Heroic Ideas — Bonus options week! Choose 2 community item ideas to be made!
Hey heroes!
Each week on Discord, community members nominate other members' suggested items to be made into official Saddlebag items. The top two most voted-for item ideas each week get made, following back and forth workshopping and discussion.
You can submit your ideas on Discord, too! Come join us in the #patron-item-workshop channel!
You may recognize some returning item suggestions! Items can be renominated and re-drawn for weekly polls following a week-long cooldown.
Here are the randomly selected item ideas drawn from this week's nominations!
Ideas
1) Traitor's Shield — A charred shield that once belonged to a traitorous knight. You gaine resistance to necrotic damage, and can expend charges to cast a modified version of hellish rebuke.
2) Havoc Maker — A bow made from stiff briar that is effective against constructs, it creates its own ammunition that are tipped with tiny hammers to deal bludgeoning damage. You can expend charges to deal extra lightning damage and attempt to disrupts a construct's movement or behavior.
3) Riot Can — An oversized, rattling spray can that trembles when held, you can use it as painter's supplies, gain a bonus when using it, and control the colors that the can releases. You can expend charges to magically paint a modified glyph of warding as graffiti or summon various creatures, like those from the conjure animals or find steed spells, with a colorful mural.
4) Horned Bow of the Flame Unicorn — A longbow made from a unicorn's horn. You can expend the bow's charges to imbue arrows fired from it with a burst of holy fire, dealing extra radiant damage for each charge expended.
5) Deep Sea-mitar — This strange blade is made from a dried and sharpened tentacle. While attuned, you gain a swimming speed, can breathe underwater, and you can comprehend and communicate with aquatic beasts. You can use the scimitar to cast various water-related spells, and, while underwater, you can gain tremorsense. Additionally, the weapon can allow you to charm a creature or create a sphere of water to contain a Large or smaller target.
6) Surface Seeker — A Small, magical minecart with a lamp on its front. When you fill it with valuables while in a cave, it makes a slow trek to the surface of the cave, showing you the safest route to travel.
7) Perigrine’s Travelogue of Extraordinary Locales — A fine leather book with gorgeous illustration inside of various planar locations the author visited. You can read the book over a short rest to gain a bonus to Wisdom (Survival) checks. You can also teleport you and up to four other willing creatures a short distance, as if affected by the dimension door spell, or cast a modified version of comprehend languages that gives you a bonus to Charisma ability checks for a short time.
8) Ambitious Medic’s Badge — A magical badge etched with a raven feather and herb sprig. Wearing it replaces any lost limbs with blue, rubbery replacements, and you gain bonuses to Medicine checks you make while wearing it. You can also restore hit points to other creatures using your Hit Dice, and determine other creatures' creature types.
9) Talisman of Endurance — This talisman can be used as a reaction whenever you fail a Constitution saving throw to succeed instead.
10) Spider's Rest — A hammock made from spider silk, it can be hung from any two points ten feet apart. Someone laying in it can wrap themselves in a comfortable cocoon to guarantee they won't fall out.
Keep on adventuring!