Workshop Week 37 — Special Common item week! No poll: call for all ideas!

Frost Pauldron. While worn, willfully ignoring someone's attempt to begin a conversation with you causes them to experience a sensation of chills running down their spine.

Dragon Drops - Wondrous Item, Common - These delicious candies are famous for two things: their delightfully sour flavor and their ability to confer 1 point of energy resistance per day per flavor (red = fire, yellow = lightning, green = poison, blue = cold, purple = necrotic , white = radiant)

Chroma Eyes Ring, Common A silver ring that holds a small, colored glass disc in its prongs. Many varieties of these rings exist with different colors. When worn, the wearer's eyes will change to match the color of the ring's glass disc.

Brass Monkey Wondrous item, common This brass statuette of a monkey can become a capuchin monkey for up to an hour, when the keyword is said. If you use the figurine in a harsh environment like a desert or an area of taiga the figurine transforms before instantly reverting back to its figurine form. The capuchin can understand common but cannot speak. The capuchin is friendly to you and your companions. Once it has been used it cannot be used again until 3 days have passed.

Rod of Whacking Rod, common A simple rod of wood, with a leather wrapped handle. When the command words “It’s whackin’ time!” are uttered, the rod begins to grow, becoming the same size as a club. The rod can be used to make melee attacks when in this form, dealing 1d4 bludgeoning damage. Attacks made with the rod are considered non-magical. Spotless Clothes Wondrous item, common A fine set of clothing faintly smelling of lemon, though a bit uninteresting in style. These clothes are magically enchanted so that no stain, dirt, or other filth can stick to the clothes, ensuring they are always clean and fresh smelling. Waterskin of Refreshment Wondrous item, common An unassuming waterskin, made of faded leather. Any water held in this waterskin for longer than 5 minutes will be infused with the faint taste of berries, fruits, and other pleasant flavours, and many small bubbles with appear within the water, becoming a delightful carbonated beverage.

Bard book, Wondrous Item, Common Small leather bound journal. If the book is on your person it will record the last hr of your heroic deed’s or non heroic (i.e. sharpening your sword) deed’s in wordy prose. The story is kept on the pages when the owner speaks the command word. It clears after the hour if the command word is not spoken. examples... THE GREAT AND MIGHTY KNIGHTY MCKNIGHTFACE DID NOT, INFACT, WIN THE RACE. HE SLASHED HIS SWORD AND TURNED TAIL FROM THE HOARD, FLAG OF SURRENDER FLAPPING FROM HIS MIGHTY WHITEY TIGHTYS. this story might not wish to be kept inside. or, OUR GREAT AND FEARLESS FIGHTER USED KEEN EYES TO SEE A ROGUE AND A DROOLING BLIGHTER ACCOSTING A FAIR MAIDY HE RAN STRAIGHT UP GRABBED HIM BY THE SCRUFF AND TOSSED THE TOSSER ON HIS DUFF. THUS ENDS THE TAIL OF THIS FATED LIFE THAT TURNED OUR FIGHTER INTO PROVIDER AND ENDED HIS VENTURING DAYS WITH A WIFE. This story may want to be kept.

Portable Protection Armor (any heavy armor), common (requires attunement) This thin, yet strong suit of armor contains various zippers and buckles that allow this armor to be carefully packaged into a dense case that looks like a normal traveler’s pack. By saying the armor’s command word while in case form, the zippers and buckles unravel and re-ravel to cause you to don the armor by the end of your turn. You cannot move more than 10 feet during a turn you use this effect or else the armor fails to latch on correctly and falls to the ground. It takes half an hour to turn the armor into a case, which can be done during a short or long rest. Sleek Switchblade Comb Dagger, common This unassuming rod has a button on its hilt that flips out a dagger with a combed edge. When used as a comb, the user can effortlessly style hair into any shape, patter, and color that then sticks in that style for 8 hours or until a creature spends an action messing it up with their hands. Jack and All Trades Wondrous Item, common The typical Jack and All Trades, a common potion, is a specialty alcoholic beverage that causes you add 1 to all skill checks you are not proficient in, while subtracting 1 from all skill checks you are proficient in for 1 hour. The drink is strong and bitter, with strong notes of oak and a sweet, bubbly front taste that tingles the back of the throat. The drink is often garnished with a lemon rind and a jack card from a typical deck of playing cards. Due to its magical nature, the alcohol within this potion affects a creature twice as much as the alcohol within a nonmagical beverage.

