I always played a sorcerer. We ran 3.5. My dad was always our DM. He and his friends played 2nd when they were in high school. And me and my siblings learned to play from him. My longest running character, my dad made a BBEG with the Ioun Stones. Every encounter we outwitted him, and he shed a stone to my gain. Still best story I've ever played.
dude... that sounds like such an amazing childhood... I don't think I've ever felt such pure, unadulterated jealousy towards another person in my whole life... hahah honestly... I would've killed to grow up in that kind of family...😂😂😂😂😂
Thank you for sharing your story… 40 yrs ago my friends and I basically learned to play from “the older kids” in my neighborhood & played for years and years. Fast fwd to now and I’m getting back into it, and have my own kids who all want to play (and want me to teach/run a starter campaign)… I absolutely love the way your Dad approached the teaching process; I feel very inspired by your story. Thank you again!
The ring of spell storing doesn’t store only one spell, but 5 levels of spells. I.E. one 5th level spell, or 5 1st level spells, or one 3rd level spell and a 2nd level spell. Etc.
Bro, the amount of effort you had to put inro this just for a few hundred people to watch it is sooooooooooo unfair. You make great content and you deserve more views
Exactly, and the answer he gave you is so wholesome... I only watched the intro and it's high quality video, I am a fellow DM who will be helped and thank you so much
Really good job! I bet that was a ton of work. Amazing reference. Just one pretty major issue that may change your campaigns as well. I’m pretty certain the ring of spell storing can store more than one spell at a time. Like a 3rd and a 2nd, five level 1’s, etc. Have a good one.
Speaking of DM’s giving certain bonuses to players with high INT scores, I had a player Wizard that had a 20 intelligence score and the linguist feat, she came across some Sylvan signs in a forest, and she didn’t speak Sylvan but did happen to speak Elven, so since her INT was so high and she was a linguist, I ruled that she was able to roughly decipher the Sylvan runes, and it’s fortunate she was able to, because it was a warning that those areas of the woods were protected by the Fey and off limits to outsiders.
One home brew item I made that was well received was the time of fighting which allows a person to gain a fighting style of your choosing. It may also include proficiency in certain weapons or armor.
Heavy obscurement doesn't stop magic missile fwiw. At least under RAW, you still need to take the hide action while heavily obscured for an enemy to lose complete sight of you. Otherwise even though heavy obscurement you can still be "seen," just not clearly. That said, it's a great combo with blind fighting style from the melee classes since you'll gain all the benefits of enemies not being able to see you clearly while you can still blightsee in close range against them.
Thank you for this. I love peppering my players with small but functional magic items, the joy that washes over their faces when they finally save up enough gold to buy a new shiny magic item, or find a small utility magic item in a loot hoard is fantastic.
Re: ammunition, Just give them a +1 quiver of perfect arrows - this quiver magically alters every arrow that enters it giving perfect balance, hardness and weight to always make a perfect shot given the range, draw strength of the bow, and armour type of the target. All arrows pulled from this quiver gain +1 to damage and overcome damage resistances. Requires attunment
About #86 i would rule that darkvision works more like low light vision from 3.5 and that the true underground creatures have infra-red vision. The goggles would give you a color accurate view in true darkness letting you read in complete darkness.
When i first introduced dnd to my cousin he made a character that was a fighter who liked doing backflips(and other things to derail the story) but this was at the start of the campaign, he wanted to do a backflip so per usual i had him roll Acrobatics, well he rolled a nat 1 and broke his neck and died ,that was a good moment to teach all my new players how to do medicine checks. I had fun doing what i called my pc's session 0.5 i just wanted to get them on the boat for the starter dragon island campaign and it turned into a pirate/royalty story
Great example of how to make the Arrows of Slaying useful: run Princes of the Apocalypse, and have the players start by fighting the Air Cult, and have them be making a lot of Arrows of Slaying for the other three cults, especially Earth (because Air hates them) and some Fire (because they're the objectively strongest). Then continue to show these arrows being made and used by the other three cults, though less often because they're more Air's kinda shtick. And then when the party gets into the bottom layer of the old fortress, they start finding ancient dwarven arrows (or quarrels more likely; Earth or Water can already be using these to introduce the concept), and these are accompanied by dwarvish writing which identify them as having been crafted to fight the battle they eventually lost against the cult which was taking their temple over... but NONE of these arrows are element-specific, because they were made to kill Aberrations and priests of Tharizdun, foreshadowing the real architect behind all these elemental cults.
if your lucky and a artificer can eventually use all the items with no restrictions. That being said I am trying to make a hoopeck battle smith artificer work and holp one day to make the hoopeck in to a legendary item.
Crazy idea. Miquella was stolen when he was asleep no? And corrupted while asleep. I would posit that st. Trina and miquella are distinct and have free will independent of each other, in the same way that Marika and radagon are. I think st Trina was the being that was corrupted by mohgs bloodflame, and the reason for her disappearance was her essentially being twisted in to messmer
Note to self Pocket Hole Wand of Magic Missiles Archery Handbraces Dwarfkind Belt Arrow of Slaying {Specific Monster} Life jailer weapon that can contain amy one enemy Necklace of Fireball (consume a bead every use) Pearl of Power (Restore single spellslot) Weaker Wand of Polymorph Instant fortress (for settleing down)
Fun thought for the Ring of Feather Falling: if your player jumps out a window that's 200 feet up, then after he's fallen about 80 feet, have him suddenly enter a little 20-foot-radius Antimagic Field that's just randomly there in midair and nobody knew about it. So the player just goes float, float, float, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, and then back to floating. A wonderful harmless way of reminding mr. Lighter than Air that nothing an adventurer does is ever *completely* safe.
