Five Weird and Random (But Not Useless) Magic Items in Dungeons and Dragons 5e
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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2:03 - Alchemy Jug
4:30 - Bag Of Beans
7:46 - Bag Of Tricks
11:31 - Nolzur’s Marvelous Pigments
14:10 - Wand Of Wonder
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I played in a campaign where my friend was a collector of magic items that was his whole character basically. We were early on in the campaign and he found a home brew magic item that was "lightly cursed" it was called the wand of eye gouging. You picked it up and had to make a decent wisdom saving throw or immediately jab yourself in the eye with it. Didn't do a ton of damage or anything but you could lose an eye. Well once we had both sufficiently messed up and jabbed ourselves he decided to use it on enemies. Pulling it out and loudly announcing he was gonna use his "Wand of Fireball and that its super powerful and expensive" only to cast too hard and accidentally throw it towards that enemy or "drop" it. So many of them fell for it.
Hahaha good way to trick the enemies
Player using marvelous pigments "I draw a Flying Carpet"
Monty as DM: "Yeah I'm not going to let that....FLY!!"
No you draw a big’ol flash of energy to scare creatures
Imagine you draw a paladins smite to scare the demons away
*DM puts sunglasses on* YEAAAAAAAAAA
"Nah, you draw a carpet..."
The alchemy jug actually had an impact on a campaign I ran. We were playing "Tomb of Annihilation" and my players had great difficulty scavenging for food, and thus sustained themselves on mayonnaise for repeated bouts of week long expeditions into the jungles of Chult.
A staff of the woodlands would have also worked .. goodberries.
Also how to feed a steed without footing the bill.
Gosh, I bet they got sick of mayonnaise real fast...
I'd fire bolt my brains out before I survived on mayo. 🤣
#CritRole. I understood that reference.
You could also use prestidigitation to change its flavor
I did a one shot for a mercenary guild and I gave the rogue assassin a rust colored bag of tricks. All the party members had a secret ulterior motive, and the assassin was trying to secretly off the target of the rescue mission.
First when they were trying to infiltrate the courtesan house to talk to the top courtesan who might have a clue, he threw a fuzzy ball into the room through the window, which turned into an owl, and the rest of the party barged in claiming to be the owl exterminators.
Then later when the target was alone on a rowboat trying to escape and the assassin was trying to kill him in "an accident", he threw another fuzzy ball onto the target's boat. It was a regular old goat. Due to the high stealth, the target didn't notice the assassin, and just thought a goat fell from the mountain onto his boat and was shocked when it proceeded to ram him nearly to death before the assassination attempt was foiled XD.
SURPRISE GOAT! XD
We found a couple interesting uses for our alchemy jug, both of which involved booze - when we were short on trade goods for the bollywogs who were guiding us to the black dragon's lair, we used it to create beer to bribe them with. After we slew the dragon, we were trying to preserve as much of it as possible - I literally ended up with 350 pounds of "black dragon bones, scales, and horns" in my bag of holding. One of us wanted an eye, but we knew it would rot away. So, we split open a water skin (the mouth was too narrow to fit an eye), put the eye inside, used the Mending cantrip to put the skin back together, then filled it with alcohol from the alchemy jug. Instant pickled dragon eye!
A Wild Magic Sorcerer with the Deck of Many Things, Deck of Illusions, Wand of Wonder, Bag of Tricks and Bag of Beans.... Let's gamble.
Let me go grab my popcorn and a good beer and let's have some fun with that character
Yesssssssssssssssssssss
I am soooo tempted to see this chaos.
*Dm gulps in oh no*
“Are you sure you know what you’re doing?”
“*Cackles* I have no idea!”
I was in a Tomb of Horrors campaign where the alchemy jug was used. They used it to produce mayonnaise to make the permanently invisible beholder visible for 2 rounds. It was to this day the most creative use for that magic item.
obviously, the trigger word for the Wand of Wonder is 'wabbajack'
I once used the Wabbajack to turn a bear into a sweet roll.
I guess Wile E. Coyote accidentally ordered the Marvelous Pigments when he bought paints from the Acme corporation. That, or he didn't read the instructions all the way through.
In one cartoon, we see that Wile has ordered a •portable hole• from the Acme Corporation, so maybe they sell the •marvelous pigments• too?
Mind you, I’ve always thought of Wile E. Coyote as a beta tester for Acme’s products... 😉
John Hall It’s a good thing they didn’t send him a Bag if Holding with that Portable Hole, or he would have been in some real trouble!