Ageless Cream Wondrous item, common A tin filled filled with a rosé colored, cosmetic cream favored by nobility. Each tin comes with 10 uses worth of cream. Applying this cream to your skin makes you physically look 1d10+5 years younger for 8 hours. This change is only physical and does not effect your actual age.

Azer Whiskers Wondrous item, common A prop beard that mimics the beard of an azer. This beard is on fire at all times, but these flames are harmless. In addition, the beard sheds dim light out to 5 feet.

Suggestion. An infinite bag of flinging sticks. When a stick is thrown it throws the thrower instead of the stick.

Job Board Shield, Common When you are holding this shield, any odd job on a job post within 1 mile of you appears on it, including client, deed, and payoff

Fibweed Potion Potion, common Derived from a harmless jungle plant, this flavouring agent can fool even the most experienced of alchemists. This potion comes in a slender vile and can be safely combined with any other potion or up to 1 gallon of another liquid. Anyone who attempts to identify the substance through taste believes it to be poisoned. - The King's court was tossed into a frenzy as the royal taster uttered a single word- "Poison!" he choked out, dropping the soup bowl to the ground with a clatter and clenching at his throat. The guards escorted the King to safety. The servants ran around frantically! And little Prince Thomas stood in the corner trying, and failing, to hide a wry smile.

Seismic Sled Vehicle (land), common This sled can travel over any type of flat terrain as if it was snow. It can be pulled by any small or larger creature instead of a beast of burden due to its magic antifriction skis.

Sham Flower Wondrous item, common A bright yellow sunflower that produces bright light in a 5 ft. radius and dim light for an additional 5 ft. The light produced by the plant dims and fades when a small or larger creature is within 30 ft. of the plant and the bright yellow petals wilt to black. If the flower is picked, a toothy mouth opens from the center of the flower and gnashes harmlessly at the air. "rawr."

Pseudo-Jelly Wondrous item, common While trying to synthesize a material that would replicate the physiology of an ooze, a mad alchemist accidentally created a special coating that could be applied to projectiles, turning them into non-lethal variants. A jar of this pseudo-jelly contains enough liquid to cover 1d6+4 pieces of non-magical ammunition. Once applied, the ammunition can no longer deal damage, and remains coated indefinitely unless a drop of universal solvent is used to dissolve the jelly.

Dubious Deck Wondrous item (gaming set), common A flashy pattern adorns the back of these playing cards that disguises a minor variation in the pattern which subtly identifies each unique card. A creature that can see the back of a card can make a DC 13 Wisdom (perception) ability check as an action to identify that specific card. To discern that the deck is marked, a creature can use its action to inspect any card and must succeed on an DC 13 Intelligence (investigation). "On second thought, I fold..."

Nomad's Saddle Tack and Harness, common Bands of wispy mystic energy extend from this saddle to wrap around a mount in order to secure it in place. You make Wisdom (animal handling) skill checks with advantage while riding on this saddle. In addition, this item shifts and reforms to fit any medium or large mount that it is attached to. It can be attached or removed from a mount as an action.

Orb of Annoyance Wondrous Item A common item amongst practical jokesters, this orb is disguised to look like an average driftglobe, and serves a similar purpose. However, the orb is eithier too bright or too dark at all times and may even make obnoxious sounds or hurl obscenities towards its user. The orb follows whoever's may be unlucky enough to activate it until dispelled or destroyed.

Sham Saddle Tack and Harness, common When this saddle is placed on a mount, you can choose to have that mount appear in an illusory form of barding that appears to chain mail, as if casting minor illusion to create an image of an object. A creature that attempts a DC12 Intelligence (investigation) skill check can determine that it is illusory. Additionally, you can use an action to speak the command words to have heralding trumpets ring out from your mount, which can be heard up to 100 feet away. Once used, to create this sound, it can't do so again until the next dawn. "Who goes there?" "It is I!" brr BRR BRRRR "Sir Knighty McKnight Face. Now let me in"

Cad Cork wondrous item, varies These small corks, inscribed with tiny runes of small locks, carry enough magic to make sure that getting into a bottle is a hassle. Upon placing a cork inside the mouth of a bottle and speaking the magic word, the cork with change size to fit snuggly inside. A DC 10 (common), DC 15 (uncommon), or DC 20 (very rare) Strength check is required to forcible remove the cork without the magic word. If the bottle is smashed open, the cork instantly returns to its original shape and falls out of the mouth.

