How Players React to Magic Items they Receive in Dungeons and Dragons

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[@How_Do_I_Set_a_Username]

Get that bread, son!

[@robinthrush9672]

I hate attunement slots. Especially when they're given to items that are rarely useful, but nice to have (like a necklace of adaptation), so you never have it attuned unless you can get a couple short rests in (before and after use) JUST to pad out a dungeon.

[@ASadWeeaboo]

Me and my friends play around with way too many homebrew. I gave one of my player a "bottomless mug" it was literally a mug with the bottom cut out. However, later in the campaign they found the bottom to the bottomless mug. Now any liquid poured into it could be drank infinitely. My players being smart put a superior healing potion and had an on cool down unlimited supply of healing.

[@alexander_markovski]

May I steal this? It’s *fantastic*!

[@ASadWeeaboo]

@@alexander_markovski of course lol.

[@maxencedoucet3191]

Smort

[@derekstein6193]

...and an assassin sneaks into the PCs' camp as they Long Rest, and pours some purple worm poison into the mug. Enjoy.

[@Y0G0FU]

This is actually brilliant and fun. I will take notes for my next slightly homebrewed Campaign. Iam sure i can incorporate a Bottomless Mug in some puzzles :D

[@Ailieorz]

The "Item that doesn't appear OP until it pairs with another item which creates the most broken character of all time" item

[@Maria.Mirabella]

Soooo, bag of holding + bag of holding? ;)

[@FaerieWithAHalo]

When Matt realized what Vax’s speed was

[@Ailieorz]

@@FaerieWithAHalo yep, this 🤣

[@FaerieWithAHalo]

@@Ailieorz I believe he said something along the lines of ‘this is why you balance your magic items’

[@gingerinajacket8519]

New spell: Ashardlon's Stride Magic Item: Boots of Speed. Basically you get to run at 200 feet per turn and scorch everything in your path with auto attacking fire damage. Paired with 2 levels in Rogue and it becomes like 300 feet per turn. Edit: It is great if you need to hit a horde of minions with Splash Damage. Edit 2: And God forbid you get someone else (like a wizard or sorceror or Magical Secrets Bard,) to cast Haste on you. Then you might actually go the speed of a plane. Based on my math, assuming highest level casting for Ashardlon's Stride Base Speed: 30 ft. +9th level Ashardlon's Stride: 50 ft. Total before multipliers: 80 ft Haste: X2 Boots of Speed: X2 Total before dashes: 320 ft. Action Dash: +320 ft. Level 2 Rogue Bonus Action: +320 ft. Haste Action: +320 ft. Total movement speed: 1280 feet in one turn, or a speed of about 145 miles per hour for exactly one minute, as you move, causing 7d6 fire damage to everything you move within at least 5 feet of.

[@TheHatwolf]

I once said, that an alchemist had "Unicorn Lube" on sale, as a joke. My party did buy it, despite it being very expensive. It forced me to write an item description about magical lube. It's running low on uses, so they are already checking more alchemist stores for more. Be very careful what you joke about as a DM.

[@killeranimatronic5448]

Whats the description

[@eremita003]

@@killeranimatronic5448 we need to know

[@justinecourtneysgavel89]

In the first campaign I played in, the DM accidentally made Sonic the Hedgehog, Monster Energy, and Yu-Gi-Oh Cards canon.

[@killeranimatronic5448]

@@justinecourtneysgavel89 how?

[@dolphinatir7966]

Wait, so is it lube FOR unicorns or lube made FROM unicorns?

[@multiplesingular294]

I LOVE hiding a major artifact in amongst the players. That knife your father told you to never lose and always seemed to bring you luck, well guess what!? It had a single drop of a God of Lucks blood inside it and is now a super major plot point that will tie all the mysteries together perfectly! *10 seconds later* Ah ha, so did you really think melting the knife down and trying to drink it's molten iron would make you a demigod? Because no.....it just melted your face off. Good try though!

[@Markcrazeer]

now, where the hell are you going to find a god of luck, let alone a drop of their blood? drinking the dagger is much more reasonable.

[@multiplesingular294]

@@Markcrazeer That's what they thought! Heh. :D but that single drop couldn't be separated that way. They had to go on a quest with the now iron drenched skull of their former compatriot and his son. Replacement character for the one who tried to drink it. And return the drop of blood back to that God. Who granted them a miracle/wish each for doing so. The son did end up bringing his dad back to life with that.

[@FaerieWithAHalo]

If you are any of my players, stop reading *right now* So, one of my players decided that they were just found in the woods as a baby with only a ring. So now he’s a missing noble with a Vestige of Divergence ring that has Nystil’s Magic Aura on it. I can’t wait for them to find out.

[@PollyNim]

Do you want to be a warlock? Because that's how you get warlocks.

[@maximumdon7637]

How about first drinking a potion of superior heat/fire resistance prior to drinking the molten dagger?

[@Sanetless]

The Eversoaking Sponge is an item my dad created bc his friend was harrassing him about wanting a magic item. It's ridiculously powerful. They soaked up an ocean with it. They one-shot and capture water elementals with it. If you wring it out, it unleashes everything that's been contained in it thus far. It can literally end the world. It still shows up occasionally in D&D campaigns, because it's funny, just like the Staff of Jovonnous. (Think unlimited deck of many things, but even more ridiculous, and even more possibilities.)

[@bishop8958]

If reddit has taught me anything, it's that even the most mundane and seemingly useless magic items can be game breaking if not properly restricted.

[@JL-pz3wd]

A staff with that has multiple random and strange magical effects, that sounds like THE WABBAJACK

[@Kualinar]

Staff of Jovonnous, or, a souped up staff of wonders. I once gave one to my players, and they used it to the last charge. With it, they summoned an elephant while fighting an rok bird and travelling on a flying carpet at over 1000 feet, then petrified said rok. There was some serious damage down there... Much later, they found a statuette set on top of a narrow 4 feet tall base. It nullified all divination in the room and the adjoining ones. It had to be carried in a pair of nested boxes. When used outside, it nullified ALL divination EVERYWHERE, and not only in the current world. When out of the two boxes, it also affected the astral plane, the ethereal plane, the first level of ALL outer planes and all the inner planes. Turn out it was an artifact and caused anyone within it's area of effect to progressively become more and more paranoid. It even affected the capacity of gods to see things. Eventually, a bunch of gods gave them a mission to nullify it and get rid of it in a way that EVEN gods could not find it. They succeeded superbly at the task and where all secretly rewarded with the ability to cast a wish twice per day. They DID NOT figure out that reward, but accidentally used it a few times.

