Potions of Nap and Mana
We’ve been running a weekly collaborative D&D campaign since January using the Roll 20 system, and it’s been a great experience. The game is set in Oldstone, a crossroads city in a desert region...
Category: Unusual Gear
Magical items, masterwork items, and other equipment ideas.
A Defense of the Humble Sling 5th edition rocks, but it has fired-and-forgotten what earlier editions knew
At present the enemy shoot and sling beyond our range, so that our Cretan archers are no match for them; our hand-throwers cannot reach as far; and when we pursue, it is not possible...
Practical Magic 3 Corpse Seeds and Habaster’s Handy Horse Hobble
Practical Magic is an occasional series highlighting magic items and spells that concentrate more on adding flavor to the game than on being powerful. They make nice additions to the loot pile without breaking...
Practical Magic: The Bounty Hunter’s Body Bag and Dead Man’s Whispers
Practical Magic is an occasional series highlighting magic items and spells that concentrate more on adding flavor to the game than on being powerful. They make nice additions to the loot pile without breaking...
Practical Magic Magic Items and Spells More Utilitarian than Miraculous
I’ll admit it. I love magic items. I’m having a bit of trouble adapting to the 5th edition’s new lean and mean magic item ratio. I get the rationale for avoiding the item bloat...
Legacy Items: Magic Items that Scale, Part 3.5
Note: Except for the artwork, the content of this article is designated as Open Game Content. (Click here for the license.) Part 3.5: Apotheosis Items In my previous piece on creating magic items that grow in...
To Invoke the Magic, Create Some Mystery
by Lash Vance This column represents a different sort of voice for the Ludus — it’s the voice of a player, rather than the voice of a DM. Do you remember the very first...
Legacy Items: Magic Items that Scale, Part 3
Part 3: Enhanced Attunement Items I’ve now written about Reconstructed Items, portions of a larger item that carry minor powers and that have to be reassembled to reach their full potential, and about Mastery...
Legacy Items: Magic Items that Scale, Part 2 – Mastery Items
Part2: Mastery Items In the first part of this series I discussed the problems that result when magic items become disposable once better, more-powerful versions are acquired. For me, at least, the practice of churning magic...
Legacy Items: Magic Items that Scale, Part 1
Part 1: Reconstructed Items In my last article, I introduced a way to rethink attunement and possibly make it more interesting by connecting it to proficiency. Graham Scott followed this up with discussions about how to...
