Common Magic Items Change The D&D World

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@BenSearsVids 4 ай бұрын

For the tankard of sobriety, I believe the idea is you could win any drinking competition or convince someone you need to get drunk to drink more cause hey, you’re doing it too. It’s basically an undercover cops’ best friend.

@galen-eu1vu 4 ай бұрын

As the alcohol in your blood breaks down it becomes a poison; you would still die from the overdose even if you cannot get drunk.

@jettblue24 4 ай бұрын

I think you underscored the Wand of conducting. This item fully revolutionizes the music industry of any fantasy world to which it is introduced. Orchestral concerts that would at the time be considered once in a lifetime events to attend, can now be enjoyed by the literal wave of a hand. And if the music can be programed into the wand without having to actually have actually played the music on real instruments, this could result in massive waves of new composers able to create music without the need for entire orchestras. A simple lute on its own already costs 35 gold, so it wouldn't even cost wildly more to buy the wand than to buy the instrument itself. It certainly doesn't stand up to the wild strength of things like chest of preserving, but the musical world would be changed forever.

@pederw4900 4 ай бұрын

I think there are two possible versions of this item. The first contains a prerecorded orchestral piece which the crafter needs to either hear as part of the crafting, or actively transcribe something like sheet music into it as part of the crafting. Either of these creates albums as we have had them for the last 150 years or so. The second version of this item is, in short, an imagination-powered sound synthesizer, where waving the wand will allow the practiced or prodigious wielder to perform an entire symphony, or even to synthesize sounds in their mind and invent purely conceptual instruments, rapidly innovating the timbre of music forever.

@MrCafitzgerald 4 ай бұрын

Self harvesting berry bush that defends itself from pests and can work an assembly line job while not doing the prior, yeah.

@maxmccullough8548 3 ай бұрын

Self smoking hemp plant.

@yuridhjeeyn9034 4 ай бұрын

19:04 Veterans Cane, this could destroy the mining industry (at least for iron-mining) as a normal magical item this could be useless but an Artificer could use this to transmute wood into steel (at level 2) take the "Veterans Cane" as one of your infusions and then repeat the following every morning/after every long rest 1: infuse one cane with "Veterans Cane" 2: transform the cane into a non-magical sword -> you have successfully transmued wood into steel

@douglasphillips5870 4 ай бұрын

Something about the staff of flowers is that it also creates the plant which the flower is attached to. A number of flowers are attached to edible or fruit bearing, or medicinal plants. There would be a good amount of cultivation labor attached, but being able to produce any flowering plant multiple times per day would change trade around the world without even needing a teleportation circle. Coffee production in America originally came from a single plant. I wouldn't say it improves the overall value to society a lot, but it does add to the complications it creates

@animationlover219 4 ай бұрын

What I consider this item really good for is as base equipment for someone casting Plant Growth. You want fearsome blackberry canes? Done. You want celery? Done! You want sugar maples? Done!

@Cherry-ki3ln 2 ай бұрын

One word: saffron

@animationlover219 2 ай бұрын

@@Cherry-ki3ln I don’t know. Yeah, saffron is valuable, but the reason why is that each flower produces very little of it, and it is a slow process harvesting and extracting it. I fear that a staff of flowers wouldn’t make that much difference.

@X3n0nLP 12 күн бұрын

As you said the trigger condition for a talking doll can be ANYTHING. This would, reasonably, include someone lying within 5 feet of the doll, poison within 5 feet of the doll, hidden weapons within 5 feet of the doll. It MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH more usefull than you may have realised.

@lordtsweeble2898 4 ай бұрын

"I hope some of you have been waiting for this video" What are you talking about man, I'd love if this topic went on forever.

@chateding 4 ай бұрын

sammeeee

@alexthomas5337 4 ай бұрын

Favorite series of yours, thus far, and that’s saying something!

