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Everytime goblinman levels up, i update his armor

Im really proud of how the volume looks on this piece.

Torky Starch - Goblin - Artificier armorer.

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Can Animal Companions, horses in particular, have access to magical horseshoes to make then gallop faster, are there any rules stopping me from making custom magic items for other possible slots? Like Magic collars for wolves & dogs could act like rings & amulets. Magic caparisons for horses could act like magic cloaks... That sort of thing...?

There aren’t any Rules specifically for Giving Animals and Animal Companions Magic Items. 

But from what I’ve heard you can certainly craft Armor and Clothing specifically for them.

(Unless you can find someone who sells pre-made armor for wolves, bears, eagles and such…)

The closest I could find for a “Rule set” was Pathfinder, which should at least give you some Guidelines…

Magic Item Slots for Animals

The vast diversity among species of familiars and animal companions often makes it difficult to determine what kinds of magic items are suitable for certain creatures to wear. 

While wearable wondrous items typically resize themselves to fit a creature trying to wear them, the situation becomes a little more complicated if the creature simply lacks the requisite appendage or body part.

The following table presents all of the animal companions and familiars available to characters, divided into general categories that loosely define their body type as well as which magic item slots are available to them. 

Available slots followed by either “(saddle)” or “(horseshoes)” denote that creatures of that body type can only wear magic items in the appropriate slots as long as they are either saddles or horseshoes, respectively (for instance, a hoofed quadruped can wear a saddle of the sky-river, but not a belt of dwarvenkind).

Some creature body types are able to grasp and carry one object at a time in their paws, claws, or hands, including weapons, rods, wands, and staves, though they may not be able to use such items effectively (GM’s discretion).

Specific animals may be able to wear different types of items as specified in their original monster entry.

If you are using animal companions or familiars from another source, you can use the information in this table as a guideline for those creatures. 

Additionally, GMs may use this table as a guide to determine what kinds of magical gear non-humanoid monsters can wear and use. 

Note that the rules in this section are merely suggestions, and ultimately it is up to the GM to decide what kinds of animals can use particular types of magic items.

So here is a simplified version of the Table found in Pathfinder, telling what slots for Items are available for Animals and Animal Companions.

Avian

Armor, belt, chest, eyes, headband, neck, ring, wrist

Biped (claws/paws)

Armor, belt, chest, eyes, headband, neck, ring, shoulders, wrist

Biped (hands)

All item slots

Piscine

Belt, chest (saddle), eyed

Quadruped (claws/paws)

Armor, belt (saddle), chest, eyes, headband, neck, shoulders, wrist

Quadruped/Hexapod (feet) 

Armor, belt (saddle), chest, eyes, headband, neck, shoulders, wrist

Quadruped (hooves)

Armor, belt (saddle), chest, eyes, feet (horseshoes), head, headband, neck, shoulders, wrist

Quadruped (squat-body)

Armor, eyes, headband, neck, shoulders, wrist

Saurian

Armor, belt (saddle), chest, eyes, headband, neck

Serpentine 

Belt, eyes, headband

Verminous 

Belt, eyes

P.S. So yes, you can craft magical horseshoes to make them gallop faster.

And yes, your Rat Familiar CAN wear a Belt of Storm Giant’s Strength…

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Legacy Items: Magic Items More Powerful Than “Legendary”...

An item of legacy has the capacity to grow in power as its wielder advances in level. In addition, it confers increasingly powerful special abilities on its wielder.

That character might carry and treasure the same item over his or her entire career as a hero (or villain).

Why not?

As the Player's own talents and abilities progress, so too do those of the legacy item, assuming the wielder takes the time to learn its history and awaken its quiescent power with the appropriate rituals.

As a player character, you could discover or inherit an item of legacy. Initially, it might seem like nothing more than a standard magic item.

Only when you learn something of its past do you begin to understand that this object has untapped potential.

By uncovering the item’s full history, you can discover the keys that unlock the item’s full power...