Omg i was gonna comment this. 3 months too slow
Speaking of Marvelous Pigments, it could be use to create a race of paint folk, if you have enough and is given to the right magic user
-DD
the Alchemy jug always reminds me of Grog from critical role conjuring mayonaise and eating it with his bare hands when he is sad
Or when they used it as an 'air tank' traveling through poison filled caverns with waterbreathing on.
before we ever saw crit role, my group survived off mayo in tomb of annihilation.
Alchemy jug? I'm reminded of Ezra Lockwood
He did what? Rofl
THAT'S WHERE MY ROGUE GOT THAT
Cooking Oil is flammable too.... (This is why cooks are taught not to throw water on an oil fire...)
Yeah, as an example the Romans used olive oil for basically everything. Cooking, personal hygiene, oil lamps, lubricating things (such as the moving parts on that cart you're riding in...or wrestlers/gladiators), probably conditioning wood, etc, etc.
If you want to be a stickler, yeah, it's not going to light as easy as a Molotov Cocktail or an alchemist's fire, but yeah, oils tend to burn pretty well.
I checked it out and while, technically, everything has a flash point so everything burns, some don't work as well. Example is Canola and Grape Seed that have contaminants able to gunk up your wick and strangle the flame.
However, Canola oil's flash point is 400°F, which is food cooking heat, so constantly applying that heat will.push it past. Applying a match that burns at 4000° won't warm it up high enough to burn.
@@Maninawig What is the flash point of Corn Oil? What about Bacon Grease? Olive Oil? There is more than one type of cooking oil.... (And pretty sure most will catch if you spill it over the flames of a standard propane stove....)
So I guess at the very least the flashpoint/flammability of the cooking oil depends on exactly what kind of cooking oil we are talking about.... (The point still stands, if there wasn't at least one type of cooking oil that could catch fire when splashed over an open flame we wouldn't need cooks to know how to deal with a grease/oil fire....)
@@minnion2871 you can easily google the flash points, but the other thing to consider is purity. Kerosene and perifin are very pure oils, meaning there is 100% fuel. Even olive oil needs to be purified (aka virginified) to remove contaminants.
As for bacon grease, I have actually seen it tried and it is pretty bad as a fuel source. Corn oil is also highly impure.
However, considering the mainstreaming of 5e, if there is a difference in cooking vs burning oil, then it applies to all oils in those categories.
I was about to say a player could argue that cooking oil is highly flammable in the right circumstances cause science
I'm the dm in a ancient greece themed campaign. I'm definitely gonna give them the opportunity to do a Dionysus themed quest with an alchemy jug at the end lol
The Party:
Warrior: we did it we have the god’s jug!
Cleric: praise the lord of wine! *pours a healthy swig of the contents into their mouth directly, in celebration*
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... that was seriously too much mayo. No seriously, wtf?
I was playing a halfing magic sorcerer who was able to get a wand of wonder and just got a bag of magic beans, playing in a game DMed by a guy everyone called Bard for the reasons you would expect.
It was part of a club at community college so there were multiple DMs and groups would switch out and it was Bard's first time DMing. I ended up using every bean and almost all charges of the wand of wonder, resulting more combat then expected. By the time we got to the boss who had taken over a rich nobles mansion right before his birthday, my 3ft halfing was shrunk twice to 7.5 inches tall, turned blue, and had a beard made of feathers. Everyone called him Papa Smurf. Then we saw the boss Bard had prepared...
A Succubus!!!
I knew what I had to do! Papa Smurf walked right up and rolled to Seduce.
A Nat 20!!!
But Bard was prepared for this and made me roll on a custom made magical STD table!
Let's just say the results weren't pretty.
Right before we collected our reward Papa Smurf, who had sneezed away his feather beard at that point, went up to the rich Birthday boy and handed him the last Bean.
"Happy Birthday sir, plant this and you'll receive one hell of a present"
The party nearly pooped their pants as they all needed the reward money and the beans had been bad all but once that day.creating many dangerous creatures.
We all held our breath as the plump patron planted the last Bean and Bard rolled on the table, looking at the roll and chuckling to himself. Oh no.
"You all watch in anticipation as the ground starts to rumble and shake. From the earth burst forth a ginormous... Geyser of Ale!!!!"
We got double the reward and an amazing story, worth every bean!
I received an Alchemy Jug in a campaign and used honey from it to make friends with a tribe of werebears.