37:40 The portable hole reminds me of the ones from ACME, those made temporary holes instead of connecting to an extra dimensional space, you could go through them or fall inside them, like falling into an open manhole. If this item worked like that, we could make a lot of road-runner-like shennanigans.😂
My party once managed to escape Ravenloft by putting a bag of holding into a prtable hole and lrt ourselves get sucked into a random plane, then navigate away with an amulet of the planes.
should do a combo list, I know of one combo that completely places the balance into the players favor, using the ring of wishes or luck blade on a deck of many things. now a good DM will do their upmost to keep these items out of the same game. but there are many items that can be used in conjunction with each other to have an amplified or new effect. AT LEAST IN THE 2E. not sure about these new versions, I know they started to water things down and simplifying things A LOT in versions 3E and on.
So many new Dungeon master complain about high AC without knowing that high AC is easy to circumvent Oh you build a character who with a full plate +3 shield +3 ring of protection +3, cloak of protection +3 a shield guardian around near by giving you +2 the haste spell giving you +2 and just in case you can cast the shield spell for an other +5? and you want to challenge me to kill you? you think you are invincible with your 41 AC? what is your wisdom saving throw? -1? cool dominate person, you are no your allies problem and work for me. Oh you have a good wisdom as well? ok fine, how is your dexterity? Disintegrate. How about Enfeeblemind or intellect devrourer? how humiliating would it be to die to a CR2 creature? targeting your intellect and making you brain dead? or a ghost possession targeting your Charisma? And if somehow you are a paladin with +5 charisma that is added on everything, what happen if I cast maze on you? that uses an intellect skill check, not a saving throw. or maybe I could simply wall of force you alone on your side of the battlefield while you watch the monster slaughter your friends? Remember, players found ways to defeat creatures with 600 HP, 25 AC and legendary resistance. Remember EVERY decision you do in DnD come with it's OPPORTUNITY cost. You took the defensive fighting style to get +1 AC while wearing armor, cool, so you didn't took the fighting style that increase your damage? oh you took the feat that give you an additional fighting style? cool, so you didn't took GWM, PAM or bump your main stat to 20? Oh you are using a belt of giant strenght to get 24 strenght? twell, between the ring, the cloak and the giant belt, you didn't took that blackrazor or luckblade I guess. Oh you multiclass Artificer for the additional attunement slot? so not only did you need to bump up your dump stat to 13, you also loss your martial progression (less fighter feat for example) you only have half spell progression compare to if you had multiclass bard for a full progression, etc... Every choice you made mean you didn't took an other choice instead creating a weakness to counter the strenght you gained. My Sorcerer who start with 14 Cha+2 racial bonus to 16 choose to take +2 Cha at level 4 and 8 instead of fey touched at level 4, But he got 2 extra point buy point to get to 13 Intellect so he can multiclass into wizard for portent compare to the sorcerer who took 15 Cha, +2 racial and took fey touched at level 4 in order to reach the same 20 Charisma at level 8. But which is better, the sorcerer with 2 extra spell or the sorcerer who was able to multiclass 2 level of wizard, giving him 8 additional spell, and the portent ability?
There is 1 very strong item that i believed you would mention, its shield guardian amulet, for rare rarity its literally infinit rage of totem bear barbarian
+1 Armor is incredible insane for a Warforged Paladin that also has a Shield. If you have this magic armor as a Paladin your Ac for 10min can be at 23 with the spell Shield of Faith if it’s Chain Mail. Now if it’s Full Plate, OMG this magic armor skyrockets in value for Paladins, Fighters, Barbarians, and Clerics. A Warforged Paladin with a Shield and +1 Plate Armor can have 22 Armor without Shield of Faith, add on the spell and you’re at 24 AC.
the big advantage described for a +1 armor doesnt really work for most campaigns though. A lot of the time you get rests between big battles. that extra "5%" matters most as an average when youre taking lots of hits. If youre in a dungeon crawl with no long rests I totally agree, but thats not a common circumstance? usually you get a long rest before anyone runs out of hit dice
The 3e "ranking" 1 to 7 with cost rank²×1000 was a bad system. The 5e CURVL system is actually worse. At least 3e was tied to actual powers. 5e is some guy's spitball evaluation, probably done on a Saturday morning when he would rather be skateboarding but had to come in to work because he was goofing off during the week and didn't get his tasks completed and it was going to be reviewed by the boss on Saturday afternoon.
In response to the adamantine armor aspect i get it being uncommon. Because it can't be a + magic item. So you will get hit far more since you're locked into a mediocre ac.
you said the potion of speed is rare, but apart from Healing, potions of speed are up with potions of flying or 3 HD antidote as being one of the most common potions. After all, why wouldnt be common seeing as there are magic users who do want to make them for monitary gain, for spell research?
fyi 200 goblins isnt a threat to a 5 man 5th level party did it one session and our dm didnt think we would do it no touch me cleric spell combo is crazy
I thought ring of spell storing is allowing multiple spells as long as total level is 5 or below. so I can have five 1st, two 2nd and one 1st, one 2nd and one 3rd, one 1st and one 4th, or one 5th level spell. at least that my interpretation of it. can I get some input on this?
Something tells me the rod of intestinal straightening isn't going to be on the list... If you don't know what it is, think backbiter spear only it's a straight metal rod that, when activated, finds it way up the exit end of the user's digestive tract and thus straightens out their intestines...
Criminally underrated Video. Sure I couldn't care less about some of these. (I generally hate flat stat bonuses past +1, especially AC bonuses) but this is a list of 100 options to throw in my magic item shops. I generally make custom magic items for my party that ties them to the story or it's what their character would really like. But I have trouble filling my shops or finding the cool items to give that can be used creatively and aren't just flat buffs to their stats.
I had a character in one of my games ask how an enemy ranger's arrow quiver was attached to them. I answered that it is strapped around their waist with a belt, latch and all. She immediately pulls out her Chime of Opening to open the latch, causing the quiver to fall and leave the ranger without any arrows. Brilliant play that left the enemy without their method of doing the most damage.
