I one time made a Broom of flying that had an intelligence in it that was, brave and willing to do the right thing, except it had a crippling fear of heights.... the amount of arguments the players had trying to cajole it to fly above 500 ft was hilarious.

My party took down a night hag a long time ago, and we recovered her heartstone. DM ruled that the heartstone can be used to cure any disease, so long as the patient is awake. My character, being a healer and member of a charitable order of her church, took it. She had it set in her holy symbol so that there's little chance someone would figure out what it is and try to steal it. Even though we really haven't run into disease amongst the party, the heartstone has since become a vital part of my character's roleplay and one of her signature items. She often ventures out to heal the sick and the wounded, and she makes liberal use of the heartstone when she does so, pressing the symbol (and the stone) against their skin as she says prayers of healing over them. Even used it at one point to purge a parasite from a village's water supply that was causing a crippling illness. It's gotten to the point that the rest of the party has taken to calling the stone the "Red Heart" and given her the title of "Bearer of the Red Heart and Slayer of Wickedness and Disease," among others. She hates any sort of recognition, so they love to tease her with it. I can only imagine how the night hag must feel if she knew what's being done with her heartstone. :D

I have always wanted Dungeon Dudes to do a video on Disease and Poisons and how they work in an adventure. I hope they eventually do one.

Interestingly enough actually, I just gave my group a set of boots of Elvenkind, and the rogue told them to give them to the cleric to negate the effect of his chain mail. Did not quite see that coming when I was setting up loot for that session.

2:04 +1-3 weapons, armor, and shields 5:23 Adamantine armor 7:22 Boots/Cloak of Elvenkind 9:01 Broom/Rug of Flying 12:38 Cape of the Mountebank 14:37 Elven Chain 17:09 Goggles of Night 18:39 Periapt of Proof Against Poison 20:43 Sentinel Shield 23:01 Wand of Magic Missiles

Monti: I got a critical hit! Joe: We don't take those here.

18:48 periapt of proof against poison Albrech, my level 5 Dwarven forge cleric, says, "What in hells would you want that for!? No one needs a collar of sobriety!"

The Alchemy Jug is one of my favorite for its versatility. I mean, besides the obvious 8 gallons of fresh water in a desert, you'd be surprised how often 2 gallons of mayonaise may solves your problems.

That poison immunity item made me think of an idea I heard for the lair of a lich or demilich. Since they are undead, and their minions usually are as well, and thus immune to poison, they could fill their entire lair with poison gass as a defence mechanism. A party facing that would really love that item.

I gave a halfling a decanter of endless water. He was trying to break into a building that had guards posted at all the doors and barred shutters on the windows. I tell him there is an open window on the second story but no hand holds to make the climb up. He says I will stand under the window lean over my decanter point it at the ground and call forth a geyser. After a passes strength check to hold on to the decanter and a passed athletics/acrobatics check to catch hold of the windowsill he climbed into the window. I think that was the most inventive way anyone has used the decanter of endless water in any game I have been involved with.

My DM and I were bitching about the fact that my badass Halfling Rogue didn't have darkvision, and I always envisioned her with night vision goggles on. Cue next session and our party just happens to find some goggles in a chest... the wizard studies them... Oh, look at that! Goggles of Night!

Wand of Magic missiles is also awesome for breaking concentration.

I once made a magic item called 'The Locket of instant Mustache' and when worn it gave the player a Grouchie Marks style mustache, giving them advantage on deception check when trying to pass of as someone else.

I love the thought of a broom of flying or a magic carpet liking to snuggle with its owner as if it was a pet. :)

My players were shopping for magic items, and I used the random table in Xanathar's to determine what they find. They rolled... the Folding Boat. I thought they would just pass on it, but they bought it. We'll see what they plan to do with it!

I've been tagged to be the DM for family night D&D (Dads and Daughters) since I played waaaaay back in Advanced D&D. Your channel has been invaluable for me to get back up to speed on the new (to me) system and running a campaign. I of course will have to take them through the first module that I ever played, B2 Keep on the Border Lands after our zero session this weekend. Thanks guys, very inspirational!

"Boots of Elvenkind, perfect for rogues, monks and rangers." OR for paladins in chain mail who don't want the permanent stealth disadvantage ^^' (Not sure if the boots are *intended* to work that way, but they do in our game.)