@animationlover219 4 ай бұрын

@@alexthomas5337I second that. I expect that we would all welcome a similar series on Uncommon magic items, one on spells with permanent duration, and maybe one on trinkets (at least select trinkets; too many would be 1 out of 10 to be interesting, but a few are magic items with some meaningful effect and are more common than Common).

@yuridhjeeyn9034 4 ай бұрын

Spellwrought Tattoo: Goodberry that is also world changing, it would completely change logistics, and thus warfare ----- have an army, where every soldier has one of these attuned, and carries another 10 unattuned tattoo-needles with them make your platoons (or whatever the smallest group of soldiers is called) 10 people big each platoon is now carrying 10(soldiers) * 11 (tattoos) = 110 days of rations with them each soldier is carrying 11 days of rations for up to 10 people (less than that if they are missing people, 1 tattoo can feed 10 people for a day, any leftover berries spoil) 110 day of rations weighing a TOTAL of MAYBE 1 kg (if a tattoo-needle weighs 10g, and most needles don't weigh more than 1g) ----- or just have your quartermaster carry and attune them

@yuridhjeeyn9034 4 ай бұрын

and then on top of that there are also the following level 1 spells: "Create or Destroy Water": the second half of our rations equation (together with "Goodberry") "Gift of Alacrity": +8 to initiative for your Nightwatch/Guard, with an 8 hour duration (this can make the difference between alerting the camp or being killed by the infitrating assassins before you can say anything) "Ceremony": just the funeral rite alone is already mandatory. it makes it so that the dead can't rise as undead and attack the living this would not just be useful in civilian life, safeguarding against the town being overrun by its graveyard but also in a military operation, there is little that is worse for morale than having your slain allies and friends stand up und attack you from the back

@goji253 4 ай бұрын

It's for reasons like this a lot of people tend to give limits to goodberries. My personal favorites are 1. Long term side effects like frequent stomach cramps or addictive properties with heavy withdrawal symptoms 2. Them providing enough nourishment but not actually making you feel full. Your stomach is still mostly empty, your body and mind keep feeling the hunger likely resulting in some bad psychological effects down the line. 3. Throwing up if you eat too many as if you just ate days worth of food. And my absolute favorite 4. The goodberry shits. The more you eat, the more con-saves you have to make sure the ridiculously high fructose levels won't make you have the worst day in the dungeon today.

@askyw69 4 ай бұрын

is it just me or is the first half of every sentence cut off?

@th3auth0r44 4 ай бұрын

No i got the same thing, editing error maybe.

@Patches2212 4 ай бұрын

I am also having the same issue. Its not even just once or twice, it is constant, at least in the first part of the video

@Grungeon_Master 4 ай бұрын

@@askyw69 damn, that's annoying. I have some idea as to what went wrong. I don't envision it happening again

@Treebohr 4 ай бұрын

Just for the first few items, but yeah, the first word or two is cut off.

@DurealRa 4 ай бұрын

Would you consider, as a follow up video to this series, sketching out what a DnD world that made use of these innovations might look like? I'm quite interested to imagine a world with teleportation circle only colonization, and a shrub-based economy.

@Hawdkoah 4 ай бұрын

Check out Eberron.

@isabeluelmen9727 4 ай бұрын

@@Hawdkoah I don't like this answer, because Eberron doesn't really explore these questions in terms of 5e's rules in the same way - it's a super-high-magic setting, but if we were really thinking about the consequences of the rules here, there wouldn't be lightning rails or airships for example, since Teleportation Circle easily covers any transportation between two fixed locations.

@charlescrocco7896 4 ай бұрын

A great many Thermal Cubes in an arctic port city = Neverwinter

@ramuk1933 4 ай бұрын

Talking Doll use: stand on corner of street, and when person walks by, say "Buy our car insurance for only 50$ a month!"

@bgklol5492 4 ай бұрын

the voice attack crab is a fun way to find a false hydra, having it wander off and attack nothing could tip the party off to something.

