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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8299328" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 58: Mar/Apr 1991part 2/5Radiating Magic: Straight from one set of competition winners to the next. Unsurprisingly, they got a lot of magical item submissions, some of them quite good. These definitely seem worth including in a game if you need a break from more plusses of their stats. Mist Boats are one of those handy figurines that grows to full size on command. They can't stay big for more than 24 hours at a time though, so long sea voyages aren't an option. Maybe they just need a bit of magical viagra to pep them up. Rock Robes let you play tanuki mario and become briefly invulnerable & immobile. It's also handy in freeing petrified people, although it has certain caveats. If you're up against a medusa, it'll massively reduce the amount of hassle you have to deal with. Tattoo scrolls put items on your skin that you can take off and put back at any time. Very handy if you expect to be imprisoned at some point in the future. Holy Shields make good matching pairs with holy swords for paladins, obviously. If you're of the wrong alignment, you need not apply. The Warstar of the Manticore shoots it's spikes and grows new ones on command. Excellent for the kind of fighter who wears full plate armour and a helm with glowing red eyes, that a bow wouldn't accessorise well with.Lenses of Subtitles write down everything the people around are saying across the bottom of your vision. It may seem comical, but it's immensely useful if you have hearing problems or they're speaking another language. If you're expecting to face a monster that uses sonic attacks, there are also definite merits to this. Yay for accessibility. Folding Moats are the obvious place to put your Folding Boat. Turn any house into a serious fortification and back again with something you can put in your pocket and take with you. Maybe you could have a Folding Goat as well to eat all the junk you generate on your voyages, and a folding coat for when it starts to rain. Is there a god of Origami? Seems like a flexible powerset to have. Scrolls of Mapping, like bags of holding, are the kind of convenience items that rapidly become indispensable once you have them. Who can go back to having to manually drawing the map for the dungeon to ensure you don't get lost once you have a Sheikah tablet?Epox's Iron Rations are also generally handy self-replenishing things that reduce the need to worry about logistics, although you can't survive entirely off them forever. Gloves of the Octopus turn each of your fingers into individually attacking 10' tentacles. That's a serious boost to your action economy, but remember you still only have one set of hit points, and are making yourself a big target showing off powers like that. It's not an I win button for every combat. Magic Matches light with a command word, so you never need to worry about burning your fingers. An improvement that would probably be possible in the real world now if the matches were enables with microchips and Alexa compatibility. The Endless Stair wraps it's steps around underneath you so you can climb upwards at a 45 degree angle indefinitely. Unfortunately, it doesn't go downwards, so a feather fall or similar is essential if you don't want to get trapped into awkward situations and have to choose between jumping, starving or keep on going up and eventually suffocating. Not as handy as a Levitate or Fly spell, but not a complete booby prize either. Merchant's Cloth makes all your items look pristine and twice as valuable as they really are, letting you make money on any old junk. Probably best to stick to selling things like jewelery where the value is purely a matter of opinion anyway rather than making cheap practical items look like higher quality ones and dealing with pissed off customers when they break after a few days. Pins of Communication are another easy translation device, albeit only between two specific people at a time. Be careful to retrieve the second one when you're done talking with someone, as they lose their powers permanently if separated by too far.</blockquote>

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