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Patch of the Open Eye

Wondrous item, common


This canvas patch can be magically attached to a piece of clothing by pressing it against the clothing for 1 minute. The patch remains on the clothing until it falls off or you use an action to remove it. While it's attached to a piece of clothing, the eye's pupil will occasionally dart off to the side before returning back to the center.

While the patch is attached to a piece of clothing you're wearing, you can't be surprised at the start...

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Gemini Mask

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)


This half-mask remains securely on your face thanks to its full-width diadem, which extends from the mask around the rest of your brow. It functions as a hat of disguise. When you use an action to cast the disguise self spell from the mask, you can choose to appear identical to another creature that you can see within 60 feet of you. When you do, you can appear up to 3 feet shorter or taller to match the tar...

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Ouroboros Wand

Wand, rare


This wand has 3 charges and regains all expended charges daily at dawn. While holding the wand, you can expend 1 of its charges to cast the acid arrow spell from it, using a spell attack bonus of +7. The arrow created by the spell appears as a snake, rather than an arrow. When you expend the last charge from the wand, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand loses its magic and is transformed into a giant constrictor snake that's hostile toward all creatures ...

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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 can submit your...

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Public Poll — The Ioun Blade is now free!

Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!

The Ioun Blade'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!

2023-06-24 12:55:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Detective's Monocle

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)


While wearing this monocle, you have advantage on any Intelligence (Investigation) check you make. In addition, you can use an action to twist the monocle's lens to view the area around you as it was at a time within the last 24 hours. When you do, you must specify either an exact time or time relative to the present, such as "At three o'clock" or "Three hours ago," respectively. You then see the area within 30 feet of you as...

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Ioun Blade

Weapon (any sword), very rare (requires attunement)


An Ioun blade is named after Ioun, a god of knowledge and prophecy revered on some worlds. You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. The blade and crossguard are each inset with a gemstone. While you're attuned to the weapon, you also gain a +1 bonus to Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma checks and saving throws.

If you're also attuned to an Ioun stone, you d...

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Belt of Orion

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)


While wearing this belt, you have advantage on any ability check made to track a beast or monstrosity. In addition, when you hit a beast or monstrosity with a weapon attack, you deal an extra 1d6 damage of the weapon's type.

Summon Hounds. You can use an action while wearing this belt to summon two mastiffs, which appear in unoccupied spaces of your choice within 10 feet of you. The mastiffs ar...

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Rope Cobra

Wondrous item, common


You can use an action while holding this 30-foot length of hempen rope to speak its command word. The rope then magically animates and transforms (slightly) into a cobra made of rope. As part of this action, and then again as an action on each of your turns for the duration, you can issue the snake a verbal command, such as "tie yourself around that pillar." The snake only obeys the commands of the creature that animated it. The rope returns to ...

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Attack-In-The-Box

Weapon (flail), uncommon


A colorful box sits at the top of this weapon's wooden handle. Within the box is a coiled spring beneath the flail's spiked head. The head springs out from the box the first time you make an attack with it, granting you advantage on the attack roll and creating a random effect. Roll a d6 and refer to the table below to determine the effect. You can use an action to stuff the head back into the box, or use a bonus action to cause the head to h...

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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 can submit your...

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Public Poll — The Bag of Goodberry Gummy Fish is now free!

Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!

The Bag of Goodberry Gummy Fish'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!

2023-06-17 12:55:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Fūjin Reactor

Rod, legendary (requires attunement by a spellcaster)


A glass orb rests at the top of this mechanical scepter, which can be used as a spellcasting focus. At its center is the essence of a powerful wind spirit that's been known by a myriad of names over the course of centuries. Fans hum within the rod, releasing a constant breeze from either of its ends. While holding the rod, you have a flying speed of 30 feet and can hover.

Magic causes the spirit within the r...

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Obsidian Star

Weapon (dagger), rare (requires attunement)


A favorite amongst mage hunters, this midnight-dark obsidian dagger sparkles like starlight. While in darkness, you can clearly see the cosmos in its blade. You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon, which has 3 charges and regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. If left outdoors under starlight for 8 hours, it automatically regains all expended charges at dawn instead.

When you hi...

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Bag of Goodberry Gummy Fish

Wondrous item, uncommon


Goodberry gummy fish are gooey sweets that look like Tiny, gelatinous fish. When found, they typically come in bags of 1d6 + 10 gummies, which are almost always red.

A goodberry gummy fish functions like a single berry from the goodberry spell, except that eating a gummy also grants you a swimming speed of 30 feet for 1 hour.

Alternatively, you can use an action to submerge a gummy in water to magically a...