I guess the DM didn't use spell mechanics like "range". Imagine closing ranks on a guy in combat and you have a "key" in your hand. Or a chime? While he is shooting at you? 😕 Now if the range on that chime is 100 feet.... that makes sense.
You can strike it as an action, pointing it at an object within 120 feet of you that can be opened, such as a door, lid, or lock. The chime issues a clear tone, and one lock or latch on the object opens unless the sound can't reach the object. If no locks or latches remain, the object itself opens. @redfaux74 RAW and RAI it works.
I love the ring of mind shielding because it's basically Baby's First Phylactery. My PC had one and became a reoccurring villain in my next campaign. He only ended up defeated because we fed the ring to a goat that could dissolve magic items in her stomach.
I had a cloak of protection in a recent campaign. My DM allowed me to have a cloak of billowing and many fashions (at a *steep* price). I gave the cloak of displacement to the fighter, I did not need that old thing anymore.
@@jaimetheone9150 😂Hey, new dms can have a hard time with power balance lmao, but yeah you can always ask your dm abt it if he is too scarce on them, but i'll defend not giving too many or the player at once bc otherwise you have to trow them enemies that either get one shot or one shot them with less scalability (An older DM should be okay to deal with it though)
@@bullabythecroissant2004 All DMs I know are too afraid of magic items, they always say it's too early, and the most they give you are uncommons, after giving you dirty looks and saying that you are too powerful. I don't know what are they waiting for, since most campaings only go until level 12, 13 tops.
@@jaimetheone9150 maybe try dming bro and you'll understand :) but i understand the frustration, tbh you should talk with them abt it, maybe are they scared it would ruin the game by making it too easy, idk ^^ but balancing is hard so don't put too much on them, be a dm for some time in a campain and you'll get why magic items, starting at rare are scary to give
As a PC, I’ve come to appreciate the items that don’t mess with bounded accuracy so much. Being better “because math” can feel good, but the items that give you a different way to interact with the world, especially in weird ways, ends up being way more fun
Bounded accuracy is interesting.. but it's also part of WHY campaigns fall apart shortly after level 8. "Oh, were most bags of hp and we both hit each other every turn?..." It's just damage output vs damage absorbtion in the most boring way every turn. Your twelvelth level fight swings their axe 7 times and does 85 damage. Then the monster hits for 55 damage.. then the fighter does his 7 attacks for 90 damage... And so on until someone chews through the ~200hp on the field.
This was such an excellent list! One thing I would have liked is a list in text format as well. Because I am old and I shall forget most of this list before long. 😅
Fun fact: The penalty for lacking proficiency in a shield applies when the shield is "worn" so anyone can use an animated shield. Except for a monk because you lose unarmored defense and movement when a shield is "benefited from" It can also protect a moon druids wild shape or anyone you polymorph since those stop you from using items that are "worn or carried" Anyone currently not using a shield, besides a monk, can use the animated shield quite well. But beware. As it can be targeted by spells directly and destroyed since it is no longer worn or carried
Reading the monk's Unarmored Defense feature on DDB, it makes no special mention about the monk not being able to have shields at all - simply that they must not be *wielding* a shield. I would personally interpret this as holding the shield with intent to use it. With an animated shield, as long as it's animated, you are not holding it - because it explicitly states in its description that it leaps into the air and orbits your space, leaving your hands free. I'd imagine the point of monks not being proficient with shields, and their features being heavily dependent on not wielding shields, is that they need their hands to be free all the time. Their main purpose is to beat the piss out of other creatures with unarmed strikes, after all.
Where did you find this version? The core rulebook reads "Unarmored Defense Beginning at 1st level, while you are wearing no armor and not wielding a shield, your AC equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Wisdom modifier."
I realize how old this video is now to make this comment but for those watching after this, the potion of speed does still come with the negative effects of the haste spell. The item says you gain the effects of the haste spell, and the lethargy is one of those effects. It happens regardless of whether concentration is dropped or the duration expires, and the potion doesn't say to ignore any part of it (which some magic items do specify). That said, getting the effect without having to concentrate on the spell is still incredibly strong!
I love the traditional 'immovable relative to what?" "What?" "relative to you? relative to the center of the planet? relative to the center of the galaxy?" "what?"
23:42 helm of brilliance only blows up from failing a spell DC that deals fire damage. Way less often than just fire damage. Like unless every enemy is fireballing you, it shouldn't happen
Having had the deck of many things for over a year IRL time, I've drawn one card. It gave me the ability to rewrite one event that happened, which I used to prevent the oncoming campaign ending TPK. Was a draw of desperation that saved us all
D&D needs more unusual magic weapons ....Magic Bows with effects like...force, thunder or lightning damage to all within 30', Boomerangs, throwing stars, Bola, Net, blow gun etc.
# 105: illusionists bracers, very rare, Attunement. Allows same cantrip twice per turn, same target. Sounds week? Inflict debuff, prone status, multiple other conditions generated by cantrips with a doubled chance to take effect.
I understand your reasoning for putting the Ring of Mind Shielding so low, the variance is too large from table to table. However, from a DMs perspective, the ring should be a top 10 item to give to a party from a lore and role play perspective alone. The shielding properties are great but the part of the item description where it says 'unless it already houses a soul' is where the real power lies. Sure the party can buy a clean ring, but think of what crazy shenanigans a DM can pull with a soul-occupied ring. A person from a pre-calamity race, the last survivor of their kind. A soul of a short-lived race, who's long-lived lover had lost the ring, and thus all hopes of resurrection for their short-lived partner. A prisoner, who made a deal with a guard to circumvent their life sentence. etc etc. Plot hooks, lore from eons passed, or 'backseat adventuring' role play are at your parties fingertips. Well not quite, but third digit is close enough.