I'm currently playing in Princes of the Apocalypse and our DM gave a Bag of Beans to our fighter. We were in the air cult tower around 200 feet up and he plants a bean, which spawned a 60 foot pyramid, completely shattering the side of the tower. At least we got a nice little adventure out of it, and some cool treasure. It was just a nice moment to see the look on the DM's face when he had to throw together a dungeon out of nowhere
“The Bag of Beans is the diet-coke version of the Deck of Many Things!”
I really love you guys... 😂🤣😂
Hilarious
I've fallen into this trap before with certain magic items. I like homebrewing things and they don't always go as planned.
For example, the final draft of an item I made was an anti-magic shortsword for our party rogue (the one from the Levitating Sand Worm) the original was too broken. The final draft was a +1 weapon which became +2 against enemies with magical defenses which could cast Dispel Magic and Counterspell at base level once per day each. We were nearing the endgame so I was fine with that version.
I think the one which opened the most possibilities though was my variation on a Portable Hole. Twice per day it could make a hole in a wall that was 1ft thick or less and be removed from either side. I recognize that the pigments are also capable of this, but by limiting it to just one thing it focused their creativity.
They stopped themselves from drowning, blasted someone with pressurized beer from a distillery tank, made multiple escapes, bypassed the levels of certain buildings by placing it on the ceiling, used it to initiate ambushes, to steal things, just lots of nonsense. Nothing that they did broke the game, but I was pleasantly suprised.
Alchemy Jug is great. In the second campaign I was in, I kept having my wizard go souvenir shopping every time they went to a new town. The DM would have him do a Survival check to see how good a store he found each time (on the basis that determining whether is store is good or bad is a survival-type skill) and since he usually did pretty well finding stuff, pretty quickly other party members started asking to tag along. In the party there was a bugbear ranger who always started up a food stand of some sort in every single town. When she went souvenir shopping with my wizard, the DM let her find a modified Alchemy Jug that could make certain amounts of different kinds of fondue each day. Naturally she used it to start a fondue stand, but she rolled too high on Charisma for marketing her fondue, and ran out, so she ran off to buy ingredients to make more fondue from scratch, and left my poor wizard in charge of trying to keep the customers waiting for fondue from leaving. (He'd volunteered to help out because he thought it might be fun.) He did a surprisingly not terrible job, by spouting random trivia at them.
In the third campaign I was in, one of the characters (played by the same person as the previous bugbear ranger) was a bit of an alcoholic, and bought a regular Alchemy Jug early on in the campaign so she would have a constant supply of beer. Well, one day she decided she wanted a sandwich more than beer for whatever reason, and made mayonnaise instead. (Party decided to have a picnic before robbing an evil wizard.) Anyway, at the wizard's house we had to fight some minor fire elemental thingies, which shouldn't have been that hard for the party, except that the alcoholic wound up being the only person to fall into the trap, which meant she had to fight all of them pretty much alone aside from our ranger shooting at them with a bow, and my warlock with terrible aim shooting at them with eldritch blast. The alcoholic was starting to run out of HP, and I was debating on having my warlock jump into the trap to get close enough to heal her, when the player suddenly remembered the mayonnaise, and hurled it at the fire elementals. The DM ruled that since the mayonnaise was presumably refrigerated inside the jug, it dealt cold damage which the minor fire elementals were weak to. It didn't kill them out right, but it weakened them enough that she was able to survive the encounter.
Monty is adorable and its so fun to watch kelly laugh at the old croan bit
Youre both hilarious and i love your content so much
First time DMing and have been loving your videos. Their very first magic item was the Alchemy Jug which they found last session. I made a cool rhyming poem inscribed on the item, to figure it out. “Both feel and sound I full, however if cork you pull, nothing will you find, without words of right kind. Once you have uttered five, the others I will Devine, name any of the ten, make again and again.”
Very first use in the next session. At night attacked by a random encounter of Stirges. The Druid rolled extremely well on her Speak to Animals spells. Then she convinced the Stirges that she had a wonderful new food that they would love. So the Stirges feasted on mayonnaise that they sucked up.! And we’re so full, they crawled away and couldn’t fly.
My favorite magic item hands down is the Immovable Rod.
Amazing video as always! I gave one of my players 7 bags of tricks (of each) and hilarity ensued in the final fight! Also, I flavored that the fluffy balls purred in the bag and while being held lol
Fun fact - Wile E Coyote actually had the item Marvellous Pigments. That's how he painted tunnels that Roadrunner could run through.
I use the bag of tricks to summon animal that I can cast Dragons Breath on for combat (the smaller the better - hand held flamethrower)or as healing potions using Vampiric Touch.
"Why do you need so much mayonnaise? No one knows." Grog Strongjaw knows...
