So I was having a lovely conversation with @princeofsparrows about magic and magical items and he sent me several links to very useful lists and tables. Those can be used by any DM to improve the game and set some more fun/challenge into the game without adding enemies or limiting themselves to always better armors and weapons.
My players usually discuss for an hour about the best way to open every door with a single rune on it (even if the rune actually just means “toilets”). So if I give them an omniously glowing fork and they will turn around it for half of the evening…
We decided to share with you some links with awesome ideas for loot (or your NPC merchants). The links below include (but are not limited to):
Belt of Pants: This belt creates illusory pants on the wearer. The wearer can suppress the illusion at will.
Digging Spoon: This tiny spoon can dig through any substance with a forceful push.
Hungry coin: Cursed. Will attempt to eat other coins that it comes into contact with. Eats 100 coins an hour.
Crossbow of Whispers (Weapon, light crossbow): You can use an action to whisper a message and fire a bolt from this weapon at a target within range. If you hit, the target (and only the target) hears the message.
Scroll of Cure Blindness: Cures blindness when read.
101 Silly/Useless Magic Items – You need to read through 7 pages of the thread but there are some very nice ideas!
1001 most useless (dungeons and dragons) magical items – There are actually 21 of them on this list but they are really useless. It could be nice to drop something like that on the players so they can have some fun…
Now I will let @princeofsparrows to continue. He still has some things to add 🙂
The great thing about a lot of these items is that, despite their apparent uselessness, as with most things in D&D, an innovative player can find some use for it… and I feel it throws a bit of a wrench into the mix. Here are some other honorable mentions:
Real Talk Tip to NA F/GOers For The Long Run: Make sure you have this:
A strong team of Casters, ideally including Single Target NPs.
A strong team of Lancers, ideally including Single Target NPs.
Servants that have Evasion/Invulnerability, Taunts, or both. David, specifically, can provide a full party one hit Evasion, so I recommend training him as well.
Casters counter Assassins and Lancers counter Archers. Why is this important? Enemy Assassins and Archers have a 3-charge gauge, the shortest in the game. They will NP every three turns. This is huge later on, when you fight bosses with 500k+ HP and in some cases with 1 million+ HP. Imagine trying to deplete 1 million HP with an NP coming at you every three turns. You WILL want maximum survivability, because no amount of DPS will help you avoid enemy NPs there.
You’ll want to be able to freely redirect and nullify enemy NPs as much as you possibly can. When you get sufficiently deep in the game, nullifying risk becomes impossible in many battles, and instead you minimize damage. You are going to EVENTUALLY take NPs, if a battle stretches out, so when that becomes the case, you want to have Class advantage at least. It can help you survive NPs and accelerate the damage process so you can actually win a fight at all.
not to get mad nerdy but I just discovered tabletopaudio.com and I’m fuckin losing it
this person (people?) goes about making 10 minute long loopable ambient noise tracks for every imaginable setting (docks, taverns, forests, airships, spaceships, office buildings, sewers, EVERYTHING) and has over a hundred tracks to offer, and on top of that if none of them suit you there’s a huge feature called soundpad where you can mix and match from their set of hundreds of individual sound effects and music clips to make your own ambient background track
holy shit dudes
I did a little further reading on his about and the guy running this is just a dad with two kids who like playing tabletops with him and he had the composition and musical training to start making soundtracks for his games then decided to spread that to the world for absolutely free, he even welcomes you to use his tracks in your works (podcasts, videos etc) and is open to being hired for custom tracks
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