wizards scribing scrolls is a class feature. Characters of that class are expected to be able to do it. I've played in three long-term campaigns where the wizard never scribes anything new into the spell book because we simply don't discover appropriate scrolls, so they only ever got new spells on level-ups, like any other caster. Probably because the players never said anything, I think the DMs just over-looked it, and it likely wasn't a deliberate attempt to hamstring the class. But let the wizards have their fun. Their not sorcerers, for Peylor's sake.
@@dangerous1580 Just to add on to this; A fun optional rule I place, is if an attempt is made to copy a spell into their spell book, the scroll counts as being used (regardless of success). Though some DMs prefer to make it so you have to purchase, or steal an opposing spellbook instead (which can be quite enthralling)
I kinda imagine throwing the fortress at Strahd:" what's up Strahd?" Then Strahd catches the whole thing in one hand, bow politely and then throw it back .
My favorite: The Rakdos Riteknife from Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica. Killing things with it traps their souls in the knife (up to 5 souls). It deals an extra d4 necrotic damage per soul. You can use an action to EAT ONE OR MORE OF THE SOULS and heal 1d10 for each SOUL you EAT. Or you can burn all 5 souls to force an enemy with with less than 75 HP to make CON save or die instantly. Probably the most balanced Legendary magic item in the game, and so flavorful.
I remember my dad played a gnome with a blinkdog familiar, and he had a wand of wonder. Whenever he used it, he would always say, "Wand of wonder. Please no blunder," in the squeakiest voice he could. It was a fun one-shot.
I've always loved the Wand of Wonder. My players used it once fighting the vampire guy from the Von Glauss Manor, summoned an angel who just cut the vamp in half, turned to glare at the warlock who summoned him and then disappeared
a conversation I had with my very first 5e character: DM: "okay, oyu've suceeded on all your checks, so you've figured out that there are enemies behind the door without alerting them." me: "I poke my want of wonder under the door."
^^ also, this same cleric had a wand of quoitwil, 100% my favorite item so far. It's just a wand of pranking people, and sometimes it backfires onto the user, it's great
I once came up with an idea for a magic lamp that sucks up absent players. A present player can rub the lamp and summon an NPC version of the absentee and control them. The drawback is that every time you use it the summoned player pops out of the lamp and uppercuts you.
The throwable fortress sounds so much fun to use, as well like me to just threaten randoms ppl with. Me: "don't make me bring the house down" Or "Imma drop an building on your ass."
The immovable rod is awesome to give a creative player. Also I love things that don't require attunement but let you use a bonus action to do something even if it's dumb (I'm looking at you, cloak of billowing).
Ok, so I made a magic item I think you’ll like, Horn of annoying. Common item, 1lbs As an action a creature can blow into this horn, when they do so they choose a sound or sentence they have heard within the last 24 hours. The chosen sound is played into the mind of every creature within a 100ft radius. Except the sound is warped and sounds as if it is being played at 20 times speed and has been pushed up several octaves. A creature can attempt to decipher the meaning of the original sound by succeeding on a DC 22 intelligence check. If the horn plays a sound created by a different horn of annoying every creature that can her the played sound takes 1d6 physic damage. Also love the vids, they have helped me be a better dm and player.
The random chaos, my friend Tyson, our novice DM gave him a specialized item called the “Ban Hammer” (acquired from a God on a Nat 20 charm roll) this hammer literally had no limits. He teleported to a forest while we were fighting a dragon and lit it on fire with eternal flame, and came back with the whole ass forest and burned us all alive
Potential spoilers for the Out Of the Abyss campaign book below: I, playing a rogue, got a Sun Blade in OOtA. Now, this is pretty wack, and the DM has said he's not sure if it was a mistake to give it out as early as he did. However, the fact that *I* got it, and not one of our dedicated front-line classes made things pretty interesting. This Sun Blade is not a regular Sun Blade - it's a sentient magic item, Dawnbringer. Because of the sentience, I made a personal connection with it, which discouraged me from giving it to someone with better melee skills. It also caused a bit of a toss-up in my play style. I was focused on stealth and archery, but now I had a very powerful weapon that rewarded me for going into melee, and that prevented me from stealthing while i was holding it (because it gives off light). Definitely resulted in some interesting choices in combat. Also, Dawnbringers sense of morality gave way to some very intersting RP about the definitions of good and evil.
the Wand of Wonder disguised as a Wand of webs that actually does the web spell should be an Unstable Wand of Webs. Unstable Wands will do the spell, but every so often, will do something random. Or a Wonderous Wand of Webs, which adds the allure of alliteration, but going with Unstable Wands makes it more universal.
My favorite magic item, as of right now anyway, is the Cloak of Manta Ray…because it’s a cloak, it increases your swim speed, and it allows you to breathe underwater
In one of my games I had a fairy dragon named Gerald. He stole the elixir of love from my PCs. Later my players went to a party in their honor and Gerold dumped the whole bottle in the punch bowl. So it turned into orgy. Good times.
Alternatively, they accidentally adopt a kobold and eventually name the party after the kobold they frequently forget is now following them around. Nat 20 Intimidation. They finally found him again in a magical portal in the town they're in hanging out with a kobold tribe running a fight club under the direction of some metallic dragons.
Shiftweave. My Faceless Tabaxi Swashbuckler loves it. How else could he switch between the timid merchant persona "Song from the Hilltop" and the elegant emperor of the night "Lunestro" in the blink of an eye? Right....with the fur coloring pills switching from dirty cream-colored to glossy black.
@@samuelevans738 The Fur coloring pill? No. It is a substitute for the Disguise Kit, me and my DM came up with. Disguising oneself while being a Tabaxi is pretty....impossible, so I got them. I only have 2 colors (cream-colored and black) as options, but I don't really need more. Also the party minimizes my "Lunestro"-time a lot simply by being close by, so both me as a player and as my character revel in these sections. Oh...they also change the color of his eyes from murky blue, to golden yellow*. *"I am a kitty, the true self!" & "The paw is the means by which all is revealed."
I have a magic item called the Unmighty Sword of Domarr. It's a +2 longsword that has three uses- after the third use, it explodes into a 20ft. radius area with all in the sphere taking 4d6 fire damage automatically.
My friend and bought a deck of illusions however he had it rushed so we could make an encounter. Because of the rush job some of the cards had a chance of failing. He pulled three cards a red dragon, a beholder, and an ogre. They all failed My character who was trained as a soldier and really just didn’t care for magic just thought “ this is why I don’t trust magic” and we laughed at him for it.