I love these types of items, they're so fun to throw into sessions because you don't normally get to see them in campaigns (ones I've been in anyway)
"You're the Diet Coke of evil. Just one calorie! Not evil enough."
i remember a story involving the paints, the party painted this enormous pile of meat, and cast a spell on it, and "meat man" became the party tank for a while.
In our campaign we just finished clearing a goblin camp and found the Alchemy Jug, the Bag of Kittens, a Bag of Holding, a cooking pot that makes wonderful meal, a purse that has an endless amount of coins (each day it produces X number of each type of coin as long as a single one of each coin is kept in the purse), a Folding Boat, and my character got a warhammer that has various thunder/lightning attacks, but we have yet to try them out. :D
First time reading about the Alchemy jug in The Dungeon Master's Guide, I was like "May-onn-aise?" "Did I read that right?" 🤨
I'm so going to put this in my campaign, I want to see what my players would do with mayonnaise! 🤣
Be careful what you wish for... 🤣
I once rode a bag of tricks summoned giant elk into battle as a wild shaped weasel. I had been sneaking around as a weasel earlier and didn't want to end my wild shape early if I didn't have to. I RP'd a crazy weasel battle cry while holding onto the elk's antlers and everything. It was fantastic.
Aw I love seeing Monty and Kelly together in the same room again :)
Just use the cooking oil as fuel oil. Works fine, think accidentally started kitchen fires! Attract 1d6 hungry creatures if the oil had been used for cooking before.
My DM told me to make I could make a magic item which replicated any spell I could cast. Being only 3rd level, I chose to make a magic Coin with the spell Enlarge/Reduce on it. To activate, you toss the coin, catch it, and slap it down on your wrist: the side facing up is the version of the spell you cast and you can then decide what to do with it. It's a fun object, and effective, but provides enough randomness and chaos to suit my character. Not the wand of wonder, but it has a similar feel. Thanks Dungeon Dudes for all your work!
As a nod to our first campaign, our second DM gave us a bag of tricks in our first session as a reward for winning our first fight of a new campaign. Our gnome fighter tries it out, pulls out a Brown Bear, which he decides to ride out of the cave on its back and decided there and then he was changing his subclass choice to focus on mounted combat rather than range like he initially intended, all because our DM rolled an 8 on his first draw from the bag
I used a bag of tricks when fighting a Griffen once, I pulled out a bull and ordered it to attack. The DM pointed out the Griffen was airborne, but I had a girdle of giant strength, so he let me throw the bull. I rolled a 20, and the result was like a butcher shop scattered all across the countryside. We also had a wand of wonder, and access to the complete collection of D&D magic items guide, which had an additional six tables to roll results on. We would use it only hoping for a silly result. We did kill a treant by dropping a table on it, which we figured was a bit of irony. The one result we never got was polymorphing your opponent into a giant bunny, no matter how many times we chanted, "Bunny!Bunny! Bunny!" every time we used it.
Hey! All your videos have inspired me here and I've come up with some nice uses for the Intimidation skill, when proficient: both are Intimidation vs Wisdom(target) checks and are at the cost of 1 action:
- Goosebumps: if fails wisdom check, target plays next turn in disadvantage.
- Provoke: if fails wisdom check, target will attack who's intimidated if not attacked by any other players.
We are still considering adding a resistence check for the target to break provocation if attacked by any other player. Maybe with DC= Charism/2, in order to make it clear that only really bad tempered/stubborn chars would keep going after the intimidator after being attacked by another person
What do you Dudes think? We still haven't tried any of those, gonna give it a try next table.
in our campaign we have a hunter with a panther pet, and the bag of tricks, we went into a winter games thing hosted by the place we were at (ice maze with a puzzle at end). we weren't allowed to bring our weapons in so the ranger used speak with animals on a sabre tooth tiger and convinced it to help her to be freed and then she threw 2 fuzzy balls and had 4 pets and negated her lack of damage without a weapon
You know, I think it's up to us DMs to throw zany stuff in an adventure just to nurture the players' imaginations. I would put a scenario in an adventure, just a little tiny stop like a random room, "help us! Our samiches are too dry!!! IF ONLY WE HAD MAYO!!!!"
My party uses the alchemy jug for diplomacy, "Let's get a drink and we can talk this out" or our cleric has an amulet that lets you recover health when drinking alcohol.
Just one thing: for many centuries cooking oil was also burning oil... people didn't have gasoline back then.
