Heroic Ideas — Choose 2 community item ideas to be made! (Patreon)

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) Jinxed Cat String — A long sinewy whip connected to the handle of bow made from black bone. You score a critical hit on a 19 or 20. When you score a critical hit, you deal additional damage to the target and any creature of your choice within 5 feet of it. Speaking the command word transforms the whip into a morbid violin bow, allowing you to add your proficiency bonus to any Charisma (Performance) check made with it while playing a violin or similar stringed instruments. This bonus is doubled if you're already proficient.

2) Breastplate of the Gray Ooze — Nonmagical metal weapons that nearly miss you while you're wearing this armor take a cumulative −1 penalty its damage, destroying it if the penalty reaches −5.

3) Astral Aegis — While attuned, you know the astral projection spell and cast can't die from having your tether cut but instead return to your physical body. You gain resistance to radiant damage, a +2 bonus to your AC, and can swap places with an ally when they are hit with radiant damage. The shield can create a ward against magical travel to and from the Astral Plane, and aberrations in the area take radiant damage. It also has a chance to produce a spell component by reaching into shield, pulling it from the astral plane.

4) Misspelling Wond — This unreliable wand has charges that can be used to cast a limited selection of spells. However, there is a chance that the spell cast is instead a modified affect, vastly different then the intended spell due to simple transcription errors.

5) Ring of Perpetual Momentum — This ring is made of hollow glass, and a metal bearing perpetually rolls through it. When you are stunned, paralyzed, or affected by lethargy from the haste spell, you instead suffer the effects of the slow spell for the duration of the original effect.

6) Tenth Circle — A powerful, sickly sword that revels in various blood sacrifices. Its single eye can paralyze or strike fear into foes that look at it, as well as rejuvenate allies using your life force.

7) Wavebender's Surfboard — A tall, +1 shield that's covered in traditional Polynesian markings that can be stood on in the water as a surfboard, allowing it to ferry you across water with increased speed.

Keep on adventuring!