How about animated pocket sand? Edit: I had a character in one of my school campaigns. This was one of those campaigns where every player gets a special ability. That ability changes as you level up. My character's ability was to animate small objects. My first upgrade was to animate small objects in an aoe. The next upgrade was to store spells in them. My highest point was when I made a sand elemental thing while fighting a behir. It died in a few turns, and the party I was in wouldn't stop to let me rest, but it was cool in the moment.
I made a mostly non-magical bard/rogue. He was basically a street magician, and the DM let me homebrew a set of spark gloves (gloves with threads of flint and steel woven into the fingers, allowing my guy to create sparks by clicking his fingers) One of his stage tricks was that his had a pouch of multicoloured sand that had a small amount of flammable powder mixed in, so he could throw a small amount into the air, click his fingers, and turn it into a large puff of colourful smoke. It was also useful in combat, as one time I readied an action to do that trick if an enemy got within 5’ of me. I ended up throwing the dust in his face an igniting it as he went to attack, stunning him and making him miss the rest of his turn. It became a once-per-battle thing from that point on, but it was fun to use
My favorite example of the wand of wonder is from JRWI (Just Roll With It). Bra’ad gets a wand of wonder, sees a grasshopper, and accidentally shoots a giant fireball at it starting a wild fire
I remember this one game I was playing with my mates. We had the Daern's instant fortress to, and we used it as our home and to throw it at people to. This one time we were figthing a boss and the ranger stayed outside of the castle we were in (don't remember why), and the daern's instante fortress was with him. We gave him the a signal, he could throw it prety far because of some talents. Last thing the boss know was a @!#ing tower penetrating his windows and smashing him for good (we almost died too). Though, outside, just imagine a castle with a tower hanging in one of its sides. In this same campaign, when we were all high level and defeated one of the last bosses, the dm granted us with a ring of wishes. Our first wish as to have 1500 Daern's instante fortress, so we could put a certain amount in a catapult, and just before set it we would say the the word to activet it. With that, we were able to destroy and conquer the most famous citys in that world. We had, like, the nuclear bomb of the time in our hands.
gonna be honest. if i was the dm and players did that to many times i would be having rumors around this party is throwing this fort at people and have the bbe do some shit to play around that.
Honestly, if that's how you worded the Wish, it wouldn't have been unreasonable for activated Fortresses to randomly fall on the party over the next year of adventuring until exactly 1500 had fallen.
I remember playing my first game of D&D and it was like 1E AD&D and each character was given a magic item at the beginning, one character was given a ring that let him fly and a few other stuff I can't remember(he could already fly though with his wings), I started with a wand of wonder : ), I think the third player had what was basically a decanter of endless water except the water was replaced with oil, and the fourth player had an instant fortress and we thought that it was reusable at the time but apparently it wasn't. Oh also this was a few years ago before we started playing 5E.
one of my absolute favorites purely because it is chaotic is a bag of beans. it explains itself so simply but can go from having a statue that is rude to a mummy lord with attached pyramid
Although homebrew, I love the Shield of Heroic Memories from TAZ (the adventure zone) Mirror shield, each creature type you face gets a depiction of that combat on the shield, if you face that creature type again you now have a +1 AC towards that creature type. If you havent faced a type before or faced it before acquiring the shield, you can roll a DC 15 Charisma check to convince the shield you have faced that type before to gain the bonus. Fail this Charisma Check 3 times and the shield returns to it's clear mirror finish, losing all of its heroic memories.
I remember in a oneshot campaign, I played a Goblin Artificer who had an Immovable Rod and the party used it to climb over a hedge/fence to steal something from the building on the other side by sticking it through the hedge, hitting the button and then using it as a climbing point. I managed to get it up pretty high using Mage Hand.
"All potions are awesome to me, I think the _one use_, give you an _ability_, for a _little bit of time_ is really interesting" I have a funny story around potions, I know this is like a super old video so this probably won't get much attention but I had a "boss" fight against a Goblin Alchemist where I used a potion generation table for the effects of the potions he wildly threw at the players. The Warforged got permanently turned into a Fire Elemental by the dice gods... And that's how we had a Level 5 Artificer with 102 max HP.
I remember when my dm gave me something (I don’t remember exactly what it was) and it added my proficiency bonus to my ac and I already had a class ability that did that. So at level 5 it was a 22 to hit me. They literally had to crit to hit me at any time, It was fixed soon after but the fight I had a 22 ac with was gloriously.
I play a semi-homebrew campaign where my troll pc got a ring of the goat, which basically lets him eat any organic materials and it counts as rations. But because he is a troll, he's always hungry, so he could like, eat an entire dining table. Or a library. or a horse.
1:54 STRING UP THE BLASPHEMER!!! ;) I miss the old-school weapons that used to have like a +3(maybe it was only +2) but had higher bonuses to special kinds of enemies, ie Lycanthropes, fish people, dragons, etc! I believe an old flame tongue had +3, +4 to (something) and +5 to shape changing creatures!
I haven’t been playing d&d for long, but it took me like 3 sessions to realize giving +3 weapons to everyone was a mistake, so I started giving magical items that did funny stuff, like boots that make you good at break dancing
One of my favorites is the pop up tent since it really isnt that big of a deal but it can be used for good roleplay based of what the inside looks like
I homebrewed an item called "wild magic crystals", which are exactly what it sounds like. It's literally just an excuse to use wild magic without having an actual wild magic sorcerer in the party. A small crystal that you channel magic through, and it consumes the crystal to cast a random effect from the wild magic table. A great way to give some sort of magic ability to a class that otherwise doesn't have any, and it's totally unpredictable, which is always fun. They also play an important narrative role in the campaign I'm working on, so that's cool.
4:45 I thought only a spellcaster that has the spell of the scroll in their class spell list could use a spellscroll, wich makes sense, although I also support the idea of letting anyone use, and just replace the spellcasting ability check, for classes without spellcasting, for a straight inteligence one, since scrolls are more associated with wizards
Me and my best friend decided to do a dou build for our next game. He's a goblin artificer, I'm a Juggernaut Warforged Barbarian. He found me and fixed me after I was impaired in a Great War. Our DM said I can count as his Steel Defender, so he can channel magic through me and repair me. Best part is, he rides on my back, and since our height is like 12 feet, no medium creature can attack him. I carry a lance strapped to my back, and since he's 7 feet off the ground there is no close range disadvantage.
