Which magic item would you want most?

[Dykstrav]

While there's alot of temptation for an everfull purse, I'd ultimately have to go with a hat of disguise. If I ever needed the money, I could always make myself look like a waiter and pick up someone's money at a restaurant, a bank teller and grab some cash, or something else nefarious.

 

[fba827]

i forget the exact name, but it's something like "Hedgewizard gloves" (basically, letting you use presdigitation and mage hand)

 

[RangerWickett]

Boots of teleportation. My girlfriend lives 5000 miles away.

 

[Timeboxer]

EDIT: And Evard's Everfull Purse. Wish I'd thought of that.

You realize of course that that was just an extradimensional Ponzi scheme.

 

[Dykstrav]

Boots of teleportation. My girlfriend lives 5000 miles away.

How about a ring of long distance relationships? Some people think that it's a cursed item because it changes your alignment to chaotic lecherous, thus temporarily anulling any relationship if the partners are at least a time zone apart.

 

[Kelvor Ravenstar]

A Bag of Holding. The ability to carry my library and dvd collection with me wherever I go would be invaluable, since I'm a packrat and never want to get rid of anything. Of course, I'd be forever paranoid about losing it. So it would need some kind of enchantment where I could summon it back to me.

 

[El Mahdi]

You realize of course that that was just an extradimensional Ponzi scheme.

So that's where all of Bernie's money went!

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Boots of teleportation. My girlfriend lives 5000 miles away.

What you need is a Portable Hole.

 

[RangerWickett]

What you need is a Portable Hole.

I kind of hate you.

(not a death threat)

 

[Viktyr Gehrig]

A Ring of Sustenance would be my death. I enjoy eating, which means I'd keep doing it, and if the Ring is providing all of my nutritional needs, that just means that everything I shove in my gob would turn straight to fat...

Always figured that the ring would compensate, the same way it provides optimal nutritional value for the wearer regardless of whether he's a librarian or a barbarian.

Even better would be if the ring were enchanted with both sustenance and regeneration. You may not think that regeneration is useful for someone who doesn't get his limbs mangled on a regular basis... but muscle fatigue is a form of injury. For that matter, so are the cognitive deficiencies caused by a lack of sleep. Rapid healing combined with the optimal nutritional intake from the ring of sustenance...

If that doesn't count as "cheating", that's what I'd want.

An obvious one that would have immense use for a "real world" commoner would be a Decanter_of_Endless_Water. Imagine the usefulness for villages in arid regions, or for a farmer during a drought (just to name a couple).

Not to mention, perpetual motion. At the very least, you could hook it up to a turbine and power your bottling plant-- if not provide electrical power for the surrounding region. (Need someone smart to figure the actual numbers for me, unfortunately.) Keep it a secret so you don't bottom out the market-- or get yourself assassinated-- and you could probably make enough money in a couple decades to take your decanter to Mars.

Second choice. I think I'd still take the plain ring of sustenance over this, but it'd be a close call.

Of course, what I'd really want is a full set of tomes and manuals +5. I'd settle for a belt of magnificence.