Every item of legacy is distinct from the next, and each has its own unique story.

WHY USE ITEMS OF LEGACY?

If you’re a DM, items of legacy provide exciting rewards for players whose characters are willing to devote time and energy to learning about your campaign world. To unlock the powers of a legacy item, a player character must learn fabled legends of ancient history and complete rituals of mythic significance.

Not only does this require the player to study the “backstory” of your world but also provides any number of ready-made adventure hooks for the campaign.

If you’re a player, a legacy item presents a way of personalizing your character while simultaneously building up your might.

By tying your character's development to one of the great tales of history, your character takes on heroic proportions.

Who knows? They might even become more famous than the first owner of the legacy item, unlocking powers of even greater potential.

USING LEGACY ITEMS IN YOUR CAMPAIGN

As a DM, you might hesitate to introduce these potentially powerful items into your campaign.

And as with any new addition to your campaign, you must determine how items of legacy fit in.

What role (if any) did they play in the history of the campaign world?

Why haven’t the player characters heard of them before now?

Are there any active items of legacy in the world today?

Most important, do the PCs—knowingly or unknowingly—possess any legacy items already?

WIELDING AN ITEM OF LEGACY

After having completed at least one of the legacy rituals of your item, you are entitled to use the abilities of that item available to a character of your level.

That’s right—you don’t get them all at once.

If you are 5th level and you have just earned the Least Legacy (Bloodcrier’s Hammer) feat, as an example, you do not have access to abilities of the weapon keyed to characters of 6th level and higher.

However, as soon as you attain another level in any class, bringing your character level to 6th, you can use the earthseeker ability of Bloodcrier’s Hammer.

Unless otherwise specified, an item of legacy confers a given ability as long as you are wearing or carrying it on your person; some abilities, however, require that you wield, gesture with, or in some way actively use the item.

Such abilities’ descriptions state this specifically. Losing possession of the item immediately removes all legacy benefits.

(Don’t worry, we will show you what the Bloodcrier’s Hammer is soon enough.)

In addition to performing a ritual and paying its GP cost, you must pay personal costs to use a legacy item’s ability.

All items of legacy exact substantial personal costs, which represent the item’s tapping into your vital energy to unlock its full potential.

You must make this sacrifice willingly to forge the bond between wielder and item.

Personal costs are permanent and can range from hit point loss to forfeiting spell slots. You must pay a personal cost immediately upon reaching the level at which it is assessed, after all other level-related adjustments.

For example, if you are the wielder of Bloodcrier’s Hammer, on reaching 6th level you immediately lose 4 hit points after determining your new hit point total. If you are unable to pay the cost:

(for example, because you do not have access to a required spell level)...

You do not gain that level’s legacy ability or abilities until you can pay.

Unlike legacy abilities, personal costs are assessed permanently, whether or not you have the item in your possession.

The only way to recover a personal cost is to destroy or renounce the legacy item.

RENOUNCING A LEGACY

Perhaps the cost of wielding your legacy item is too high, or you have discovered a different item and no longer wish to wield the original one.

If you wish, you can renounce your connection with a legacy item.

This requires performing a 24-hour ritual that expends materials costing 1,000 gp.

On concluding the ritual, you lose all bonus legacy feats (Least Legacy, Lesser Legacy, Greater Legacy) you had previously gained for that item.

For you the item now has only its non-legacy properties, and you lose all legacy abilities you previously had access to. You recover any personal costs you previously paid (such as lost hit points or penalties), but not any gp costs paid for legacy rituals.

EXAMPLE OF A LEGACY ITEM: BLOODCRIER’S HAMMER

Bloodcrier’s Hammer is an enormous warhammer forged entirely from black iron. A grinning skull is etched into the surface of the hammer’s head.

Large +1 warhammer; Damage 2d6+1; Critical ×3; Cost 2,324 gp; Weight 10 lb. 

Bloodcrier’s Hammer is a Large weapon. 

