What are your favourite items?

[Eslin]

As the title suggests, what items do you find most useful/interesting? Personally I love the hat of disguise and the tree feather token, both are cheap and have a multitude of uses.

[DrKirre]

In no particular order:
Rod of Wonder
Rod of Ropes
Immovable Rod
Sovereign Glue
...
I just realized how disturbing this list is....

[Kinsmarck]

In no particular order:
Rod of Wonder
Rod of Ropes
Immovable Rod
Sovereign Glue
...
I just realized how disturbing this list is....

Just keep it all in the basement, and no one has to call authorities...

For my part:
-The ever-popular 'Handy Haversack'
-The Rogue-in-an-item 'Ring of Lockpicking'
-The humble compass
-Wands of 'Magic Missile' and 'Cure ___ Wounds'

Yeah, I tend to like to fill in missing party roles with items that do their jobs for them. <<;

[tiercel]

Obvious item is obvious, but (Heward's) Handy Haversack is so useful that it's easy to forget (especially at really low levels) that "you can retrieve basically anything on your character sheet as a move-equivalent action that doesn't provoke AoO" isn't actually a regular rule until you pay 2000gp to enable it.

Often some of my favorite items are one-shot items, the kind that let you pull a rabbit out of the hat unexpectedly, even if it's just a random scroll or two from your class list (or ones that can be UMD'd). Standard choices are escape/teleportation, odd info-gathering, and randomly improbable alpha-strike attacks that don't care about saving throws.

I like to eventually have at least one item that is powerful/useful in RP/downtime. Lyre of building is one example; every hour of playing produces 600 person-days of labor, the applications are almost endless (even if it's an item that is rarely useful in a standard 4-encounter-a-day dungeon experience).

[Yora]

Belt of strength, gloves of dexterity, amulet of constitution, ring of protection, amulet of natural armor, bracers of armor, and elven boots and cloaks. Practical and usefull almost all the time.

[Darrin]

Stormfire Ring. 4000 GP, Magic Item Compendium. Area effect, negates invisibility, up to 25d6 electricity damage, no save.

[Keltaris]

Shapesand.

[Krobar]

In no specific order...

Handy Haversack (all my characters eventually end up with one)
Necklace of Strangulation (they usually end up with a couple of these, too)
Sovereign Glue

And a custom homebrew item called a Ring of Permanence. What it does is pretty simple. When you put it on, any one spell effect that is currently active upon you (your choice of which) is rendered permanent until you take the ring off, at which time it immediately dispels.

[Pandoras Folly]

Bag of flour

20 feet of modular pole

Sovreign glue

7 beaded curtains

Piece of goose down stuck the end of a shaped stick. its how the inuits hunt for seal on ice. The place the down into the seals breathing hole in the ice and the slightest movements are detected in the still air. After I showed the video to my DM he declared it an autowin button for quite a few skill checks, so seals are extinct on his game world.

[javijuji]

Mask of Lies. It was my 1st wondrous item on my first character. A Chaotic Neutral Bard.

[Leon]

Belt of Many Pockets ~ all the convenience of extra dimensional storage without being a backpack.

[Story]

And a custom homebrew item called a Ring of Permanence. What it does is pretty simple. When you put it on, any one spell effect that is currently active upon you (your choice of which) is rendered permanent until you take the ring off, at which time it immediately dispels.

Isn't that kind of broken? It like Incantrix/DMM in an item.

[Krobar]

Isn't that kind of broken? It like Incantrix/DMM in an item.

Kinda broken, yeah. But in the overall scheme of things, it's not really that overboard. It takes up a ring slot, and only affects one spell at a time. And Persistent Spell was banned in this particular game, and Craft Contingent Spell, although not banned, was significantly limited.

[FyreByrd]

Survival Pouch (Magic Item Compendium pg 187)

There is no problem that cannot be solved by pulling a mule out of a pouch.

[limejuicepowder]

I like virtually any wonderous item - extradimensional spaces, robe of eyes, that spoon that makes food; basically anything that has a convenient but not necessarily battle related use is fun.

What I don't like is insane sword +5 of chop your head off, or battle hammer of lol lots of damage, or floating shield of what the hell were the designers thinking, or clothing item of wow I'm way stronger/faster/tougher/smarter. When a character only becomes really good when they have some specific items, I start to squirm. At that point, the character is as much about the item(s) as they are about their abilities. Plus I hate when things can be taken away.

Yeah I know this is pretty much the antithesis of 3.5, but I can't help it. Maybe I should only play another system.

[sketchtb]

l'll second the survival pouch, last night I was feeding mules to a purple worm as a distraction for our escape.

In no real order:

Ring of telekinesis, H.H. Haversack, Aboleth Mucus, Survival Pouch, Potion Belt, any of the Feather Tokens

[JellyPooga]

There is no problem that cannot be solved by pulling a mule out of a pouch.

Except a mule-overpopulation problem.

Though I must agree that the Survival Pouch is very handy and somewhere near the top of my list!

I think my No.1 item, though, is the humble bandoleer. No matter what character I'm playing I almost always spring for a mundane version of the Belt of Many Pockets because A)it won't fail on you in an AMF and B)pockets are useful and C)it makes it that much easier to get your hands of your "quick-access" gear, like potions, Feather-tokens, marbles, etc. No rooting around in a cumbersome backpack for my characters!