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Whip of the Copper Eel

Weapon (whip), uncommon (requires attunement)


This magic whip hums with electricity. It has 4 charges and regains all expended charges daily at dawn. When you hit a creature with this whip, you can expend 1 or more of its charges to deal an extra 1d6 lightning damage to that creature for each charge you spend. You don't suffer the negative effects of underwater fighting when you make an attack with this weapon.

When you hit an underwater creature with this whip...

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Lightning Caltrops

Wondrous item, uncommon


These magic caltrops function like normal caltrops when scattered. When a creature takes lightning damage while standing on a space covered in these caltrops, that creature takes an extra 2d8 lightning damage. Once a creature in that space takes lightning damage in this way, or if the caltrops themselves are targeted by an effect that deals lightning damage, the caltrops become charged with electrical power. The caltrops remain charged for 1 m...

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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 can submit your...

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Public Poll — The Navis Anima is now free!

Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!

The Navis Anima'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!

2023-06-10 12:55:00 +0000 UTC View Post

[Cards] Pack of Item Cards from May 2023

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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Navis Anima

Wondrous item, legendary


A navis anima, or simply an anima, is a sentient gemstone that rests upon a magic pedestal. The gemstone can't be separated from the pedestal, despite the fact that the stone seems only loosely placed atop it. While the anima is on a vehicle, you can perform a ritual to name the gemstone and vehicle, magically binding the two together. The ritual takes 1 hour to complete and requires a bottle of fine wine worth at least 100 gp. Once ...

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Bonus Content for Worlds Beyond Number: Wondrous Items of the Chantry Armory

Hey heroes!

I recently had the pleasure of making some bonus content for my friends at Worlds Beyond Number. If you haven't already heard of the podcast, it's a live-play game played by an all-star cast—Aabria Iyengar, Erika Ishii, and Lou Wilson—and led by the one and only Brennan Lee Mulligan. The campaign ...

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Weapon of Blind Faith

Weapon (any), uncommon


This weapon features a stone sculpture of a blindfolded monk carrying its blade, bludgeon, or similar element of its design. When you make an attack with the weapon and have advantage or disadvantage on the roll, you score a critical hit if the result on both d20s is the same.


The adventurer left the temple, forever grateful to the healer that restored their sight. They tied the ragged cloth which once bandaged their eyes t...

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Scroll of Rugs

Scroll, uncommon


You can use an action to unfurl this illustrated scroll and speak its command word, which is typically written along the edge of the scroll. When you do, the scroll transforms into a special plush carpet of flying, which is commanded using the same command word as the scroll. This carpet is 2 feet wide and 6 feet long, has a carrying capacity of 100 pounds, and has a flying speed of 60 feet. It can carry up to twice this weight, but it flies...

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Shipwrecker

Weapon (war pick), rare (requires attunement)


Barnacles and frost cover this magic war pick, which has the heavy property. Targets hit with this weapon take an extra 1d6 cold damage, and if the target is an object or structure, it takes the maximum piercing damage from the weapon, instead of rolling its weapon damage die. If the target is also a vehicle, its maximum speed is reduced by a cumulative 10 feet each time it's hit by the weapon. This penalty to speed remai...

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Bag of Magic Blocks

Wondrous item, rare


This leather bag is filled with magic wooden blocks, which are painted with vibrant colors. There are six types of blocks that can be found in the bag. The GM decides the number of each type of block in the bag or determines it randomly. When found, the bag has 2d6 + 10 blocks inside it.

You can assemble these blocks into various constructions, creating stacks of blocks representative of crea...

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Ranger: Angler | New Subclass!

Anglers are rangers that revel in maritime battles of attrition and grit. While anyone can be a fisher, an Angler uses the lessons they’ve learned on the water as a basis for how they hunt across the multiverse.

  • Treat javelins, spears, and tridents as weapons with finesse!
  • Throw nets like a pro to restrain your enemies' movements!
  • Reel in enemies you hook with a spectral hook towards you!

Since not all subclasses are tied to a specific setting in Sa...

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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 can submit your...

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Public Poll — The Bracers of Spell Reflection are now free!

Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!

The Bracers of Spell Reflection'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!

2023-06-03 12:54:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Spatha of Martial Mastery

Weapon (shortsword), rare (requires attunement by a barbarian, fighter, monk, or rogue)


A long white ribbon trails behind this shimmering sword, whose blade is forged with swirls of gold. You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. In addition, you gain the following benefits.

Cunning Strike. If you have 5 or more levels in the rogue class, you can use your Cunning Action feature to make a single attack ...

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