A Medium creature can wield the hammer with two hands with a –2 penalty on attack rolls. 

Small creatures cannot use the hammer without some special ability to wield Large weapons (such as the Monkey Grip feat described in the sidebar). 

Omen: In any round of combat during which the warhammer is not drawn and used, it cries and moans. When the hammer is brought to bear in battle, reddish fluid seems to seep from the engraved skull’s eye sockets.

Legacy Rituals: Bloodcrier’s Hammer

Three rituals are required to unlock all the abilities of Bloodcrier’s Hammer

Trial By Earth: You must defeat a creature with the earth subtype in personal combat, these creatures include Galeb Duhr and Earth Elementals. 

The creature’s Challenge Rating must be equal to or greater than your character level. Cost: 2,200 gp. 

Feat Granted: Least Legacy (Bloodcrier’s Hammer). 

Mourning Service: You are required to pay homage at the grave of Bhazad Khrar, which is lost in the center of a sighing waste. Cost: 12,500 gp. 

Feat Granted: Lesser Legacy (Bloodcrier’s Hammer). 

Judgment of the Scablands: You have to spend three days in the extreme heat of the desert scablands without food, water, weapons, or shelter. Survival is not necessary to successfully complete this ritual. 

Legacy Item Abilities: Bloodcrier’s Hammer

All the following are legacy item abilities of Bloodcrier’s Hammer.

Earthseeker: At 6th level and higher, while wielding Bloodcrier’s Hammer, you can detect any elementals or any creature with the earth subtype within 60 feet.

You must concentrate (a standard action) to do so. The hammer ignores any damage reduction an earth-subtype creature possesses.

Pathbreaker: Beginning at 7th level, once per day when Bloodcrier’s Hammer is struck against a lock, lid, door, valve, portal, normal bars, shackles, chains, bolts, and so on, a mournful tone rings forth.

The struck item opens 1 round later.

Bloodcrier’s Hammer also automatically dispels a hold portal spell or even an arcane lock with a caster level lower than 15th.

Each strike opens only one form of locking, so if a chest is chained, padlocked, locked, and arcane locked, it takes four strikes to open it.

Earthen Stature: You can change size while standing on solid earth or stone. Starting at 8th level, you can issue a command word to use enlarge person once per day (self only) as the spell.

At 12th level, you can use this ability at will.

The Earth Provides: At 9th level and higher, you need not eat or drink while underground or in any place with the earth-dominant elemental trait.

Deny Earth’s Embrace: At 10th level and higher, you need no longer fear the unforgiving crush of the earth after a fall.

This ability acts exactly like a feather fall spell, and it is activated immediately if you fall more than 5 feet.

Stony Resistance: At 15th level, you gain a +2 bonus on all saving throws.

Meld into Stone: Beginning at 16th level, as a bonus action once per day, you can use meld into stone as the spell.

Terra Obscura: At 17th level and higher, while you remain in contact with solid earth or stone, Bloodcrier’s Hammer cannot be detected remotely through scrying, remote viewing, or other means of divination, as if continually affected by the obscure object spell.

Wall of Stone: Beginning at 18th level, two times per day by holding Bloodcrier’s Hammer forth and speaking a command word, you can use wall of stone as the spell.

Earthwalker’s Bane: Starting at 19th level, in your hands Bloodcrier’s Hammer has an effective attack bonus +1 better than normal and deals an extra 1d6 points of damage against any creature in contact with solid earth or stone.

Ignore Earth’s Clutch: At 20th level and higher, you constantly gain the benefit of a haste spell while standing on solid earth or stone.

[creativerogues]

Fun (But Mundane) Magic Items...

By SexMonkey7:

A lot of attention gets paid to powerful magic items that have an effect on the game but in any world where people commonly produce potions and magic swords, it seems only reasonable that moderately priced magic items that enhance quality of life should exist.

For creating these quality-of-life items, I tend to use cantrips as my baseline power level.