[@gaysarahk]

I recall reading about a homebrew sword that would produce a random effect when you hit with it. The players love it, until they roll a 100 on the chance. A full army of skeletons crawls up out of the ground, performing full accompanyment as one specific skeleton proceeds to sing the entirety of Dem Bones, while everyone--player and enemy alike--is effectively frozen in shock and awe at the sheer spectacle. When the song is over, the skeletons crawl back into the ground, and the players vow never use the sword again.

[@Kualinar]

@@gaysarahk 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@BogusBintedVeggie]

I once gave my players a ring that allowed them to guise themselves to anyone they've met but it needed to be appraised to use it. They never did. And the campaign focused on stealth as they wanted. I was sighing every time when i pit them in situations where the rings would have been useful. It ended after a year then i told them what is was for. They learned a lesson that day 🤣

[@connorjohnson8590]

I once gave the party a ring of fire resistance that ended up in the teifling bards bag. It sat there for FOREVER, and I couldn’t describe the ring affecting the tiefling to give a hint as to what it was because they already had fire resistance!! I eventually flat out told them what it was and we had a good chuckle.

[@rileybrannan1330]

My DM once had a homebrew item in his early DMing career called "The Stick Of Sticks." It was a single stick that, when a key word is used, summons 9 identical sticks around it. Seems harmless, but when you stack its effects to build a dam or put the stick in a creatures mouth and use the key word, things can get out of hand...

[@PinklizardfromRainworld]

Amazing

[@jrm48220]

Jokes aside, potions are fabulous items to give out. This is especially true if you're a new DM because no matter what they do they can only do it once. So, you don't have a permanent game-breaking item in the players' hands. Also, if the party has no healer be generous with the healing potions unless you want the pace of the game to slow WAY down.

[@emilyaw3831]

And if your party does have healers, giving out healing potions means the healers can use their spell slots on other things (or that the nonhealer can save their buddy)

[@SeathThePawn]

It also means that the DM can hand stuff out without actually handing stuff out. My group's gone through two campaigns with every consumable sitting in their bags, collecting dust as we go with a collective case of "Maybe something more important will happen where we need it" syndrome.

[@AvangionQ]

Give an excess of potions of healing to the designated healer character, so they have the option to actually spend their spell slots on other spells that they'd rather be casting. Satchel of Potions of Healing, uncommon item: contains 12 refilling potions of healing that teleport back to the sack after use or one minute elapse; refills 1D12 potions at dawn.

[@vincentbartels1111]

Potions and scrolls can be fantastic items early game. Just got to make sure the party uses them rather than saving them up and never actually using them. Scrolls are even better if the party has a wizard that wants to save the scroll to learn the spell. Also, never sleep on handing out an immovable rod early and seeing what the party comes up with for it.

[@solarisnova9530]

Oh I give out potions but the first potion is in a bottomless bottle (party only geta one) with a few uses before needing to recharge (can be upgraded at later points in time) and any new liquid put into it replaces the previous and all subsequent potions and poisons after that are in normal bottles so is they want more of something they have to replace the liquid and if they run out of a liquid they previously replace without putting it back in (especially if it's hard to come by) they don't get another one unless they work for it

[@alexkoder1982]

Duke, since I feel so bad for you given the items the DM gave you. here have this Legendary Item. **Gives him The Deck of Many Things.**

[@SimonClarkstone]

Good old plot-breaker.

[@Weenaru]

Deck of Many Things is something the players will have a lot of fun with, it's the DM that suffers because of it.

[@IceMetalPunk]

DM: "Oh, I see you have the Deck Of One Thing And One Thing Only! How lovely for you!"

[@sethb3090]

I absolutely object to that item, and if handed one I will look the DM in the eyes and draw the entire deck on the spot.

[@funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong]

"Oh shit a deck of cards! Hey, why don't we take a short rest and play some poker? I'll deal!"

[@eleanorsmith7152]

Our first dm became very weary of giving us mundane items, because we always used them to accidentally blow a hole in his carefully laid plans. Magical items we’d use as intended, but give us some glitter and we’ve covered Unseen Servant like a disco ball (to make him visible) and are lowering him into an illusion trap to see what happens to him. As our DM said at the time: nothing they can teach you could prepare you for this.

[@GabeRoyal]

I thought the scroll was going to be a homebrew even GREATER potion.

[@firefi1960]

The GREATERER POTION!

[@IceMetalPunk]

@@firefi1960 The Greaterest Potion of Healing: heals you to max HP, but makes you vulnerable to all damage for the next week *and* gives you disadvantage on all saving throws. Its flavor text is "How much do you really want to live?"

[@firefi1960]

@@IceMetalPunk That's the legendary equivalent lmao

[@Th3M4k40n]

I was expecting a spell scroll of True Strike or something haha

[@unevennoble9363]

Only a killer DM would give their players a scroll of True Strike.​@@Th3M4k40n

[@400and4]

On the topic of magic items, I remember when I once read about this very cool application of Immovable Rod somewhere. So, you weld it to an iron or steel shield, either in a way that it resembles an umbrella, or as the immovable rod as the handle. Then you bash with the shield, downing an opponent, or push them to a wall, then click the button on the rod and have the wizard cast Heat Metal on the contraption. They called it the portable waffle maker I think.

[@LocalMaple]

Joke item: Jug of Alchemy. The bard: I cast Zone of Truth. If my victim passes the individual save, I’ll waterboard him with salt water, then ask again.

[@netkat7486]

What the hell alignment is the bard?!

[@wulf_95]

@@netkat7486 Lawful good. Players, am I right?

[@LocalMaple]

@@netkat7486 I joked with him that he’s Neutral Evil, but I’m not sure.

[@SeathThePawn]

@@LocalMaple Lawful Evil. After all, the interrogation will stop if we get some proper answers! "In the throne room" was not an acceptable answer when I asked "Where is the BBEG right now?".

