Forest Eye Staff (Patreon)

Staff, uncommon (requires attunement by a druid or ranger)

While this staff is on your person, you can't be surprised. If you're in a forest, jungle, or similarly wooded area, you have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks while holding the staff, and you can use an action to cast the locate animals or plants spell from it. This spell can't be cast from the staff again until the next dawn.

The staff has a magical leaf that flutters above its top. While holding the staff, you can use an action to speak its command word to cause the leaf to drift up to 30 feet away from the staff in a direction of your choice, as if it were carried by a breeze. You mentally receive visual information from the leaf, which has normal vision and darkvision out to 30 feet, and can look in every direction. The leaf can pass through any opening large enough for a leaf to slip through. The leaf then withers and turns to dust at the start of your next turn, but a new one magically appears above the staff at the next dawn.

Deep in the heart of the dark forest, a single leaf swirled, lifted by an unfelt breeze, to drift unnoticed into a ring of cultists—

—well, until it flattened against their leader's face and crumbled to dust. The man's surprised gasp sent him into a fit of coughs, spewing the inhaled leafy dust from his mouth.

In the moment of confusion that followed, a figure appeared from the shadows bearing an aspen staff. Green bolts of magic flung from her fingertips towards each of the room's occupants. One by one, the cultists fell or fled, and the room was left to the forest to reclaim.