@michaelsandy2869 4 ай бұрын

Spyglass of Clairvoyance could be pretty powerful, in that it allows you to map natural terrain features that are obscured by buildings and vegetation. A natural cave system incorporated into a fortress could possibly be located and identified. Terrain features that indicate particular minerals could potentially be identified.

@isabeluelmen9727 4 ай бұрын

I'd note that the awakened shrub is not immune to exhaustion, and therefore still needs to rest. However, even if resting regularly, a shrub can work a LOT, and rather flexibly where its meager strength and small size allows.

@MadAdamStudio 4 ай бұрын

Hiya, Tom. I always watch your videos, but I rarely comment... the chance to be one of the first to say 'attaboy' has overcome me, this time. Keep up the good work!

@Ben-gl5ve 4 ай бұрын

Love your vids! I think the spell tattoo should be used by gangs or guilds to give them access to quick spells, as well as identity them to each other

@Aedi 4 ай бұрын

If you can get multiple, I think find familiar would be super common, with rich people getting many lvl1 spells, and many groups giving their members cantrips. wealthier workers may give themselves useful cantrips that assist with their job, which helps them demand higher pay. Itd probably end up with societies that are stratified onto how many tattoos you have others that are very caste-like others may keep tattoos very private I think itd be an interesting world to play around in, if other magic is rare or nonexistent, and tattoos are the bulk of the accessible magic, even if inaccessible in places

@Andrea-s-aerdnA 4 ай бұрын

Spyglass of clairvoyance could also allow you to see into caves, underground water sources maybe underground iron veins as it could be argued that it would be “natural terrain” or at least part of it

@morrigankasa570 4 ай бұрын

You underestimated the power of "Immovable Rod", imagine you are building a city or just a house. You use multiple rods as foundations and framing the structures building around/on top of them. Wind or Water Erosion would be far less of a concern since the rods can't be moved, sure the other materials would be affected by that erosion but at least the structure wouldn't collapse entirely.

@Stephen-Fox 4 ай бұрын

While this trio of videos have been a bit more D&D 5e specific than a lot of your videos, still a very interesting watch to those of us who don't play or run that system. I just really appreciate the way you think about how game rules and world building should intersect.

@hiredgoon13 4 ай бұрын

I have a pc with a thermal cube and shape water cantrip. Been thinking of how to make a thermal engine with them in game, we have a infinite true heat ( cube) and cold sink ( shape water frozen water)

@bryanillenberg Ай бұрын

I've ran thermal cubes as cooling as well. It serves as the ultimate temperature control. And unless there is something fundamental about that temperature, mages can manufacture tailored cubes to the preferences of the buyer. Maybe 35 celsius is easier, so cooler (or if your a fire genasi, warmer) costs 10-20 gold more. Also, thermal cubes can be used to power a pneumatic system. PV=NRT means that you've multiplied the pressure in a 15 foot room by a factor of 1.05. Just open a valve and you'll have a pressure of 5 kilopascal pushing out. When pressure equalizes, remove the cube and put it in a different sealed chamber, which will heat up. When that one runs out of gas, move it back to the first. Infinite pneumatic pressure supply. All thats needed is a single common item.

@jordanmanuel5828 4 ай бұрын

You can put the same tattoo on your familiar and give them the ability to summon there own familiar

@lukkaredwolf3534 17 күн бұрын

"Yo Dawg, I heard you like familiars, so we got a familiar for your familiar, so your familiar can be familiar while you are familiar with your familiar."