[@_spt-warwolf_4575]

My friend's campaign had a Wish Ring in it, whoever acquires it is granted one wish by the gods and it can be anything. So naturally the Artificer got it and he wished for the knowledge to create devices and machines that could only be made in the future..... ......the campaign ended when he cut the planet in half with a Supernova Space Laser.

[@SilvaDreams]

As a DM I would have been a smartars and given him the knowledge to make everything he already knew.. Because the future is a subjective things and 1second later is still the future.

[@YayapLives]

Highly recommend stealing the R&D department from Paranoia and turning it into a magic R&D for your fantasy campaign: Wizards recruit party to test new magical gear every couple of sessions. Party gets a list of impressive sounding magical items of vauge abilities. Get to each pick 1 to test for the next couple sessions. 98% of them have something... Off about them. From flat out not being magical(wand of cutting is a dagger). To being misleading(wand of cutting let's you swap places with nearby non-moving people. Has a 30 second casting time. Great for line skipping.). To being absurdly good with a devestating flaw(wand of cutting is practically a lightsaber for 18 seconds of activation 3 times a day but has no markings as to which end is dangerous and a 20% chance of suddenly revesering which end is the cutting bit evey activation). We had a wand of paranoia that caused a mental debuff on enemies will saves and caused strife if stealthily cast but the dm later told us that all those nightly interruptions/aborted ambushes/ random saves we had to roll was a passive effect of the wand and not real.

[@patricksmith6680]

I joined a game late in the campaign, and the DM let me choose an uncommon magic item. I picked the Broom of Flying. I can guarantee that he had no idea what it would lead to -- a flying, chaotic goblin throwing Fireballs from the ceiling where nothing could touch him.

[@jasperzanovich2504]

You became the Green Goblin from Spiderman

[@patricksmith6680]

@@jasperzanovich2504 DAMN IT, why didn't I ever think of making that joke!?!

[@torgranael]

As usual, Duke hits us with devastating accuracy. This is spot on. Also, "I'm about to pull the plug..." is the perfect transition (though I have no clue what item is being referenced).

[@odog1999]

Turn on captioning and you'll see what he really said ;-)

[@brennanruiz1803]

The “one” item is a butt plug, and Adbarian said “I’m about to pull the plug on this, it stinks”

[@Anni-fy9dm]

He also preceded to *plug* the sponsor

[@jrm48220]

Kawalish's Backdoor Apparatus

[@prehistoriccreator9600]

Magic butt plug tail. Must be seen and out in open to have effects, it gives immunity to the frightened condition as you have no shame, also everyone who can see and understand that it is a butt plug must succeed on a DC 15 + the Creature's Charisma mod Wisdom Saving throw, if failed, the creature that failed the check is stunned until they succeed on the check, which they may roll at the start of each of their turns. If succeeded the creature succeeded has immunity to the passive stunning aspect of item, Succubi and Incubi are already immune to it due to being succubi and incubi. Gives advantage on seduction rolls if DM allows. Also, it allows the user a 30 ft swimming and flying speed or additional 20 ft swim/fly speed if the creature wearing this already has that ability. It does this by rotating extremely fast. Everyone that witnesses it must make a DC 34 Wisdom save and take 9d6 psychic damage which treats immunity as resistance and ignores resistance from the sheer absurdity on a failed save and half as much on a successful one. This save must be rolled every time it is used, it affects both allies and enemies alike.

[@DisdonnPlays]

Yesterday in our DnD session my very dumb Barbarian Minotaur actually figured out that the sword was cursed....with VENGEANCE. Good arcana rolls when those good at them had nat 1s, was hilarious

[@maximumdon7637]

That’s what I hate about Nat 1’s and Nat 20’s. You’re a wizard with a supremely intelligent mind with a superhuman brain, and should know what something is, yet you roll a Nat 1, and you have no clue what something you SHOULD definitely know is.

[@kin2naruto]

@@maximumdon7637 I dm those as "you have a brain fart..tip of your tounge... aww... guess I need to sleep on it." And then next Nat 20 they get (on anything) the "ah ha!" moment happens.

[@alarkhar]

An old, third party item I loved (and still love) to give to my players is the "Rod of many uses" - basically a cheap version of the Rod of Lordly Might. The thing can literally change into a ton of useful items, from a ram to a crowbar to a shortsword and more, just by fiddling with the knob at one end. No weapon obtained with the Rod is magical, no item is enchanted - they simply extend or retract as needed. Some are more useful than others (seriously, what would you do with ONE climbing piton?), but in the end it works just fine. My players love it, because it is extra versatile, but mostly because it is so cheap that they can get it at level ONE.

[@lemmetalkaboutthis]

Honestly, we're so damn story heavy at this point in our campaign, any permanent item we get is extremely personalised to our characters (basically Always somewhat homebrewed, or gets homebrewed later bc Rule of Cool)- but. We're also _deeply suspicious_ of new items at first bc of our DM and his past crimes of absolute heartbreak

[@Notbatman374]

So in our last session we found a shop called "bobs discount magic items" These were all items that are at best useless, or at worst deadly. Like the solar powered light stone. Which can provide 60ft of bright light as long as it is surrounded by at least 60 ft of bright light. Or the "bread of hunger" which is a loaf of bread that makes you not hungry after you eat it. I found a ring of underwater walking. It's the same effect as a ring of water walking, except you walk on the underside of the surface of the water instead of on top. Not great if you have to breathe. Luckily I am a warforged paladin, can't breathe if ya ain't got no lungs, thanks for the emergency life preserver. Best 50 gold I've spent so far.

[@nickvanoort6403]

Is Bob a skeleton?😂 with a top hat and fancy clothing?🤣

[@Notbatman374]

@@nickvanoort6403 Bob turned out to be a very old crotchety Goliath woman lol

[@nickvanoort6403]

@@Notbatman374 hahaha 😆 that's awesome👌 I asked since my friends merchant NPC is a fancy dressed skeleton wearing a tophat, who we only accidentally encountered because of a dimension door spell gone slightly wrong 😂 the dude sells great items hidden as junk, cursed items, discount magic items with wacky effects and goblins for some reason🤔😅😂 Edit: Also named Bob 😂

[@KnicKnac]

I've had some fun with Uncommon items especially the Robe of Useful things. There are some fun items in the Common and Uncommon category.