I could not agree with you more. There were drafts in this script where I had the ring in my top 20. It is one of my all time favorite items to give out and use as a player.
I have always feared a deck of many things breaking an immersive campaign. One twist I've wanted to give it (never tried) is that it is found inert. It activates for one draw when 3 nat 20s are rolled by the party in its presence without any nat 1s in between. Maybe signal this to the party by having all the cards have 3 symbols on the back that light up one by one when a nat 20 is rolled and dissipate if a nat 1 is. Make it a puzzle that also depends on luck. But leave it active (disregarding further nat 1s) until used so they still can have that tactical choice of a hail Mary after solving its activation
The Bag of Beans is very memorable to me because once it gave a member in my party a permanent +7 to their ability scores (spread across multiple stats) thanks to the random event that spawns a nest of steroid eggs. XD
A tip for people playing range characters or use range weapons often you should bring an extra set of dice. Use the dice as a physical tracker of ammunition and make a note at the end of session how much you have left. If you have 24 arrows use a d20 and d4. I use the d12 and d10 to track magic arrows.
#63 I think you said that the scimitar of speed let you make 2 more attacks compared to a great sword. I don’t think that’s right as two weapon fighting requires your bonus action as well. The real strength is letting you use a shield with it
The coment about Ever Smoking Bottle and Magic Missile. Rules As Written (RAW) for spells says nothing about Line of Sight (LOS). PHB 2014 Spells chapter, "a target in range..." some specific spell text mentions, "a target you can see..." Magic Missile does not state that using RAW.
I know this is an old video but I GOTTA step in here and say that the Ring of Mind Shielding does NOT let you lie under a zone of truth. "You are immune to magic that allows other creatures to determine whether you are lying" would not stop an effect that forces you not to lie. Jeremy Crawford himself stated that they have no effect on each other as well, which is pretty decisive. Obviously it'd be fine if you allow this as a DM, but flat out saying that that is how it works is very misleading.
That is very true. However.... being a mage who can cast the next level of spells is also a huge game changer. In my old group 30 years ago.....I was always of the mental classes. Mage, cleric, psionicist and combination of those. We were allowed to "research" powers and spells. Designing a higher level spell was so incredible. Ex: 4th level variant of Fireball with more damage, volume and range ...OR... 5th level variant of Fly with faster speed, longer effect, AC bonus during flight vs missiles. I played a character who was a necromancer and researched the gaseous form of the vampire, 3rd level. Game changer.
Videos like these make me feel sad about playing a low magic item campaign. Level 10 with the Stone of Good Luck and nothing else (hasn't really helped me yet either) Holy Hell the prices on Only Crits are absolutely absurd... was interested until the only cool ones being near $100 yeesh...
I always played a sorcerer. We ran 3.5. My dad was always our DM. He and his friends played 2nd when they were in high school. And me and my siblings learned to play from him. My longest running character, my dad made a BBEG with the Ioun Stones. Every encounter we outwitted him, and he shed a stone to my gain. Still best story I've ever played.
Sounds like you had a great dad and siblings.
dude... that sounds like such an amazing childhood... I don't think I've ever felt such pure, unadulterated jealousy towards another person in my whole life... hahah honestly... I would've killed to grow up in that kind of family...😂😂😂😂😂
Thank you for sharing your story… 40 yrs ago my friends and I basically learned to play from “the older kids” in my neighborhood & played for years and years. Fast fwd to now and I’m getting back into it, and have my own kids who all want to play (and want me to teach/run a starter campaign)… I absolutely love the way your Dad approached the teaching process; I feel very inspired by your story. Thank you again!
The ring of spell storing doesn’t store only one spell, but 5 levels of spells. I.E. one 5th level spell, or 5 1st level spells, or one 3rd level spell and a 2nd level spell. Etc.
Thank you I was just about to say. As soon as I heard it the antenna went up like hold on that's not right.
@@erikwulfrik1934 it makes it a far better item than originally listed. That being said, I get the mistake. Sometimes we forget the fine prints.
The ring of 5 shield spells, as some folks use it.
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Or better than 5 shield spells, how about using it to have non-casters (or even possibly familiars) cast concentration spells.
Bro, the amount of effort you had to put inro this just for a few hundred people to watch it is sooooooooooo unfair. You make great content and you deserve more views
If I can even help 1 DM run their games better, it's all worth it :)
Completely agree. Up to 2.2k now but still believe this is a great video and series. Helping me tonight mate. Thanks!
@@NauticalMobsterweeks later and still having some growth. Great video
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Exactly, and the answer he gave you is so wholesome...
I only watched the intro and it's high quality video, I am a fellow DM who will be helped and thank you so much
Really good job! I bet that was a ton of work. Amazing reference. Just one pretty major issue that may change your campaigns as well.
I’m pretty certain the ring of spell storing can store more than one spell at a time. Like a 3rd and a 2nd, five level 1’s, etc. Have a good one.
thanks for that, very useful guide to items for someone who has difficulty reading, good emphasis on multi-user stuff
Speaking of DM’s giving certain bonuses to players with high INT scores, I had a player Wizard that had a 20 intelligence score and the linguist feat, she came across some Sylvan signs in a forest, and she didn’t speak Sylvan but did happen to speak Elven, so since her INT was so high and she was a linguist, I ruled that she was able to roughly decipher the Sylvan runes, and it’s fortunate she was able to, because it was a warning that those areas of the woods were protected by the Fey and off limits to outsiders.
Very cool
One home brew item I made that was well received was the time of fighting which allows a person to gain a fighting style of your choosing. It may also include proficiency in certain weapons or armor.