@Heavenly_Heal 4 ай бұрын

Staff of adornment to hold ur spell casting focus

@emrysseanfinegan6604 4 ай бұрын

Just hit me... Talking dolls ought to be the number 1 (or maybe 2) 10 out of 10. Not only does it combo well with your choice (for the specific condition you mentioned), it also takes DnD from medieval to inform age [potentially] within the first generation using them. If talking dolls are used in basic magical computers each digit will have six triggers and six six-word outputs. If you have the cash to collect 8 for a computational bit's worth... Well, that is a heck of a lot more versatile than eight zeros or ones... Not quite a qualtum spectrum, but exponentially more powerful than a binary I/O sequence. How many [binary] bits of processing power was needed to successfully strap a bunch of men to a bomb and get them to the moon and back? And all in one piece too. And that was without any thing magical to augment the effective output from the raw computing power! Just thinking of your video on the social impact from the entertaining magic mouth machine... A few thousand gold means a you could have a DnD style Ai Terminator revolution within a single generation 😅. Six [complex] variables to form the bits and bytes - a splash of magic - and things go bonkers quick, really quick. 😂

@emrysseanfinegan6604 4 ай бұрын

Q: what do you find when you open a Warforged's processing unit? A: half a dozen talking dolls under the effect of Enlarge/Reduce

@TheAnalyticalEngine 4 ай бұрын

Will you eventually go through each of the degrees of rarity of magic items?

@josephmurdock5488 4 ай бұрын

I was so excited when I saw you were starting this series specifically because I wanted to see what you had to say about the Pot of Awakening.😂

@lauritds420 4 ай бұрын

Commentary is great and insightful, but the untimely editing cuts are pretty jarring

@scottmartin5990 4 ай бұрын

I've recently begun to question the "magic items are forever" assumption. It's a game mechanic that exists for gameplay simplicity and player quality of life, and was only introduced in later editions of D&D. It doesn't necessarily represent the experience of the average NPC. What if magic items can be broken? Affected by stray dispel magic spells? Are vulnerable to wild magic zones or other environmental conditions? Theft or consumption by weird extraplanar creatures? Anything that reduces the average lifespan of a magic item reduces its economic impact and the chance the item will last long enough to justify its initial cost.

@williamstokes4282 4 ай бұрын

Magic items are specifically not forever in DnD 5E, they are typically much more durable(have resistance to all damage) than their common counterparts but they can still be damaged. Typically you don't go ruining your players items because that isn't nice as a DM but magic items can take damage and therefore be destroyed unless you're talking about artifacts.

@johngleeman8347 4 ай бұрын

The Age of Man has ended. The Age of Shrubs has begun!

@polarknight5376 4 ай бұрын

Just boil off the alcohol in the dwarven ale. You're reducing the alcohol content, while *raising* the caloric density.

@dugolas 4 ай бұрын

most of the calories in alcoholic drinks are from the alcohol itself.

@Primalmoon 4 ай бұрын

18:59 But if you do get that Unbreakable Arrow out and survive, you now have your own unbreakable arrow. :)

@TheGenericavatar 4 ай бұрын

Don't use the Cube of Heating on floating ice packs or other deep ice packs.

@hircenedaelen 4 ай бұрын

13:30 I'd be interested in your opinion on items like these that break the laws of thermodynamics by creating matter/energy. What would the long term consequences be of this?

@brettsteinbook5370 4 ай бұрын

there is one limiting factor, it only obeys commands from the person who planted it. It simply won't listen to orders from anyone else so there can be no delegation. rules as written, I would assume those orders could not include "obey mr. x as you would me, when I'm not around." they have the same intelligence as an average human so i don't see a problem with giving complex orders. so they could understand such an order but it sounds like the rules forbid it. if the above is a correct reading, if you have too many then the economic impact of your demise becomes astronomical. Way cheaper than slave labor that has to be fed, clothed, housed, and policed. but slaves can be inherited and traded and don't turn into intelligent but disobedient plants when their owner dies. I can imagine the impact on Druids who talk to these intelligent plants who are now bored to death because the human who planted them has long since died and now they can't do anything. how would Druids react to this practice? wouldn't they be wiped out by a civilization who does this?

@carterwalters5915 4 ай бұрын

So lets do the next rarity now!!!

@aelamf 4 ай бұрын

Could Brothels use chram person to enhance their services ?

@galen-eu1vu 4 ай бұрын

A Madam who uses Charm Person on new recruits to help them get used to the work ... is likely a spellcaster herself.