Oh and Ring Gates. I just love 'em!

[thompur]

Heward's Handy Haversack-I play alot of characters that dump Str.
Circlet of Persuasion-I play a lot of characters that depend on Cha.
Quaal's Feather Token-Tree - Very useful in many different situations.
Gauntlets of Ghostfighting - I HATE miss chances.
Armor and Weapon Crystals - The right tool for the right job for cheap.
Apparatus of Kwalish - I've never gotten to get one, but it's so silly and goofy, yet potentially deadly, that it looks like it would be neat to have.(has anyone ever had one or used one in a game?)

[subject42]

Survival Pouch (Magic Item Compendium pg 187)

There is no problem that cannot be solved by pulling a mule out of a pouch.

This got me most of the way through the tomb of horrors, actually.


From Pathfinder, I love "troll styptic". It's ground-up troll that you can use to heal wounds non-magically.

[Lorsa]

I like the Deck of Many Things. I had my players run into one once when I was DMing and it was lots of fun!

[HMS Invincible]

I like chronocharms of the archmage, and horizon walker, IIRC. The former lets you turn fullround spells into standard, aka summon monster actually does something now, and the latter allows you to ignore one AoO.

[Platinum Piece]

Ring of the Beast, Amulet of Natural Attacks, Monk's Belt, Wildling Clasps.

Oh wait... Those are all druid items.

[Gildedragon]

As a DM I love decks of many things; watching the PCs act skittish whenever someone pulls out a deck of cards. Priceless

As a PC: Aureon Spellshards, Scrolls of Uncertain Provenance, Clear Spindle Iounstone, and from PF Cracked Oplaescent Pyramid Iounstone

[Jeff the Green]

♪♫♪♫♫♫♪♪♫♪♫♪♪♫♪♫♪♫♫♫♪♪♫
Chronocharms, shapesand, and rings of evasion
Masterwork tools and Incense (Meditation)
Enveloping pits and Graft'd Feathered Wings
These are a few of my favorite things
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Ioun Stones (the orange ones) and sentira armor
Aureon's Spellshard, a wand with a glamer
Some Raptor Arrows and Diamond Mind Rings
These are a few of my favorite things
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Thaalud stone armor and Serpentstongue Arrow
Compression dorjes when passageways narrow
Wintermoon Bows, endless flame on my bling
These are a few of my favorite things
♪♫♪♫♫♫♪♪♫♪♫♪♪♫♪♫♪♫♫♫♪♪♫
When the worg bites
When the formian stings
When I'm feeling sad
I simply grab all of my favorite things
And then I make them hurt bad!
♪♫♪♫♫♫♪♪♫♪♫♪♪♫♪♫♪♫♫♫♪♪♫

[almightycoma]

for mundane items 4 50ft coils of silk rope, masterwork adamantine manacles, those babies haves saves my mundane characters butt many times.
for magic items ring of sustenance (not eating and only two hours of rest yes please), anything that lets me breath under water(im super paranoid about that for some reason), and necklace of fireballs. i love that thing especially since my DM allows other energy types as well.

[Eldan]

Feather Token: tree. Best item ever.

Second place is the hat of disguise.

[herrhauptmann]

Handy haversack.
Steadfast boots. Shuts down all uberchargers if you've got a 2 handed weapon ready.
Boots of Mountainking.

Stormfire Ring. 4000 GP, Magic Item Compendium. Area effect, negates invisibility, up to 25d6 electricity damage, no save.

But it does have SR.
And it's only 1d6 a round (5 rounds per activation, 5 activations per day), so a lot less useful than 25d6 sounds.
Why not a persistent thunderhead spell?
1 point of lightning damage per round. For the entire day. :D 14400 damage, thank you very much.

[ArcturusV]

Probably Pain Extractor lately. Been playing Evil characters (That most of the party liked more than our Good Characters oddly enough).

[Squirrel_Dude]

Rod of Absorption. Because disintegrate has always terrified me.

[rot42]

♪♫♪♫♫♫♪♪♫♪♫♪♪♫♪♫♪♫♫♫♪♪♫
Chronocharms, shapesand, and rings of evasion
Masterwork tools and Incense (Meditation)
Enveloping pits and Graft'd Feathered Wings
These are a few of my favorite things
♪♫♪♫♫♫♪♪♫♪♫♪♪♫♪♫♪♫♫♫♪♪♫
Ioun Stones (the orange ones) and sentira armor
Aureon's Spellshard, a wand with a glamer
Some Raptor Arrows and Diamond Mind Rings
These are a few of my favorite things
♪♫♪♫♫♫♪♪♫♪♫♪♪♫♪♫♪♫♫♫♪♪♫
Thaalud stone armor and Serpentstongue Arrow
Compression dorjes when passageways narrow
Wintermoon Bows, endless flame on my bling
These are a few of my favorite things
♪♫♪♫♫♫♪♪♫♪♫♪♪♫♪♫♪♫♫♫♪♪♫
When the worg bites
When the formian stings
When I'm feeling sad
I simply grab all of my favorite things
And then I make them hurt bad!
♪♫♪♫♫♫♪♪♫♪♫♪♪♫♪♫♪♫♫♫♪♪♫

Pocketwatch of +5 Autohypnosis so I can hear the sound of Jeff the Green's music whenever I please. Failing that, I find Greatreach Bracers (MIC 108) to be far more fun than they really ought to be.