Magic Items

Ring, uncommon (requires attunement)
This unassuming ring crafted from black silver features three striking red rubies. Curiously, it appears to possess a consciousness of its own and may withhold its powers until
the following dawn if it senses you speaking falsehoods or engaging in malicious actions. While wearing this ring, you have advantage on Wisdom (Insight) checks to determine whether someone is lying to you.

Staff, weapon (quarterstaff), very rare (requires attunement)
The Staff of Fate appears to have been intricately grown over with elm wood, concealing its true nature. Yet, the allure of blue crystals peeking through the wood's knots and at its end hints at its mystical power, cleverly masquerading as a mere walking stick.
This transparent crystal staff can be wielded as a magic quarterstaff that grants a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it. Altered Outcome. The staff has 6 charges. As a bonus action, you can expend 1 of the staff's charges to give yourself or one other creature that you can see a d4. The recipient can roll this d4 and add the number rolled to one ability check, attack roll, damage roll, or saving throw it makes before the start of your next turn. If this extra die is not used before then, it is lost. If you expend the staff's last charge, roll a d20. On a roll of 9 or lower, the staff becomes a nonmagical quarterstaff that breaks the first time it scores a hit and deals damage. On a roll of 10 or higher, the staff regains 1d6 of its expended charges. Versatile. This weapon can be used with one or two hands. A damage value in parentheses appears with the property—the damage when the weapon is used with two hands to make a melee attack.

Armor (shield), very rare (requires attunement)
This shield is made from the scale of an ancient white dragon. It has a rune burned into its outward-facing side. A character who examines the rune and succeeds on a DC 20 Intelligence (History) check recognizes it as an uven (“enemy” in Giant) rune that confers great power.

While holding the shield, you benefit from the following properties.

Winter’s Friend. You are immune to cold damage.

Deadly Rebuke. Immediately after a creature hits you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to deal 3d6 necrotic damage to that creature.

Bane. You can cast the bane spell from the shield (save DC 17). The spell does not require concentration and lasts for 1 minute. Once you cast the spell from the shield, you can’t do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Gift of Vengeance. You can transfer the shield’s magic to a nonmagical weapon by tracing the uven rune on the weapon with one finger. The transfer takes 8 hours of work that requires the two items to be within 5 feet of each other. At the end, the shield is destroyed, and the rune is etched or burned into the chosen weapon. This weapon becomes a rare magic item that requires attunement. It has the properties of a +1 weapon. The bonus increases to +3 when the weapon is used against one of the following creature types, chosen by you at the time of the magic weapon’s creation: aberrations, celestials, constructs, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, giants, or undead.

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.

Notes: Immunity: Cold, Damage, Warding

Item Tags: DAMAGE WARDING

Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

Wondrous Item, legendary (requires attunement) While wearing this belt, your Strength score changes to 29. The item has no effect on you if your Strength without the belt is equal to or greater than 29. The storm giant quintessent Dessa imbued this belt with her elemental strength. When the belt’s fantastic strength is used lightning dances around the wearer while a warm desert wind blows in the area.

While holding this rod, you can use an action to activate it. The rod then instantly transports you and up to 199 other willing creatures you can see to a paradise that exists in an extraplanar space. You choose the form that the paradise takes. It could be a tranquil garden, lovely glade, cheery tavern, immense palace, tropical island, fantastic carnival, or whatever else you can imagine. Regardless of its nature, the paradise contains enough water and food to sustain its visitors. Everything else that can be interacted with inside the extraplanar space can exist only there. For example, a flower picked from a garden in the paradise disappears if it is taken outside the extraplanar space. For each hour spent in the paradise, a visitor regains hit points as if it had spent 1 Hit Die. Also, creatures don't age while in the paradise, although time passes normally. Visitors can remain in the paradise for up to 200 days divided by the number of creatures present (round down). When the time runs out or you use an action to end it, all visitors reappear in the location they occupied when you activated the rod, or an unoccupied space nearest that location. The rod can't be used again until ten days have passed. Guardian: You gain a +2 bonus to initiative rolls

Wondrous Item, Legendary (Requires Attunement)

While wearing this cloak, you can pull its hood over your head to cause yourself to become invisible. While you are invisible, anything you are carrying or wearing is invisible with you. You become visible when you cease wearing the hood. Pulling the hood up or down requires an action.

Deduct the time you are invisible, in increments of 1 minute, from the cloak's maximum duration of 2 hours. After 2 hours of use, the cloak ceases to function. For every uninterrupted period of 12 hours the cloak goes unused, it regains 1 hour of duration.

Guardian. This cloak warns of impending threats through a litany of vengeful proclamations that only the bearer can hear, granting a +2 bonus to initiative if the bearer isn’t incapacitated.

This tattered mantle of gossamer white silk once adorned the shoulders of The Simbul’s vengeful simulacrum. An echo of the construct’s animating force has suffused the fabric, causing the hem of the garment to glow with a faint, silvery sheen.

(Art: Johanna Johnson)

Wondrous Item, Common

While held up to your ear, this horn suppresses the effects of the deafened condition on you, allowing you to hear normally.

Beacon. The bearer can use a bonus action to cause the item to shed bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet, or to extinguish the light.