In a game, we got a lot of gold from a very long quest first thing we did was spring for Adamainte armour for our Eldritch Knight. It saved his life next session.

So the Boots of Elven Kind can negate Heavy Armor Stealth Disadvantage. Cool. So the Goggles of Night allows one to see in the dark. Okay. So the Sentinel Shield give bonus to perception. Awesome. My human paladin sneaks up behind the waiting goblin ambush party and says "Boo."

That "sorry" at 5:58 was the most Canadian thing I think I've ever heard. Love this channel!

The Wand of Magic Missiles really was the MVP in our last battle against a Roper, a monster with a whopping AC of 20 which you want to stay far away from so that it can't bite you, making it quite a challenge for fighters in melee range. Our rogue was glad to pelt the thing with magic instead of risking a bite from up close or trying to pierce its natural armour with crossbow bolts.

I tend to give out consumables, that gives that instant boost for the party - powder of invisibility, potion of firebreath, glass bead with poisonous cloud inside, sword soap of swift attacking. That kinda stuff.

Just wanted to say thank you guys. I have been looking for family time with my kids (ages 7, 8,and 9) and started a campaign with them. They absolutely love it. None of my adult friends will play but I love getting my dnd fix and spending family time together. I reference your videos all the time

I was running the Death House module for my daughter and a friend. My daughter searched a closet downstairs that was just a coat closet. I decided to make a top hat that was essentially a bag of holding. It had a fancy label that said Harry’s Magic. And under that it said Hat of Hiding. She loved it so much I decided that Harry’s Magic merchandise would be included somewhere is every campaign I run. 😄 Maybe one day she’ll come across a Harry’s Cloak of Concealing, or Deck of Deceiving. Haven’t decided what the deck will do yet, maybe if they use a magic trick in a social encounter it gives them a bonus on deception checks. 😄 The other character ended up searching the cleaning closet and found the antimatter broom. She wanted to try to befriend it and rolled well on her persuasion check, so she ended up with an animated broom 😂 Both of them were so freaking excited about their items.

Robe of Useful Items is an item I feel gets slept on a lot.

22:45 Just a note: Bards' Jack of All Trades feature lets them add half of their proficiency bonus to ALL checks that they're not already proficient in. Jeremy Crawford confirmed it on Sage Advice

my dwarven smith fighter spent all of his gold and a month or so of downtime to forge a set of Adamantine mail that has saved me more than anything else. "Oh! The giant croc's tail whip is a crit!" "No it isnt "

Wand of Magic Missiles is also a god-tier concentration spell killer. Even if they have warcaster, they only have to fail one saving throw for the concentration to die.

Cursed Item Ideas: Carpet of Dubious Flight: A carpet that never went to flight school. It can fly as per a normal flying carpet, but can not be controlled. Roll a D8 for direction and a D2 for up or down. Carpet of Nauseating/Terrifying Flight: A carpet that is capable of flying, but not with any stability. When attempting to ride the carpet, roll a Con Save every round the carpet moves, on a fail you become extremely nauseous. You are poisoned until the end of the round. Optionally, when riding, make a Wis Save or become frightened of the carpet until it lands. Cape of Vertical Flight: This cape grants 120ft of flight as a bonus action. The cape may only move in one direction, up. The wearer moves towards the sky/ceiling and may only move the maximum distance. No more, no less. Once you are in the air you must either continue moving upward, or your begin to fall. Hope you brought a parachute!

5:23 Adamantine Armour - I discovered this when I went with getting super high AC, but then would get hit by a critical hit.(Which would hurt a lot!) It is worth getting this vice the Armor +1.

My rogue bought our paladin some boots of elven kind to stop Sir Pots and Pans from ruining every stealth approach I set up.

Man, on the point about how a +1 can make a huge difference. The party instigated combat in one room, and got a Ring of Protection from it. The following room was a boss fight, and they literally only survived because the one party member dodged two hits from the Big Bad with that +1 AC. It was *huge* and was one of those awesome moments as a DM that I could never, in a million years, have planned for. Edit: The party looked like they were going to avoid combat too, and sacrifice that ring.