10:39 is Hilarious! I'm running a campaign where a friend's Barbarian is at 21 AC already and they just destroyed a high level BBEG and got to keep all the loot... he's about to go to 23AC...
Immovable rod has been used by our "support" bard Jonnhy to hold a boss in place while he took literally 30 real minutes nursing the rest of the party back up to fighting shape. I couldn't even stop it because it was such an unexpected use of the item that it was great. On the same note. A bard saved the party without charisma.
"I don't know why i'm singing this song with the same four chords I use for every song" So, have you heard the song called 4 chords? Trust me, it might explain why you chose those chords.
I gave all my players insane magic items and now they're crazy powerful at level 7. It's really fun because I can just throw insane things at them (like 140 zombies)
I really like the idea of the Cloak of Arachnida and the Gloves of Missile Snaring. They might not be useful, but they're absolutely frickin' cool. Also, I think this video *was* useful or helpful in any way- it's one of my first exposures to D&D and definitely influenced my opinion of magic items and the game in general. This video might even be the reason I'm fascinated by magic items, and creating my own homebrew ones, and artificer is my favorite class, and I started making up so many crazy magic items and giving them to bad guys as you suggested that I made my own evil cult, the order of chaos, to justify the existence of so many magic items, and from there I made a world and wrote a campaign. Now I just need to work up the courage to actually join a D&D group, because I've never actually played. There's a club at my school... I know how to join... I've just been staring at the link for a few weeks in terror.
"submarine metal crab machine" is definitely the name of my new band
Kwalish Krabs!
Krazy Krustaceous Kontructs!
Krabberatus Of Kwalish
I thought it was a Dethklok song.
I’d pay to see that
Hey Jocat👋
Jocat, what is your favorite music item in dnd?
Edit: I meant magic item, but this too, I guess.
Best magic item? Cloak of Billowing. Ahem: "While wearing this cloak, you can use a bonus action to make it billow dramatically". I have said enough.
This is 100% accurate and I don't care who disagrees
Nah, Cloak of Displacement, gust cantrip.
I had one once but as the "Cloak of dramatic entrances". Automatically activated whenever I entered a room.
@@trueblueflare does it swoosh behind you
@@Sleepy_Cabbage yes.
I will never forget one specific homebrew magic item that a green hag used in one of the campaigns I was in. My Ranger rolled a Nat 20 to identify the ring using Arcana, revealing instantly what it was -- the thing is, the hag appeared to us in the shape of a wholesome halfling grandma kind of character that we met earlier in the session when we visited her cottage. The effect of the ring? "You can take on the shape of the latest creature you killed within the last 24 hours".
It broke my heart reading the card describing the effect of the magic item while everyone was waiting for me to explain what it does. It's not often a player gets to add to suspence with deafening *silence* .
That is cool af, I might try to incorporate something similar. Thank you!
Look what you’ve done, now some poor grandma will be killed in Kal’s campaign
I love giving people the deck of illusions because they always think it’s the deck of many things so they never use it
Deck of many illusion
Happened to me haha
I did this to my group however they DID draw a card and it was an Adult Red Dragon they pulled so I had fun with that by making it into an encounter
My first campaign, session zero, my DM ended it with a reward safe with various items, including a random deck of cards. Everyone was freaking out, but I had an intuition, so I drew a card and threw it, and it turns out he created a magic deck (called a gambit's deck) which basically turns any thrown card into a dagger! Had it till the end of the campaign, and it saved me a few times. Also the only time I've used my gaming set: card proficiency (he let me use it to gain proficiency with the card attacks).
Morning Dusk niiice, there should be more DND items that make you into an X-Man
“The sorcerer turned into a potted plant, everyone is goats, what are we gonna do?” The answer is simple, the goats eat the potted plant in revenge, duh.
the "hat of disguise" instantly turns any stealth-related mission into one of those wacky HItman missions where you just keep piling bodies in a cupboard and steal their uniforms. I love the hat of disguise.
Warlock's mask of many faces is my favorite invocation for the same reason
I mean yes! Scooby doo and shaggy disguise sequence with a minion or a bbeg's underling.... The chaos.... The bullshit lol.
Throw a bag of holding into the mix and you don't even have to find a hiding place for the bodies.
@@gurbo8734 and then you have a snack for later!
@@Shoornloo Or if you're a fan of necromancy you've got bonus minions.
I had a game once where the dm gave one of our cleric a magical seed that would instantly grow a large tree when thrown onto the ground outside. We were fighting treants that were closing in on us when she decided to throw the seed underneath the treant resulting in what the DM described as a tree getting uppercut by another tree.
The best magic items are those that allow people to be more creative in its application.
Oh hey I was that DM lol
Awakened trees, but yeah. I was proud of the ingenuity.
So that happened in a campaign i was in, accept it was a bean with a random magical effect from a bag, i decided i was going to be cool and catch it in my teeth, unfortunately the random magical effect was spawn a treant where it landed. so thats how i built a high level treant rogue.
Just imagining that particular Treant looking like the tree equivolent of Mike Tyson just knocked his teeth right out.
Make something that has no intended use, so that the players can give it one
@@Atlas_1127 The wand of thing: It has no purpose whatso ever, it doesn't provide or alter anything. But you can certinly change that. Once it is given a purpose however it is forever bound to that purpose.
I absolutely love the fear in his eyes, when she says "they take 10d10 Force damage"
When I heard that I just had the Bill & Ted "No way!" play in my head.
I thought it was bludgeoning is it not?
@@alertpenguin8403 Force is basically magic Bludgeoning anyway
Wicked witch of the west got a fortress yeeted at her by dorothy
@@NStripleseven and pretty much NOTHING can resist it.
One really hilarious thing I've seen once is during a Curse of Strahd campaign, during the final battle with Strahd, and Strahd was hovering and the party was more or less unable to reach him, then the Rogue shapeshifted into a Bat (its a long story), flew above Strahd, then shapeshifted back to normal, pulled out his Robe of Useful Items and SLAMMED A ROWBOAT INTO STRAHD'S FACE! Not quite as spectacular as the Fortress thing, but the sheer Looney-Tunes-Energy from that moment really stuck with me.
I mean his weaknesses include running water so a boat hitting him makes sense.
Ah, yes. The classic bat-boat-bop gambit. Perfection.