Thing like olive oil or fat was commonly used as fuel for light sources
I had a Wild Magic Sorcerer in my last campaign with a wand of wonder. The first time he used it, he petrified himself. Later one of the other party members thought it would be a good idea to use the want on the statue of their friend repeatedly in the hope that it’d cast Greater Restoration (I homebrew-addrd some spells for the wand IIRC). Instead, on the first try, they cast lightning bolt, blew up the statue, and sent a nearby npc into deathsaves.
My favorite Alchemy Jug experience was in a one shot at a local Denny's restaurant that I went to through Meetup. I was playing a goblin thief. One of the other players came into possession of the Alchemy Jug. My thief stole the Jug and attempted to eat 3 gallons of mayonnaise to hilarious results.
I gave a Rust Bag of Tricks to my Hexlock. He used it in a variety of ways I did not expect. One of the best was when they were going into a vertical cave shaft suspected to have a Pterrafolk nest at the bottom. He was hoping to roll a predator to enter combat with them if needed. They got a goat. They tied the goat up and descended it as bait.
Later, in that same campaign, my Paladin rolled on the magic beans and got a Pyramid with a Mummy Lord. Thankfully, it was about 10 minutes from the end of our regular runtime, so I had a week to BS the dungeon.
Glad to see y’all back in person!
Hell yeah, bag of tricks! Fighting a Duergar in a mech suit, my ranger climbed said mech suit and dropped a random "fuzzy object" in the driver's cabin. An orangutan appeared, beat the Duergar to death and (badly) maneuvered the mech suit for the rest of the evening. 10/10 would buy again!
Once in a game i used to run, an alcoholic Barbarian raided a wine cellar after a huge fight, emptying half of it. He picked a peculiar bottle in the process but didn't care enough to check, so he just uncorked it. Well he was reeking of wine so bad that the Efreeti inhabiting it staged an intervention for the guy, refusing to obey his commands until he sobered up. Talk about priceless
Have a player in my campaign who uses an alchemy jug to throw mayonnaise in the eyes of her foes. She's shown some other creative uses.
In my out of the abyss campaign I ran a bit later, the artificer made her an alchemy gauntlet. The party came upon two Basilisk sleeping, and so she sneaks up on them, ties their feet together with a double nat 20 and then proceeds to spray mayo on their faces making the fight trivial. I love it when players are creative
I allowed one of my players, playing as a grung arcane trickster, to use the bag of tricks, he randomly got an ape a black bear and a jackal to spawn, ended up casting enlarge on the all three during a combat encounter, and he rode the black bear. Eventually he cast flock of familiars to bring in 3 poisonous snakes… having one player add 6 allies to a battlefield was ridiculous (funny) and his turns DEFINITELY took the longest to iron out.
my eberron party has a bag of tricks; luckily, right when we were traversing the blade desert we rolled two bears and a giant goat so we could all travel safely without risking getting any exhaustion points from the heat lol i love that item so much
My party has Nolzur’s pigments right now and we’ve used them a few times to paint a tree so the druid can teleport us away
Wouldn't a large enough tree be pushing the 25gp value limit?
We had some an amazing time with both alchemy jug and bag of tricks.
We were once being escorted by a hill giant. The hill giant was going to lead us to their lord. The giant became hungry during the trip and we had no real way to feed it. The hill giant was about to eat us before I pulled out my alchemy jug. 4 gallons of mayo. Thats 96 000 calories.
The bag of tricks is incredibly fun. I gave all of my summon names.
It becomes much more fun when you name them.
Instead of summoning "just a weasel", you summon Win Weasel.
Instead of summoning "just a boar", you summon Pumba the boar.
Intead of summoning"Just a badger" you summon Banner the Badger
And when you get the giant badger then you have summoned "The Bulk"
One of the ceeators specifically said that the mayo in the Alchemy Jug was a hold over from their "this would be funny" list of items for the jug. They also blamed 90+ degree heat and a lack of air conditioning. Haha
The Bag of Beans is the ultimate Ammo bag. The beans explode like mini fireballs, if dropped (or thrown) outside of the bag, making them perfect slingshot ammo. Or you could make it even more devastating by planting a bean in a small flower pot and hurling that at an enemy. While the effects are random, this is still funny. Use the Random Beans chart from Encyclopedia Magica Vol. 1 or Dragon Magazine # 171
In our last game, we had the alchemy jug. We ended up using it to make mayo all the time, since we were running a lot of dungeons, and our barbarian was huge, often too big to easily get through some of the hallways. So we'd "lube him up" with the mayo to remove the movement penalty lmao.