Heavy obscurement doesn't stop magic missile fwiw. At least under RAW, you still need to take the hide action while heavily obscured for an enemy to lose complete sight of you. Otherwise even though heavy obscurement you can still be "seen," just not clearly.
That said, it's a great combo with blind fighting style from the melee classes since you'll gain all the benefits of enemies not being able to see you clearly while you can still blightsee in close range against them.
Thank you for this. I love peppering my players with small but functional magic items, the joy that washes over their faces when they finally save up enough gold to buy a new shiny magic item, or find a small utility magic item in a loot hoard is fantastic.
Love your list and all the experience you impart at the same time is invaluable.
This video must be the most detailed, best put togeather piece of content about DnD items i've seen
Ngl, robe of the archmage clears most of the top 10 items. The only item to give a +2 to your spell save DC is very good and super slept on
Watching this makes me want to go do another BG3 or DOS run
Thank you for the hard work you put into this. It’s amazing subscribed for sure
Re: ammunition, Just give them a +1 quiver of perfect arrows - this quiver magically alters every arrow that enters it giving perfect balance, hardness and weight to always make a perfect shot given the range, draw strength of the bow, and armour type of the target. All arrows pulled from this quiver gain +1 to damage and overcome damage resistances. Requires attunment
What a great video, man! Congrats!
About #86 i would rule that darkvision works more like low light vision from 3.5 and that the true underground creatures have infra-red vision. The goggles would give you a color accurate view in true darkness letting you read in complete darkness.
When i first introduced dnd to my cousin he made a character that was a fighter who liked doing backflips(and other things to derail the story) but this was at the start of the campaign, he wanted to do a backflip so per usual i had him roll Acrobatics, well he rolled a nat 1 and broke his neck and died ,that was a good moment to teach all my new players how to do medicine checks. I had fun doing what i called my pc's session 0.5 i just wanted to get them on the boat for the starter dragon island campaign and it turned into a pirate/royalty story
Thank you so much for this if you ever see this comment was struggling to think of items for my adventures
I need this as a list to start including these in my games
Great example of how to make the Arrows of Slaying useful: run Princes of the Apocalypse, and have the players start by fighting the Air Cult, and have them be making a lot of Arrows of Slaying for the other three cults, especially Earth (because Air hates them) and some Fire (because they're the objectively strongest). Then continue to show these arrows being made and used by the other three cults, though less often because they're more Air's kinda shtick. And then when the party gets into the bottom layer of the old fortress, they start finding ancient dwarven arrows (or quarrels more likely; Earth or Water can already be using these to introduce the concept), and these are accompanied by dwarvish writing which identify them as having been crafted to fight the battle they eventually lost against the cult which was taking their temple over... but NONE of these arrows are element-specific, because they were made to kill Aberrations and priests of Tharizdun, foreshadowing the real architect behind all these elemental cults.
if your lucky and a artificer can eventually use all the items with no restrictions. That being said I am trying to make a hoopeck battle smith artificer work and holp one day to make the hoopeck in to a legendary item.
Mace of terror with a oath of paladin is incredible
Great job! Great content! Not sold on the ranking for the ring of invisibility though!
I love how I was about to complain how there was no deck of many things from 1 to 100, and then boom item #0
Deck of Hazards my beloved
I would have added the Ring of Regeneration and Periapt of Wound Closure somewhere on the list.
Crazy idea. Miquella was stolen when he was asleep no? And corrupted while asleep. I would posit that st. Trina and miquella are distinct and have free will independent of each other, in the same way that Marika and radagon are. I think st Trina was the being that was corrupted by mohgs bloodflame, and the reason for her disappearance was her essentially being twisted in to messmer
Note to self
Pocket Hole
Wand of Magic Missiles
Archery Handbraces
Dwarfkind Belt
Arrow of Slaying {Specific Monster}
Life jailer weapon that can contain amy one enemy
Necklace of Fireball (consume a bead every use)
Pearl of Power (Restore single spellslot)
Weaker Wand of Polymorph
Instant fortress (for settleing down)
Fun thought for the Ring of Feather Falling: if your player jumps out a window that's 200 feet up, then after he's fallen about 80 feet, have him suddenly enter a little 20-foot-radius Antimagic Field that's just randomly there in midair and nobody knew about it. So the player just goes float, float, float, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, and then back to floating. A wonderful harmless way of reminding mr. Lighter than Air that nothing an adventurer does is ever *completely* safe.
Anti magic spell cast on an powerful relic right on the other side of the wall in the vault
Player falls by vault room aaaaahhhhh
This list makes me want to DM again. I wish I had the time.
The Fizban's items are the absolute God-tier of magic items.
37:40 The portable hole reminds me of the ones from ACME, those made temporary holes instead of connecting to an extra dimensional space, you could go through them or fall inside them, like falling into an open manhole.
If this item worked like that, we could make a lot of road-runner-like shennanigans.😂
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Tbh 300gl sounds like a lot but its only like one m³. That's not shabby per minute but to actually flood something it will take a while
My party once managed to escape Ravenloft by putting a bag of holding into a prtable hole and lrt ourselves get sucked into a random plane, then navigate away with an amulet of the planes.
should do a combo list, I know of one combo that completely places the balance into the players favor, using the ring of wishes or luck blade on a deck of many things. now a good DM will do their upmost to keep these items out of the same game. but there are many items that can be used in conjunction with each other to have an amplified or new effect. AT LEAST IN THE 2E. not sure about these new versions, I know they started to water things down and simplifying things A LOT in versions 3E and on.
So many new Dungeon master complain about high AC without knowing that high AC is easy to circumvent
Oh you build a character who with a full plate +3 shield +3 ring of protection +3, cloak of protection +3 a shield guardian around near by giving you +2 the haste spell giving you +2 and just in case you can cast the shield spell for an other +5? and you want to challenge me to kill you? you think you are invincible with your 41 AC? what is your wisdom saving throw? -1? cool dominate person, you are no your allies problem and work for me.