Note to the audience, be careful when you give out Sentinel Shield. I did this recently, expecting it to go to the fighter and provide a moderate buff. They gave it to the Passive Perception 23 Knowledge Cleric (observant feat), giving him advantage on perception. This means a bonus to Passive as well.... His passive perception is now 27, and he's level 5! He sees EVERYTHING :-)

A gauntlet crossbow that can be fired as an extra bonus action If you have tinkerers tools, it can become a rapid fire crossbow, a grappling hook, explosive arrows, or a sniper Oil that can be put onto a sword that can be set alight to deal 1d6 extra initial damage, and if it crits, it sets the enemy alight, dealing an extra 1d4 damage per round

I once gave, a carpet of flying with magical intelligence that was afraid of heights to my party.

5:23 when you have an AC of 19 and a crit is the only thing that can touch you, take Adamantine Armor, Rage, which halves damage, Bear Totem, and on top of that, +1 or +2 shield, and a feat that can reduce slashing, piercing and Bludgeoning by three, you are a powerhouse.

"Human Variants downside is they dont get Dark Vision" I was thinking of running a Human Variant Gloom Stalker..

My favorite magic item of all time is Dust of Dryness. So many applications to the beads it creates. Example: I used it on a large supply of holy water which we then used against a hag in trollskull manor.

Rogue + Broom of flying + Fireball = 🎵Undetected, unexpected wings of glory tell their story🎵

I’ve just became the DM and was worried about magical items to give my party and this video just saved me 🙌

One way to introduce otherwise powerful items to lower level parties is to homebrew significantly weaker variants of a given item, like a broom of flying that is usable once per day for ten minutes, with a speed of 30', requires a short magic ritual to activate, and each round the rider must succeed on a DC 10 (DC 15 in combat) will save to compel the broom to move (otherwise it will hover in it's current location until next round). Think about that. Now you've got an item that can allow the party to bypass a river or canyon or castle walls once per day but with some difficulties (and the potential for the DM to greatly complicate the act due to the will saves required to make the broom work), but doesn't allow travel over long distances, and requiring a ritual for activation so it can't just be pulled out in combat and used on the fly. All of these constraints allow a party some use of the item without it being a full on gamebreaker.

I love the cape of the monteback. A level 1 player had to join our level 13-14 AL table. The we are sleeping in gets attacked by 2 ancient dragons, there is no way out except through the dragons. I'm already on the ceiling because slippers of spiderclimb so I drop the cloak on him and yell the trigger word. Now he's in the village center able to evacuate citizens while we fight the dragons.

I was a Paladin with Adamantium Armour... and used Combat Style: Protection to give foes disadvantage on my allies. My GM told me that there were SO many crits if it wasn't for me. Felt really good!

Yes ive been looking for some of these thank you so much

I just obtained the cloak of the bat (DM changed it to cloak of the raven in keeping with my raven queen flavor I have for my shadar-kai.) I cannot begin to tell you the massive impact it has had for my character’s personal growth and his ability to do interesting new things. Light becomes a glaring weakness suddenly, and I find myself consistently analyzing the battlefield for shadows so that if I should need an escape plan from being surrounded, I have it. Oh; I haven’t even used it’s transformation feature yet either! I’m saving it to surprise the group in a suitably epic moment where I turn into a raven :D

Gem of brightness is an uncommon wondrous item that does not require attunement. It glows a little brighter than a torch but gives added utility to blind a single creature for one charge, or a cone for 5 charges. The added utility is great in a pinch.

Don't forget Mithral Armor as well. Great way to have your plate armor tank not be completely terrible with Stealth. With proficiency they might actually be somewhat good at it while still being high AC.

My Human Ranger bought 5 Darkvision scrolls & hasn't had to use 1 of them since.

I prefer the dagger (weapon) of warning you don't need to have it out to get the advantage on initiative and you can't be unaware of attackers and will even wake you up

I always love hearing about the clanky paladin in heavy plate but with green elvish slippers (to offset the disadvantage)...

I ended up getting Goggles of Night for my human eldritch knight in an ongoing Ravenloft campaign. They’re slightly reskinned to resemble dark teashades (think Ozzy Osbourne’s sunglasses), and homebrewed so the wearer can also see into the ethereal plane within 10 feet. Which means my character has seen *a lot* of tormented souls of the departed. Still, I get to have the image of him stylishly flicking his night-vision shades out and slipping them on as he strides into the darkness.