[@sethb3090]

Lantern of Revealing comes in handy more often than you'd think, and as a passive AoE invisibility reveal for the whole party, it makes your martials happy indeed.

[@KnicKnac]

@@sethb3090 Exactly there are hidden gems that can be awesome for the right player.

[@Gdach]

When Joke Item Dm forgot sessions ago somehow destroys BBEG in one shot.

[@AfshinR.Laroudi]

Dust of deliciousness....

[@FaerieWithAHalo]

@@AfshinR.Laroudi You beat me to it!

[@sauronsrighthandman301]

Shoutout to my original homebrewed magical item, the very first one I've ever made: The Crusty Wand. A wand that has 3 charges which replenish daily. When activated, the wand caused one out of a list of assorted baked goods to appear, all the way from a 3 tiered chocolate cake, to a bread monster that would attempt to kill the party. This item has been the catalyst of many of the funniest moments in my still running 2 year campaign. Because: One day I decided that the wand doesn't actually *make* bread. It *takes* bread from somewhere in the multiverse. This has caused stolen birthday cakes, half-eaten loaves from more than likely starving orphans, and, the piece-de-resistance; a cake stolen from the Dark Elven King's 500th birthday. Twice. The player who owns the crusty wand then went and bought a chest of preserving to enshrine the cake forever, at the crowning jewel of the items stolen by the master minotaur thief: the gour-MET. My players haven't laughed that hard in any of our sessions since. Close, but not quite. And have dubbed that session as the funniest ever. The players even named their adventuring guild after the crusty wand: The Crustidigitateonous Crusading Commanders .Co .Company. Yes. It is as hard to say as it is to read and yes, I have to say it right every time I say it.

[@SebasTian58323]

I usually prefer starting equipment as I get everything I need without having to worry about the DM restricting things I might like, not having enough money to buy the items that would just be perfect for my character ect...

[@azurblueknights]

This is why my DM usually starts us out with a decent smattering of gold (usually 25 per level, if we start at level four we get 100 gold). You want to start with a +1 weapon? Expect to not have enough starting gold to get any other starting equipment and items.

[@jamati7704]

@@azurblueknights +1 weapons are 500gp man

[@MrMaradok]

Or forgetting to purchase something, so now you’re missing something critical like torches or camping gear

[@azurblueknights]

@@jamati7704 Uh... no. Do not presume that all DMs are going to run their table the exact same. Particularly since WOTC has deliberately avoided listing prices of most magical items. My DM likes to go hard from the start, so if a player wants to spend 100 gp for a +1 weapon from the start that is an option, as long as said player realizes they cannot buy other gear or supplies because he or she is now broke.

[@chatyxd6078]

I always just buy an explorers pack along with whatever items I want for my character. I played a unarmed barbarian and instead of having a greataxe he would never use I rolled for money and bought a saxophone.

[@Fyreflier]

My favourite item is still the Gauntlets of Water Walking. When worn, you can walk on water. But only if you walk on your hands. we gave it to my monk with the +15 Acrobatics and now the dm hates us

[@siscokidder]

The Immovable Rod is a magic item you either love or you hate, depending on how creative you are. It can trivialize encounters *or* make 'em way harder, getting two essentially gives you a portable ladder of any height, it can be used to restrain creatures or enhance restraints, and loads of other specific things. My favorite use is to make it into a barricade in a 5f wide entryway, since there are plenty of creatures not intelligent enough to find other ways around. Even for the ones that are intelligent, to disarm it they must use their action to click a button on the rod and cease it's effects, or to circumvent it they'll have to squeeze between it and the entryway, usually costing double movement for them. And if they are both intelligent enough and there are other ways to move to us, it should still cost more movement than the direct path being blocked by the rod.

[@madisonperry7447]

The Avada Kedavra was so out of nowhere and done so well I had to rewatch it a few times I laughed so much

[@kaylanorstrud267]

My dm made a flute to summon an army of rats and now my character, who has it, is called the rat queen now 😅

[@HonestMagpie]

I had a string of delightfully odd magic items when I DMmed, all granted by "Sheggoraz, God of Chaos" (A very obvious Sheogorath expy). If players rolled a Nat1 on a navigation check, they would end up in a mysterious forest (regardless the biome they were in before), unable to explain how or when exactly they had gotten there. They would find Sheggoraz sitting at a long tea table, willing to pour them tea and play a game with them. Magic item 1: A teapot that could dispense liquids at random on a 1d100 roll. Things ranged from tea, poisoned tea, melted gold and modern soda, and so much more. (The rule was that they wouldn't be hurt by things like melted gold as long as it was poured only into a cup, with the cup acting as a heat shield, no matter how flimsy). This teapot had to be stolen from the table. Magic item 2: A series of cups (also had to be stolen from the table) with different glass colors in them. Each color of teacup indicated what it would turn tea from the teapot into. So, regardless what you rolled on the D100 table for the teapot, pouring it into the 'tea' teacup would result in the nearest 'tea' option on the table. Magic item 3: A series of coins, earned from playing games with Sheggoraz. They would say something different on each one, determined by a D4 table (Something along the lines of "You're a [quality] [pronoun/identifier]" so you could end up with "You're a lucky sprog" or "You're a handsome git" sort of thing. ), and it would have one mundane magical property when flipped, like cheering like a studio audience, or emitting confetti. My players loved them, and they never passed up an opportunity for a tea break. :)

[@BrotherVoidBomber]

This is scary perfect timing. And one common thing you forgot was "Weaker Magic Weapon" as I am now in possession of 2 +1 weapons and 1 +2 weapon. The 2 +1 are one handed and due to my greatsword power attack build in 5e they are useless to both me and the warlock I'm playing with. The +2 is only against good aligned npcs..... I keep getting unusable magic weapons please help.

[@Miesha88]

First talk to your DM about it, say they are useless to you and you'd like something more useful. If option A doesn't work, grind the campaign to a halt by insisting on checking every village, town and city for anyone interested in buying or selling magic items, spend WEEKS of downtime searching if you have to. Make sure your DM gets the message, you want better stuff.