Oh you have a good wisdom as well? ok fine, how is your dexterity? Disintegrate.
How about Enfeeblemind or intellect devrourer? how humiliating would it be to die to a CR2 creature? targeting your intellect and making you brain dead?
or a ghost possession targeting your Charisma?
And if somehow you are a paladin with +5 charisma that is added on everything, what happen if I cast maze on you? that uses an intellect skill check, not a saving throw. or maybe I could simply wall of force you alone on your side of the battlefield while you watch the monster slaughter your friends?
Remember, players found ways to defeat creatures with 600 HP, 25 AC and legendary resistance.
Remember EVERY decision you do in DnD come with it's OPPORTUNITY cost. You took the defensive fighting style to get +1 AC while wearing armor, cool, so you didn't took the fighting style that increase your damage? oh you took the feat that give you an additional fighting style? cool, so you didn't took GWM, PAM or bump your main stat to 20? Oh you are using a belt of giant strenght to get 24 strenght? twell, between the ring, the cloak and the giant belt, you didn't took that blackrazor or luckblade I guess. Oh you multiclass Artificer for the additional attunement slot? so not only did you need to bump up your dump stat to 13, you also loss your martial progression (less fighter feat for example) you only have half spell progression compare to if you had multiclass bard for a full progression, etc... Every choice you made mean you didn't took an other choice instead creating a weakness to counter the strenght you gained.
My Sorcerer who start with 14 Cha+2 racial bonus to 16 choose to take +2 Cha at level 4 and 8 instead of fey touched at level 4, But he got 2 extra point buy point to get to 13 Intellect so he can multiclass into wizard for portent compare to the sorcerer who took 15 Cha, +2 racial and took fey touched at level 4 in order to reach the same 20 Charisma at level 8. But which is better, the sorcerer with 2 extra spell or the sorcerer who was able to multiclass 2 level of wizard, giving him 8 additional spell, and the portent ability?
There is 1 very strong item that i believed you would mention, its shield guardian amulet, for rare rarity its literally infinit rage of totem bear barbarian
My favorite item ever was the ring of the Phoenix and yes I was killed by fire while wearing it. Even better 😊
+1 Armor is incredible insane for a Warforged Paladin that also has a Shield. If you have this magic armor as a Paladin your Ac for 10min can be at 23 with the spell Shield of Faith if it’s Chain Mail. Now if it’s Full Plate, OMG this magic armor skyrockets in value for Paladins, Fighters, Barbarians, and Clerics. A Warforged Paladin with a Shield and +1 Plate Armor can have 22 Armor without Shield of Faith, add on the spell and you’re at 24 AC.
Whose yo say you also don’t have it on your shield
the big advantage described for a +1 armor doesnt really work for most campaigns though. A lot of the time you get rests between big battles. that extra "5%" matters most as an average when youre taking lots of hits. If youre in a dungeon crawl with no long rests I totally agree, but thats not a common circumstance? usually you get a long rest before anyone runs out of hit dice
not to say a +1 isnt important, just responding to the high praise, considering other magic items on the list
given that +x is considered a magical property, theres no reason to say that light armor cant be +x
from #99 to #95 is aleady OP
Love the look of #72 the +1 Armour. This is fun content, thank you
great video man
The 3e "ranking" 1 to 7 with cost rank²×1000 was a bad system. The 5e CURVL system is actually worse. At least 3e was tied to actual powers. 5e is some guy's spitball evaluation, probably done on a Saturday morning when he would rather be skateboarding but had to come in to work because he was goofing off during the week and didn't get his tasks completed and it was going to be reviewed by the boss on Saturday afternoon.
In response to the adamantine armor aspect i get it being uncommon. Because it can't be a + magic item. So you will get hit far more since you're locked into a mediocre ac.
you said the potion of speed is rare, but apart from Healing, potions of speed are up with potions of flying or 3 HD antidote as being one of the most common potions. After all, why wouldnt be common seeing as there are magic users who do want to make them for monitary gain, for spell research?
Thanks!
I need this as a written list to make into a table 😭
I love my character has a passive perception of 29 lol I see it all don’t need the owl glasses lol
Is there any written list I can refer to so I can make a d100 roll for an aleatory appearance in my campaign?
100 goblins vs one lvl 20 would be funny, but honestly, that sounds kinda low. 😭😭
I had a character with Efreeti Chain, against a red dragon. DM wasted a Legendary Action on someone who was immune to fire damage.
why is the cloak of protection so high up, it is the same enchantment as a ring of protection
fyi 200 goblins isnt a threat to a 5 man 5th level party did it one session and our dm didnt think we would do it no touch me cleric spell combo is crazy
Portable hole gives you so much bang for your buck?
I see what you did there...
Nice.
Noice. Thank you!
I would argue that the moonblade is the single best item ever in dnd.
I thought ring of spell storing is allowing multiple spells as long as total level is 5 or below. so I can have five 1st, two 2nd and one 1st, one 2nd and one 3rd, one 1st and one 4th, or one 5th level spell. at least that my interpretation of it. can I get some input on this?
2:12:29 Show me your Vorpal Spirit!
Shaking in their boot?
Their baby seal leather boots?
Portable hole plus a bottle of air and the party can survive till they run out of water and rations 😂
Here's an idea turn your Adamantine armor into Arcane armor.
you do realize wand of magic missile doesnt require attunment right??? even though you stated it does require attument at @1:13:15
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Something tells me the rod of intestinal straightening isn't going to be on the list... If you don't know what it is, think backbiter spear only it's a straight metal rod that, when activated, finds it way up the exit end of the user's digestive tract and thus straightens out their intestines...
Criminally underrated Video.
