Magic Items

Moon-Touched Sword
Weapon (longsword), common
The blade of this longsword is etched with a hawk that has its wings spread and its talons extended.
In darkness, the unsheathed blade of this sword sheds moonlight, creating bright light in a 15-foot radius and dim light for an additional 15 feet.
This item can be found in the Xanathar’s Guide to Everything.
Special. The mooned-touched sword is a common magic item. It is treated like a potion or scroll and can only be claimed by one character in the party.

Sentinel Shield
Armor (shield), uncommon.
This oblong shield has an obvious eye motif with several eyes on its surface that occasionally blink. Grants the user advantage on initiative and perception (Wisdom). A shield is made from wood or metal and is carried in one hand. Wielding a shield increases your Armor Class by 2. You can benefit from only one shield at a time.

Tome of the Stilled Tongue
Wondrous item, major tier, legendary (requires attunement by a wizard)

This thick leather-bound volume has a desiccated tongue pinned to the front cover. Five of these tomes exist, and it's unknown which one is the original. The grisly cover decoration on the first tome of the stilled tongue once belonged to a treacherous former servant of the lich-god Vecna, keeper of secrets. The tongues pinned to the covers of the four copies came from other spellcasters who crossed Vecna. The first few pages of each tome are filled with indecipherable scrawls. The remaining pages are blank and pristine.

If you can attune to this item, you can use it as a spellbook and an arcane focus. In addition, while holding the tome, you can use a bonus action to cast a spell you have written in this tome, without expending a spell slot or using any verbal or somatic components. Once used, this property of the tome can't be used again until the next dawn.

While attuned to the book, you can remove the tongue from the book's cover. If you do so, all spells written in the book are permanently erased.

This specific tome belongs to Szass Tam, leader of the Red Wizards of Thay. He watches anyone using this tome and can also write cryptic messages in the book. These messages appear at midnight and fade away after they are read.

This item can be found in the Dungeon Master's Guide.

Stout (+2 Longsword)
Weapon (longsword), rare, Table G
This longsword has a cross-guard shaped like a tree branch and an oak tree embossed on its pommel. You gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magical longsword. In addition, the sword has the Gleaming minor property and never gets dirty.
This item can be found in the Dungeon Master’s Guide.

Mace of Smiting
Weapon (mace), rare

This mace is fashioned from a single piece of obsidian.

The following phrase is inscribed over and over in Draconic around the mace’s haft:
“Those willing to deny themselves the radiance of the starswould be better to pluck out their eyes and cast them away.”

You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon.
The bonus increases to +3 when you use the mace to attack a construct.

When you roll a 20 on an attack roll made with this weapon, the target takes an extra 7 bludgeoning damage, or 14 bludgeoning damage if it’s a construct.

If a construct has 25 hit points or fewer after taking this damage, it is destroyed.

Ruby of the War Mage
Wondrous item, common (requires attunement by a spellcaster)

This ruby is a roughly fashioned chunk of blood-red crystal. The red color pulses gently.

Etched with eldritch runes, this 1-inch-diameter ruby allows you to use a simple or martial weapon as a spellcasting focus for your spells. For this property to work you must attach the ruby to the weapon by pressing the ruby against it for at least 10 minutes. Thereafter the ruby can’t be removed unless you detach it as an action or the weapon is destroyed. Not even an antimagic field causes it to fall off. The ruby does fall off the weapon if your attunement to the ruby ends.

You have a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this weapon.

A figurine of wondrous power is a statuette of a beast small enough to fit in a pocket. If you use an action to speak the command word and throw the figurine to a point on the ground within 60 feet of you, the figurine becomes a living creature. If the space where the creature would appear is occupied by other creatures or objects, or if there isn't enough space for the creature, the figurine doesn't become a creature.

The creature is friendly to you and your companions. It understands your languages and obeys your spoken commands. If you issue no commands, the creature defends itself but takes no other actions.

The creature exists for a duration specific to each figurine. At the end of the duration, the creature reverts to its figurine form. It reverts to a figurine early if it drops to 0 hit points or if you use an action to speak the command word again while touching it. When the creature becomes a figurine again, its property can't be used again until a certain amount of time has passed, as specified in the figurine's description.

Bronze Griffon (Rare). This bronze statuette is of a griffon rampant. It can become a griffon for up to 6 hours. Once it has been used, it can't be used again until 5 days have passed.

Dragonhide Saddle
(Saddle of the Cavalier)
While in this saddle on a mount, you can’t be dismounted against your will if you’re conscious, and attack rolls against the mount have disadvantage.
This item is found on Magic Item Table B in the Dungeon Master’s Guide.
This saddle is made primarily out of the hide and bones of a red dragon. The saddle never gets dirty even in the grimiest of environments.

