What was your favorite 1e/2e magic item?

[Silver Moon]

Bag of Holding. The most useful (non combat) item!

Agreed.

After that I'd rate my favorite as a homebrew item - a Wand of Exchange, which would allow you to exchange positions with somewith within sight provided that they failed their save.

 

[Nebulous]

Deck of Many Things and Bag of Tricks. I still have the one printed in Dragon magazine that i cut out and laminated. I made my own Bag of Tricks (rat, dog, lion, etc.) and still have the Crown Royal bag they're in. I should update that thing to 4e.

 

[Drkfathr1]

Rod of Lordly Might.

Deck of Many Things is a close second.

 

[thedungeondelver]

As a player: plate mail +4
As a DM: Sphere of Annihilation.

 

[Vague Jayhawk]

My most memorable character in 1e/2e was a cleric of Lathander armed with a Helm of Alignment change. They had infinite charges back then.

God of New Beginnings - Helm of Alignment Change, it worked great.

 

[markkat]

Deck of Many Things.

The Void and Donjon in bold. Ruin, Idiot, Fool? -A game that wasn't afraid to treat you character like the piece of paper he was!

 

[Mephistopheles]

As a player: Boots of Striding and Springing
As a DM: Bag of Devouring
Honourable mention: Heward's Mystical Organ (so easy to misinterpret what this item is the first time you see it in the list)

 

[grodog]

Among my standard favorites:
- cloak of displacement
- ring of contrariness
- cloak of the bat
- rod of lordly might
- sphere of annihilation
- nearly all of the artifacts & relics
- arrow of slaying
- robe of the archmagi
- cube of force
- periapt of proof against poison
- scarab of protection (the double-whammy uncursed version, of course!)

My favorite homebrew magic item:

Naladamar (my equivalent of Stormbringer: an intelligent CE vampire sword forged by Orucs which gradually addicted it's wielder to life energy levels and turned him/her into a vampire)

 

[Herobizkit]

Wand of Wonder is definitely up there, especially when my Wild Wizard found one. The Deck of Many Things was so evil... we got so greedy that we wished for a deck with all the bad cards missing, and got it. Lovely times.

Still, though, my favourite item will always be the Sunsword. They way it looks, the rules that govern its use, the effects it has on evil creatures... the weapon is just plain awesome.

Oh, yes, and the Rod of Splendor, especially when given to a poor farmer down on his luck.

 

[Grazzt]

- rod of lordly might
- deck of many things
- arrows of slaying
- figurines of wondrous power
- sphere of annihilation