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Journal of Dreams

Wondrous item, common

While this journal is on your person, it magically records the contents of any dream you have. The dream is labeled with your name, date, and dream duration. The dream itself is recorded in long-form prose, as if it were a short story.

If you cast or are targeted by the dream spell while the journal is on your person, you can choose to transform the dream into one from the journal. To do so, the messenger and the target of the sp...

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Heroic Ideas — Choose 2 community item ideas to be made!

Hey heroes!

Each week on Discord, community members nominate other members' suggested items to be made into official Saddlebag items. The top two most voted-for item ideas each week get made, following back and forth workshopping and discussion.

You ...

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{Public Poll} The Battlechef's Servings Bowls are now free!

Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!

The Battlechef's Servings Bowls' art and card files are now public and considered OGL content*! Grab them with the links below or on the Ledger+! Have fun with them, and keep on adventuring!

2024-08-31 12:54:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Aegis Grimoire

Armor (shield), very rare (requires attunement by a wizard)

This leather shield looks like a leather-bound book with brass fixtures. You're considered proficient with this shield while you're attuned to it. The shield has 5 charges and regains 1d4 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn.

Spells. While holding this shield, you can use a bonus action to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast one of the following spells from it: antilife...

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Battlechef's Serving Bowls

Wondrous item, uncommon

This pair of silver serving bowls is scratched from seeing battle. Their handles are wrapped with leather straps, allowing you to wear them as pauldrons. It takes 1 minute to attach the bowls to your shoulders or remove them. Whenever you take acid or poison damage while wearing the bowls as pauldrons, you reduce that damage by 1d4. For each other item you're holding or wearing that has battlechef in the name, the acid or poison dama...

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Psychic Quiver

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement by a creature with an Intelligence score of 13 or higher)

When you pull a nonmagical arrow from this quiver and immediately make an attack with it, the target takes an extra 1d6 psychic damage on a hit. If you roll a 6 on the die, you can choose to target that creature with the detect thoughts spell (no concentration required). When you do, you can choose to force the creature to make a DC 13 Intelligence saving thro...

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Two Big Announcements: Your Support Tier Just Got Better, and Book Two is coming to DnDBeyond!

Hey adventurers!

First of all, let me give a big thank you to everyone that participated in the questionnaires last week. Your feedback was super useful, and went into the planning of some upgrades to your tiers. Information on what upgrades you're getting to your tiers is just below this next segment.

Now, about the other—

The Griffon's Saddlebag: Book Two is c...

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Walking Pot

Wondrous item, common

This terra cotta pot has an emerald, scale-like glaze along its base. Four legs protrude from the bottom of the vessel, as well as an unblinking, humanoid face. If at least one plant is growing within the pot, the pot will magically animate to walk to the nearest location that's within 120 feet of where it was last placed that's best for the plant's needs (such as sunlight or water). The pot ceases to be animated once it reaches the location. While ...

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Prisoner's Flail

Weapon (flail), uncommon

This flail is rudimentary in construction, having been made from a sharpened branch and an iron ball and chain. The anguish of untold prisoners has imbued the ball and chain with a miserable semblance of magic. When you hit a humanoid with this weapon, that creature's speed is reduced by 10 feet, or 20 feet if the attack scored a critical hit. The reduction lasts until the start of your next turn, during which time this property of the weapon can...

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Heroic Ideas — Choose 2 community item ideas to be made!

Hey heroes!

Each week on Discord, community members nominate other members' suggested items to be made into official Saddlebag items. The top two most voted-for item ideas each week get made, following back and forth workshopping and discussion.

You ...

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Public Poll — The Marshwarden Bow is now free!

Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!

The Marshwarden Bow's art and card files are now public and considered OGL content*! Grab them with the links below or on the Ledger+! Have fun with them, and keep on adventuring!

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Marshwarden Bow

Weapon (any bow), rare (requires attunement)

This bow is made of twisted cypress roots and covered in long, stringy moss. The bowstring is always slick with water. Nonmagical arrows fired from this bow deal an extra 1d6 acid or poison damage on a hit (your choice each time). When you're in a forest or swamp and are hidden from a creature, missing with an attack against it doesn't reveal your position.

Wretched Burst. When you hit a ta...

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Scroll of True Self

Scroll, very rare

This long scroll is covered in writing. It takes 1 minute to read it aloud in its entirety. At the end of the minute, you're affected by the true polymorph spell. This version of the spell can only transform you into a humanoid, and if you concentrate on the spell for the full duration, it can't be dispelled against your will. Your game statistics and worn equipment remain the same, although your racial traits are replaced by the ones of y...

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Influential Tunic

Wondrous item, common

This shimmering silk tunic creates an air of importance about it. When you make a Charisma check while wearing the tunic, you can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the check; you must decide to do so before the GM determines the outcome. To use this property, you can't be wearing any armor, and you must have led a wealthy or aristocratic lifestyle the previous day, as determined by the Lifestyle Expenses table in the Basic Rules. Once this prop...

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Helm of the Dawn Guardian

Wondrous item, legendary (requires attunement)

This golden helmet radiates a gentle warmth, like the light of the sun. While wearing the helmet, your eyes glow with a soft radiance, and you gain a +1 bonus to AC. If you're in sunlight, the bonus increases to +2.

The helmet's warmth extends out from you in a 10-foot radius while you wear it. If you have at least 17 levels in the paladin class, the radius increases to 30 feet. The weapon attacks of friendly creatures...

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An important questionnaire for $9 patrons!

