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A Panapoly of magic items and animals

Started by TristramEvans, January 19, 2015, 05:04:51 AM

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The Ur-Tangle - This hideous little ornament resembles a hairy obscene alien organ. Dust bunnies accumulate at seven times the usual rate within 20 feet of it.

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The Flea of Persecution

A regular flea from the sub-tropical savannah of the lower hemisphere that carries a psionic parasitic disease. Upon being bit the psionic microorganism thrives on the overworked adrenal hormones. Symptoms of hypersensitivity, paranoia, and anguish follow, leading to the animal causing grief and agitation among its peers. Advanced symptoms, if surviving ostracism from the frustrated herd, end in hyperventilation, tremors, and finally death from adrenal exhaustion.
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The Cube of Infinite Salutations: A small, palm-sized cube of a ruby-like material. When held up to the bearer's mouth, anything they say will be instantantly translated as "hello" (or an equivilant friendly greeting) in the native language of the listener

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Book of Volume

A fairly thick leather bound book with a heafty brass clasp. Rather than pages it has a number of fairly sturdy pannels. When opened onto to one of these pannels the open double page reveals a container about a foot deep the size and shape of the open book.
There are generally about a dozen such open pages in the book. (3d6)
As well as acting as a "bag of holding" type device the Book is also Entropically Isolated which is to say if you light a fire in a panel it will remain lit once you close the book and be there happily burning away when you open the book a month later.  Likewise a meal will stay warm, a bowl of water will stay wet.... etc
The Book weighs about 3 pounds whatever it is carrying.

Orb of Magic Manipulation

This Orb will allow a caster to manipulate magical energy fields so they can bend a force wall, create a curtain in a wall of fire, create a gap in a suit of mage armour....
The bearer needs to concentrate and take an action to perform the manipulation. If concentration is broken the field takes on its original form like elastic.
gaps in protective walls etc will decrease their AC benefit by 50%
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Shears of Ephemeral Life - Once per day, if these delicate heart-etched scissors are used to cut a humanoid figure out of paper, the figure will come to life. The figure cannot be more than 8 inches tall and has almost no ability to affect the physical world. It can walk around under its own power.

The figure is a complete entity, gifted with speech, adult intelligence and a unique personality. A the stroke of midnight it dies, shrivels up and turns to dust.

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Ring of Thrumm - This plain looking ring produces a continuous low hum, just barely audible if you bring it up to your ear. The wearer can, at will, cause an inanimate and unattended object within 10 feet to vibrate. If the object is small enough it might randomly move as a result. The object will continue to vibrate for an hour or until the wearer chooses to affect another target.

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Fool Stool - This wooden stool is carved all over with crudely misspelled threats about someone's future career prospects. Anyone sitting on it is incapable of daydreaming about anything other than latrine cleaning. These daydreams are terrifyingly detailed and accurate.

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Throne of King Sudo

Three times a day, a suggestion spell effect may be used from this gold and wooden seat, but only to demand meals.

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Full Plate Armor of Detachment

This suit of plate mail does not confer extra protective benefits, except that when it is put on, the wearer can freely detach and reattach his own fingers, limbs, head – anything along the joint lines of the mail. Any detached part retains its ambulatory properties and is still controlled by the wearer of the armor. If a separated part is removed from its armor, it reappears attached to the correct part of the wearer's body (but, minus the armor, of course).

The protective benefit is that, should a part of the wearer's body be severed by a blow along one of the joint lines of the armor, it is treated as if the wearer voluntarily detached that part.

Imp

Iskelm's Helms of Remote Scent

This magical item is a pair of identical iron and electrum visored helms. The plan was that the user could see clairvoyantly out of the second helm if he wore the first, and vice versa; instead, the wearer of one helm can merely smell odors from where the other helm is situated.

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Crate of Repossession

This nondescript wooden crate's enchantment only takes effect if it broken. Should that happen, the crate vanishes, teleporting 1d12x100 feet away in a random lateral direction, and reappearing unharmed.

The breaker of the crate is then briefly cursed: the next two items he finds and takes into his possession will vanish from his hand and reappear in the crate.

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Carpet of Relative Majesty

This is a long carpet, usually deep red or royal purple, typically about 50 feet long by 10 feet wide, with a fringe of cloth-of-gold or the like.

If the carpet is walked upon lengthwise from one end, the walker will shrink in size as he walks, down to half size at the other end of the carpet.

This effect is easily reversed by walking down the carpet in the other direction.

However, walking down the carpet in the other direction to begin with does not confer any size increase beyond one's original size.

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The Conch of Extended Echoes:  Any statement made into the conch will be repeated, clearly, 3 years later

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Pasture in a Bottle - This bulbous glass container has a miniature, fully functional pasture ecology inside of it. The highlight is the herd of tiny sheep, each the size of a pea, roaming its wind swept hills.

The gravity and inertia inside the bottle is unaffected by shaking or tilting, but one sheep can be removed at a time by squeezing a small bladder attached to the narrow mouth (they remain pea-sized). Nothing can be put into the bottle except the sheep.

If all the sheep are removed the bottle will gradually generate a new herd when no one is looking. If the bottle is broken a heap of bloody mutton (full-sized) will burst out of it with harmless but messy force.

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Liustucru, Sentient Pasta Fork - Liustucru is a golden fork with small squares of lapis lazuli embedded in his handle to form a checkerboard pattern. He is always pleasantly warm to the touch, but his voice sounds like that of a pompous fat man with slight breathing problems.

Any pasta dish eaten using Liustucru tastes like it was prepared by a master chef, regardless of its actual quality. Any poisons or diseases in the dish are neutralized. Once per day he can transform any single serving of food into any pasta dish (this includes sauce and pasta shape). Once per month he can conjure enough high quality pasta to feed eight people. Finally, he can accurately assess the quality of any pasta dish within 60 feet of him in great detail and nuance.

He developed sentience on his own through magical mutation. He adopted his personality (and voice unfortunately) from a bombastic chef who called him an affront to the cooking arts. Although their encounter was unpleasant, the fork admired the chef's dedication to authenticity, and was inspired to become an itinerant restaurant critic.

He will frequently urge his current owner to check out the local pasta establishments so he can assess them. If polite requests to do so are ignored, Liustucru will try to magically compel his owner. Afterward, the fork will dictate his review so that it can be printed in a worthy local publication.

Liustucru has a bizarre nasty streak when it comes to children, insulting them whenever they are within earshot. This dates back to the time a spoiled princeling and his buddies used him for all sorts of disgusting sport. The fork eventually mind-controlled the child into cutting pieces off himself and cooking them for his unsuspecting parents. Liustucru found this so amusing that he wouldn’t be averse to doing it again to a deserving brat if the opportunity arose.