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Explorer's Machete

Weapon (scimitar), uncommon

This well-used machete is adorned with embossed jungle and tree designs. While holding it, you gain a +5 bonus to any Wisdom (Survival) checks you make. In addition, you automatically roll the highest number on the weapon's damage die whenever you hit a plant or plant creature with it.

"The unknown doesn't scare me. What scares me is being unprepared."

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Heroic Ideas — Paired items week! 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.

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{Public Poll} The Starshot Circlet is now free!

Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!

The Starshot Circlet'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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Starshot Circlet

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement by a spellcaster)

This circlet is set with a crystalline meteor shard found at an ancient crater. The surface of the shard sparkles with otherworldly radiance. While wearing the circlet, you have advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks, and you can't be surprised while you can see the night sky. Furthermore, if you can see stars in the sky, you also know which way is north.

The circlet has 5 charges and regains 1d4 + 1 expende...

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Ring of the Golden Directorate

Ring, legendary (requires attunement)

This shimmering gold ring has been blessed by a solar and is articulated, like the finger of a gauntlet. At its base is a large embossment of a solar's face. While wearing the ring, you are always under the effects of the tongues spell, and you can use an action to cast detect evil and good from it.

The ring has 7 charges for the following properties. It regains all expended charges daily at dawn.

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Bow of Tentacles

Weapon (shortbow), rare (requires attunement)

You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Arrows shot from the bow become coated in dark ink, which vanishes after 1 minute. When you hit a creature with an arrow shot from the bow and roll a 6 on the weapon's damage die, that creature's vision becomes muddied by the ink, provided it isn't immune to being blinded. A creature with muddied vision makes attack rolls with disadvantage until the e...

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Cranial Cradle

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)

This wreathlike silver crown cradles the back of your head while worn. While wearing it, you have resistance to psychic damage, and you can use an action to cast the mage hand spell from it. This version of the spell allows you to create and maintain two hands at a time, instead of one, and you can use a bonus action on each of your turns to control either one or both of them. The hands are invisible.

You can use a...

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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 Lunchbox of Plenty is now free!

Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!

The Lunchbox of Plenty'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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Solaris Orchid

Wondrous item, rare

These magic flowers are extraordinarily hard to find and are said to only grow naturally wherever a solar has recently meditated. When found, a solaris orchid plant has 1d6 + 1 delicate flowers. A harvested flower can be boiled, prepared, and drunk over the course of a 10 minute ritual. Each flower produces two servings of tea. A creature that drinks a serving of the tea during the ritual has advantage on Wisdom (Insight) and Charisma (Persua...

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Lunchbox of Plenty

Wondrous item, uncommon

This wooden box is decorated with flower petal detailing. When found, the box is empty. If the box is on your person and closed at noon, a warm meal magically appears in the box, provided there's nothing else inside it. The meal remains warm for 8 hours. A creature that consumes the entire warm meal over the course of at least 1 minute gains 5 temporary hit points, and the meal provides enough nourishment to sustain the creature for one day. The b...

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Fountain Harp

Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement)

You must be proficient with harps to attune to this instrument. This traveller's harp doesn't have strings: instead, thin streams of water pour from the top. The streams vanish into nothingness before reaching the bottom of the harp. When played, the harp emits a tone like a raindrop hitting metal. Even if the harp is held on its side, the streams of water fall toward the bottom of the harp. The harp weighs 3 pounds and requ...

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Mini Magmin Mortar

Wondrous item, uncommon

This fist-sized bomb is made of molten rock. You can use an action to throw the bomb at a point that you can see within 30 feet of you. The bomb explodes on impact and is destroyed, at which point it summons 1d4 magmins to the nearest unoccupied spaces within 10 feet of the point; each creature within 10 feet of the point must also make a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 2d6 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successf...

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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 Mirrorlight Carver is now free!

Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!

The Mirrorlight Carver'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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Helm of the Headless

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)

This helmet is designed in the likeness of a skull. It has a thick metal collar at its base, which rests around your neck while you wear it. The helmet has 7 charges and regains 1d4 + 3 expended charges daily at dawn. While wearing the helmet, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges to use one of the properties below.