We had an alchemy jug in my party's campaign against a former ally who was turned into a vampire by an evil sword. He wouldn't attack us until we attacked him but we needed to defeat him to bring him back to our headquarters along with the sword itself. So we ended up using the jug to produce a crapton of wine and got him so drunk that he rolled with disadvantage on every roll.
i actually just got a tan bag of tricks in a recent game. it was especially nice because my character was watching everyone else get pets and was really wanting one of her own. now she has pets that she doesn't have to worry about permanently losing, unlike the other pcs with their actual living pets
In a campaign I play with my two best friends where only two of of us are players, my friend is playing a Grung Barbarian/cavalier fighter multiclass who has a Bag of Tricks. Since there’s only two players, the bag of tricks is great for swinging action economy our way when he has all three daily animals out at once, and since he’s a small size Grung and most of the creatures in the bag are medium or larger, he can use most of them as his cavalier mount.
I once use the Alchemy jug to cover the party in mayonnaise so the fire from a elemental wouldn't be as effective. The DM ruled that its stopped the fire damage over time. This led up to a crazy final boss that was probably wondering why we smelled like mayonnaise.
x amount of mayonnaise well you could use it as an impromptu grease spell. just pour the mayonnaise on the floor and watch the fun begin.
For honey, my party once used it as a glue to stick magic explosive powder on a cavern wall. (We actually bought the honey on a shopping spree 😅)
My personal favorite character I recently made is a three headed ratfolk named Grimmrot the rat king, and he gets two arms but the other heads each get one smaller arm, and I gave each of them a wand, left head gets wand of conducting, right head gets wand of pyrotechnics, and the center head Grimmrot gets the wand of wonder.
One fun thing about the Marvelous Pigments, you could save even more of it when painting if you're careful how you do it. Instead of painting a full door to get through a wall, just paint a slightly slanted outline to make pulling the section out easier and you'll have used a tiny tiny fraction of what you'd have used painting an actual door
Someone tell me that "Yes, Yes, Yes" isn't the greatest merch ever! Like I will legit fight you over this ha ha
Makes me think of Daniel Bryan from WWE
I altered a bag of tricks and made it cursed so that it really brought out angry big animals and water creatures like a bluewhale. That last one almost made be pee my self when they pulled it out at exactly the wrong place. Another one was a a T-rex wanting to eat who ever pulled it out, but only after eating anything in the way first. I loved to add magical items with minor curses bound into them if you did not match the items purpose or matched some odd requirement that the creator had added.
Like a bag of holding only usable to carry food and if you tried to put anything else inside it then you were shrunk down and trapped inside it until released as a bit of food. Or a magical sword that was better than anything else they had, except that it jump into the hand of who drew it no matter which weapon they drew and began singing badly and I do mean badly and loudly. It could only be given away, so throwing it away just ment it returned by it's self.
I usually didn't bother with typical magic items except as core ideas and rather added my own. My feeling about it was that there would never be something as simple as a +1 sword. The maker would add their own twist to it, so maybe it glowed or added flames illusion to it or, well you get the idea. Each enchanter worth their salt, usually had their own spells to make items with their signature effect. I simply called it world favor.
Another house rule was that anything that was well made and left in a place where there was a lot of magic for several years, might gain some magical effect. The longer left there the stronger the effect. The same thing would happen to magical items left the same way to, but there the magic would strengthen what was really there. This also explained why older magical items often was stronger than newer items.
Of course enchanting items always carried a certain risk, the ritual needed could fail somehow or something used in the ritual could have a hidden effect if you didn't check everything carefully and of course drawing in a lot of magic might be noticed and chances were it might draw in the wrong type of beasty if you weren't careful. Doing it in a city would avoid that, but then most of the mages in the city would notice that you were doing something and they might come over to investigate. Basically anything should have consequences so I made sure of it.
Do the right thing and the dominos might fall your way down the line, do the wrong thing and well a world of hurt might come your way, or it might be simple some bad luck or you might gain someone's anger.
A rpg world should be a living breathing thing that changes around the players and done right your player will love to hate you. Their character's might be loved in one country and wanted for a murder they didn't commit in another, just because of said consequences.
The bag of beans is great, Dungeons and Daddies had a Pyramid pop out of nowhere at the top of a tower in Neverwinter and killed a LOT of people.
My current character Monk/Rogue, has an Alchemist Jug. I took it just for roleplay, my character is an alcoholic "Robin Hood" type character. Last session I used it to make salt water to help an injured merfolk back to the ocean after being held captive by an npc.