[@BrotherVoidBomber]

​​​@@Miesha88 Oh no don't worry this was a joke because the module literally doesn't ever give a heavy weapons as treasure it's been a running gag between the party and dm that I'm carrying a armory of useless rare magic items since the Warlock and ranger already have magical weapons. Considering I did 104 to a demon 1 sessions ago with 2 2nd level smite crits in one turn I say I'm a happy oathbreaker. Good news is that after the dungeon he said I would be able to find cleric forge dwarfs that would be willing to help me craft my perfect greatsword. THE SUNEATER! Edit: Also in those last two sessions they treasure had a +1 dagger.... that I now added to the pile.

[@mastersouth531]

This video physically hurts me! We've been playing in a sandbox-ish dnd 5e campaign for over 2 years, we've got a new player 2 months ago or so and when he asked what magical items we had he was HORRIFIED to know that the strongest one we had was a druid staff (We didn't have druids) that can make "Nature" based spells stronger but weakens "Nature destroying" spells. Other than that, my character, a wizard, has a cube as a magical starter item (It's a spellbook that can't be... well... wet or burnt... Can still be destroyed), a monocle that changes the colors you look at to be your favorite color (In my character's case, brass). Some boots that leave a frosty path when I would walk (Got destroyed by a slime before the new guy arrived), a horseshoe that returns to the stick it's bound to... A jelly-bean bag that changes your mood and 1 more bead that is a small fireball, only 3d6 dmg and no knockback. We don't have anything good, EVER, and whenever we are given something that has an upside, it's got a greater downside, like a magic hat that, if you cast a levelled spell while wearing it, you roll 1d20, if it's odd, quasit, if it's even, rabbit, appears on your head. THAT QUASINT ALMOST KILLED MY POOR WIZARD after the new player "tried that item on a friend". (We knew what the item did, it was the second quasit), on a nat 1, the Dm said it's gonna be a REALLY BAD THING and on a 20, a... magical... Bunny...

[@robinregenberg8222]

That sucks, I’d suggest saying something to the DM about the magic items

[@connorjohnson8590]

Are you playing 5e? Is your game homebrew or a pre written campaign?None of the items you’ve described resemble standard items, so it’s entirely a possibility that your dm doesn’t have a DMG (dungeon masters guide) and doesn’t know how to make or reward good items. I’d strongly consider asking them about that.

[@JuMiKu]

This isn't good. Certain classes are quite fine without or very few magic items, but martial characters will be almost useless at some point without magic weapons.

[@mastersouth531]

@@connorjohnson8590 Homebrew, we do have some pre-existing magic items from the DMG, nothing post-Tasha though. He does have access to it, it's just that most of the items there wouldn't really fit in a swamp as odd as the one we are in >.>

[@mastersouth531]

@@JuMiKu We have... Had.. A +1 rapier that dealt magic dmg, the owner though... Left to find his family, so we might find his body somewhere, when it comes to martials, we don't really have that many, we are a mostly caster-based team, we did have a Fighter samurai with sharpshooter that WREAKED bosses, sadly, she died during our last bossfight so now the player will bring a Cleric. (Tempest Cleric, we really needed something like that) Also, we're all lvl 6... Well, 7 right now, so we're still doing rather okay-ish. The encounters are very difficult and punishing to go in, since, well, the only encounters that give us anything good are the ones against "Leaders" of enemy factions. So basically, huge threats, we almost tpk-ed, but we were lucky on some rolls and we had one diamond from the start of the campaign that we quickly used to bring back the only OG character left in the roster. We hope that we can salvage something from the big guy though. Another problem is that, the magic items that we get are... Well, based on the factions we help/destroy, since we are a good/neutral aligned party, we can't really go around with Fungal Necromancer gear, or Cow skulls and stuff like that. Plus, we suck at completing missions because whenever we are close to solving one, BAM, something happens and we can NOT afford to continue with the OG plan. Also, by something I really mean it's up to the dice, as I said before, this is a high absurdism game, we love playing in it, but the fuckery that was thrown at us, with one side of the party being out for one day do to a nat 1 on the random encounter, while the others had to clear up a camp full of OP poisoned frogs (Never want to see them again), to certain timed events which we knew of, happening when we least expected them. We literally managed to finish this questline ONLY because we were at the exact place 1 and a half days BEFORE the timed event occurred that we got to do the bossfight. Otherwise, we would have failed it.

[@DreadeDragon]

The cursed item one is too true, currently in my campaign two of our party members currently have a cursed battlaxe that they cannot let go of since they grabbed it. And one of them has only one arm.

[@somenerd8401]

I convinced my dm to give my barbarian a bersekrer greatsword (I know they only come in axes but sword go swoosh) worst decision they've made so far.

[@TotallyHuman]

"Sword go swoosh" Honestly, this is a mood.

[@MeriadocMyr]

My players get excited for potions, mostly because I completely revamped how potions are used. I required special vials to increase the upfront cost of potions, but the vials are reusable and refills are cheapers.

[@dankvk6363]

My DM let me build my own weapon once. It was a flamethrower, he set the damage at 4D8 fire damage, range of 5 feet. I was a rogue at the time but that rogue is now dead. I am an artificer now. I asked if I could build a flamethrower. He said yes, used the old numbers, and my artificer infusion "Repeating Shot" was immediately applied. He has since then realized his mistake as what used to require a gallon of oil per shot (or 10gp) now has infinite ammo, 15 foot range, and various muzzle attachments for cone, line, or 5 foot misting spray for +50% bonus damage. It's my new favorite toy. My party does not approve of this weapon. They are still upset that my rogue almost blew them up in a vineyard using Molotov cocktails too close to the wine vats. My character was drunk, locked the only exit, and threw firebombs indiscriminately through all the windows. In my defense, they made a decision that gave everyone a level of exhaustion by underestimating the orcs.

[@outbreakperfected5704]

I’m just imagining your rouge going invisible and suddenly molotovs just start flying from seemingly no where also I’m imagining your artificer just being the pyro from TF2

[@swaglevi4315]

@@outbreakperfected5704 "HMMMMMHHAHA"-pyro

[@MizuhiroUkato]

Your alignment must be "chaotic chaotic"

[@dankvk6363]

True Neutral Rogue Lawful Neutral Artificer

[@MizuhiroUkato]

@@dankvk6363 Chaotic player

[@Sachyio666]

The magical wand got me, very well done 😂👌

[@rumbleroller2154]

Funny. You know, with the Catapult Spell, there are no useless items.. :P

[@MrStreetMan123]

When one of your players has to cancel last minute so you decide to run a One Shot for the players who can make it with zero preperation for it... "So, your characters find this lovely deck of cards... Would you like to draw one?"

