Heroic Ideas — 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) Scapular of the Ankylosaur — This canvas amulet is styled like thick reptilian scales. As a bonus action, you can embue yourself with dense hide, increasing your AC until the start of your next turn. As an action, you can manifest a spectral dinosaur tail, slamming it on the ground to damage and knock your foes prone.
2) Risa the Ardent's Hammer — A warhammer that once belonged to a warrior heroine capable of withstanding powerful attacks. You can use a reaction while holding it to expend its charges and reduce the damage taken by an ally of your choice within range.
3) Wind-up Guard — This toy soldier can be wound up to set it on patrol. It will recreate the effects of the alarm spell during this time, dutifully patrolling and watching for danger. It treats you as its superior and speaks in short, militaristic sentences.
4) Flail of the Wild Elements — This flail has been enchanted to harness surges of chaos. When you enter a rage, you roll a die to determine which damage type the flail deals and the effect the target suffers if you hit it twice on the same turn, such as: reduced movement speed, unable to take reactions, or being deafened.
5) Armor of the Grotesque — This stone-like armor is adorned with ghoulish motifs. You can doff the armor as an action, giving it wings and flying off to a point within 30 feet of you where it transforms into a gargoyle under your control for 1 hour.
6) Venatio's Horn — A brass horn bearing the images of gladiators battling great beasts. You can use it to create a special arena within a cylinder of your choice, which magically prevents a creature from leaving that space. You can also use the horn to summon a lion within the cylinder.
7) Staff of the Hellfire Slopes — A staff from a fiendish lord living in the hellish mountains of the lower planes. You can use the staff's magic to inflict the aspects of the hellish slopes on a target. You can cause a target to be knocked prone and take fire damage each turn until it can shake off the gravity. Alternatively, you can cast a variant of the maze spell which sends the target to a demiplane where they must push a boulder up a slope, taking bludgeoning damage from the boulder if they are unable to push it.
Keep on adventuring!