Burning Hands. You can expend 1 of the helmet's charges to cast ...

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[Cards] Pack of Item Cards from July 2025

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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Welcome to Halcyon Drop—the last resort & spa you'll ever need! New Playable Race and TWO new Subclasses!

As you settle into one of the spa’s luxurious guest villas, you find a crumpled piece of paper lost beneath the nightstand—an unsent letter. It reads:

Mother,

It’s not what I expected. The heat is strange, not dry but laden with moisture, like walking through breath. The staff is polite, overly so. They haven’t left me alone since I arrived. I suppose that’s their job.

The treatments feel wonderful. I haven’t used my cane since the second top...

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Mirrorlight Carver

Weapon (dagger), rare

You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon, which deals slashing damage instead of piercing damage. The blade of the dagger has a crystalline edge, which reflects light in mysterious ways. While holding it, you can use a bonus action to magically summon an illusory duplicate of yourself in an unoccupied space that you can see within 30 feet of you. The next time you make an attack with the dagger before the end of you...

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Invisibility Powder

Wondrous item, uncommon

This minuscule bag of glimmering powder is entirely clear. The powder inside is silvery and slightly translucent, giving it a sparkling appearance as light is refracted through it. When found, the bag has 1d6 + 4 pinches of powder inside it.

You can use an action to remove 1 pinch of the powder and sprinkle it on a Tiny inanimate object, or 2 pinches of the powder for a Small inanimate object. The object then becomes invisible. It remains in...

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Koi Regalia

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)

This robe is covered in countless shimmering scales. While wearing it, you gain a swimming speed of 40 feet and can breathe normally underwater. In addition, you can swim up waterfalls, provided they're large enough to do so, or climb up them as if they were unmoving, solid walls. When you do, treat the water as difficult terrain if you're swimming, or as if anywhere you place your hand is an adequate handhold while climbing.

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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 Shellback Carriage is now free!

Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!

The Shellback Carriage'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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Survivalist's Wayfinder

Wondrous item, uncommon

This handheld device has four crystalline buttons that are each associated with a different element. The device has 4 charges and regains all expended charges daily at dawn. While holding the device, you can use an action to expend 1 of its charges and press a button. Each button causes the device to swivel and point like a compass to the nearest relevant location, as determined by the button, for 1 hour or until another button is pressed. If ther...

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Shellback Carriage

Wondrous item, rare

You can use an action to place this 4-inch wooden turtle carving on the ground and speak its command word. The carving rapidly grows into a Huge wooden carriage that remains until you use an action to touch it and speak the command word that returns it to its carving form, which works only if the carriage is empty.

The carriage is a circular, domed vehicle made of wood in the shape of a turtle, which comes with four walking legs instead of wheel...

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Djinni's Saber

Weapon (scimitar), very rare (requires attunement)

You gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. On a hit, you can push the target up to 5 feet away from you, provided that it's Medium or smaller and weighs no more than 500 pounds. The weapon has 7 charges and regains 1d4 + 3 expended charges daily at dawn.

While holding the scimitar, you can use an action to expend 3 of its charges to cast the wind wall spell from it (save DC...

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Bewitching Brush

Wondrous item, rare

While using this magic paintbrush, you gain a +5 bonus to any ability check you make using painter's supplies. The brush has 3 charges and regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn.

When you paint with this brush for at least 1 hour on a single painting, you can choose to expend 1 of the brush's charges to imbue the painting with a simple magical compulsion (as if from a suggestion spell; no action required) for a target to feel when i...

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Public Poll — The Starstudded Leathers are now free!

Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!

The Starstudded Leathers' 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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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 — What item's art and cards should be made free?

Hey adventurers! Happy Saddleday!

As part of the weekly cycle of items, you get to vote for an item's art and cards to be made free for everyone. Some items may already be free, which accounts for any missing entries you may see in the poll.

Freeable items