[@flamingrubys11]

ITS TIME TO D-D-D-DUEL

[@knownas2017]

@@flamingrubys11 You play Pot of Greed. Despite JUST playing the card, you've already forgotten what the effect of the card was.

[@Bifgi]

I just gave my Group an Imovable Rod and they Cheered like then they get a Level Up.

[@thefriendlyknight]

In our campaign, the only magic item we had received after many months was a ring. Of course, my character tried it on. It's a ring that turns his finger into a poisonous knife but deals damage to him every long rest, and if it deals maximum damage the finger falls off and turns into a hostile python. He also can't take it off or tell anybody about it.

[@Name.she-her-hers]

Also, the "Super op item that ruins the game". I had a dm give us such an item, which resulted in EVERY player starting to argue that it was too op for our party and would ruin the game for us.

[@mordisgaminggedons5119]

Oh yes....

[@Hyde_Hill]

Or the good old super OP item that no one can use or if they can would retool their build. We had a campaign with no one going 2 handed weapons. Guess what the first +2 and other bonuses weapon was? And that is just 1 example.

[@Name.she-her-hers]

@@Hyde_Hill Nice. In my first dnd campaign, we had something like that as well. Nowadays, we only play very high-level campaigns though, so we rarely have issues like that anymore. One dnd game we even played using homebrew rules to allow us to reach level 50.

[@serenestitch71]

I was doing a campaign where they found a cocooned body. When they looted the body, they found the weirdest items. Most of them were joke items, only some were useful. It was really funny. One of the joke items, a bubble wand, produced useless bubbles, but did allow a person to breathe underwater for an hour. The player was planning on selling it, but never did. Only later did it become useful. One of the players had to jump into a well, with contaminated water. They had to go to the very bottom to retrieve the cursed stone, which was affecting the water and mutating anything that drank it. The only reason that they were able to do this was because of the bubble wand, which I threw in randomly.

[@arielgoldstein3089]

Long, long ago, when I used to play in adventurer's league, one of my fellow players obtained the marvelous pigments ... it was like real life looney toon paint. This magic item did and has continued to creatively broken many games since then.

[@Bambino5311]

bro my dm prepped for us to get items after capturing a cultist and he had expected me to take the holy symbol since i was the only paladin in the party which was the guardian emblem. The emblem removes the crit damage from nat 20s and funny enough the encounter before the cultist i got hit with 3 nat 20s in a row bringing me down to 1 hp. i survived and got the emblem but the timing was too funny

[@coolcat7011]

Our joke item is the party's communal Glob Gun. It's this pistol shaped to look like a fish that should an enemy critically hit with it fail their wisdom saving throw is turned into a fish of the player's choosing for 10 minutes. However if the player rolls a nat 1, then the fishy transformation is rebounded onto them and they'll have to make a saving throw themselves. We just pass it around btwn the party and everyone's used it at one point or another, even if their character does not have a proficience in firearms. And yes, one of the party DID fail his save and thanks to the PC's personality he joked he turned into Gill from Finding Nemo.🤣

[@phantom9831]

I'm sure this item would has its uses if the party has to go underwater

[@chubbyanimalenthusiast70]

My wand of smile was not actually not that useless

[@Pyrocaster]

I remember a good buddy of mine running a "Tomb of Horror" mini campaign in 5E. It was not built with 5E in mind. Primarily, he just wanted to dick around in this campagin and see just how unbalanced it was with 5E mechanics. We got to the magic lamp that gives us three wishes. Friend A. wanted all of us to become level 20. Friend B. wanted us to get any one item of our choice each (excluding artifacts). I asked my DM if, for my wish, I could use meta-game knowledge to ask for something. He said sure. I asked for a talisman of annihilation. He asked me why, as he had never heard of it before. I told him that it will take help us in taking control over a sphere of annihilation. We then proceeded to leave the tomb, and like a dry erase board, delete the tomb with its own sphere of annihilation. At the very end, we had nothing left but the treasure room and the skull. When the old bone-head decided to do his monologue and fly upwards, we placed the sphere right on top of him so he just floated into it. He got brained, we got the loot, and our next adventure took us to go and kill the lord of minotaurs himself Baphomet. It was a great time!

[@CleanUpNick]

in my campaign a single wild magic potion is 1000x better than any legendary item XD we defeated a leviathan by using a wild magic potion that ended up turning all nearby liquid to alcohol which we lit on fire to blow the sucker up, not to mention throwing a crap tone of them at a dragon which made us kill a dragon at level 1... truly the best item in the game

[@rubededcii2395]

does liquid includes blood?

[@CleanUpNick]

@@rubededcii2395 yes but we were in a boat so we were fine, the general consensus was that it would have to be making contact with the liquid

[@lagames8260]

session 1: *we all get a rare magic item from DM* session 13: *my monk that goes with mach 15 every 6 seconds*

[@TheOneWhoReportsForDuty]

Ad Barian having to make a transition for that with it somewhat working is very impressive.

[@Geraduss]

DM once gave me the boots of flying, the ones with little wings, instant regret on his part once I explained next session that its the 5E version of the boots... Flying Sorcerer+7lvl = Crazy laughter while raining fireballs from the sky!

[@kevinskinner4986]

Had a Pathfinder game where we had randomized loot inside a dungeon. We got about 5 barrels of air. We shamelessly disenchanted them to use their magical energy towards a summoning spell to engage the giant abomination in a kaiju battle.

[@BakudaSon]

One of my players wanted to play a Gambler Variant Human Wild Magic Sorcerer with Lucky. I gave them magical dice (Called them Tymoras Favour) that allowed them to use all their current luck points (minimum 1) to reroll or redraw anything with a table to roll or draw against. Oh? You got the Deck of Many Things and drew The Void? Your luck saves you, reshuffle and draw again.

[@thetruestarking20000]

I do tend to favor items that are more flavorful and mundanely useful than something mechanically strong. I only care about magic weapons if I am the one smithing it into existence, because I am very particular about my character’s aesthetics. But things like that orb that gives you an instant bath, synthweave, the cloak of billowing, and other such items I find a lot cooler than “+1 longsword”

[@israelcroskrey-warner1586]

I give my players a lot of cursed items. They are items of a lot of power but that comes at a cost. Like a ring that gives the user advantage but gives all enemies advantage as well. A sword that does extra damage but causes you damage as well. Stuff like that

[@netkat7486]

I just gave a Star of Normalcy to a part member. It has the magical properties of not reacting at all to other magical fields.

