the_griffons_saddlebag

Folding Cart

Added 2025-04-29 15:05:25 +0000 UTC

Wondrous item, uncommon

This wooden trunk has a pair of wheels along the bottom and can be worn on your back. While the trunk isn't being worn, you can use an action to speak its command word to transform it into a cart or back into its trunk form. You must be touching the trunk. You decide the specifics of the vehicle each time it transforms, such as the number of wheels it has (up to four), what type of handles or carriage shaft it has, if it has any benches (up to two), and whether or not it's covered (a weatherproofed canvas roof). Depending on the details of the cart, it can be considered either a wheelbarrow, cart, wagon, or carriage. The cart can be as small as 1 foot long and 1 foot wide and as large as 10 feet long and 6 feet wide. At its largest, the cart can comfortably seat up to four Medium creatures, or up to six if they squeeze. Regardless of its appearance, the cart can only ever be a cart (or similar vehicle).

In its trunk form, the folding cart is 18 inches wide, 9 inches deep, and 2 feet tall; it can hold items like a normal trunk. It weighs 10 pounds while in this form; use the statistics for each type of vehicle to determine its maximum weight while transformed. Anything held in the trunk when it transforms reappears in the vehicle; anything too large to fit in the trunk when it transforms back into that form is left in the nearest unoccupied space. If the transformed vehicle is destroyed, it returns to its trunk form and is destroyed.

A carriage to travel, a barrow to haul,
a wagon for packing, a cart for all.
Readied for merchants and labor and crafts,
readied to wander our unending paths.
—Working rhyme attributed to the first of the Rove clan caravan