Which magic item would you want most?

[UngainlyTitan]

A decanter of endless water is a potential ecological disaster, you are changing the water cycle from a closed to an open system.

A ring of sustenance sounds nice but, i enjoy eating and I think I would miss the tast of food.

A portable hole would be nice though. Though if we could have such thing then I want to be able to cast mage hand and prestidigitation.

 

[GlassJaw]

Probably a ring of invisibility, but preferably one that doesn't anger a huge disembodied all-seeing eye every time I put it on.

 

[Ambrus]

A decanter of endless water is a potential ecological disaster, you are changing the water cycle from a closed to an open system.

That was my thought as well. As mentioned, it'd be great as a tool for space exploration/colonization or extraterrestrial terraforming efforts, but here on earth it could unbalance our planet's water cycle if abused; which seems all but inevitable.

A ring of sustenance sounds nice but, i enjoy eating and I think I would miss the tast of food.

I don't think there's anything stopping a wearer from eating or drinking if he so chooses; it's just no longer a necessity.

 

[Vorput]

A decanter of endless water is a potential ecological disaster, you are changing the water cycle from a closed to an open system.

Kind of amazing every campaign setting isn't slowly having its world drowned by abandoned decanters...

 

[Andor]

A decanter of endless water is a potential ecological disaster, you are changing the water cycle from a closed to an open system.

Where did you get the idea that we have a closed system? We lose water into space every day. Occasionally we get some back from a cometary impact.

But yes, few things play as much havoc with physics as the decanter. It is an infinite supply of clean energy however. I'd probably take the decanter myself.

 

[Ambrus]

Kind of amazing every campaign setting isn't slowly having its world drowned by abandoned decanters...

How do you know they all aren't?

D&D 5.0: Waterworld!

 

[Corathon]

Maybe you can still eat and drink with a ring of sustenenance, but if you do you lose part of the benefit (savings due to not having to buy food).

I think that a ring of wishes is the answer - provided that this reality's DM doesn't like to "crock" wishes.

If the ring of wishes is too risky, a potion of longevity seems like a winner to me.

 

[RefinedBean]

I'd get an Instant Campsite and spend the rest of my life traveling the world.

 

[Dausuul]

The value of the decanter as an energy source is virtually nil in the real world. Yeah, it's free energy, but it's not very much free energy in the grand scheme of things. Any ordinary hydroelectric plant puts out orders of magnitude more. I suppose you could use it on a personal level to power your car or something, but by the time you got done modding your car to run on decanter-power, you'd be wishing you'd just gone with the boots of teleportation instead.

Now, in a medieval village subject to drought, it's a different story... though even there, I doubt one decanter would meet the irrigation needs of anything bigger than a smallish town.

For myself, I'd go with boots of teleportation as my top pick. Other items that appeal to me would be ring of sustenance for not needing to sleep (much); wings of flying just because I've always wanted to be able to fly; stat-boosting tomes; and something that offers immunity to disease.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

No votes for a ring of regeneration?

Sheesh, I'll take that.