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Picture courtesy of Pixabay. It's hard. As Dungeon Masters, we meticulously craft encounters, balancing challenge ratings, hit points...
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Picture courtesy of Pixabay. What Do You Mean You've Never Heard of Me? As Dungeon Masters, we invest heavily in our bad guys. We craft...
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I love this!
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Portable Pole melee weapon (simple, quarterstaff), rare, (requires attunement) While the staff is a common choice of implement and...
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I told my DM that I was applying continuous attention to my staff, but then my PC got the blindness condition.
Jun 23, 2025
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Ahh right, this is basically a more practical bag of holding: Roll20 - Compendium and Rule Set Directory
Jun 23, 2025
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Gandalf's argument is "old man needs his staff to hobble around" so of all the potential stave weapons, I imagine "walking staff" is the...
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Not to mention what to do with a staff while in one of the most important places in many adventurers lives, the tavern. Lay it across...
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The Quiver of Ehlonna/Efficient Quiver has been the key to carrying such things since 1e Unearthed Arcana, and more so in the 3e era...
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The Pathfinder 1 version is the Handy Haversack. You can pull the desired item as a move action with no attack of opportunity. Such...
Jun 23, 2025
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This is the magic item I couldn't remember! It's probably the primary one specifically for this sort of use case besides a bag of holding.
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Staves are probably the least problematic of the "polearm" types. My legionnaire took a lot of plot-wrangling to make sense with his...
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