[Vacation Content 3/14] Loot Tavern: Live & Learn (Patreon)

Loot Tavern is one of the most prolific item makers in the 5e scene! Their work continues to fill in the game's item and flavor gaps with fun and interesting magic items. They enjoy creating items of varying rarities, so if that's a thing you really like to see in an item, be sure to check them out! They also release other content, much like the Saddlebag, so if you want to expand your haul of magic items and side content, Loot Tavern is a great option!

Live & Learn

Wondrous item, rare
Component: phial of Plant sap

This thick parchment book can hold a maximum of 5 potion pop-ups, beautifully illustrated on stiffened parchment. When first found, the book has 1d4 + 1 potion pop-ups.

Pop-Up Locker. While holding the book, you can use an action or bonus action to tear a pop-up from its pages, causing it to magically transform into a random potion. Roll a d4 and consult the table below to determine the potion, which can be drunk as an action and loses its potency after 1 hour if not consumed. A creature that drinks the potion gains its associated benefit.

d4 - Benefit

1 - Animated Tabs. For 1 minute, the creature can use a bonus action to take the Dash action.  2 - Bolstering Layer. The creature gains 15 temporary hit points that last for 1 minute. If the creature is poisoned, the poisoned condition is suppressed while these temporary hit points persist.  3 - Healing Volvelle. The creature regains 2d6 + 2 hit points. 4 - Unfolding Heroism. For 1 minute, the creature gains 1d4 temporary hit points at the start of each of its turns, and it has advantage on saving throws made to avoid or end the frightened condition. Any remaining temporary hit points disappear when this potion’s effects wear off.

Pop-Up Stocker. Over the course of a short rest, a creature proficient with painter’s supplies can expend materials worth 20 gp to illustrate a potion on a page in the book, causing it to regain 1 potion pop-up. Once the book has regained 2 potion pop-ups in this way, it can’t regain more until the next dawn.

An Illustrated Guide. Over the course of 1 minute, you can consult this book's accumulated knowledge on alchemy or herbalism. Once you do, you gain advantage on the next ability check you make using alchemist's supplies or a herbalism kit within the next hour. Once this property of the book has been used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.

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Uncommon variant: The book can hold a maximum of 2 potion pop-ups and has 2 potion pop-ups when first found. Reduce the temporary hit points granted by the Bolstering Layer potion to 10, and the number of pop-up potions that can be painted into the book each day to 1.

Very rare variant: Increase the number of pop-up potions that can be painted into the book each day to 3. The potions created by the book can be consumed as a bonus action instead of an action.

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Caution! Objects in this pop-up book are more realistic than they appear.
— Warning Label