Can we get a shout-out to the Rope of Climbing? Available at level 2 to Artificers as an Infusion (which also makes it expendable), it has incredible utility for all sorts of situations in and out of combat. Need to reach out and trigger a trapped item? Have the rope wind it's way over there, tie onto the object, and then give it a good tug. Need to create a rock fall trap? Tie a tarp onto one end, have the loose end wind over a sturdy branch or rock formation and secure itself, then climb up and fill the tarp with rocks (the rope can support up to 3000lbs). All it takes is a touch and a command and the rope will drop the rock-filled tarp onto an unsuspecting foe's head. Need to climb anything in increments of about 50ft? Need to bind shut a mummy's sarcophagus with the creature trapped inside? The Rope of Climbing is the item for you.

a lot of cool stuff and ideas here dudes. i've used your videos for a lot of help as a new DM. THANKS DUDES

My favorite magic item that doesn't require attunement is the Clockwork Amulet from Xanathar's Guide. Once per day being able to go, "No, I'm not rolling to hit you. 10+Mods is my hit chance." My current PC has managed to acquire a total of +10 to hit, and we've been going up against AC 18's lately, so it's been an autohit if needed.

Doods!! I love your vids. You always come up with awesome subject matter and it's always inspirational.

One of your most informative videos yet, good work

My battle smith artificer just got a wand of magic missiles and my dm let me spent a lot of time tinkering to put it in my steel defender so that it could make use of it defensive abilities while still having good target prioritization.

I love your videos! Could you possibly make one about spending downtime in game? Such as possible activities or when it’s good to have downtime in your campaign. I’m a new DM and have been a little confused about this aspect of the game

Great list of stuff guys!

I have a recurring character in my homebrew world. He is a travelling purveyor of magical items of his own design. The problem is that he is not a well-trained magic user so his items are usually useless, have minor cosmetic effects, or are detrimental in minor, humorous ways. The party's favourite is the Horn of Stealth. It casts Pass Without Trace when blown but can be heard for 300ft.

Awesome idea for a video, I don't think many others have done a list like this

I use a good many of those items in my game haha love this video

I love the wand of magic missile, we found one at level 2 and gave it to my bard. It's been so nice to have a good solid damage option. Still using it regularly now at lvl 6.

Loved the video BTW: PLEASE make a review of the UA Clockwork Soul Sorcerer (Monty: i'm sure you would love the spell list)

You guys definitely have a way of growing on people. Keep up the great work!

So much inspiration! Thanks!

I keep hearing you say "Adamantium" when it is spelled "Adamantine"

I love the cape of mountebank on my cleric - healing word isn't as much healing as cure wounds and it's nice to be able to pop out of melee to heal a caster.

On the topic of +1/2/3 weapons, something my DM did was give my PC a +2 weapon that used one die smaller than the standard version (in this case a war hammer that did d6/d8 instead of d8/d10). So it had the same possible max damage as my old one, but at a higher minimum damage and a greater chance to hit.

I've made and given 'signature' weapons to my players, these specific weapons grow and level with its wielder.

The wand of Magic Missiles has another great use: Being the concentration grinder. If you hit a spellcaster with all of those missiles, they are going to have to make a crapton of concentration checks. Yes, the DC for these is 10, but the chance of hitting a roll low when you have to roll about 8 times is higher than you might realize. Especially when enemy casters don't tend to have high CON saves.

Honorable mention to the Lantern of Revealing. Had a no darkvision dragonborn and that solved a lot. Plus revealing invisible stuff is handy.

That wand of magic missile is so nice. I’ve burnt through one already in the current game I’m playing in

Lol, Adamantium Armor. "I melted Wolverine's skeleton and made full plate out of it."

When I first started DMing I avoided magic items like the plague, small wonder then that all my players eventually discarded their original characters and played Paladins, Eldritch Knights, and Wizards.

If you combine the largest Flying Carpet (which can move 30 feet per round with 800 lb capacity) with the spell Tenser's Floating Disk, which can carry up to 500 lbs, so long as your Carpet flies no higher than 100 feet off the ground, you can transport 1'300 lbs, over half a tonne, all at once. If you don't mind moving at a 15 foot per round crawl, then you can carry 2'100 lbs, almost an entire tonne of characters and gear.

My DM slightly homebrewed a Wand of Magic Missiles for us. We were still level 2 when we got it, so full power might have been a bit op for it. Basically just lowered it from 7 charges to 4. I got it. I've only used it once, so far, but I think it's gonna see a lot of use as time goes by.