[@ai2802]

One day I hope to play as a Druid and acquire Staff of the Woodlands. Why? Because with that one item, I can create a mini army of free shrubs which I would name Tangela.

[@reaperscythe4579]

I like the simple items like the wand of smiles or staff of flowers. Something that makes for good flavour in rp moments and can really mess stuff up in specific situations.

[@anufoalan]

Our DM basically said you all get starting equipment, and then he crafted items special for each of us, I got a mariner’s coat (sea elf, wild magic, sorcerer), our cleric got a ever burning lamp, that’s now a flail (trifling cleric of the Everlight) the Ranger (who is no longer part of our group) basically got a fancy magical compass, our Wizard got a fancy spell book, and our Dwarf and Paladin rolled on the random table instead, the Dwarf (who also no longer plays with us) got a salt cube that preserved all food (actually kind of useful), the Paladin however got a ring, a ring of facial hair, each finger has a different facial hair style, it was great till it got stolen! We will do anything in our power to get that ring back it was so not useful but so entertaining

[@als3022]

What about the homebrew item that technically becomes canon 15 years later. Yes, yes as a gm this did happen to me and it was hilarious. Thank you 5.0

[@ciaranmcguinness8900]

the worst is when the metagamer asks for something specific after they find something not as strong, like I have my players a Robe of Eyes and one of them constantly kept trying to persuade me to make it a Robe of Stars

[@brandongalvan6603]

Me seeing our Redemption Paladin's +2 pickaxe start to disintegrate: :O Me seeing it actually reform into a +2 warhammer that my Dwarf Monk can use: :D Me seeing our Redemption Paladin gift it over to our Vengeance Paladin: :O Me recognizing that their actions are one hundred percent in line with their PCs' growth: :'D

[@pendrake40]

To help provide a scale of Rarity Level and [Color] Grade, of how potions can screw over D&D 5e Player treasure/loot expectations... *;)* 1. *Common **_("white"_** grade) ~* Potion of Healing = restores 2d4 + 2 HP; value 50 gp. 2. *Uncommon **_("green"_** grade) ~* Potion of Greater Healing = restores 4d4 + 4 HP; value = 500 gp. 3. *Rare **_("blue"_** grade) ~* Potion of Superior Healing = restores es 8d4 + 8 HP; value = 5,000 gp. 4. *Very Rare **_("purple"_** grade) ~* Potion of Supreme Healing = restores 10d4 + 20 HP; value = 50,000 gp. So yes, D&D 5e Players may triumph over an Ancient Dragon, and the most valuable item looted from the Dragon's Hoard may be... A Potion. *;\* Though as a counter-balance/-point, speaking as the Barbarian "Tank" of a Player Group, I am not necessarily unhappy about looting a Potion of Supreme Healing (10d4+20 HP). *;)*

[@catandrobbyflores]

Ring of the pack mule was my group's joke item that got a lot of use. All it did was increase carry capacity. Simple right? Well give that to the party's minotaur and he carried the rest of us through a vampire's realm like we were pillows and there was 5 of us not counting him.

[@vashanoid]

Was honestly expecting the deck of many things to have a thing to itself

[@robogamin9613]

I once made an enchanted candle of tornadoes. What it did was while lit it can summon an almost infinite amount of wind spirits but once it goes out all of the spirits instantly disappear.

[@user-lh6ys9mr5m]

1:36 one joke item from a game i was in was known as the shield of carroting which turns any projectiles that hit it into a carrot which seems harmless enough if you ignore that we found a way to technically count the planet as a projectile

[@Jasmin-lg3gf]

Warlock gets the cursed sword. "Great, an enchanted sword." "You foolish mortal. From now on you will serve me! We will bring death and ruin to ... wait, what are you doing?" "You will serve me. And if you refuse, say hello to my patron." Nervously shaking sword.

[@mateusminikovski8976]

After 5 sessions the reward for my party (1 barbarian, 1 fighter, 1 cleric) was a hat of wizardry that only wizards can use, and when we got to sell it it only gave 50 gold coin or 16 for each

[@ArtemisDalmasca]

A game I was in earlier this year, the DM rewarded a few of the players who succeeded a drinking game with a Platypus shaped bag of holding... that would bite you if it didn't like what you were putting in it, had a movement speed of slow at night and would try to escape, would always come back, and would randomly pull out bongos and start playing on them and keep the entire inn awake. Our tiefling wanted to fill it with sand and sell it after a day.

[@zichera151]

Currently having a traveling merchant selling "magical" items to my party. So far they are interested in the "Pen of Tongues". It's capable of writing in any languange. ... Just like any pen as long as the user knows the language. Although that they'll find out afterwards I guess...

[@kotori87gaming89]

My favorite item to give players is an apprentice magician's botched attempt at a Cloak of Invisibility. It makes the wearer invisible perfectly fine, right up until the spell wears off. Then the user goes blind for the exact same duration they were invisible. 1 turn of invisibility, 1 turn of blindness. 2 turns of invisibility, 2 turns of blindness. 10 minutes of invisible sneaking through the castle... you get the idea. I've used it in two campaigns so far, and my players loved it. It's a fantastic way to give the Rogue a power up that requires serious thought to use, without being a "I win" button.

[@im-ivy-now]

These are hilarious. Thanks for the fun video

[@benjamincrowe6215]

*Barbarian finds belt of Storm giant strength* DM: "And that is... 31 damage... from your attack with a spoon." Barbarian: "Damn, I'm rolling low today..."

[@unevennoble9363]

Explain how a simple STR buff lets you do 31 damage on a low roll. Unless you are using tavern brawler and specializing in thrown weapons, in which case it makes sense.

[@benjamincrowe6215]

@@unevennoble9363 Your AC is too high for that joke, huh?