Ages ago, in one of my campaigns, the player in charge of the Wand of Wonder points it at the monster, sets it off...and sprays the monster with something like 200 plain M&Ms. Monster is immediately pissed off from taking a little damage from the candy, runs the players off after thumping on them, then returns to the M&Ms to ingest all of them and fall into a chocolate food coma.
My very first campaign, I found a Figurine of Wondrous Power. It was an elephant, lost forever in the feywild. RIP Raul, gone but not forgotten
Such a great list! About to give the party the bag of tricks... hope they will reach these other ones because I love the wand!!
Glad to see you guys back together
when it comes to the bag of tricks, you underestimate a weasels ability to steal and ingest spell components
Wand of Wonder can be made even more random. Put the table into a spreadsheet. now create a blank spreadsheet that has the same percentages but no effects listed. When the wand is used, whatever effect was rolled is removed from the table and becomes the first slot in the blank table. each time an effect is removed from the active table it becomes the next effect in line on the "inactive" once the first table is depleted, move over to use the new table and begin the process again. Anytime a "used" effect is rolled, just roll again until something happens, decide that nothing happens, or pick the next effect up the table, or next effect down the table (look at that 1d4 possible results)
I've used the bag of tricks in combat only once. And one other time to get out of a bad situation!
Little backstory, my fiance created his own feywild campaign and has me and three others to play test. I chose to be a half-orc druid and just let my dice fall where they may. A rule we have is that we are allowed to start with one magic items and this one seemed appropriate for my class!
The first time I used the bag was when I was imprisoned in a cell on a ship. The bad guy removed the stairs, but left the large latch open, so I used the bag and hoped for the best. Successfully, I got the giant elk and was able to escape! Though I did have to abandon the elk >>"
The second time, I tried getting a wolf or boar, as I was in a very hostile village of pirates. Our party needed a distraction and I felt a large beast parading around was the best option! And I..Got the weasel. We used it to get a pair of expensively fancy shoes for a quest and to blind the biggest leader of the group. Who knew weasels were good at stealth and clinging to faces?
In my last game I used the bag of tricks to summon a goat on a large battlefield. My friend then pointed the wand of wonder at the goat which casted Darkness on it. The goat of darkness will surely serve us well in the next session
You're back IRL, with each other. Nice.
Thinking of Monty's DM style, I can see this being used as an entry level dungeon setup:
Your party walks up to an old ruin and hears the cackle of kobold from the battlemants, you venture into the hall to find a kobold statue (25) that invites them to attack (possibly revealing empathetic secrets)
As you venture forward, you hit a tripwire that dumps a bucket of water onto a pile of dirt. (15) a Treant appears and greets you as a voice is heard cursing in the distance.
In the next room, the floor is filled with a foot of water, housing bright toads. 1 minute monster fights that can be interesting. (55)
Increasing in difficulty is a couple kobold traps, then a room with a hungry Bulette (65)
Then the last trial, you fall in a pit and a gallon of water falls on your head. Suddenly a geyser of oil erupts from the ground.(5) The kobold appears as the oil is waist deep and throws down a lit torch. It extinguishes in the cooking oil and an hour later, you're able to swim to the edge and get out of the pit.
Finally you meet the mastermind: a old Kobold who pleads with you. His last bean being what he has protected from the world as it contains (95) the pyramid of Pharoah Sullen, a mummy Lord that slaughtered his 1000 kobold army.
(If you choose to plant it, and kill the mummy Lord, then the kobold will be greatful and raise armies to defend your dwellings, or you can leave him to die with the thought he saved the world, or eat it to make him feel foolish)
Had a crazy necromancer whos party member found the alchemy jug and I kept getting to it early in the day to make mayo. He lived like that for the campaign.
Alchemy jug is unbelievably clutch for a spelljammer campaign where worlds take months to travel between
In my campaign we flavored the animal summons from the bag of tricks to look like cute stuffed animals that still have their respective claws and fangs
Been trying to think of what I should have my party do next after clearing their current dungeon. I think the Bag of Beans is a perfect answer! Thanks for reminding me!
Hear me out, a bag of beans, but:
It's an "infinite amount" of mundane beans, maybe even a mix.
Several adventures and many, many, beans (meals, planting, etc.) later, you discover a farmer whose beans are disappearing.
It would be discovered that a wizard made this item to spite him, his ancestors, or his company (presumably a bean powerhouse) by taking beans from their stock house.
Antics ensue
I personally prefer the "spite his ancestors minor bean empire" option.
Because then you can make it so that the farmer has no idea what is happening when the party activates this thing after it's been sitting dormant for a hundred years.