Sure I couldn't care less about some of these. (I generally hate flat stat bonuses past +1, especially AC bonuses) but this is a list of 100 options to throw in my magic item shops.
I generally make custom magic items for my party that ties them to the story or it's what their character would really like. But I have trouble filling my shops or finding the cool items to give that can be used creatively and aren't just flat buffs to their stats.
I had a character in one of my games ask how an enemy ranger's arrow quiver was attached to them. I answered that it is strapped around their waist with a belt, latch and all. She immediately pulls out her Chime of Opening to open the latch, causing the quiver to fall and leave the ranger without any arrows. Brilliant play that left the enemy without their method of doing the most damage.
Open /close cantrip will do the same
I guess the DM didn't use spell mechanics like "range".
Imagine closing ranks on a guy in combat and you have a "key" in your hand. Or a chime? While he is shooting at you? 😕 Now if the range on that chime is 100 feet.... that makes sense.
@@redfaux74 it's 120 range. . . You could use it before the ranger 🎉
@@christwubbles902 - Do you aim it? 🤨 The rules sure have changed in the last 20ish years.
You can strike it as an action, pointing it at an object within 120 feet of you that can be opened, such as a door, lid, or lock. The chime issues a clear tone, and one lock or latch on the object opens unless the sound can't reach the object. If no locks or latches remain, the object itself opens. @redfaux74
RAW and RAI it works.
I love the ring of mind shielding because it's basically Baby's First Phylactery.
My PC had one and became a reoccurring villain in my next campaign. He only ended up defeated because we fed the ring to a goat that could dissolve magic items in her stomach.
0/10, Cloak of Billowing not in the top 10. Style matters! Haha
I had a cloak of protection in a recent campaign. My DM allowed me to have a cloak of billowing and many fashions (at a *steep* price). I gave the cloak of displacement to the fighter, I did not need that old thing anymore.
@@Big_Pants_ four cloaks... Vax'ildan, is that you?
The research and prep that must’ve gone into this is truly admirable. Amazing video!
Nothing has made me want to play d&d more than this video.
Looking at all the cool items your character could have usually does! Thanks for commenting
Yes, the magic items are wonderful, but pray to God you don't fall in the hands of a DM that hates giving them to players.
@@jaimetheone9150 😂Hey, new dms can have a hard time with power balance lmao, but yeah you can always ask your dm abt it if he is too scarce on them, but i'll defend not giving too many or the player at once bc otherwise you have to trow them enemies that either get one shot or one shot them with less scalability
(An older DM should be okay to deal with it though)
@@bullabythecroissant2004 All DMs I know are too afraid of magic items, they always say it's too early, and the most they give you are uncommons, after giving you dirty looks and saying that you are too powerful.
I don't know what are they waiting for, since most campaings only go until level 12, 13 tops.
@@jaimetheone9150 maybe try dming bro and you'll understand :) but i understand the frustration, tbh you should talk with them abt it, maybe are they scared it would ruin the game by making it too easy, idk ^^ but balancing is hard so don't put too much on them, be a dm for some time in a campain and you'll get why magic items, starting at rare are scary to give
As a PC, I’ve come to appreciate the items that don’t mess with bounded accuracy so much. Being better “because math” can feel good, but the items that give you a different way to interact with the world, especially in weird ways, ends up being way more fun
Totally agree!
since math is my one of my favorite parts of D&D (which is why i don't love 5e), "because math" makes me happy on the inside.
Bounded accuracy is interesting.. but it's also part of WHY campaigns fall apart shortly after level 8.
"Oh, were most bags of hp and we both hit each other every turn?..."
It's just damage output vs damage absorbtion in the most boring way every turn.
Your twelvelth level fight swings their axe 7 times and does 85 damage. Then the monster hits for 55 damage.. then the fighter does his 7 attacks for 90 damage... And so on until someone chews through the ~200hp on the field.
“Oh that’s in Elden Ring”
This was such an excellent list! One thing I would have liked is a list in text format as well. Because I am old and I shall forget most of this list before long. 😅
All of this info came from the D&D guides that are all available for download for a few dollars.
Do you have a google docs for this list? it would be very helpful to reference in a moment.
Fun fact: The penalty for lacking proficiency in a shield applies when the shield is "worn" so anyone can use an animated shield. Except for a monk because you lose unarmored defense and movement when a shield is "benefited from"
It can also protect a moon druids wild shape or anyone you polymorph since those stop you from using items that are "worn or carried"
Anyone currently not using a shield, besides a monk, can use the animated shield quite well. But beware. As it can be targeted by spells directly and destroyed since it is no longer worn or carried
Reading the monk's Unarmored Defense feature on DDB, it makes no special mention about the monk not being able to have shields at all - simply that they must not be *wielding* a shield. I would personally interpret this as holding the shield with intent to use it.
With an animated shield, as long as it's animated, you are not holding it - because it explicitly states in its description that it leaps into the air and orbits your space, leaving your hands free.
I'd imagine the point of monks not being proficient with shields, and their features being heavily dependent on not wielding shields, is that they need their hands to be free all the time. Their main purpose is to beat the piss out of other creatures with unarmed strikes, after all.
Where did you find this version? The core rulebook reads
"Unarmored Defense
Beginning at 1st level, while you are wearing no armor and not wielding a shield, your AC equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Wisdom modifier."
I realize how old this video is now to make this comment but for those watching after this, the potion of speed does still come with the negative effects of the haste spell. The item says you gain the effects of the haste spell, and the lethargy is one of those effects. It happens regardless of whether concentration is dropped or the duration expires, and the potion doesn't say to ignore any part of it (which some magic items do specify). That said, getting the effect without having to concentrate on the spell is still incredibly strong!
do you think i could convince my dm to let me use a dwarven thrower if i had a belt of dwarvenkind? 🤔
Only on days where you grow a beard
How many "become very dwarflike" style curses do i have to get to use mjolnir as a normal guy
I was waiting to see the immovable rod, love this item. So useful and fun with a rogue build.
