#magic items

[taradrawstuff]

some props and magic items from a witches cottage, further exploring an animation line take on my inate style, just pulling back on the hatching a bit and leaning in to stronger silhouettes and outlines.

[gavamont]

Made a new magic item, it’s a looking glass that when you look through it, you see the target as they are in the dimension of Stuffed Animal Folk. That’s how I found out I would be a green teddy bear, not a dog surprisingly.

[dndtreasury]

Goblin Grab Bag #001 by Cardboard Anvil

[notetakers-blog-of-holding]

*bangs scepter* MORE WHIMSY

[the-ashen-gm]

I don’t think magic items should be named after their function, but their story.

In Dungeon Crawl Classics, there’s a chapter on magic items that briefly mentions that magic items are rare and powerful to the point that any one magic item is probably quite famous. That fame usually comes with a name.

So a particular flame tongue sword might be called “Hellfire” or “The Sword of Durageddon’s Bane”. A particular bag of holding might be “Kingslocks” or “The Blinding of the Gorgon”. These items get their names from the adventures they were involved in, which to me is a lot more interesting than a name that is purely functional.

Those functional names make the items feel less magical and more mechanical to me. If a bag of holding is recognisable as such, it must be fairly unremarkable to just have a generic name - implying that a great many people own one. It’s like owning a Ferrari racecar (impressive, but you’re hardly the only one) versus owning “The Carriage of the Ninth Angel” that is famed for being blessed by three angels with three heads in preparation for its death race against Satan himself.

I bought a zine recently (Through Ultan’s Door: Downtime in Zyon) that has a simple system for making magic items:

Commission a master artisan to make you a masterwork (a sword, armour, or book)

Use that item in a quest in an interesting way (such as slaying a particularly powerful foe)

That item, by becoming part of a spectacular story, then takes on magical properties once given a suitable name

Lots of players find it boring to find a generic +1 sword or what have you in dungeons, so I think this is a good solution to make it more interesting. And suitably mythic!

[homebrew-a-la-traumaverse]

Teyvat's Treasures - A Homebrew Magic Item Collection

Genshin Impact has a lot of unique abilities to draw from. Its characters tend to be a little too specific to make into subclasses, but magical items have just enough room to make them work. If you're familiar with the game, it should be pretty clear what the inspirations for each of these are based on.

I was into the game for a while, mostly because of cute anime girls, but it has a few flaws that kept me from coming back to it. There's the way it expects you to treat it like a job and come back to it every day - an issue endemic to most gacha games, but no less a criticism for it. There's the excessive amount of grinding needed - you need to grind your characters, each of their skills, their weapons, and then when you rank up you get the opportunity to grind them all again in order to keep up with the world scaling around you. There's the gacha system itself, which has too many inherent issues to list here. There's the suspiciously white desert people. There's the way you can be banned for having custom skins that are only visible on your own computer. There's the lack of pants. There's Paimon.

It's a shame, because there are some strong character moments and dungeon designs in there.

The Genius Invokation card minigame was pretty fun at least.

[michaeljpatrick]

The Counterpart Mirror is just one of the fantastic items to be found in Branderbiggle's Box of Baubles!

[unlawfulgames]

Do you like food? Do you like street food? DO YOU LIKE FANTASY STREET FOOD?! DO YOU LIKE FANTASY STREET FOOD TTRPGS?! DO YOU LIKE FREE FANTASY STREET FOOD TTRPGS?!? DO YOU LIKE TO LEAVE TIPS FOR CREATORS WHO MADE FREE FANTASY STREET FOOD TTRPGS?!

[rollingtablesiguess]

(Un)Helpful Magic Items Rolling Table

Want to throw an...interesting magic item into your campaign? Well then, look no further!

[waambles]

Gale when you hand him a magical pair of boots

[gavamont]

Made a new magical ring that is hammered impossibly thin and allows the wearer to become thin like paper.

Pros: slip through gaps, become basically invisible if you turn sideways, your hands can now give paper cuts.

Cons: the wearer is particularly prone to scissors, origami folds, and hole punches.

[dndtreasury]

Magic Dresses by bessmertni

[bugbart]

Lightning Greataxe ⚡️

custom magic weapon commission for @artistfingers !