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Thread: What are your favourite items?
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2013-02-17, 04:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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What are your favourite items?
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.
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2013-02-17, 05:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2013
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Re: What are your favourite items?
In no particular order:
Rod of Wonder
Rod of Ropes
Immovable Rod
Sovereign Glue
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I just realized how disturbing this list is...."Okay, roll Disable Device." 'Lesse, d20 plus 42... I got a 62.' "WHAT." ~~The reason I'm never allowed to play Rogues again
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2013-02-17, 05:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2010
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Re: What are your favourite items?
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. <<;
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2013-02-17, 06:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2005
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Re: What are your favourite items?
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).
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2013-02-17, 06:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2009
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- Germany
Re: What are your favourite items?
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.
We are not standing on the shoulders of giants, but on very tall tower of other dwarves.
Spriggan's Den Heroic Fantasy Roleplaying
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2013-02-17, 07:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2006
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- Cleveland, OH
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Re: What are your favourite items?
Stormfire Ring. 4000 GP, Magic Item Compendium. Area effect, negates invisibility, up to 25d6 electricity damage, no save.
Handbooks:
Shax's Indispensable Haversack, TWF OffHandbook
Builds:
Archon of Nine, Jellobomber, King of Pong, Lightning Thief
Spells:
Druidzilla, Healbot, Gish
Iron Chef:
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2013-02-17, 08:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2012
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- Emerald City
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Re: What are your favourite items?
Shapesand.
"She was indeed the proud daughter of a thousand jeddaks, every inch of her dear, precious little body; so small, so frail beside the towering warriors around her, but in her majesty dwarfing them into insignificance; she was the mightiest figure among them and I verily believe that they felt it. "
A Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs
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2013-02-17, 10:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2013
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- Ysgard
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Re: What are your favourite items?
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.
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2013-02-17, 10:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2013
Re: What are your favourite items?
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.
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2013-02-17, 10:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2012
Re: What are your favourite items?
Mask of Lies. It was my 1st wondrous item on my first character. A Chaotic Neutral Bard.
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2013-02-17, 10:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2005
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- Newcastle, Australia
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Re: What are your favourite items?
Belt of Many Pockets ~ all the convenience of extra dimensional storage without being a backpack.
Thankyou to NEOPhyte for the Techpriest Engiseer
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2013-02-17, 10:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2011
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2013-02-17, 11:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2013
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- Ysgard
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Re: What are your favourite items?
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.
Last edited by Krobar; 2013-02-17 at 11:29 AM.
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2013-02-17, 11:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What are your favourite items?
Survival Pouch (Magic Item Compendium pg 187)
There is no problem that cannot be solved by pulling a mule out of a pouch.Last edited by FyreByrd; 2013-02-17 at 11:42 AM.
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2013-02-17, 11:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2011
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- middletown, ny
Re: What are your favourite items?
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.
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2013-02-17, 11:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2013
Re: What are your favourite items?
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
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2013-02-17, 12:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2006
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- England
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Re: What are your favourite items?
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!I apologise if I come across daft. I'm a bit like that. I also like a good argument, so please don't take offence if I'm somewhat...forthright.
Please be aware; when it comes to 5ed D&D, I own Core (1st printing) and SCAG only. All my opinions and rulings are based solely on those, unless otherwise stated. I reserve the right of ignorance of errata or any other source.
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2013-02-17, 12:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2009
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- Baltimore, MD
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Re: What are your favourite items?
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?)“Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because we actually deserve them? So now I take comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the Universe”- Marcus Cole
This has become my philosophy!
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2013-02-17, 12:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2008
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2013-02-17, 12:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2013
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- Sweden
Re: What are your favourite items?
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!
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2013-02-17, 01:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2009
Re: What are your favourite items?
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.
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2013-02-17, 01:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2013
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- Arkansas, USA
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Re: What are your favourite items?
Ring of the Beast, Amulet of Natural Attacks, Monk's Belt, Wildling Clasps.
Oh wait... Those are all druid items.
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2013-02-17, 03:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2011
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- Mexico
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Re: What are your favourite items?
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
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2013-02-17, 05:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2010
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- The Great PNW
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Re: What are your favourite items?
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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
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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!
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Ask me (or the other authors) anything.
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2013-02-17, 06:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2013
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- PA
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Re: What are your favourite items?
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.Worship the DM. Sacrifices of pizza, beer, young virgin maidens, 20$ bills, and paying attention to his plot are strongly recommended.
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2013-02-17, 06:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2007
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- Switzerland
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Re: What are your favourite items?
Feather Token: tree. Best item ever.
Second place is the hat of disguise.Resident Vancian Apologist
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2013-02-17, 07:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2007
Re: What are your favourite items?
Handy haversack.
Steadfast boots. Shuts down all uberchargers if you've got a 2 handed weapon ready.
Boots of Mountainking.
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.
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2013-02-17, 07:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2013
Re: What are your favourite items?
Probably Pain Extractor lately. Been playing Evil characters (That most of the party liked more than our Good Characters oddly enough).
Currently sick as a dog and unable to focus properly. Will heal soon.
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2013-02-17, 07:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2011
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- Texas
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Re: What are your favourite items?
Rod of Absorption. Because disintegrate has always terrified me.
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2013-02-18, 02:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2011
Re: What are your favourite items?
Last edited by rot42; 2013-02-18 at 02:09 AM.