Magic Items

Very Rare
Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement by a bard) An instrument of the bards is an exquisite example of its kind, superior to an ordinary instrument in every way. Seven types of these instruments exist, each named after a legendary bard college. The following table lists the spells common to all instruments, as well as the spells specific to each one and its rarity. A creature that attempts to play the instrument without being attuned to it must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or take 2d4 psychic damage. You can use an action to play the instrument and cast one of its spells. Once the instrument has been used to cast a spell, it can’t be used to cast that spell again until the next dawn. The spells use your spellcasting ability and spell save DC. You can play the instrument while casting a spell that causes any of its targets to be charmed on a failed saving throw, thereby imposing disadvantage on the save. This effect applies only if the spell has a somatic or a material component. Spells: Fly, invisibility, levitate, protection from evil and good, control weather, cure wounds (5th level), wall of thorns

Optional rule, unique (requires attunement by a warlock with a quasit familiar)

The quasit K’nap, long trapped in Durlag’s Tower with the obese and foul nalfeshnee Schvalt, demonstrated a greater-than-average ability to perform autonomous actions. You have retained a bit of his fleeting essence, and may choose to bolster your own quasit familiar using a powerful ritual that requires the destruction of a powerful magic item. If you perform this ritual (see sidebar, below), your quasit familiar grants you access to the Variant: Quasit Familiar rule from the Monster Manual.

Quasit Familiar Ritual

If you defeated K’nap, you gain access to a special ritual. By spending five downtime days destroying the staff of thunder and lightning and mixing its arcane components with the essence of the quasit, you gain access to the Variant: Quasit Familiar rule as described on page 63 of the Monster Manual. Gaining the benefit of this variant rule uses one of your attunement slots. In addition, the destroyed staff permanently counts against the number of permanent magic items you possess, and can’t be traded—even if you later forfeit the benefit of this ritual. If you ever choose to “unattune” from the benefit of this ritual, the attunement slot is once more available, but the staff of thunder and lightning and the benefit of the ritual fueled by its destruction are forever lost, never to be reclaimed.