Dread Helm
Wondrous item, common
This fearsome steel helm makes your eyes glow red while you wear it.
The jagged horns on this helmet look quite intimidating

Auntie Helena’s Wand (Wand of Paralysis)
Wand, rare (requires attunement by a spellcaster)

This item can be found in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. The prickly gnarled piece of the corrupted Treant requires a drop of blood to activate. When a creature fails their saving throw, they envision themselves turning into a twisted, rotted tre

Amulet of the Devout, +2 Rare
Amulet of the Devout, +2 Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement by a cleric or paladin)
This amulet bears the symbol of a deity inlaid with precious stones or metals. While you wear the holy symbol, you gain a +2 bonus to spell attack rolls and the saving throw DCs of your spells. While you wear this amulet, you can use your Channel Divinity feature without expending one of the feature’s uses. Once this property is used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.

Wand of the War Mage +2

Wand, rare (requires attunement by a spellcaster)

This foot-long, twisted iron spike emits a faint coppery scent when channeling magical energies.

While holding this wand, you gain a +2 bonus to spell attack rolls. In addition, you ignore half cover when making a spell attack.

The red leather that covers this tome ist embossed with a smiling man with a third eye

This book contains guidelines for influencing and charming others, and its words are charged with magic. If you spend 48 hours over a period of 6 days or fewer studying the book's contents and practicing its guidelines, your Charisma score increases by 2, as does your maximum for that score. The manual then loses its magic, but regains it in a century.

Spellguard Shield
Armor (shield), very rare (requires attunement)

This steel shield is embossed with a longsword wrapped in thorny vines which end in roses in full bloom. The enamel coloring the roses is still vibrant.

While holding this shield, you have advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects, and spell attacks have disadvantage against you.

Militiade’s Shield (+3 Shield)
Very Rare
Militiade’s Shield (+3 Shield) (VR) This shield is decorated with symbols of service and fealty. The shield empathically encourages service to others and whenever the bearer considers performing a selfish act, the shield enhances pangs of conscience. While holding this shield, you have a +3 bonus to AC. This bonus is in addition to the shield’s normal bonus to AC.) (VR) This shield is decorated with symbols of service and fealty. The shield empathically encourages service to others and whenever the bearer considers performing a selfish act, the shield enhances pangs of conscience. While holding this shield, you have a +3 bonus to AC. This bonus is in addition to the shield’s normal bonus to AC.

Golden Apple (Astromancy Archive)
Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement by a wizard)

This brass disc of articulated, concentric rings unfolds into an armillary sphere. As a bonus action, you can unfold it into the sphere or back into a disc. When found, it contains the following spells, which are wizard pells for you while you are attuned to it: augury, divination, find the path, foresight, locate creature, and ocate object. It functions as a spellbook for you, with spells encoded on the rings.

While you are holding the archive, you can use it as a spellcasting focus for your wizard spells.

The archive has 3 charges, and it regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. You can use the charges in the following ways while holding it:

If you spend 1 minute studying the archive, you can expend 1 charge to replace one of your prepared wizard spells with a different spell in the archive. The new spell must be of the divination school.

When a creature you can see within 30 feet of you makes an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw, you can use your reaction to expend 1 charge and force the creature to roll a d4 and apply the number rolled as a bonus or penalty (your choice) to the original roll. You can do this after you see the roll but before its effects are applied.
This item is found in the Dungeon Masters Guide.

Created by the astral elves of the Paradise Moon, the leaves of the Golden Apple are made of brilliantly colored crystals, grown in the Crystal Grove of the Hesperides Temple. So that the adventurers may carry the Song of the Hesperides with them wherever they travel, whenever spells are cast through the item, its crystal leaves resonate against one another, ‘echoing’ a tiny portion of the ancient song back to its wielder.

Song Craft. Whenever this item is struck or is used to strike a foe, its bearer hears a fragment of an ancient song.

Smokepowder
Wondrous item, uncommon

Smokepowder is a magical explosive chiefly used to propel a bullet out of the barrel of a firearm. It is stored in airtight wooden kegs or tiny, waterproof leather packets. A packet contains enough smokepowder for five shots, and a keg holds enough smokepowder for five hundred shots.

If smokepowder is set on fire, dropped, or otherwise handled roughly, it explodes and deals fire damage to each creature or object within 20 feet of it: 1d6 for a packet, 9d6 for a keg. A successful DC 12 Dexterity saving throw halves the damage.

Casting dispel magic on smokepowder renders it permanently inert.

This item is found in Waterdeep: Dragon Heist.

Note: Smokepowder is awarded in a packet of five shots and includes bullets. While the bullets are not magical, in this instance they are included with the smokepowder. To simplify accounting deduct 6 gp (the cost of 20 bullets) from the portable item budget when awarding this consumable.