@williamstokes4282 4 ай бұрын

Depending on how its used this could go real wrong from a legal, ethical or even business sense. If it was used as anything other then a consensual enhancement to the experience they might lose business as word gets out that they're a dodgy establishment or they might get accused or brainwashing clients and get shut down.

@RedSunUnderParadise 4 ай бұрын

>Chram Least dyslexic DnD Pleb.

@metaltornado3457 4 ай бұрын

Sounds like these could lead to an Arcanepunk setting. A medieval society with advanced magical technology.

@RedSunUnderParadise 4 ай бұрын

Still boring as hell. DnD is mediocre no matter what.

@metaltornado3457 4 ай бұрын

@@RedSunUnderParadise What makes you say that?

@dandelion_fritters 11 күн бұрын

That flower growth spell can be used to determine if a flower is benign or not! Great murder mystery tool if the gardener claims as such and must prove it.

@neuromantic4313 4 ай бұрын

i was, in point of fact, waiting for this video.

@jansustar4565 4 ай бұрын

If the thermal cube heats up instead of diffusing all the heat, it could be used as infinite energy through steam power. But if it does diffuse the heat instantly, it could be used to control weather. Just drop it in a fast moving cold water current and watch as it distabilizes it, causing massive instability in water flow and therefore air flow. Also, cold mountain rovers could now become sources of heat for the people. Whole pipelines of warm water, reducing the need for heating and burning wood for heat. Cold blooded species would thrive with it. Easy 10/10

@emanym 4 ай бұрын

The way you describe the use of the pot of awakening makes me think of the creation of a slave race of plants 🪴, and slaves always revolt in the end 😮

@Avigorus 4 ай бұрын

I'm guessing you missed my comment on the last video? I mentioned the Potion of Comprehension, and granted you the benefit of the doubt that you were holding it off cause it was basically a 1st level Spellwrought Tattoo of the same spell that you drink when you want it instead of applying it as a tattoo in advance and then activating later so it's got nothing really elevating it above the tattoo of the same spell. Even a cost difference is debatable since the tattoo RAW cannot be recovered after application to transfer to someone else (unless I'm missing something), so it's still basically a consumable. Alcohol actually would dehydrate due to the way we process it, so ToP is far less valuable in a survival situation. If it could be combined with ToS, that would negate this, but yeah. I'd argue the Veteran's Cane is even more useless cause it would register under Detect Magic, which any royal court should definitely have.

@Grungeon_Master 4 ай бұрын

@@Avigorus my bad! Yes you definitely did mention it, and it's annoying because I remember reading your comment, due to some of the other great insights. Seems I just forgot you mentioning that one. I do still think the TOP is great in most situations, and as far as I could see in my reading, even in survival situations, you'd rather have alcohol than no fluid at all. I believe its dehydrating effect is often overstated. Then again, could be wrong

@lonjohnson5161 4 ай бұрын

How do you fix a world that has magic with outsized and unexpected effects?

@3X3NTR1K 4 ай бұрын

Endless dwaven ale sounds good, but also consider that a single source item will always be the same ale. Maybe every example has the same ale. No matter how good it inherently is, the combination of pushback from brewers and simple familiarity would significantly reduce its percieved value. Imagine a big city tavern selling its signature set of "golden brews" that varies in taste and quality with every run for true connesuirs and loyal locals, while also selling its magically produced "silver swill" at a 1 sp discount for folks who just want anything to get drunk. A finer establishment may put a two drink limit on anyone buying "Silvah", and even outright bans of it for those who never try anything else. All the while, if production or supply is limited for any reason, they can still shrug and openlt rely on the endless option. And someone who is found to avoid taverns entirely, because they rely on their own endless ale? Such a Swillard would be considered far lesser than any respectable drunkard, and possibly get spit in the face.