Gloves of Comfort - These gloves keep the user's hands warm and dry or cool and comfortable and are resistant to damage from normal use. They can be used to handle thorns, sharp objects, or very hot or cold items with no harm to the gloves or the user (for this think hot pot holders or welders gloves, but these will still burn when exposed to extreme heat). Minor cuts or tears in the gloves will repair themselves after a long rest but cutting apart, burning, etc. will destroy the gloves. [Resistance, Mending and Blade Ward factored in to these gloves]

Boots of Comfort - As the gloves above, but boots. Anyone how his done any camping or trekking around in the woods should appreciate how having warm, dry feet would be a high priority for any adventurer, ranger or hunter.

Necklace of Resizing - This particular item is exactly like it sounds. It is a necklace with or without a gem that will adjust its size to fit the wearer. It is more of an oddity than anything else. Kind of a bling/status symbol for the owner. It is worth noting that the first time a player of mine encountered one of these it was when he put it on. When I said "the necklace shrinks when you put it on" he freaked out because he thought it was a Necklace of Strangulation.

Mood Ring - This ring automatically resizes to fit the wearer. It has a gem that the user can change the color of by thinking about it. [Minor Illusion for the color change and Mending for size change]

Useful Shovel - This shovel allows the user to move as much earth is four people using shovels normally. [Mold Earth]

Everclean Shirt - This shirt is always clean and comfortable. It does not stain. Small cuts or tears will repair themselves after a long rest. As with the gloves and boots, this shirt can be destroyed fairly easily, but minor damage repairs itself. Some versions of this shirt/tunic also allow the user to change the color and/or style of the shirt at will. [Mending, Minor Illusion]

Everclean Pants - As above.

Everclean Hat - As above. It is worth noting that I had a thief player track down a set of the shirt/pants/hat and use them as part of his disguises. It didn't provide any bonus to the actual disguise, but they did enable much quicker, quick change disguises.

Cheaters Bones - This set of dice allows the roller to decide what number he wants to come up on the dice before rolling them. This effect isn't perfect. It is based off Gust/Thaumaturgy. Careful observation will give the viewers the idea that something is "off". Not something players would want to try and pass off at a serious gambling establishment.

Cool/Warm Canteen - Liquid in the canteen is kept at a nice cool (or warm temperature) for drinking. Some versions of this canteen will also purify any liquid placed inside. Purifying a potion will destroy it. It is recommended that the heating and cooling of potions using this canteen also be avoided. [Shape Water, Ray of Frost, Fire bolt]

Magic Bar - the Magic Bar is a bar of plain looking metal roughly 8 inches long weighing around 8 ounces. By concentrating, the user can change this bar into some kind of tool/object with the same weight. For example, a small knife, a fork, a small saw, etc. The only condition is the object must be a single piece. The user could make a small hammer and handle as one piece, but not a hammer head and handle as separate pieces. If the user wishes to make something very specific or complicated (like a key) some kind of check is recommended based upon the complexity of the item. The Magic Bar will maintain its current shape until the user wishes to change it. Although less common, these Magic Bars are also available in very shiny silver and gold metals as well. There is no change to their functionality, just stylishness. There is an unconfirmed rumor that a few of these Magic bars are floating around that do not themselves detect as magical.

Hot Hammer - This item is a blacksmith's hammer that allows a smith to work metal as if it were red hot without actually heating up the metal itself.

Some of the names of these items are less than exciting. If I were a merchant trying to sell one of these, I would definitely talk them up and give them much more colorful names.

If anyone else has included any items like these in your campaigns, I would love to hear about them and how they worked out, or if you have suggestions for others or modifications to those above.

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When I say I’m so ridiculously behind on content to post I mean it 😭

Here’s a Magic Armor Link photo by Linnea Sardina a year ago at the University of Chicago Cosmeetup, I love how the photos turned out so much!! The buildings are so good for Zelda castle vibes.

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