"Ehhh, what's up, doc?"
- That Rogue, probably
tell us the long story
@@Wingdings_Dingus he most likely had a cloak of bat which allows its user to transform into a bat, you can also fly in dim or dark areas and have advantage on dex saves. That’s just a guess tho.
"What's wrong with you?"
"A lot."
I felt that on a deeper level than I thought possible.
Underappreciated moment. Spencer knows how to speak to people's hearts.
I never knew plain Spencer could sound *that* sexy!
Does anyone knows her IG user...?
I came to the comments to find this
7:39
Wow you even quoted it the same way I did.
That whole scene was so cute!
I can’t express how much I love the “useless” magic items like the Dread Helm or the Cloak of Billowing. Just seeing players having to get creative with them has been awesome.
Our dragonborn barbarian beat someone to death with the helm of terror. Does that count?
when I was playing a rogue my dm gave me a magic dagger that made no noise so you could throw it and if it hit something it wouldn't make a sound. Unfortunately, it also had the minor drawback of glowing bright blue all the time so it pretty much became useless for stealth. We later found out that the dm had simply neglected to mention the inscription on the hilt when we first found it that when read enabled or disabled the glowing allowing it to either be a silent weapon or a makeshift torch instead of less functional than a regular dagger. the entire table exclaimed 'wait. you can turn it off?!' when he haphazardly mentioned a glowing inscription about 6 sessions later.
Hat of Vermin
What’s the dread helm?
@@Ilzhain Yeah Im 98% sure that the dagger you have is called Reszur, and it's from Princes of the Apocalypse. Cool dagger, my players never use it other than for stabbing in combat, the sound thing never really comes into play because they hate throwing weapons that aren't easily replaceable, and they all have darkvision.
MY favorite magic item is definitely the immovable rod because i was playing a war forged artificer, so i would make them and slowly build them into my skeleton. all i needed was to succeed on one grapple check and they were pinned with next to no chance of escape (I also used it to make people think i was a god by just walking on air)
oooooh... stealing this concept immediately
Moom, the pcs are breaking the game again
OH I AM STEALING THAT THANKYOU SIRE
@Alastair Valyocsik presumably the warforged artificer found a way to rebuild himself in such a way that the rods buttons could be pressed within his body simply by “flexing certain muscles” so to speak.
I applaud your creative genius. Bravo, clever soul, bravo.
Bag of Holding has always been my favorite magic times starting from when I did 126d4 piercing damage after I turned my bag inside out and all the daggers I collected in my campaign came flying at the BBEG.
My dm hasn’t given me another bag yet :(
Had a Grippli(frogman in pathfinder) Who had to be around water and used one of those to be able to adventure long distances. We ended up getting trapped in a sealed room with a hard BBEG. Was really fast and hard to hit...so i told the group to pull their crossbows and hold their breath and flooded the room. I ended up using some of my frost magic to freeze him in a huge chunk and reopened the bag to get the water back into it.
I, as a DM wouldn't have allowed that, simply because an aimed attack with force behind it is different than just dropping a dagger randomly hoping it does something. I think I would have rolled a 6d20 to see how many hit with the blade side and that's how many d4 you get.
i would have said the daggers fly in random directions, not only at the BBEG, but at the party.
126 attack rolls and each one would hit a random target. . .
or use the "mob combat rules" and be like, "x amount of these automatically hit, now i'll roll randomly to see who they hit"
If you put one inside another, or another plane irem, it will create a portal to the astral sea and jettison everything in a 5 ft cube around it
Bag of holding is nice until the thief cuts it thinking it's a regular bag, then say goodbye to Everything your carrying, oops.
Best item is cloak of billowing.
true
very true
Correct
to op and gamebreaking
Obviously
I had a game where we recreated "Yu-Gi-Oh" in D&D to some extent. The cards from the Deck of Illusion made it into some sort of magical circulation and became trading cards. People would duel with the illusions, and it was a cool concept overall. We didn't really go too deep into it, but I might just return to it sometime.
Reflavor the cards as 4-inch orbs.
Play pokemon
That is awesome. I have often wondered if/how I could introduce trading card games to a fantasy setting. I may just borrow that.
Dude i could just in-universe hand my platers magic the gathering cards
You wanna get banished to the Shadowfell? That’s how you get banished to the Shadowfell.
"wanna know my fav item? daern instant fortress"
"oh cool you can live in it and stuff"
"you can throw it at people" *heavy breathing* "its a ref save or it does 10d10 damage"
"10d10 force damage"
Had a group tpk with that. Fun times
We stan Spencer
Used it in a battle Royale and when the wizard used the 9th level "you can't kill me" spell, I sat in there like an angry bitch for the whole duration
Laughs in monk
"Don't give your players Rings and Cloaks of Protection unless you know the low AC Wizard is using it."
Artificers: "ALLOW US TO INTRODUCE OURSELVES."
cackles in 24+ AC
@@woagwoag My AC30 Warwizard would like to disagree
Love this!!
I ran a game with an Artificer (3E, original Everton release), the party was very well set up, and he had one very powerful Item Familiar crossbow.
Ua armorer artificer be like
I gave my players two very simple homebrewed magic items: the glasses of appraisal and sending ink. You can see the prices of everything around you. That house is 15,000g, each plank is 5 silver, your rogue is worth 450,000g, etc. Then, sending ink that writes a message on the nearest paper to whomever it’s addressed to and can only fill 2 pages. They’re really neat, and a great addition if your players are trying to do a million things that aren’t always combat. A great drawback to the glasses is that they can cause intense disassociation and force the character to *only* see things and people as monetary value if they wear them for too long.
I really like sending ink, I'm stealing it.
@@spaceblockb5284 absolutely, it’s able to used pretty creatively. Unlike sending stones, you can send an image, or a diary entry, or if your wizard is REALLY smart….
A spell
*Whomever*
@@freyrgrimsson4607 thanks. What do you think of the actual homebrew tho
@@bookbook9495 The ink is like a messaging app in a phone, and those glasses can be used as a detect magic, but if these are in the right hands, it is good stuff. However, if a klepto rogue gets those glasses the party will be wanted *everywhere*.
In my first ever Pathfinder campaign, my DM let us each have one magic item to start at level 5. I gave my monk the boots of haste. By the end of the campaign, he was the fastest thing on land, lol.
My DM had many regrets when my monk took the bad guy's maguffin right out of his hands and was some 300 feet away by the end of the turn, lol.
