Magic Items

Wand of Paralysis
Wand, rare (requires attunement by a spellcaster)
This wand has 7 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 of its charges to cause a thin blue ray to streak from the tip toward a creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The Target makes a DC 15 Con Save. On failed the target is paralyzed for 1 minute. At the end of each of the target’s turns, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success.

The wand regains 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the wand’s last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into ashes and is destroyed.

Nolzur’s Marvelous Pigments
Wondrous item, very rare
Typically found in 1d4 pots inside a fine wooden box with a brush (weighing 1 pound in total), these pigments allow you to create three-dimensional objects by painting them in two dimensions. The paint flows from the brush to form the desired object as you concentrate on its image.

Each pot of paint is sufficient to cover 1,000 square feet of a surface, which lets you create inanimate objects or terrain features—such as a door, a pit, flowers, trees, cells, rooms, or weapons—that are up to 10,000 cubic feet. It takes 10 minutes to cover 100 square feet.

When you complete the painting, the object or terrain feature depicted becomes a real, nonmagical object. Thus, painting a door on a wall creates an actual door that can be opened to whatever is beyond. Painting a pit on a floor creates a real pit, and its depth counts against the total area of objects you create.

Nothing created by the pigments can have a value greater than 25 gp. If you paint an object of greater value (such as a diamond or a pile of gold), the object looks authentic, but close inspection reveals it is made from paste, bone, or some other worthless material.

If you paint a form of energy such as fire or lightning, the energy appears but dissipates as soon as you complete the painting, doing no harm to anything.

This armor is made of pliant
material from worn, laurel tree
bark with stylized carvings of
dancing dryads burnt into it.
Small bits of green moss
accentuate the wood, allowing
the wearer to gain advantage
on Dexterity (Stealth) checks
when in a forest. This item
functions as +3 armor (hide)
(see the Dungeon Master’s
Guide).

This two-inch fiddle is
constructed of gilded wood,
with strings made of silver
unicorn hair. When held, the
fiddle resizes appropriately
for its wielder, though it
shrinks back down to its
original size when not in
use. This item functions as a
instrument of the bards
(anstruth harp) (see the
Dungeon Master’s Guide).

ivory-covered bronze horn of Valhalla

Though cloven in appearance,
these horseshoes fit the hooves
of a horse or similar creature
and are constructed of a
hardened reed as strong as
iron. The creature wearing
them leaves a trail of small
blooming flowers wherever it
treads, provided the plants can
take root. This item functions
as horseshoes of a zephyr (see
the Dungeon Master’s Guide).

This delicate ring is shaped
into a circle of miniature red,
blue, white, and purple
mushrooms, and glows with its
own inner light. Whenever a
charge is expended for another
property, a swarm of harmless,
multicolored dragonflies
appear in your space and fly
about for 1 minute. This item
functions as if a ring of shooting
stars (see the Dungeon Master’s
Guide).

The hilt of this shortsword
is decorated with images of
frolicking harengon and the
blade is constructed of a
shimmering dark purple
crystal. When wielded, you
gain a +2 bonus to initiative
if you’re not incapacitated.
This item functions as a +3
weapon (shortsword) (see
the Dungeon Master’s Guide).

Armor (shield), Very rare

This shield appears as a shroud of shadow with the symbol of the Raven Queen glowing in dim red light.

While holding this shield, nonmagical flames are extinguished within 30 feet of you as the shadow lashes out at the flame. The shield encourages you to hold no pity for those who suffer and die, for death is the natural end of life.

While holding this shield, you have a bonus to AC determined by the shield’s rarity. This bonus is in addition to the shield’s normal bonus to AC.

While wearing this armor, you gain a +2 bonus to AC. In addition, if an effect moves you against your will along the ground, you can use your reaction to reduce the distance you are moved by up to 10 feet.

Manual of Bodily Health
Wondrous Item, very rare

This leather-bound tome smells of rich mahogany and contains health, fitness, and diet tips, as well as an impressive collection of varied recipes for every occasion. The name “Montague” has been written on the inside front cover, possibly indicating a previous owner. A description of this item can be found on page 180 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide.

Tome of Clear Thought
Wondrous item, very rare
This book contains memory and logic exercises, 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 Intelligence score increases by 2, as does your maximum for that score. The manual then loses its magic, but regains it in a century.