Anytime my dm when he says” you can pick any uncommon item to start off with the campaign. Me within a half a second “ OK I’ll take full plate adamantine thank you very much”

"Immunity to poison damage and poisoned immunity" *laughs in yuan-ti pureblood*

Bag of tricks: 3 creatures at day, you can have a lot, if can buy them

Nicely done!

Completely agree with your list, keep up the good work ! Giving Elven Chain to a character who is already proficient with medium armor is kind of a waste, though, since those characters can simply buy better nonmagical armor for themselves (and yes, I understand the downside of disadvantage on stealth checks, but most parties only have 1 or 2 stealthy people anyway).

In our party of me the paladin, fighter, monk and druid. We found sentinel shield since advantage on perception checks give +5 to passive perception we decided to give it to druid and be our EYES AND EARS with 23 passive perception. It's really difficult for something to go unnoticed around our druid. And since I'm more on a supportive duty I prefer to have lower initiative and smite when something needs to die really fast.

I love what they said about "Nothing beats blocking a DM's crit", this is so true. I'm currently playing a Rune Knight with the cloud rune, my DM is starting to dread rolling a crit.

The Broom of Flying came up on a table I rolled for a shop in a Ravnica game I ran, and the Goblin demolitions worker suddenly because the Green Goblin, and I had some regrets, but it was also amazing and memorable.

Don't forget that Elven chain and Adamantine armor are nonmagical, If a DM feels masochistic and those can be enhanced with the +1/2/3 bonuses.

Thank you....got 2 new items to add to my campaign.

Great video!

I run a youth adventure league and they will never know how many magic items they get cause of your videos so there are 8 kids that would thank you if they new

Our DM once Home Brewed a "Hot Plate", A circular Metal disk about a Foot round, that Had Hot, Warm, Cold, inscribed around the edges in Dwarven. By saying each word in various combinations, the plate heats up to pretty much any temperature from room temperature to nearly red hot. We found it in the counter of the Kitchen in an Old Dwarven Keep. Rogue once used it to "backstab" a White Dragon. He was able to sneak around behind & above the dragon, then leapt down Saying "hot" as fast as he could to make it Nearly red hot. Landed on the dragons neck and Really Pissed it off.... Did some massive damage for the couple rounds the Rogue managed to stay on its back.

We gave the boots of elven kind to out Goliath paladin. Because the boots offer +2 to dexterity, it negated his -2 Dex, allowing him to have flat initiative roles. As our main damage dealer, it helped a lot.

I play an elven finesse based paladin tank who uses a glaive. I took Alert at lvl 4 and with my high DEX, I have an initiative bonus of +9. This helps me stay at the top of every turn and never being surprised is helpful when you're the pin cushion. Adamantite half-plate helps too.

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Most OP magic item ever: Cloak of Billowing. Description: As a bonus action, you make the cloak billow dramatically. I love it and must have it. With this cloak, I will be unstoppable!

Cape of Montebank: When your player wants to be Cloak from Marvel. Pair them with a Soulknife for a comic adventure.

I wish you would have summarized your list in the description. As it was, I skipped forward and played a x1.5 speed due to the length of the video. All that being said, this is a useful list for both DMs and players.

I once ran that campaign in which I did all kinds of homebrewing just because I wanted to include airships and steampunky stuff. In that I also included a homebrewn flying board that worked like a flying broom, but looked like silver surfers surfboard and could only be used for 1 hour before it had to be recharged at a chrging station that was typically on board of an airship or in an airship harbour. Those things were meant to serve as easy ways of going down from the ships and back up onto them and also as replacements for liveboats, but I also didn#t want to hand the players permanent flying hence the timelimit. Even with that limitation we had a lot of fun with those boards including a huge air battle in which everybody was riding one of those boards and the enemies had to eventually retreat to not run out of flying time and a skill challenge in which failing the challenge meant losing some of the limited flying time and maybe not making it back to the airship. So basically giving such a limitation or downside to a powerfull item can make for an even more interesting item that grants more fun in the end.

I'm playing my cleric almost entirely as support, so I always want to go early in the initiative order to get up an important concentration spell, but my dex bonus is 0. So I took Gift of Alacrity from Fey Touched, and then shortly afterwards received a Sentinel Shield. So I went from having +0 to initiative to now having advantage and +1d8 on every initiative roll. Can't wait to start going first all the time! Also my Perception bonus is +7, so having advantage on that will be fun too.

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Thanks for the content.