@maxkore278 4 ай бұрын

as far as i understand, strong alcohol is actually dehydrating at high enough dosage you lose more water expelling the poison, than you gain in water from drinking

@midnightstorm6576 4 ай бұрын

So, what happens if you combine a pot of awakening with a talking doll? Perhaps some chests of preserving and tankerds of plenty?

@SirThoreth Ай бұрын

Bit late to the comments, but it’s worth noting that the Veteran’s Cane has been changed under DMG2024 rules, and now transforms back and forth between cane and sword. Doesn’t exactly set the world on fire, but it’s a bit more useful now.

@RJeremyHoward 4 ай бұрын

Spellwrought tattoos are not limited by tattoonment, just space

@MADGator 4 ай бұрын

Does the thermal cube have any limit on duration? I can't find reference to any. One of those with a Stirling engine is pretty close to a perpetual motion machine.

@johnmagowan6393 4 ай бұрын

The biggest effect you've had on my world is one goblin. My players killed all the goblins they put to sleep and we argued about the morality of said action. Now they didn't know that the goblin leader was watching through the eyes of the one goblin they kept prisoner. I have since watched your Band of Intellect and Gauntlets of Ogre Power video. Add the common magic items videos and the players are now facing GOBLIN DOCTOR DOOM!

@FallstarFL 4 ай бұрын

The Talking Doll is insane

@blackholetl 4 ай бұрын

13:35 Are we not going to talk about the fact that alcohol would actually make you become dehydrated faster due to it making you need to go pee. Unless you can separate the water from the alcohol you would be just slowing your eventually dehydration.

@Spiceodog 4 ай бұрын

Some flowers are edible and medicinal

@keeperoflenneth Ай бұрын

Way late to the party here, but I solve a lot of the OP magical items being that conjured items are never actually fully real. "Magic" itself in my setting has no nutritional value. It's effectively illusions for the mind and body both, and when the illusion ends, reality sets in. We do enjoy survival mechanics and so many of these cool items end up just scrapping any challenge so we all talked it out, and decided that yeah you can eat conjured or magically produced food/water/ale, but when that magic fades, (which will be give or take, a day max, when your body destroys it via attempting to digest it) then it kind of realizes its been tricked, and you become thirsty/hungry again as if you'd not eaten. Meaning you can use conjured items like that to help stave off hunger, but they still have to solve the hunger by getting something in their bodies before it expires. Magical conjured money is as good as the real thing sure, if it's never dispelled. I've implemented at least in some more high-end businesses to have dispellers checking currency the way some stores check high value cash notes IRL. Anyway figured i'd share my 2 cents, thanks for all these videos. I appreciate having someone else that overthinks things (and is better at it than I am ;) )

@NicolaeHolley 4 ай бұрын

The Spellwrought Tattoo isn't a permanent thing, though. It's basically a spell scroll that takes attunement; you cast it once, and it vanishes forever. It should be rated the same as spell scrolls or one point higher, since it requires attunement (but that isn't likely to matter to most basic-level folk in a world) but removes the need for material components. It wouldn't give you any more reliability for a familiar than a spell scroll, since if the familiar dies, you still need to cast it again. I loved the video overall, but I think you misread how the Tattoo works.

@Grungeon_Master 4 ай бұрын

@@NicolaeHolley the familiar remains forever unless it dies (which it won't for most regular people), and spell scrolls literally cannot be cast by anyone who doesn't already have the spell on their potential spell list (i.e it requires a spellcasting class). In short, the spellwrought tattoo is miles better than any common spell scroll, as it literally democratises spellcasting for all people. Remember, this list is for impact on general society, (magic unaging pets who are telepathic whose senses can be used by literally anyone who owns one) not just heroes or people with classes. -Tom.

@NicolaeHolley 4 ай бұрын

@@Grungeon_Master I did forget scrolls have a spellcasting requirement, even if it's not on your spell list.

@maxmccullough8548 3 ай бұрын

@@NicolaeHolley im old school, i let them make an arcana, relegion, or nature check to cast if they dont have a scroll on their apell list.. though there may be unforseen consequences.