Weapon (battleaxe), rare (requires attunement)
This hefty iron axe represents a commitment to order and law. At its top is a bust of a dwarven champion renowned for their battles against fey lords.
You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. The bonus increases to +3 when you use the axe to attack a fey (including creatures with the Fey Ancestry trait) or illusion. While holding the weapon, you can use an action to end one effect...
2023-03-09 16:11:21 +0000 UTC
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Weapon (warhammer), legendary (requires attunement)
This hammer was forged by Loth’remar, one of the founding dwarves of the city of Direstone. It was then given to the Emberheart clan of the same city, where it has served as a token to the lasting bond between their two families. When swung, the head of the hammer emits a flash of forgefire before immediately cooling once more. You can use this weapon as part of a smith's tools set. When you do, any check you make...
2023-03-08 16:02:33 +0000 UTC
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Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement)
While wearing this rugged cloak, you can withstand temperatures as hot as 200 degrees Fahrenheit and are unaffected by difficult terrain created by sand. You also can't be surprised, and when you roll initiative, you gain a +5 bonus to the roll as long as you aren't incapacitated.
On your first turn of each combat, your speed is increased by 10 feet, and you can use a bonus action to make a single weapon attack aga...
2023-03-07 16:30:43 +0000 UTC
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Wondrous item, uncommon
This 1-ounce bottle of perfume is decorated with a ceramic octopus at its top. Its head is actually a fabric balloon, which allows the holder to spray the perfume through one of the octopus's tentacles. The perfume looks like a dark ink when sprayed, but immediately absorbs into the skin and disappears. It does, however, stain clothing.
You can use an action to spray the perfume on a willing creature within 5 feet of you. For 1 hour, tha...
2023-03-06 15:57:33 +0000 UTC
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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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2023-03-04 13:55:59 +0000 UTC
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Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!
The Immovable Cat'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!
2023-03-04 13:54:00 +0000 UTC
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Wondrous item, rare
This life-sized marble statue of a cat weighs only 1 pound when carried. You can use an action to speak one of its two command words while holding it, causing the statue to spring to life.
The first command word causes the cat to immediately lie down and seemingly go to sleep. A creature within reach of the cat can use an action to make a DC 30 Strength check, moving the cat up to 5 feet on a success.
The second command word causes the...
2023-03-03 15:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Wondrous item, uncommon
This pair of brass cufflinks look like miniature locks. While wearing them, you can use a bonus action to use one of the following properties:
Secret Knock. You cast the knock spell from the cufflinks with the following changes: the spell has a range of touch, its knock is only audible out to a range of 30 feet, and it has no effect if the target is held shut with arcane lock. The cufflinks los...
2023-03-02 16:12:54 +0000 UTC
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Weapon (sling), uncommon
An empty brazier hangs suspended at the center of this sling. Any Tiny nonmagical flammable object or sling bullet that's placed in the brazier immediately sputters and catches fire, shedding bright light in a 20 foot radius and dim light for an additional 20 feet. If a sling bullet is launched from the weapon, it deals an extra 1d4 fire damage to any target it hits. The bullet then quickly extinguishes.
If the sling bullet is a piece o...
2023-03-01 16:51:01 +0000 UTC
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Wondrous item, uncommon
This triangular coin depicts a fair-faced goddess on one side, representing "weal," and a grim specter on the other, representing "woe." "Weal and Woe" is written in Common along the coin's topmost edge.
You can use an action to flip the coin and hold a question in your mind, allowing the coin to hit the ground when it falls. The coin then duplicates the effect of the augury spell. Depending on the outcome of the spell, the coin...
2023-02-28 16:41:58 +0000 UTC
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Staff, uncommon (requires attunement by a spellcaster)
While holding this staff, you understand the literal meaning of any spoken language that you hear.
The staff has 5 charges. While holding the staff, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast one of the following spells from it, using your spell save DC: darkvision (2 charges), enhance ability (2 charges; "owl's wisdom" only), or vicious mockery (no charges, ...
2023-02-27 16:08:36 +0000 UTC
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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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2023-02-25 13:55:00 +0000 UTC
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Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!
The Hedgewitch's Gardening Gloves'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!
2023-02-25 13:54:01 +0000 UTC
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Weapon (morningstar), rare
The head and spikes of this morningstar are made of covolt. Arcs of electricity snap between its spikes while you hold it. When you hit with an attack using this magic weapon, the target takes an extra 1d6 lightning damage.
As an action, you can hold the morningstar aloft and speak its command word, causing powerful tendrils of lightning to explode from its spikes. Each creature of your choice within 20 feet of you that you can see mu...
2023-02-24 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement)
These leafy, long gardening gloves are adorned with enchanted vines that cinch its sides together. While wearing the gloves, you gain a +3 bonus to Intelligence (Nature) and Wisdom (Survival) checks made to interact with plants.