[@orioncrawford9618]

Had dm that homebrew beetlewing for my beetle shape warforged character. It could use proficiency mins a long rest at speed equal my walk speed. Needless to say I got my speed to 45 ft and abuse it almost religiously and when I noticed dm getting scared of it I stop using it in combat for a bit

[@theshadowling1]

There is also the bait item. Where the DM KNOWS it'll be terrible for everyone involved if the party take it, but just places it there. Just ready to be taken. In my current campaign, I have placed infront of the party, the Gong of Deafness. When hit, everyone for 2 miles around goes deaf for an hour. No save.

[@PanzerYeena]

You gave them a weapon that when used will guaranteed cause mass hysteria and chaos in any settlement? Bold move, sir.

[@theshadowling1]

@@PanzerYeena Sure. I know. Issue is it's a radius. And they will be ringing the Gong, so they will be deaf as well. I mean, I've also had as a major plot point stones which cast a single spell constantly when held. Which seems cool, until it's completely random as to what gets hit. Or isn't. They nearly TPK'd themselves when they found the Flamestrike one.

[@matheusfili]

Well, and then there is the Deck of Many Things, the most derailing item in the game. Once when we were playing I managed to get a complete Deck of Many things by winning some card games in a tavern against the most lucky player of that town, at the time I bet all my belongings against his unknown bet, I did it for fun because my friends that were playing were against me betting all my stuff, I ended up winning and discovering that I had won the deck, after that me and my friends swore that whenever we ended one of the campaigns acts, we would each draw one card, 3 acts later and it was already chaos, since we ended up needing to rescue a friend from another plane, defeating a death avatar, became rich, got some bonus attributes, etc.

[@Kinetik__]

I almost choked on my food. I didn't expect the "EVADA KEDAVRA"

[@majoratwili7312]

My DM last session had the magic items we looted from a buncha dead gnolls (most of which probably looked like they'd been put through a blender due to me putting them in a Blade Wall pit fight with the Paladin) be a club that deals no damage but causes things hit with it to dance in place for 1 minute and burn through their movement or complete a con save and a whip that makes sneezing noises when it's cracked

[@chadnorris8257]

I don't usually go with gold instead of starting equipment. Unless I have some special build in mind, the equipment they give you is usually good enough for low levels.

[@tatersalad76]

That Voldemort impression was frighteningly accurate lol

[@johngrigoriadis]

Duke on 1:29 🤣🤣 and yes I immediately did that when my character got a magical wond

[@user-ov2dk7cf7n]

I certainly love putting some random non magical card decks into the chests in dungeons and wait for my player's reaction.

[@kylesunrider1063]

Gave a player the "Master Bread Sword" it at the moment is a +1 Long Sword and can be enchanted by a baker (they do not know this cause who would whip out a blade in town without reason) with the finesse property, but when I heard joke idem I made one useful and thus far it has givin him a lot of serotonin, if anyone has an idea to make twist on it I will take input.

[@crowsfyre]

An item one of my friends likes to throw into his campaigns a lot is the "gold tax sword". Its a sword with 5 slots in the blade that can have gold pieces inserted into them. While at least one gold coin is inserted in a slot the sword deals an additional 5 damage, but a coin is consumed with each attack. If no coins are inserted and the user attacks with it, all attacks are made at disadvantage. Bonus action to insert 1d4 coins, one coin is consumed at each dawn, and the sword is cursed so the user cannot use any other weapons until the curse is lifted. Fun to use, but the tax gets annoying quick in drawn out combats

[@crowsfyre]

Its basically just his own twist on the tax blade

[@michal888ful]

Once we had session where we got some wierd interactions, it turned out that there is an hourglass that when flipper makes time back for 8 hours. Only party and powerfull wizard knew about it and had memory of things from future. And od course just after we killed the wizard my character (not knowing yet what it does) flipped that hourglass. We woke up on tawern and realized that there is very alive and pissed wizard next door. Best two stage fight ever:)

[@goldtoothslair3052]

Yeah it feels like unless the magical item either does three things either allow you to hit harder. allow you to avoid damage or just allow you to outright counter spells and the secret one being just outright ruin the game players usually just don't want it.

[@majormoron605]

Yeah, the bard prbly has the most disturbing Internet history of all the classes.

[@NobleWolf]

There is one item level the only us DM's know, and its beyond powerful mahaha

[@rickershomesteadahobbyfarm3291]

I received a javelin of returning in our last session. I wanted a crossbow but the javelin of returning was actually a lot cooler.

[@trueblueflare]

My first time DMing I gave my players stuff that let them fly without knowing how game breaking it would be. I also gave them a homebrew magic item that was basically just a bomb with 3 charges. It was meant to use the first charge for a puzzle and the other 2 for whatever, though they cheesed the puzzle without using the bomb and then promptly forgot about it.

[@jpsachse]

The „Avada Kedavra“ impression was just spot on 😂👌🏻

[@spencerz6949]

My party stumbled upon an empty room in a dungeon but obviously we thought there had to be something. So we investigated an empty room like 5 times. And after finding nothing 4 times on the 5th time we find a middle finger rock like the world is trying to tell us something. So my bard takes it and it ends up being magical buffing viscous mockery to a d6 instead of a d4.

[@undertalegamer8571]

that is amazing

[@carteradams43]

in my last campaign, I got winged boots, a flying artifact, after a really lucky random loot draw. In my current campaign, well, I miss the winged boots.

[@catandrobbyflores]

I can relate. Had those on my cleric in curse of strahd. I was literally the medevac helicopter.

[@Jarl_Ballin]

I had a DM who at one point considered a common/uncommon or two healing potions to be decent loot rewards for average to deadly encounters. I don’t know what DMs need to hear this, but dear god, don’t expect a bunch of level 7 adventurers to go through a fight where one of them nearly dies just to get a single use 2d4+2 and be happy about it.

[@zacharyrollick6169]

DM once gave a party member a magic dreidel. One face granted a permanent debuff, two granted permanent buffs, and the fourth doubled your money. The first three faces used up the item, but it was indefinitely reusable if you got the money everytime. If I remember correctly. It might have only been the debuff that deactivated the item. What the DM was not expecting was for everyone in the party to pool their money and double it several times.

[@Ashykitty]

I'm sad there wasn't the mention of Bag of Holding. The most requested item at the tables I've been to/DMed

[@bakariwolf3835]

Gave a party a really good legendary item once that was perfect for anyone in the party to use. It sat in a bag of holding for the rest of the game.