Add that to a tabaxi with some rogue levels. I did the math and clocked him at 0-60 mph in 6 seconds if he dashed twice in a turn. The DM just stopped having me count squares because he could run around our grid 3-4 times in one turn lol. He was also a kensei monk for the longbow proficiency and I gave him the sharpshooter feat and played him as a hyper mobile sniper that could hit you from 600 feet away and reposition
Same here. My epic level monk has ridiculous speed. 160 feet when boots of haste and sudden speed are active. These boots are one of the best items in pathfinder.
Gotta. Go. Fast.
Is it blue?
Pathfinder has good structure for character wealth by level, with no one item being worth more than half a character's total suggested wealth. So, a 5th level character should have no more than 10,500gp in a standard setting, with no one item being worth more than 5250gp. Combined this with Pathfinder's approach to bonuses of the same type not stacking, and it's a very balanced and pragmatic approach to loot. (ie; an Amulet of Deflection and a certain kind of Ioun Stone both give an "enhancement" type bonus to AC, so only one can be in effect at once)
“Snake staff” makes me think of my kobold pc’s great weapon of snake on a stick, I tied a snake to a stick and I poke people with it and the first time I used it I got a nat 20. All shall fear the snake on a stick
That is hilarious
@@shemaiwooldridge7640 Since commenting this my snake on a stick ran away ;-;
@@dungdefender8162 :( Hopefully you can come up with another creative weapon idea
@@dungdefender8162 Holy shit noooooooo. R.I.P Snake on a Stick, Snake will be missed
This reminds me of the Franklinator. Where Benjamin Franklin tied an angry badger to a stick and used it to beat on the red coats.
I love a good ole weapon of warning. No bonuses to damage or attack, but the advantage on initiative and no being surprised are really helpful
"Something bad will happen today."
@@dgmbomb "you will face challenges today" omg my horoscope is coming true!
My EK had sword of warning. It was extremely useful
Literally saved our lives more than once!
Jacob: *abuses the crap out of the little beholder*
Beholder: "I will not tolerate this! I'm out of here!"
Other toys: "No, you can't escape this place! He will find you and punish you!"
Beholder: *falls off the shelf*
Jacob: "Oh... he escaped, lol" *puts the beholder on a lower shelf, devoid of any figurines and toys*
Beholder: "Is... Is this solitary confinement???" *internal screaming*
Other toys: "We tried to warn him..."
...
Your imagination, and random narrative, tells me that you would make a great D&D player.
@@Bluemilk92 I don't have anyone to play with anymore, so now I just watch D&D TH-cam channels and create characters I'd like to play some day, rip
@@anastasijahabarova1533 I've never played, and I watch DnD videos and make characters I want to play one day.
**cries in no friends and dnd-is-demonic parents**
@@doubleslashkarma **also cries in no friends** Yeah, I feel that. I wonder what percentage of us watching these channels don't actually play, but wish they could.
Jacob: The immovable rod won’t break your game!
My one player who made boots with immovable rods in them so he could fly for free: Now this looks like a job for me
Wait wait wait...
Immovable boots? How do the boots stop moving? I thought there had to be a button to activate/deactivate it?
How exactly do those boots work?
@@Basshead004 on the tongue like the pump up Nikes
@@Basshead004 i'm just guessing but maybe he activates both so he is still in midair then turns off the foot he wants to move, activates it again and repeat so you're basically walking but really slowly
@@alessandrocoatti5186 a broom of flying does that way better though
Jacob: "I don't like things that are just spells in a material form"
Also Jacob: "I love the potion of fire breath"
I was like, "Wait a minute. Scrolls no good because just some feature you could get in another way in tangible form that makes it accessible to anyone (but not really how that works). Potions are awesome, but they literally do exactly that!"
Defending this position by saying potions are one-time-use, so they won't break the game is fine, but how is that not identical to how scrolls function?
@@FlatOnHisFace wizards can use scrolls to permanently gain that spell, thats the reason i think
@@dangerous1580 That is a feature for a particular class (and some ritualists). If the DM is that worried about it, there are controls. Don't provide enough down time; cash; special inks; or whatever to scribe it. When you present the situation for that scroll to be useful, it might be used. If the player chooses to save it to scribe later, that's a player exercising agency. Also, can't scribe spells that aren't on your class list, so not really applicable to scrolls in general.
More importantly, don't do this. Wizards scribing scrolls is a class feature. Characters of that class are expected to be able to do it. I've played in three long-term campaigns where the wizard never scribes anything new into the spell book because we simply don't discover appropriate scrolls, so they only ever got new spells on level-ups, like any other caster. Probably because the players never said anything, I think the DMs just over-looked it, and it likely wasn't a deliberate attempt to hamstring the class. But let the wizards have their fun. Their not sorcerers, for Peylor's sake.
Potions are better than equivalent spell scrolls because they don't need concentration and that lets you do funny things. They just work.
@@dangerous1580 Just to add on to this;
A fun optional rule I place, is if an attempt is made to copy a spell into their spell book, the scroll counts as being used (regardless of success).
Though some DMs prefer to make it so you have to purchase, or steal an opposing spellbook instead (which can be quite enthralling)
I kinda imagine throwing the fortress at Strahd:" what's up Strahd?"
Then Strahd catches the whole thing in one hand, bow politely and then throw it back .
It's a good fortress. Goodbye Mr. Burton.
Strahd:If you can dodge a fortress you can dodge a ball!
@@arsenelupin5424 If you can dodge it slowly you can dodge it quickly!
Better than him just keeping it.
Felix from Red vs Blue “one... two...”
Your bad guy throws a card on the ground and summons a dragon.
Your bad guy is Seto Kaiba.
you do that, well I do this!
oh you do that, well I do this!
Ah! Exodia! That's impossible! No one's ever been able to summon him before!
Screw the rules, I have money
@@stratigangames508 yugioh was the ultimate foreshadowing of the modern gaming landscape..
"You're a third rate DM with a fourth rate dragon."
Deck of Illusions, for when you need to explain to your DM why your Yugioh-themed homebrew can work in D&D.
now picture being able to capture a summoned skull in a cave in a small stone card
Go! REGULAR colored-eyes white dragon!
No dm should need that explained to them.