In addition, the gloves have 2 magical bunches of herbs, one on each glove, that regrow daily at dawn. When you cast a spell that requires concentration, you can speak the gloves' command wo...
2023-02-23 16:06:55 +0000 UTC
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Wondrous item, uncommon
This candle is made from a gritty wax that, when burnt, creates a cool blue flame. Its hollow silver base is shaped in a crescent with star-shaped holes punched in its sides. While the candle burns, the holes in its base softly glow, and small twinkles of starlight burst from the flickering flame.
The candle's magic is activated when the candle is lit, which requires an action. While lit, the candle sheds dim light in a 15-foot radius. E...
2023-02-22 16:41:24 +0000 UTC
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Scroll, common
This long magic scroll is empty when found. You can hold the scroll in front of you and read anything written on it aloud using an action. When you do, each spoken word is magically projected outward and is clearly audible out to a range of 300 feet. Up to 250 words can be spoken aloud from the scroll in this way, reading up to 25 words from it on each of your turns. You can continue to read aloud from the scroll on each of your consecutive turns, usin...
2023-02-21 16:04:07 +0000 UTC
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Wondrous item, uncommon
While wearing this ear cuff, you can add half your proficiency bonus to any ability check you make to play an instrument if you aren't proficient with it. In addition, you can magically discern (and consequently recreate) the note of any sound you hear.
It began with that thread of a song. One she'd heard perfectly, yet only in fragments, clear yet half-remembered.
It was in her recreation that true artistry...
2023-02-20 16:32:47 +0000 UTC
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Mage Hand Press are long-time friends of the Saddlebag and are, truly, some of my favorite people to see whenever I get to a convention. Their latest book, Valda's Spire Of Secrets, is one of my go-tos. MHP maintains a good sense of balance (with a lot of background in math to back it up), which is coup...
2023-02-19 16:01:01 +0000 UTC
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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 r...
2023-02-19 16:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Borough Bound is a talented, passionate team of writers, musicians, map makers, and game designers that come together to create fully realized settings each month. I can say with confidence that the content from Borough Bound has inspired me to play D&D more than virtually any force has before. I am so vocal about how much I love this content, I implore you to c...
2023-02-18 16:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Loot Tavern is one of the most prolific item makers in the 5e scene! Their work continues to fill in the game's item and flavor gaps with fun and interesting magic items. They enjoy creating items of varying rarities, so if that's a thing you really like to see in an item, be sure to check them out! They also release other content, much like the Saddlebag, so if you want to expand your haul of...
2023-02-17 16:00:03 +0000 UTC
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DMDave and I go back a long time, and if you've enjoyed the settings from the last year or so, you'd be enjoying his craftsmanship already! Dave is the writer for adventures in the space, and finds limitless ways to tell new stories and evolve novel mechanics. I've been a long time patron of his, and his
2023-02-16 16:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Tom Cartos is a classic name among cartographers. These maps come with tokens and variants to fully control the scene for your adventurers in person or via VTT. He's a longstanding and active figure in the community, and if you haven't seen his latest successful Kickstarter campaign for printed, ready-made map books,
2023-02-15 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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KibblesTasty is a super talented game designer whose clever insights and community I admire. His famous Inventor class is what I'd play if asked to play an Artificer. If you've playtested any of the subclasses from the Saddlebag on Discord, you're familiar with the series of feedback questions I ask: those a...
2023-02-14 16:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Sinlaire is a bonkers talented artist and lore-builder who makes gorgeous and compelling items and stories! If you're the kind of person who likes art PSDs, too, you can get them from their Patreon! I mean seriously, can you see these art and description pages?
This set of items from Sinlaire are based on a few of the Seven Deadly Sins! Man, his ...
2023-02-13 16:00:03 +0000 UTC
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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 ideas ...
2023-02-11 13:55:09 +0000 UTC
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Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!
The Prized Pet Protector'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!
2023-02-11 13:54:59 +0000 UTC
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Wondrous item, uncommon or rare
A typical prized pet protector, an uncommon item, is a colorful bandana featuring swirling paisleys and various pet-themed designs. You can tie this bandana around the neck of a willing beast with a challenge rating of 1 or lower using an action. The bandana changes size to comfortably fit around the creature's neck and can't be removed against its will. When the beast is reduced to 0 hit points while wearing the bandana, but ...
2023-02-10 16:17:29 +0000 UTC
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Bards of this college see alchemy as a dance between the elements of the world. It’s not bound by the rules of chemistry, and while it can be learned through dedication and study, it can also be felt and intuited by those with a knack for it. Some of these bards go so far as to sing to their alchemical projects, convincing the elements within to simply become something else of their own volition. While most of the College of Alchemy are alchemists by trade, many others are brewers, cooks, o...
2023-02-10 15:59:02 +0000 UTC
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