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The Ebony Glade and The Dreamlands of Tolemue — New Setting, Subclass, and Playable Race! (Subclass v1.1 update)

Psst! Druid changelog notes are at the bottom!

The Ebony Glade is a secluded wood found in the realm of the fey. Roughly three miles in diameter, the quiet, serene wood has long stood as a tranquil reminder of nature’s beauty. However, at its heart, a nightmare has taken form, transforming it over the last fifty years into a place of shadow. Unbeknownst to outsiders, the culprit of this malformation is the glade’s own warden—the ancient dryad...

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Staff of Awakening

Staff, artifact (requires attunement by a spellcaster)


This fey staff's shaft is hewn from the wood of an ancient, mysterious oak in the Ebony Glade, whose roots are said to have absorbed the dreams of elves from long ago. A perfect sphere of amber from that same oak hangs suspended in the center of it. While attuned to the staff, you are immune to the dream and sleep spells.

Charges. The staff has 10 charges for the ...

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Bullfrog Bugle

Wondrous item, uncommon


This horn sounds like a croaking frog when sounded, which is audible out to a range of 100 feet. When you speak through this horn, frogs, toads, and other beasts with the Amphibious trait can understand the meaning of your words, though the horn doesn't give you any special ability to understand them in return.

Call Frog. You can use an action to sound the horn loudly, emitting a resonant croak audible out to 30...

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Scroll of Fleeting Attunement

Scroll, very rare


You can use an action to read this gilded scroll. To do so, you must also be holding a magic item that requires attunement but with which you're not attuned. When you do, make an Intelligence (Arcana) check. The DC of this check depends on the rarity of the held magic item: 10 (common), 13 (uncommon), 15 (rare), or 16 (very rare). On a success, you forge a brief attunement to the magic item, which remains for 1 hour or until you're reduced to 0 hit ...

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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 Shadow-Fletched Arrow is now free!

Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!

The Shadow-Fletched Arrow'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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Bastion Chain

Armor (chain mail), rare (requires attunement)


The chains of this armor shift naturally with your movements. You gain a +1 bonus to AC while you wear this armor, which doesn't impose disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks you make. In addition, the chains flow around you reflexively when you're surrounded; the armor's bonus to AC increases to +2 when three or more hostile creatures are within 5 feet of you.


The fighter gazed, unfazed, at the ...

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Shadow-Fletched Arrow

Weapon (arrow), rare


This arrow is barbed with unforgiving spikes and releases a plume of magical shadow when shot. When a creature is hit by the arrow, it must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw. A creature's Strength score is reduced by 2d4 for 1 hour on a failed save, or by half as much on a successful one. This effect can't reduce a creature's Strength score below 6. The arrow then becomes nonmagical.

Other types of magic ammunition of this kind exist, ...

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Mimic's Smilemaker

Wondrous item, common


This bone-handled brush can clean your teeth exceptionally well, resulting in magically fresh breath with every use. You can clean your teeth using the brush over the course of 1 minute. Parts of a mimic's tongue are used to make a comfortable grip and scrubber. The brush creates its own frothing cleaning solution when it's used.

Your teeth are magically transformed into fangs whenever you finish cleaning your teeth with the brush, and the...

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Bullseye Dart

Weapon (dart), rare


The weighted end of this dart is made to resemble a stylized eye, and its shaft is hewn from a bull's horn. Your attacks with this magic weapon score a critical hit on a roll of 16–20. Once this happens, the dart loses this property for 1 minute. In the meantime, it can still be used as a magic dart.


Sometimes you've gotta set your sights on your goal, grab the bull by the horns, then wind up and let it go.

Oh...

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Toadstool Veil

Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement)


To wear this wide-brimmed cap, you must use an action to secure it in place with a veil, which is tied around your chin. While wearing it, glimmering spores drift down from the cap and linger around you. The top of the cap is plushly made and flops from side to side. You can use an action to magically change the appearance of the mushroom cap while wearing it. Regardless of its new appearance, it must still resemble a mus...

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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 Magmarath Molten Blaster is now free!

Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!

The Magmarath Molten Blaster 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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Magmarath Molten Blaster

Weapon (crossbow, heavy or light), very rare (requires attunement)


Molten veins glimmer from beneath this magic weapon's volcanic body. The crossbow magically creates and loads its own ammunition whenever the drawstring is pulled back, forming a bolt of condensed lava each time. On a hit, it deals 2d8 fire damage, instead of the weapon's normal damage. You still add your Dexterity modifier to this damage roll. The ammunition crumbles and turns to ash immediately afte...

