I need some useless Magic Items.

[Oryan77]

I'm making a list of magic items for our campaign that are pretty useless. It is a pretty long list and I seem to have used up all of the sources I could find on the internet. I am still about 20 items short of completing this list.

Would people mind throwing out some ideas for magic items that would not really serve any beneficial purpose to a PC? Although the item could be funny, I'm looking for something that would still make sense existing in a traditional D&D game without it being childish. I'm also looking for things that are fairly simple and don't involve a lot of stats.

Or if you know of a website where people have already done this, that would help too (although I've already browsed a few).

Thanks!

 

[Raven Crowking]

Encyclopedia Magica (2nd Edition) is your friend here. If you have it, it lists all of the magic items published by TSR to its printing, including all of the April Fools items. Some of the "useless" items are potentially pretty cool for world building, like a stone ball (presumably for well-to-do folks' gardens) that attracts birds to its vicinity.


RC

 

[Oryan77]

I do have all 4 of the Encyclopedia Magica books. It's been years since I looked through them. I didn't realize there were April Fools items in them though. I'll have to give them another read through, thanks!

 

[Piratecat]

Ah, the good 'ole ring of Spell Storing. "S.. T.. O..."

 

[Wild Gazebo]

Sorry Double Post

 

[Wild Gazebo]

Slippers of Warmth
Ring of Perfect Manicure
Well of Create Water
Throwrug of Dusting
Helm of Perfect Teeth
Harness of Pleasant Odor
Hankerchief of Cleanliness
Stamp of Unending Ink
Breadbox of Toasting
Bedpan of Teleportation (definate possible abuse)
Chessboard of Impending Permission
Quill of Grammar
Immovable Hat
Shoes of Perpetual Shinniness
Lute of Tuning
Boots of Gracefull Dancing

 

[darjr]

Ever empty bowl.

Can never pour liquids into it. Whatever you put in it stays dry.


Crunchy crust.

Old bread, ostensibly. But you crunch it up into dust and scatter it around and anytime anyone walks through it they leave a trail. An invisible trail that you can follow. In a pinch, you can eat it.


I'm over here.

It's a little bell on a necklace that only people you choose can hear. Also some can sense when you are unconscious or otherwise silenced and then go off. The bad guys can't hear you but your friends can. And the rare ones will help your friends find your gagged or unconscious body in the dark.


Buried in the leaves.

Its a big tent that can house six. You can even have a fire ring inside and the smoke will disappear. On the outside it looks like a raked together small pile of leaves. To enter you have to take a dive into the pile. It'll keep the weather out and heat in.

 

[Blackrat]

Silver Cutlery that has been HEAVILY enchanted as magic weapons. So you have a set of +5 Spoon, +5 Fork and a +5 Knife that are all silver. Technically they are pretty useless, but each still does an actual 5 damage and work well against lycanthropes.

 

[Ed_Laprade]

Teddy bear golum. Yeah, we ripped it apart before it could attack. Turns out it was created by an MU to protect his child and wouldn't have attacked us if we hadn't done anything to it. (Needless to say, one of the characters was newly married.)

 

[Oryan77]

Slippers of Warmth
Ring of Perfect Manicure
Well of Create Water
Throwrug of Dusting
Helm of Perfect Teeth
Harness of Pleasant Odor
Hankerchief of Cleanliness
Stamp of Unending Ink
Breadbox of Toasting
Bedpan of Teleportation (definate possible abuse)
Chessboard of Impending Permission
Quill of Grammar
Immovable Hat
Shoes of Perpetual Shinniness
Lute of Tuning
Boots of Gracefull Dancing

We seem to be on the same page here. I yoinked several of these, and I was already using about half of them.

Thanks guys, I've jotted down a few that I like...keep them coming please