Lucky Horseshoes (Patreon)

Wondrous item, rare

Lucky horseshoes normally come in a set of four: one for each of a horse's hooves. Each one shines with a brilliant, brassy luster and has a single four-leaf clover at its center. While all four shoes are affixed to the hooves of a horse or similar creature, the creature gains a +1 bonus to any ability check or saving throw it makes.

Luck. Each horseshoe has this property. When a creature wearing the shoes either misses with an attack roll or fails an ability check or saving throw, it can use its reaction to automatically hit or succeed on the roll instead. When this happens, one of the horseshoes immediately tarnishes and loses this property.

This effect can't allow the creature to do the impossible. For example, even with the aid of a lucky horseshoe, a horse can't succeed on an ability check in such a way that allows it to magically fly—doing that would require a set of horseshoes of a zephyr instead.

"Lucky were a good horse. Scrawny as reeds but strong hearted as an ox, he was. Never let me down, thick 'n thin, 'cross half the world.

When chips were down, t'weren't a thing Lucky couldn't do. Kicked the head clean off a goblin once, pushed o'er a tree to make a bridge, ran half a day wi' only a sip o' water.

Guess he used his last bit o' luck for me, bucked me away when that dragon swooped for the two of us. Naught left but shoes and a memory.

Both of 'em out o' polish now, but trusty all the same."