(Useless/Surprising) Magical Items

(Useless/Surprising) Magical Items

So I was having a lovely conversation with @princeofsparrows about magic and magical items and he sent me several links to very useful lists and tables. Those can be used by any DM to improve the game and set some more fun/challenge into the game without adding enemies or limiting themselves to always better armors and weapons.

My players usually discuss for an hour about the best way to open every door with a single rune on it (even if the rune actually just means “toilets”). So if I give them an omniously glowing fork and they will turn around it for half of the evening…

We decided to share with you some links with awesome ideas for loot (or your NPC merchants). The links below include (but are not limited to):

Belt of Pants: This belt creates illusory pants on the wearer. The wearer can suppress the illusion at will.

Digging Spoon: This tiny spoon can dig through any substance with a forceful push.

Hungry coin:  Cursed.  Will attempt to eat other coins that it comes into contact with.  Eats 100 coins an hour.

Crossbow of Whispers (Weapon, light crossbow): You can use an action to whisper a message and fire a bolt from this weapon at a target within range. If you hit, the target (and only the target) hears the message.

Scroll of Cure Blindness: Cures blindness when read.

So… The List™ :

Dakhem Uaid’s Big Book of Useless Magic Items - 200 items, some very useful some dangerous…

Alacrity’s Robe of Useful Items - 1 single item but it’s a robe of holding (kinda)

Goblin Punch: d100 Minor Magical Items - as stated in the title.

100 Interesting Magic Items: The first half - 50 items

donjon, 5e Random Generator - Weird Magic Item generator

(1) Reddit -  3.5 Or anything. DMs of Reddit! What is one of the weirdest homebrewed items you’ve given your players, that they appreciated?

(2) Reddit -  Hilariously Useless Magical Items - Post your ideas!

RPG.NET -  101 Silly/Useless Magic Items - You need to read through 7 pages of the thread but there are some very nice ideas!

1001 most useless (dungeons and dragons) magical items - There are actually 21 of them on this list but they are really useless. It could be nice to drop something like that on the players so they can have some fun…

Now I will let @princeofsparrows to continue. He still has some things to add :)

Watermelon

yknow theres a lot of pressure to be successful, particularly on artsy kids whose professions are seen as useless unless theyre famous, but life is fucking hard and sometimes things dont turn out

but i think thats not bad. my dad has wanted to be a musician forever, and hes rly pretty good. but then he joined the military to get away from an abusive family, and then he got married, and then he got divorced, and a lot of horrible shit HAPPENED. he has ptsd and severe anxiety and he could never really get back on the horse. and he never made it as a musician, and now hes 53

but i grew up in a house full of instruments, and he can play all of them, and some of my earliest memories are of him playing guitar on the front porch and me thinking there wasnt a better musician in the world. so. even if you dont get to the stars, exactly, what you do isnt worthless. its not a waste of time if life is difficult and you cant make it, or if you arent famous, or if your work doesn’t influence thousands of people. it will influence someone

there are a million ways to be happy and a million ways to be a successful artist. we create what we do to enhance the human experience and relate to each other and improve ourselves. theres something to be said for just doing that,,,for the sake of doing it, yknow

Corgi tries to be like his doggo friends but stumbles at the final hurdle. Good try though. Still 11/10

Infps, how come?

How come that you’re so lazy?

How come that you’re masters of procastinating?

How come that you go from one extreme to the next?

How come that one time you worked out, went to the gym 7 days a week for 2 months and then you just stopped for no apparent reason?

How come that you so good at ignoring reality?

How come that your house is so messy?

How come that you often simply don’t see the unwashed bowls and plates?

How come that you’re so good with languages?

How come that you’re so creative with writing and music and art in general?

How come that you tend to be very funny but how come you always make jokes in the most innapropiate situations?

How come that you love computer games?

How come that you learn computer games extremely fast?

How come that most of the games you play are fantasy or rpg?

How come that you always dress weird clothes?

How come that you like to be different

How come that you want to be different?

How come that you always try to avoid conflict?

How come that when someone is angry with you, you either apologize or you just shut down?

How come that you are so interested in people?

How come that you like to learn about psychology and philosophy?

How come that when something requires effort you just say “oh I’ll not be that then”?

How come that you often blabber out your ideas without thinking about them?

How come that when you are interested in a new topic you learn the heck out of it in 2 or 3 days and then once you learned enough about it you put it to the side?

How come that you always like to switch into other roles?

How come there are so many infp actors?

How come that you’re the type that ignores the things that you don’t like but once there’s a spark of passion, you go all in.

all right so here's the schedule of when dracula daily will be updated, as gleaned from the archives

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