All tagged wondrous item
In my Curse of Strahd campaign I was compelled to introduce new items, magical or otherwise. Sometimes this was to fill a specific story need, other times to reinforce the horror of the setting, and other times just to flex my creative muscles. Now that the campaign is ended, I’m sharing those items here.
This complex astrological clock accurately reproduces the motions of all the heavenly spheres and celestial bodies, running ceaselessly despite its lack of motor or mainspring.
Skyspells represents the life’s work of the legendary wizard and meteographer Fulmenica Levinholt, who dedicated her life to the scientific and esoteric study of weather phenomena and the potent elemental forces that rule the air.
Ever wonder where manuals of golems come from? Wonder no more!
This robe is adorned with cloth patches of various shapes and colors resembling a normal robe of useful items in all ways, except the items summoned from the patches are shoddy at best and dangerous at worst.
Reaching within this bag crafted from humanoid skin reveals a feculent object made from grave soil, bone, and decomposing flesh.
This incense is of incalculable value to clerics and paladins who hunt those restless spirits that have slipped free of the grave’s embrace.
The first infernum puzzle trap was crafted by an ingenious wizard and demonologist who’s name is lost to history but who now resides in a special place in hell constructed for exclusively for his eternal torment at the hands of vengeful devils.
The only thing differentiating this alchemical bomb from a conventional explosive is the crude image of a chicken painted onto its side.
Wind-up toe biters are ingeniously painful devices composed of sharp teeth and a clockwork jaw.
This pulsing leech is specially bred and chemically treated by alchemists. Though it hungers for blood, it also hungers for poisons and diseases that contaminate blood.
Crafted from moth-eaten flour sacks, splintered broom handles, and other discarded odds and ends, no two mock goblin sticks are alike except in they way they almost but don’t quite resemble a goblin.
These small clockwork figures are traditionally craft in the likeness of myconids and painted with comical expressions.
This simple glass bottle resembles a common salt shaker but for its bronze flip-top cap and reservoir of purple fungal spores.
Bearing the countenance of a grinning feline, this mask appears to be made from fire-blackened scrap wood that has been scratched by the claws of a hundred cats. The curving claws of a great cat, possibly a sabre tooth tiger, decorate its edge.
These specially shaped alchemical explosives resemble conventional bombs with a flat bottom. To differentiate them from more conventional offensive explosives in the heat of battle they are often marked with brightly colored eyes and teeth or painted to resemble moles, groundhogs, or other burrowing creatures.
This fez made of rich red velvet has a ring of arcane runes stitched into its brim and an fiery agate bead hanging from its tassel.
The head of this oddly angled, oversized silver key is set with a blazing red gemstone and etched in extraplanar runes.
The charitably humanoid construct bobbing within the brine of this sturdy jar is made from the leavings and castoffs of alchemists who tried and failed to create proper homunculi.
This mummified hand - once attached to the remains of a spellcaster - hangs from a bronze chain adorned with arcane sigils.