Drunkards Magnet Wondrous Item, Common When you speak this mug's command word, 1 liter of alcoholic drinks within 20 feet lifts into the air and floats towards this mug to fill it.

Trickster's Coinpurse Wondrous Item (common) A dark leather coinpurse, with a goateed man's face branded upon the outside. The coinpurse contains exactly one copper piece. It cannot contain any more coins. Any coins you attempt to place inside are immediately consumed by the coinpurse and are gone forever. With a bonus action, you may retrieve the copper piece from the pouch. The copper piece and coinpurse are connected by an invisible thread that can be up to 30 feet long, but is always taut. On a DC 10 Intelligence (Investigation) check, the thread is discoverable. As a bonus action on your turn, or after 1 minute, the thread pulls on the copper piece and retracts the coin back into the purse. The thread has an AC of 5 and 1 hit point. If the thread breaks, either accidentally or deliberately, the copper piece immediately teleports to the coinpurse, and the effect cannot be used again until the next dawn.

A cheap wand? Can contain one 1st level spell that can be used 1d4 times, then has a 25% chance to crumble to dust. Or maybe a small key ring of 1d6 single-use first-level wands.

Mora's Reminder Wondrous Item, Common, Consumable, Ring This small length of bright red string can be tied around the finger and worn easily beneath a pair of gloves. While this ring is tied around one of your fingers, you gain the following benefits: Whenever you are targeted by an effect that would charm or frighten you, magical or otherwise, you may use your reaction to negate it, automatically succeeding on your saving throw and have advantage on any subsequent saving throws vs. Frightening and Charming effects that have the same source for the next 24 hours. The string then disintegrates, leaving no trace. Whenever you are charmed or frightened, you may take an action to focus on the string tied around your finger, and break free from either, or both, effects. The string then disintegrates, leaving no trace. "Mora, why do you always have a string tied round your finger?" "So that I can always remember, child. Would you like one, too? It can help you remember things you might tend to forget."

Mood weapons. Weapons that change colour depending on how their wielder feels.

Some sort of litmus-test-like potion that when mixed with another potion tells you roughly what ingredients you would need to make it?

Rock of Sparks Wondrous Item, Common This rock can be struck against any surface to create a nonmagical flame.

hovering charm a small brass pair of wings with the inscription "fly free with me" (or something that doesn't violate the copyright of the Septimus heap books) upon reading, the holder is lifted 10 feet in the air and suspended until concentration is broken. in the Septimus books there's another part of this charm that is an arrow that combined with this becomes a charm of flight.

Orb of Dear Remembrance Wondrous item, common or uncommon The standard Orb of Dear Remembrance is a plain crystal orb that is initially clouded and murky, though vague shapes can be seen within it. As an action, you can speak the orb's command word to designate a 10ft diameter sphere within 30ft of you. Over the course of 1 minute the orb becomes perfectly clear and reveals an exact duplicate of the designated area as a miniaturized diorama. You can also designate an Orb of Dear Remembrance that already holds a diorama to make a copy of it. Once the orb has been used this way, it cannot be used again. The uncommon variant of this orb has a much more complex enchantment. You can speak its first command word to designate a 10ft radius sphere within 30 ft., which the orb begins to record. It stops recording after 1 minute or when you use an action to speak its second command word. Once it has recorded an event in this way, the diorama inside replicates the moment it started recording. You can speak the orb's third command word to replay the recorded event, including sound which plays at half the volume of the original event. Once it reaches the end of its recording the orb reverts to a still diorama of the moment it started recording. This orb can also be used to copy recordings from other orbs of the same rarity. Once the orb contains a recording, it cannot be used to record another event.

Alcometer Wondrous item This small glass rod has the appearance of a thermometer. However, rather than measuring temperature, you instead put it in a drink, and it shows the alcoholic percentage of the drink (probably a dwarven invention)

Kinky boots. Pair of magical pink high heel boots (Perfect for Dragonborn Paladin). +2 AC conditions First turn of combat wearer must use an action to bust their signature dance moves. After which they may have the +2 to AC because “SLAYING” makes you strong.

A Glass flash that you can put some blood in it and the glass changes color to say of it is poisoned, and maybe each color is a different poison

Chocolate Armor Armor (plate), common This enchanted armor is made of magical chocolate, while wearing this armor the wearer has advantage on Charisma checks due to the sweet scent of the chocolate. If the wearer takes 10 points or more of fire damage while wearing the armor it melts and is destroyed.