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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 5726760" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Magazine Issue 253: November 1998part 6/8Bazaar of the Bizarre: Magical Charms are this month's theme. Whimsical stuff for the wearing, that'll help you through life's trials and tribulations. As is often the case these days, they include some amusing fiction at the start. It's all quite encouraging. Gabriella's Cameo of Countenances shows the profile of anyone named, giving you a definite help identifying them. It's not unfoilable, but what is in this world.  The Locket of the Grandmother lets you talk to a deceased relative daily. Exactly how pleased they'll be about endlessly being bugged in the afterlife is not made clear. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Guess that's up to how you roleplay it. Eve's Bestiary Bracelet is an 8-pack of awesome animal based tricks. Like Quaal's feather tokens, each of these individually would be a perfectly valid bit of treasure. Together, it'll get you out of a whole novel's worth of jams, and permanently change your character beyond that. A truly mythic item. Doublets of the Doppleganger let you create a duplicate, albeit a rather weedy one, to serve as a distraction or servant. We've seen better variants of this in the past. Trousers of Timely Change always have just enough money for you help people out. Kinda takes the sacrifice part out of charity, making it a no-brainer. Still, the designer probably hoped it'd rub off on the wearer so they do it anyway after a while. Mama's Hankie makes it all better when rubbed on a boo-boo. Just make sure you wash all that nasty mess off carefully afterwards. Mama's Purse is a bag of holding with a slightly comical edge. What junk will you unearth as you try and get the right thing out of it's depths. Who wanted to store a stuffed giraffe in there anyway? Irene's Mystical Ballgown makes you into a great dancer. The illustration goes straight for comedy. I hope that isn't Mordenkainen there. Fans of Sweet Airs can cure disease for an entire community. This has it's cost to recharge, and it's quite a high one. One life for thousands, are you willing to make that oh so cliched sacrifice. Shawls of Aging make you look decrepit, or even more so if you already are. Aka the snow white gambit. No-one suspects the sweet old lady. Which evil laugh shall I do this time? Kekekekekekeke! Canes of Safe Passage also seem designed to facilitate the untouchability of the elderly. Any tricks you try may well be turned against you, possibly while faking obliviousness. The Parasol of the Night Fiend lets monsters that are vulnerable to sunlight go out in the day by using it as shade. Depending on their appearance, this may look at bit incongruous. They do love their whimsy around here. Gloves of the Butler animate and function like a particularly intelligent unseen servant, only visible. Another one with an obvious TV source. Chaps of Riding are another basic proficiency score adder. No great surprises here. Buttons of Repast turn into full meals when removed from your clothing. A good emergency one for if you suspect you'll be captured. After all, how often do they check your buttons? Just hope they don't completely strip you as a response. The Left Shoe is an incredibly stupid cursed magic item. Unless you have two left feet, this is going to be rather uncomfortable. Not sure if that cycles round through idiocy and back to genius again, but it definitely works as a pain in the butt.</blockquote>

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