I gave my friend 1 uncommon magic item at level one to start the campaign, and he chose deck of illusions. Many Yu GI Oh references have been made
My favorite: The Rakdos Riteknife from Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica. Killing things with it traps their souls in the knife (up to 5 souls). It deals an extra d4 necrotic damage per soul. You can use an action to EAT ONE OR MORE OF THE SOULS and heal 1d10 for each SOUL you EAT. Or you can burn all 5 souls to force an enemy with with less than 75 HP to make CON save or die instantly.
Probably the most balanced Legendary magic item in the game, and so flavorful.
Ok that's cool as fuck
Balanced... BALANCED?! the rakdos riteknife is extremely powerful
@@silmeerman9471
It's also Legendary
That's amazing
@@silmeerman9471 By legendary standars? it's kinda tame
“Give the Warforged barbarian all the AC bonuses”
I feel so called out rn
The beholder escaping as if paranoid is perfectly in character. Gets me every time even a year later
I remember my dad played a gnome with a blinkdog familiar, and he had a wand of wonder. Whenever he used it, he would always say, "Wand of wonder. Please no blunder," in the squeakiest voice he could. It was a fun one-shot.
That line. I'm stealing it.
I got a wand of wonder once. We loved it, our characters did not. ‘I’m going to...’ and everyone would start screaming nooooooooo
"A periapt of wound closure makes your character unkillable" Taliesin Jaffe would beg to differ I think
Fly high circus man. Mollymauk Tealeaf my all time favorite from Critical Role.
-STARES INTO THE ABYSS-
YOU HAVE CONDEMNED CADUCEUS
Too soon.
Except Jacob literally says that the periapt does not make them unkillable...
*Laughs in explosive arrow*
I've always loved the Wand of Wonder. My players used it once fighting the vampire guy from the Von Glauss Manor, summoned an angel who just cut the vamp in half, turned to glare at the warlock who summoned him and then disappeared
a conversation I had with my very first 5e character:
DM: "okay, oyu've suceeded on all your checks, so you've figured out that there are enemies behind the door without alerting them."
me: "I poke my want of wonder under the door."
I lost it at Spencer saying, "Throw it at people."
And then again at 'yeet'
"I dont know why im singing a song using the same 4 chords i use for every song" said no pop artist ever
7:02 hey lil mama lemme whisper in ya ear, tell you something that you might like to hear. 10d10 force damage and a free house.
"It's free real estate."
Had a trickster cleric who had a bag of tricks. They mostly just summoned temporary pets and cuddled them a lot, it was great
^^ also, this same cleric had a wand of quoitwil, 100% my favorite item so far. It's just a wand of pranking people, and sometimes it backfires onto the user, it's great
My favorite part of a certain D&D podcast was when one character used 6 charges of the Wand of wonder
at once
Just Roll With It?
I haven't listened to that one, but reminds me of Dungeons and Daddies where some-one just threw a whole bag of magic beans down an elevator shaft.
@@Somethingbloody i love that podcast! what do you think of season two?
It's vldl
Somebody chose violence that day. Love it
also I demand a t-shirt saying
"don't worry baby just the head" with an image of the python staff.
I’d buy it
8:30 nah I've had the deck of illusions break a campaign almost immediately
Jacob: "Fire arrows are cool."
Lindybeige watchers: "OH NO HE DID NOT!"
Aww... Was gonna say that, but you did first..😅
I once came up with an idea for a magic lamp that sucks up absent players. A present player can rub the lamp and summon an NPC version of the absentee and control them. The drawback is that every time you use it the summoned player pops out of the lamp and uppercuts you.
Periapt of wound closure makes your character basically unkillable
*Mollmauk scoffs from the great beyond*
Needlessly put music into it? I just assumed you were a real life bard.
The throwable fortress sounds so much fun to use, as well like me to just threaten randoms ppl with.
Me: "don't make me bring the house down" Or "Imma drop an building on your ass."
YEET
How bout a vehicle dropped by them
@@lerianthaumiel4434 mmmm...by them a, you man on them right? Other words they be fin and take said vehicle.
The immovable rod is awesome to give a creative player.
Also I love things that don't require attunement but let you use a bonus action to do something even if it's dumb (I'm looking at you, cloak of billowing).
"The fire sword may be OP if you give it to the fighter."
Me: *laughs in Adventure Zone's Flaming Raging Poisoning Sword of Doom.*
Ok, so I made a magic item I think you’ll like,
Horn of annoying.
Common item, 1lbs
As an action a creature can blow into this horn, when they do so they choose a sound or sentence they have heard within the last 24 hours.
The chosen sound is played into the mind of every creature within a 100ft radius. Except the sound is warped and sounds as if it is being played at 20 times speed and has been pushed up several octaves.
A creature can attempt to decipher the meaning of the original sound by succeeding on a DC 22 intelligence check.
If the horn plays a sound created by a different horn of annoying every creature that can her the played sound takes 1d6 physic damage.
Also love the vids, they have helped me be a better dm and player.
Players: 31 ac, get f*cked Jackob!
Jackob: twinn disintegrate on lvl 9, make a dex save
Players: ...
31 AC? Ha! Try 37
Disintegrate is an attack roll tho...
@@ASquared544 no its not its a dex save?
My players: Shield Master, Paladin, Inspiration, etc.
What about tortle with mage armor, ring of protection and a shield?
The random chaos, my friend Tyson, our novice DM gave him a specialized item called the “Ban Hammer” (acquired from a God on a Nat 20 charm roll) this hammer literally had no limits. He teleported to a forest while we were fighting a dragon and lit it on fire with eternal flame, and came back with the whole ass forest and burned us all alive
“Needlessly put music in it” I disagree, every song is 100% necessary
My favorite magic items:
Sun Blade: a f***ing lightsaber!
Dread Helm: glowing red eyes meme
Alchemy Jar: let us drink, brothers!
Apparatus of Kwalish: skitter skatter pitter patter.
Drink? But what about mayo?
Potential spoilers for the Out Of the Abyss campaign book below:
I, playing a rogue, got a Sun Blade in OOtA. Now, this is pretty wack, and the DM has said he's not sure if it was a mistake to give it out as early as he did. However, the fact that *I* got it, and not one of our dedicated front-line classes made things pretty interesting. This Sun Blade is not a regular Sun Blade - it's a sentient magic item, Dawnbringer. Because of the sentience, I made a personal connection with it, which discouraged me from giving it to someone with better melee skills. It also caused a bit of a toss-up in my play style. I was focused on stealth and archery, but now I had a very powerful weapon that rewarded me for going into melee, and that prevented me from stealthing while i was holding it (because it gives off light). Definitely resulted in some interesting choices in combat. Also, Dawnbringers sense of morality gave way to some very intersting RP about the definitions of good and evil.