This ear cuff is sculpted from amber resin, and molded to fit into the contours of the wearer’s auricle. A gold clasp and chain that fits over the wearer’s helix holds the accessory in place.

Wondrous Item, common
This spellbook, along with anything written on its pages, can't be damaged by fire or immersion in water. In addition, the spellbook doesn't deteriorate with age.

od, legendary (requires attunement)

A long rod that appears to be made of oaken wood as hard as steel. The wood seems to shift and change as it is viewed from a different angle, perhaps a lingering remnant of the mythal’s fracturing effect.

This rod has a flanged head, and it functions as a magic mace that grants a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it. The rod has properties associated with six different buttons that are set in a row along the haft. It has three other properties as well, detailed below.

Six Buttons. You can press one of the rod’s six buttons as a bonus action. A button’s effect lasts until you push a different button or until you push the same button again, which causes the rod to revert to its normal form.

If you press button 1, the rod becomes a flame tongue, as a fiery blade sprouts from the end opposite the rod’s flanged head (you choose the type of sword).

If you press button 2, the rod’s flanged head folds down and two crescent-shaped blades spring out, transforming the rod into a magic battleaxe that grants a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it.

If you press button 3, the rod’s flanged head folds down, a spear point springs from the rod’s tip, and the rod’s handle lengthens into a 6-foot haft, transforming the rod into a magic spear that grants a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it.

If you press button 4, the rod transforms into a climbing pole up to 50 feet long, as you specify. In surfaces as hard as granite, a spike at the bottom and three hooks at the top anchor the pole. Horizontal bars 3 inches long fold out from the sides, 1 foot apart, forming a ladder. The pole can bear up to 4,000 pounds. More weight or lack of solid anchoring causes the rod to revert to its normal form.

If you press button 5, the rod transforms into a handheld battering ram and grants its user a +10 bonus to Strength checks made to break through doors, barricades, and other barriers.

If you press button 6, the rod assumes or remains in its normal form and indicates magnetic north. (Nothing happens if this function of the rod is used in a location that has no magnetic north.) The rod also gives you knowledge of your approximate depth beneath the ground or your height above it.

Drain Life. When you hit a creature with a melee attack using the rod, you can force the target to make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw. On a failure, the target takes an extra 4d6 necrotic damage, and you regain a number of hit points equal to half that necrotic damage. This property can’t be used again until the next dawn.

Paralyze. When you hit a creature with a melee attack using the rod, you can force the target to make a DC 17 Strength saving throw. On a failure, the target is paralyzed for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success. This property can’t be used again until the next dawn.

Terrify. While holding the rod, you can use an action to force each creature you can see within 30 feet of you to make a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, a target is frightened of you for 1 minute. A frightened target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. This property can’t be used again until the next dawn.

Damage: 1d6+3
Damage Type: Bludgeoning
Weight: 4

Ring, uncommon
A cobalt blue metal band with an internal ring that spins freely, though the arcane rune always settles above the finger rather than below.

While wearing this ring, you can stand on and move across any liquid surface as if it were solid ground.

Wondrous Item, Very Rare (Requires Attunement) A black opal pendant hangs at the base of this pearlescent chain. The sacred rune is inscribed on the back of the pendant. While wearing this item, you have resistance to necrotic damage. Additionally, you can cast the Spare the Dying cantrip using either an action or a bonus action.

Invoking the Rune. When a creature you can see within 60 feet of you is reduced to 0 hit points as a result of taking damage, you can use your reaction to invoke the item’s rune, causing the pendant to flash with pale light. The creature then instead drops to 1 hit point.

Once the rune has been invoked, it can’t be invoked again until the next dawn.

Weapon (Morningstar), Legendary (Requires Attunement)

The spikes of this iron morningstar glow with sickly, pale light. The death rune is inscribed on its shaft and inlaid with pearl.

You gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this weapon, and attacks with this weapon deal necrotic damage instead of piercing damage. When you attack a creature with this weapon and roll a 20 on the attack roll, you gain 10 temporary hit points. Any creature that hits you with a melee attack while you have 1 or more of these temporary hit points takes 10 necrotic damage.

Invoking the Rune. As a bonus action, you can invoke the weapon’s rune, unleashing the screams of every creature slain by the weapon in one cacophonous burst. Each creature of your choice within 60 feet of you must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or have the stunned condition until the start of your next turn.

Once the rune has been invoked, it can’t be invoked again until the next dawn.

Wondrous Item, legendary
This cube is 3 inches across and radiates palpable magical energy. The six sides of the cube are each
keyed to a different plane of existence, one of which is the Material Plane. The other sides are linked to
planes determined by the GM. You can use an action to press one side of the cube
to cast the gate spell with it, opening a portal to the plane keyed to that side. Alternatively, if you use an
action to press one side twice, you can cast the plane shift spell (save DC 17) with the cube and transport
the targets to the plane keyed to that side. The cube has 3 charges. Each use of the cube
expends 1 charge. The cube regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. This item can be found on
Magic Item Table I in the Dungeon Master’s Guide.

Created by the wizard Hilather, the six sides of this cube are covered in characters from the language of
Alzhedo. The six sides are keyed to: the Prime Material, the Elemental Plane of Fire, the Nine Hells,
the Far Realm, the Outlands, and Arborea.

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