Hey, heroes!

I wanted to reach out to you directly and ask about your experience as a $9 patron. How much use do you get out of your rewards? What more would you like to see from your support?

Click here for the questionnaire!

I've disabled comments on this post to keep your feedback on the questionnaire. You will have space there for any feedback the questions don't speak to. Thank you!...

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[Cards] Pack of Item Cards from July 2024

Want to use or print a lot of cards, but shudder at the thought of downloading all those files?

Never fear, hero! Download a month's worth of cards in a simple .zip file, ready for you to print at home or professionally, as well as the digital files to use for your Roll20 games!

Keep on adventuring!

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Belltower Triangle

Wondrous item, common

This brass triangle comes with a dangling set of bells and a beater in the shape of a clock's hand. When you strike the triangle using an action, it rings until the start of your next turn. The triangle emits a soft tone, like a bell struck with a soft hammer, that's audible out to a range of 120 feet. For the duration, any creature that hears the sound magically knows what time of day it is, up to the nearest quarter hour. Once this property of the...

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Heroic Ideas — Choose 2 community item ideas to be made!

Hey heroes!

Each week on Discord, community members nominate other members' suggested items to be made into official Saddlebag items. The top two most voted-for item ideas each week get made, following back and forth workshopping and discussion.

You ...

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Public Poll — The Lion Door Guardian is now free!


Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!

The Lion Door Guardian's art and card files are now public and considered OGL content*! Grab them with the links below or on the Ledger+! Have fun with them, and keep on adventuring!

2024-08-17 12:54:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Mage Arrow

Weapon (arrow), uncommon

When you fire this arrow from a bow at a target within its normal range, you don't make an attack roll for the attack. Instead, the arrow immediately splinters apart into 1d4 + 4 darts of magical force, as if by the magic missile spell. The darts all strike the target of the attack. The arrow is then destroyed, before it reaches a target.

Other types of magic ammunition of this kind exist, such as mage bolts mean...

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Wizard: Dracomage | New Subclass!

Wizards that devote their studies to the ancient and formidable power of dragons are called Dracomages. By channeling their spellcasting to fuel draconic abilities, Dracomages emulate and harness the power of dragons with a fury that few can withstand. With an air of both reverence and ambition, Dracomages strive to embody the power and majesty of these mythical beings, all while carving out their own legend in the annals of magic.

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Lion Door Guardian

Wondrous item, uncommon

This brass door knocker is fashioned after a lion's head. You can attach the knocker to an unlocked door by firmly pressing it against the door for 1 minute. The door then becomes locked, as if by the arcane lock spell. You choose the door's password when attaching the knocker to it. Speaking the correct password to enter the door causes the knocker to emit a rumbling purr. If the door doesn't have a handle, a brass handle in the des...

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Undertaker's Planchette

Wondrous item, uncommon

This planchette is made of bone. You can place the planchette on a surface that has letters or premade responses written on it (such as a piece of parchment or carved table), at which point you can perform a special ritual. The ritual takes 1 minute, over the course of which you can ask a corpse within 30 feet of you one question. The creature knows only what it knew in life, including the languages it knew. Answers are usually brief, cryptic, or ...

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Crystal Ball of Farsight

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)

This crystal ball is about 6 inches in diameter. While touching it, you can cast the arcane eye spell with it. The spell ends early if a creature touches the magical eye; the creature then knows that it had been observed by divination magic. For the duration of the spell, you are blinded, and the crystal mimics the appearance of one of your eyes.

 

It's astonishing what people do when they think...

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Boing Boing Bon Bon

Wondrous item, uncommon

This chocolate candy is filled with a magical, fluffy nougat made of clouds. The candy is delicious, and can be eaten in a single bite using an action. A creature that eats the entire candy gains resistance to bludgeoning damage for the next 10 minutes. For the duration, each time you take bludgeoning damage, you're immediately pushed up to 15 feet away from the damage's source. If the damage is from falling, you bounce 15 feet in the air only onc...

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[Vacation Content 7/7] Spectre Creations: Demisphinx

Spectre Creations is, genuinely, a creator whose work I trust implicitly, creating everything between monsters, player options, game mechanics, and spells They are also a member of the team that works on the monthly Saddlebag settings, and proofreads each and every item in the Saddlebag as it's released to make sure the wording is up to snuff. Most of the time I get it right, but...

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[Vacation Content 6/7] SINK! Tendrilled tattoo

SINK! is designed by beloved American football player Johnny Stanton, Rick Esquivias, and mega-talent and official D&D tattoo artist Sam Rusk. Together, they're partnering with Hit Point Press to bring you an exciting, really well produced  set of goodies to tell this swashbuckling story. The blurb below does a great job summing it up, including all the exciting bonuses (the tattoos and subclasses are very neat), but I wanted to take the space to confirm tha...

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[Vacation Content 5/7] The Fluffy Folio: Friend Fiend

The Fluffy Folio creates whimsical monsters and magical critters that always inspire delight. They're also make the occasional magic item (especially potions), for those of you looking for even more magic items. Monsters from the Fluffy Folio are always a joy to read, and ...

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[Vacation Content 4/7] Slowquest: Fishy Fountain

Slowquest, or Bodie, is an illustrator and creator of whimsical, feel-good content. Maps, critters, hilarious goblins, and sweet little adventures for any party or people. It's virtually impossible for me to not smile when looking at and reading over Slowquest releases, and I hope you do, too!

Double fun fact: I've gotten to meet Bodie in person for the first time on t...

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