@@kaldo_kaldo *you heard him*
I ruined the 69 like
I think the deck of many things is very safe and beneficial all the time
:|
Hey! This was pretty funny
Its the best item to give to a level 2 party
I agree
Depending on how you look at it, someone, somewhere always benefits from a selection from the Deck of Many Things
the Wand of Wonder disguised as a Wand of webs that actually does the web spell should be an Unstable Wand of Webs.
Unstable Wands will do the spell, but every so often, will do something random.
Or a Wonderous Wand of Webs, which adds the allure of alliteration, but going with Unstable Wands makes it more universal.
My favorite magic item, as of right now anyway, is the Cloak of Manta Ray…because it’s a cloak, it increases your swim speed, and it allows you to breathe underwater
In one of my games I had a fairy dragon named Gerald. He stole the elixir of love from my PCs. Later my players went to a party in their honor and Gerold dumped the whole bottle in the punch bowl. So it turned into orgy. Good times.
Wtf
"Players do not have a lot of reason to capture people."
No, my party leaves no survivors.
Alternatively, they accidentally adopt a kobold and eventually name the party after the kobold they frequently forget is now following them around. Nat 20 Intimidation.
They finally found him again in a magical portal in the town they're in hanging out with a kobold tribe running a fight club under the direction of some metallic dragons.
Shiftweave. My Faceless Tabaxi Swashbuckler loves it. How else could he switch between the timid merchant persona "Song from the Hilltop" and the elegant emperor of the night "Lunestro" in the blink of an eye? Right....with the fur coloring pills switching from dirty cream-colored to glossy black.
Shiftweave works wonders with my changeling bard, now all I need to do is get the Actor feat.
... that's a thing?
@@samuelevans738 The Fur coloring pill? No. It is a substitute for the Disguise Kit, me and my DM came up with. Disguising oneself while being a Tabaxi is pretty....impossible, so I got them. I only have 2 colors (cream-colored and black) as options, but I don't really need more. Also the party minimizes my "Lunestro"-time a lot simply by being close by, so both me as a player and as my character revel in these sections.
Oh...they also change the color of his eyes from murky blue, to golden yellow*.
*"I am a kitty, the true self!" & "The paw is the means by which all is revealed."
7:40
-What's wrong with you?
-A lot.
As with most of the players... :)
As with most people.
I have a magic item called the Unmighty Sword of Domarr. It's a +2 longsword that has three uses- after the third use, it explodes into a 20ft. radius area with all in the sphere taking 4d6 fire damage automatically.
My friend and bought a deck of illusions however he had it rushed so we could make an encounter. Because of the rush job some of the cards had a chance of failing. He pulled three cards a red dragon, a beholder, and an ogre.
They all failed
My character who was trained as a soldier and really just didn’t care for magic just thought “ this is why I don’t trust magic” and we laughed at him for it.
Jacob with more content ! Love to see it , by far my favorite channel on TH-cam ! Thanks for all the opinions , laughs and advice
The description of his favorite item is like the ring of three wishes XD
In conclusion: the best magic item would be the "wand of wild magic"
Wand of wonder?
@@sealedtugboat9965
Well yes, but actually no.
00:01 Me writing my advanced higher music composition, 2010, colourised.
My favorite item is one “I made myself”, pocket sand.
Damn it Dale
Powerful Sniff it also became magical, so it became pocket sandstorm
How about animated pocket sand?
Edit: I had a character in one of my school campaigns. This was one of those campaigns where every player gets a special ability. That ability changes as you level up. My character's ability was to animate small objects. My first upgrade was to animate small objects in an aoe. The next upgrade was to store spells in them. My highest point was when I made a sand elemental thing while fighting a behir. It died in a few turns, and the party I was in wouldn't stop to let me rest, but it was cool in the moment.
I made a mostly non-magical bard/rogue. He was basically a street magician, and the DM let me homebrew a set of spark gloves (gloves with threads of flint and steel woven into the fingers, allowing my guy to create sparks by clicking his fingers)
One of his stage tricks was that his had a pouch of multicoloured sand that had a small amount of flammable powder mixed in, so he could throw a small amount into the air, click his fingers, and turn it into a large puff of colourful smoke.
It was also useful in combat, as one time I readied an action to do that trick if an enemy got within 5’ of me. I ended up throwing the dust in his face an igniting it as he went to attack, stunning him and making him miss the rest of his turn.
It became a once-per-battle thing from that point on, but it was fun to use
@@BYERE nice. I kinda want that now...
Is it just me or could you not stop watching the purple eye thingy in the background... “ITS GONNA JUMP!”
"I think I just like fire." Wizard nods in agreement.
My favorite example of the wand of wonder is from JRWI (Just Roll With It). Bra’ad gets a wand of wonder, sees a grasshopper, and accidentally shoots a giant fireball at it starting a wild fire
"What's wrong with you?"
"A lot"
I've had that conversation before
I remember this one game I was playing with my mates. We had the Daern's instant fortress to, and we used it as our home and to throw it at people to. This one time we were figthing a boss and the ranger stayed outside of the castle we were in (don't remember why), and the daern's instante fortress was with him. We gave him the a signal, he could throw it prety far because of some talents. Last thing the boss know was a @!#ing tower penetrating his windows and smashing him for good (we almost died too). Though, outside, just imagine a castle with a tower hanging in one of its sides.
In this same campaign, when we were all high level and defeated one of the last bosses, the dm granted us with a ring of wishes. Our first wish as to have 1500 Daern's instante fortress, so we could put a certain amount in a catapult, and just before set it we would say the the word to activet it. With that, we were able to destroy and conquer the most famous citys in that world. We had, like, the nuclear bomb of the time in our hands.
gonna be honest. if i was the dm and players did that to many times i would be having rumors around this party is throwing this fort at people and have the bbe do some shit to play around that.
Honestly, if that's how you worded the Wish, it wouldn't have been unreasonable for activated Fortresses to randomly fall on the party over the next year of adventuring until exactly 1500 had fallen.