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Regraftable Construct Arm

Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement by a creature missing an arm)


This sickly flesh golem arm has been repurposed by a powerful necromancer, allowing it to be used as a prosthesis by any creature missing an arm. The prosthesis attaches to your arm at the shoulder, and it can't be removed as long as you're attuned to it. To attune to this item, you must hold it against your shoulder for the entire attunement period, at which point it magically sews itself in...

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Solar Torch

Rod, very rare (requires attunement)


While holding this rod, you can use a bonus action to cause a Tiny sun to float above it. The sun sheds bright light out to 30 feet, and dim light for an additional 30 feet. The light is sunlight. If any of the bright light overlaps with an area of magical darkness, it suppresses that effect in the area (but does not dispel it), allowing creatures to see as normal within the bright light's radius.

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Whistle of Dog Command

Wondrous item, uncommon


You can use an action to blow this whistle, which is only audible to dogs and wolves within 300 feet of you. When you do, choose up to four dogs or wolves that you can see that can hear the whistle. Each creature must make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is affected by a special version of the command spell, and it must obey your choice of one of the following commands on its next turn:

Attack...

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Birder's Sling Staff

Weapon (quarterstaff), uncommon (requires attunement)


This magic quarterstaff is decorated with bird ornaments and equipped with a sling at its top. A nest sits in the crook of the sling. You can use the quarterstaff as if it were a sling, provided you hold it with two hands. When you do, the sling's damage die increases to 1d6 and its normal and long ranges are doubled.

The staff has 10 charges for the following properties. While holding it, you have advantage...

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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 Ashen Bloom is now free!

Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!

The Ashen Bloom'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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Ashen Bloom

Wondrous item, rare


An ashen bloom is a rare flower that grows in earth that's been charred by a phoenix's fire. Once it blooms, it continues to live indefinitely until all of its petals are removed, even if it's plucked from the soil. When found, an ashen bloom has 2d4 + 2 petals remaining. The flower crumbles to ash once its last petal is removed.

Its petals have a variety of uses. You can pluck one of its petals as part of the options below...

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Shroud of the Unburied

Wondrous item, rare


This canvas burial shroud is permanently stained red and is worn like a cloak. When you're reduced to 0 hit points while wearing the shroud but not killed outright, it magically wraps around you to protect your unconscious body. You immediately gain 25 temporary hit points, which remain for 10 minutes or until you regain any hit points, at which point the shroud unwraps from you. While you have these temporary hit points, you can neither gain nor ...

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Lionguard Chain

Armor (chain shirt or chain mail), rare (requires attunement)


This armor was once the standard equipment of elite guards for a now-fallen empire. You gain a +1 bonus to AC while you wear this armor. In addition, you have advantage on saving throws against being frightened, and you can add your proficiency bonus to any Charisma check with which you aren't already proficient when interacting with common guards or soldiers.


Hail, Lions.

<...

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Clangor Helmet

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)


This helmet was made from a temple bell and weighs 10 pounds. While wearing it, you have resistance to thunder damage and can't be deafened. In addition, whenever a creature within 5 feet of you deals bludgeoning damage to you with a melee attack, roll a d6. On a 5 or 6, the attacking creature takes 5 or 6 thunder damage, respectively.


It is for you... it is for you whom the bell tolls. With every step I ...

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[Cards] Pack of Item Cards from March 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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The Timekeeper's Pendulum

Weapon (greataxe), legendary (requires attunement)


You gain a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. While holding it, you can use a bonus action to speak its command word. When you do, you are affected by the haste spell, which lasts until the start of your next turn. At the start of your next turn, roll a d20. On a 1–10, you are affected by the slow spell, or the haste spell on an 11–20. The spell lasts until...

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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 Collar of the Crystal Veil is now free!

Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!

The Collar of the Crystal Veil'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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Primordial Earth Heart

Wondrous item, legendary (requires attunement)


This crystal-pierced rock is shaped like a heart. It gently pulses while held and is always slightly warmer than body temperature. It is said that the first earth elemental was once a human that joined with such a heart.

As part of attuning to the heart, you must also hold it to your chest. Once you've attuned to it, the heart magically sinks into your chest, with its crystals just barely visible above the surface....

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Collar of the Crystal Veil

Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement by a spellcaster)


This platinum collar surrounds a chained web of ornate diamonds with a series of armor-like plates. While wearing the necklace, a translucent, glittering veil surrounds you: your AC is equal to 12 + your spellcasting ability modifier if you are wearing no armor and using no shield. In addition, you gain a +1 bonus to saving throws.

Crystalline Barrier. As a bonus action wh...

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