I love the traditional 'immovable relative to what?"
"What?"
"relative to you? relative to the center of the planet? relative to the center of the galaxy?"
"what?"
As a DM I like single use magic items. I give them out a lot more liberally than regular magic items, especially at lower levels.
23:42 helm of brilliance only blows up from failing a spell DC that deals fire damage. Way less often than just fire damage. Like unless every enemy is fireballing you, it shouldn't happen
Or burning hands, just saying
Having had the deck of many things for over a year IRL time, I've drawn one card. It gave me the ability to rewrite one event that happened, which I used to prevent the oncoming campaign ending TPK. Was a draw of desperation that saved us all
I saw the view count on this video and it really surprised me. The quality of this video is better than I've seen on channels with 500k+ subs.
D&D needs more unusual magic weapons ....Magic Bows with effects like...force, thunder or lightning damage to all within 30', Boomerangs, throwing stars, Bola, Net, blow gun etc.
I could really write a good story around the Decantur of Endless Water . A farming town that thrives on it sending the adventurers on a quest.
Or, you know, build a medieval jetski?
# 105: illusionists bracers, very rare, Attunement. Allows same cantrip twice per turn, same target. Sounds week? Inflict debuff, prone status, multiple other conditions generated by cantrips with a doubled chance to take effect.
I understand your reasoning for putting the Ring of Mind Shielding so low, the variance is too large from table to table. However, from a DMs perspective, the ring should be a top 10 item to give to a party from a lore and role play perspective alone. The shielding properties are great but the part of the item description where it says 'unless it already houses a soul' is where the real power lies. Sure the party can buy a clean ring, but think of what crazy shenanigans a DM can pull with a soul-occupied ring. A person from a pre-calamity race, the last survivor of their kind. A soul of a short-lived race, who's long-lived lover had lost the ring, and thus all hopes of resurrection for their short-lived partner. A prisoner, who made a deal with a guard to circumvent their life sentence. etc etc. Plot hooks, lore from eons passed, or 'backseat adventuring' role play are at your parties fingertips. Well not quite, but third digit is close enough.
I could not agree with you more. There were drafts in this script where I had the ring in my top 20. It is one of my all time favorite items to give out and use as a player.
I have always feared a deck of many things breaking an immersive campaign. One twist I've wanted to give it (never tried) is that it is found inert. It activates for one draw when 3 nat 20s are rolled by the party in its presence without any nat 1s in between. Maybe signal this to the party by having all the cards have 3 symbols on the back that light up one by one when a nat 20 is rolled and dissipate if a nat 1 is. Make it a puzzle that also depends on luck. But leave it active (disregarding further nat 1s) until used so they still can have that tactical choice of a hail Mary after solving its activation
Which newer D&D item have you had the most fun using. Let me know in the comments below!
The vaporal sword (Sneaker-Snak) the happy cries when a 20 was rolled were insane😂🎉. The player was the only martial and he went from 0 to hero.
Scimitar of speed on my elven rouge/warrior assassin. Was fun getting the extra attack a round.
The Bag of Beans is very memorable to me because once it gave a member in my party a permanent +7 to their ability scores (spread across multiple stats) thanks to the random event that spawns a nest of steroid eggs. XD
Mask of the dragon queen on my bear totem barbarian that owns a vorpal greatsword
Magic items are wonderful! But pray to God you don't fall in the hands of a DM that hates giving magic items to players.
A tip for people playing range characters or use range weapons often you should bring an extra set of dice. Use the dice as a physical tracker of ammunition and make a note at the end of session how much you have left. If you have 24 arrows use a d20 and d4. I use the d12 and d10 to track magic arrows.
The pure effort you put into this vid is more legendary than the items. Subbed 🍻
#63 I think you said that the scimitar of speed let you make 2 more attacks compared to a great sword. I don’t think that’s right as two weapon fighting requires your bonus action as well. The real strength is letting you use a shield with it
Unless they nerf it, scimitar of speed will be more powerful in 5.5 with Weapon Mastery
The coment about Ever Smoking Bottle and Magic Missile. Rules As Written (RAW) for spells says nothing about Line of Sight (LOS). PHB 2014 Spells chapter, "a target in range..." some specific spell text mentions, "a target you can see..." Magic Missile does not state that using RAW.
And you've just won a new DM suscritor, nice video dude! :D
I know this is an old video but I GOTTA step in here and say that the Ring of Mind Shielding does NOT let you lie under a zone of truth. "You are immune to magic that allows other creatures to determine whether you are lying" would not stop an effect that forces you not to lie. Jeremy Crawford himself stated that they have no effect on each other as well, which is pretty decisive. Obviously it'd be fine if you allow this as a DM, but flat out saying that that is how it works is very misleading.
Thank you for this. Earned a sub from me!
Going from level 4 to 5 feels very good, but going from level 1 to 2 doubles your power and shifts the game from survival horror to an adventure.
That is very true.
However.... being a mage who can cast the next level of spells is also a huge game changer. In my old group 30 years ago.....I was always of the mental classes. Mage, cleric, psionicist and combination of those. We were allowed to "research" powers and spells. Designing a higher level spell was so incredible. Ex: 4th level variant of Fireball with more damage, volume and range ...OR... 5th level variant of Fly with faster speed, longer effect, AC bonus during flight vs missiles.
I played a character who was a necromancer and researched the gaseous form of the vampire, 3rd level. Game changer.
Videos like these make me feel sad about playing a low magic item campaign. Level 10 with the Stone of Good Luck and nothing else (hasn't really helped me yet either)
Holy Hell the prices on Only Crits are absolutely absurd... was interested until the only cool ones being near $100 yeesh...