I remember playing my first game of D&D and it was like 1E AD&D and each character was given a magic item at the beginning, one character was given a ring that let him fly and a few other stuff I can't remember(he could already fly though with his wings), I started with a wand of wonder : ), I think the third player had what was basically a decanter of endless water except the water was replaced with oil, and the fourth player had an instant fortress and we thought that it was reusable at the time but apparently it wasn't. Oh also this was a few years ago before we started playing 5E.
The bastards sting is the coolest magic item. The perfect weapon for any paladin, who is following a real cool god.
The what?
@@samuelevans738 its a pathfinder weapon.
one of my absolute favorites purely because it is chaotic is a bag of beans. it explains itself so simply but can go from having a statue that is rude to a mummy lord with attached pyramid
There's only one way to truly find out if he's a Bard.
Show us your stats and spells, Mr. LvL 3
Jacob: *begins playing improvised music*
Me: *starts jamming out to the sick guitar*
Jacob: *abruptly stops*
Me: Hey! I was listening to that!
Lol
Although homebrew, I love the Shield of Heroic Memories from TAZ (the adventure zone)
Mirror shield, each creature type you face gets a depiction of that combat on the shield, if you face that creature type again you now have a +1 AC towards that creature type.
If you havent faced a type before or faced it before acquiring the shield, you can roll a DC 15 Charisma check to convince the shield you have faced that type before to gain the bonus. Fail this Charisma Check 3 times and the shield returns to it's clear mirror finish, losing all of its heroic memories.
When I think of the "Deck of Illusions", I'm reminded of Yu-Gi-Oh.
I remember in a oneshot campaign, I played a Goblin Artificer who had an Immovable Rod and the party used it to climb over a hedge/fence to steal something from the building on the other side by sticking it through the hedge, hitting the button and then using it as a climbing point. I managed to get it up pretty high using Mage Hand.
Excuse me, but I very much enjoy using my Wand of Web.
"All potions are awesome to me, I think the _one use_, give you an _ability_, for a _little bit of time_ is really interesting"
I have a funny story around potions, I know this is like a super old video so this probably won't get much attention but I had a "boss" fight against a Goblin Alchemist where I used a potion generation table for the effects of the potions he wildly threw at the players.
The Warforged got permanently turned into a Fire Elemental by the dice gods... And that's how we had a Level 5 Artificer with 102 max HP.
I remember when my dm gave me something (I don’t remember exactly what it was) and it added my proficiency bonus to my ac and I already had a class ability that did that. So at level 5 it was a 22 to hit me. They literally had to crit to hit me at any time, It was fixed soon after but the fight I had a 22 ac with was gloriously.
Lol 😂
What class ability adds your proficiency bonus to your AC?
I play a semi-homebrew campaign where my troll pc got a ring of the goat, which basically lets him eat any organic materials and it counts as rations. But because he is a troll, he's always hungry, so he could like, eat an entire dining table. Or a library. or a horse.
1:54 STRING UP THE BLASPHEMER!!! ;)
I miss the old-school weapons that used to have like a +3(maybe it was only +2) but had higher bonuses to special kinds of enemies, ie Lycanthropes, fish people, dragons, etc! I believe an old flame tongue had +3, +4 to (something) and +5 to shape changing creatures!
Well, old games had different math. You literally needed those items to keep up your progression.
I haven’t been playing d&d for long, but it took me like 3 sessions to realize giving +3 weapons to everyone was a mistake, so I started giving magical items that did funny stuff, like boots that make you good at break dancing
One of my favorites is the pop up tent since it really isnt that big of a deal but it can be used for good roleplay based of what the inside looks like
I homebrewed an item called "wild magic crystals", which are exactly what it sounds like. It's literally just an excuse to use wild magic without having an actual wild magic sorcerer in the party.
A small crystal that you channel magic through, and it consumes the crystal to cast a random effect from the wild magic table.
A great way to give some sort of magic ability to a class that otherwise doesn't have any, and it's totally unpredictable, which is always fun.
They also play an important narrative role in the campaign I'm working on, so that's cool.
"Fire arrows are cool"
*screams in Lindybeige*
i love how for monk and rogue just grabbing the elvenkind uncommon items is really useful while being able to do it early on.
4:45 I thought only a spellcaster that has the spell of the scroll in their class spell list could use a spellscroll, wich makes sense, although I also support the idea of letting anyone use, and just replace the spellcasting ability check, for classes without spellcasting, for a straight inteligence one, since scrolls are more associated with wizards
"What's wrong with you?" He asks the person who has decided to marry him
Me and my best friend decided to do a dou build for our next game. He's a goblin artificer, I'm a Juggernaut Warforged Barbarian. He found me and fixed me after I was impaired in a Great War. Our DM said I can count as his Steel Defender, so he can channel magic through me and repair me. Best part is, he rides on my back, and since our height is like 12 feet, no medium creature can attack him. I carry a lance strapped to my back, and since he's 7 feet off the ground there is no close range disadvantage.
10:39 is Hilarious! I'm running a campaign where a friend's Barbarian is at 21 AC already and they just destroyed a high level BBEG and got to keep all the loot... he's about to go to 23AC...
Immovable rod has been used by our "support" bard Jonnhy to hold a boss in place while he took literally 30 real minutes nursing the rest of the party back up to fighting shape. I couldn't even stop it because it was such an unexpected use of the item that it was great. On the same note. A bard saved the party without charisma.
"I don't know why i'm singing this song with the same four chords I use for every song" So, have you heard the song called 4 chords?
Trust me, it might explain why you chose those chords.
“What’s wrong with you?”
“...a lot...”
I felt that lol
I gave all my players insane magic items and now they're crazy powerful at level 7. It's really fun because I can just throw insane things at them (like 140 zombies)
I really like the idea of the Cloak of Arachnida and the Gloves of Missile Snaring. They might not be useful, but they're absolutely frickin' cool. Also, I think this video *was* useful or helpful in any way- it's one of my first exposures to D&D and definitely influenced my opinion of magic items and the game in general. This video might even be the reason I'm fascinated by magic items, and creating my own homebrew ones, and artificer is my favorite class, and I started making up so many crazy magic items and giving them to bad guys as you suggested that I made my own evil cult, the order of chaos, to justify the existence of so many magic items, and from there I made a world and wrote a campaign. Now I just need to work up the courage to actually join a D&D group, because I've never actually played. There's a club at my school... I know how to join... I've just been staring at the link for a few weeks in terror.
Did you do it?
Jacob and Spencer are the best example of there is someone out there for everyone