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Creative Item Ideas (lemmy.zip)
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This has probably come up somewhere but I am keen to hear your guys creative or interesting items you gave your players. I think there is a lot you can do but sometimes I get stuck in my head when thinking of cool items that are not just overpowered.

I go first: a magic music sheet that when played has a certain effect (in my case a "sonata of the forgotten", effect is pretty campaign specific) unslippable shoes, glowing chalk you can use to mark smth for example in a labyrinth and a mirror that makes invisible things visible

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[–] dgdft@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I tend to hand my players quasi-OP items while gating the power very deliberately so I can counterplay it as DM.

E.g. my party’s sorcerer got a magic amulet that can be activated once per long rest to give allies advantage on the next attack — but I added the catch that it only has a 5 ft effect radius, so the players can only exploit it so much without risking major AoE damage.

It’s a nice reliable buff most of the time, but forces the players to be strategic and take risks to make the most of it… And from an RP perspective, the enemy characters might be likely to notice the party grouping around some magic artifact and go after the sorcerer as a result.