And it's not enough to really mess up his business, just be really befuddling fo him. Maybe even have it so that he personally stood and watched them disappear one night after his workers reported it lol.
*Bard goes in to Big Bad Evil Guy’s lair and convinces him to dismiss his minions and fight him one on one.*
*Opens a Portable Hole and all of his party walks out like he’s Doctor Strange*
I fed an ogre mayo with the alchemy jug. It saved us from combat. He was just hungry after being trapped in a mirror for decades.
I created my backstory for my Alchemist as such: Guild Artisan, owes a massive fiscal debt to his guild for the reparatations paid to a nobleman. My PC fancied the elder daughter of this nobleman and they both kept their relationship low-key until Dad found out, chased my PC out of his daughter's room with a shortsword and got an unlucky stab into his Bag of Holding. The BoH was filled with 68 GALLONS of mayonnaise thanks to his good ole Alchemy Jug! Creamy goodness erupted everywhere and ruined many valuable paintings, tapestries, rugs, etc.
Safe to say, being able to create a bomb of mayonnaise is a pretty good prank lol
I don't recall if it is in 5e, but one of my favorite misused magic items is "Immovable Rod". My favorite use is getting a massive dragon to chase my and just before he catches me placing it so he swallows it and comes to an immediate, painful, and quite often fatal stop.
One of my players loves to summon a creature from his bag of tricks and then someone cast Dragon's breath on the feature. His favorite is when his boar uses lightning breath.
I am playing a goblin in our under dark campaign, and I got my hands on an alchemy jug. I use it to eat mayo constantly ( he has become very fat). We’ve used mayo to cover scents, attract monsters, and a few other things.
An alchemy jug can produce 2 gallons of mayo a day. That's roughly 48 thousand calories. Even on an intensive adventure that is enough raw calories to 12+ human's on a heavy 3-4 thousand calorie diet. You'll absolutely hate yourself, but if push came to shove, an entire adventuring party could survive on a single alchemy jug with room to spare practically indefinitely. Perhaps a DM could let it produce other food items like soup.
Alternatively, I had a DM let us grease trap a hallway with 2 gallons of mayonnaise. Enemies had to make a dex save, or slip.
You can cast spells like dragon's breath on rats and small creatures that you get from the bag of tricks, and then they can breath using their action, freeing up party members to do other things
Personally I'd say that taking into account the character's artistic skill would be fun for the Marvelous Pigments. Rolling for Performance makes it raises the cap for how valuable the item can be or maybe even allows it to create a magic item for a certain period of time.
I love the alchemy jug, my DM let me get one pretty early on, and even sense I've become known as the party acid dealer, because I bought a ton of vials and every night I full a couple of em. Sin e we've been doing a bit of traveling, I usually end up walking into town with 30 to 40 vails of acid to sell. It's awesome.
I homebrewed a Alchemy Jug for my players.. They have to roll a 1d10 to see what the liquid will be, but they can use the Jug 3 times a day.
Its fun because it gives more randomness and funny moments to the game.
One of my favorite items to give the party is the belt of opposite six. Barbarian puts it on, thinking it's a girdle of giant strength, and suddenly he's half the man he used to be 😅
Wand of Wonder = Wabbajack
"Oh cool, let's see it's description to see what it does"
Wabbajack on target
"Yeah. That makes sense I guess"
We did once use the mayonnaise to lubricate the top two steps, that caused some damage to our pursuers as they fell down the stairs
In the first campaign I ever played in, there was a magic item merchant so we could use the gold we got and I asked the DM for a Bag of Tricks because it sounded cool and not too powerful. He was hesitant at first but eventually gave in. I pulled an animal out of the bag each day and had it assist in my performances by either dancing or going around and gathering tips and such. Campaign ended before I could think to abuse it but it was fun while it lasted. A Bag of Tricks is an item would be great for younger players, solo adventures, or campaigns with small groups.
For the non combat animals, remember that creatures without weapons can still have a breath weapon so if you get two weasels you could Twin Dragons Breath.
I am the ranger with a bag of tricks. Most of my animals produced have died in the fight they were summoned, except for an axebeak we have kept around so far. We were however disappointed to learn that an axebeak cannot fly. They have mostly been half-intentional cannon fodder: "jackal, go bite that guy. You'll probably die in the effort, but that's one round he isn't killing a buddy who will still be there in the morning." I keep hoping to use the animals as more perceptive or sneaky than me where needed, to sniff out clues or go where I can't.
*gets alchemy jug*
*floods BBEG’s basement with mayonnaise over the course of a week*