This ancient leather tome is thick, and immensely heavy. It’s dusty pages contain all of history, mundane or epic as it might be. Each time you open this book the pages within it have different information than before, but not always the information you seek.
Complete History
While holding or carrying this book if your total roll for an Intelligence (History) check is less than your Intelligence score, you can use your Intelligence score in place of the total.
Ancient Lore
When you open this book you can name or describe a person, place, or object. When you do so the tome opens to a page containing information and lore about the thing you named. The lore might consist of current tales, forgotten stories, or even secret lore that has never been widely known.
The more information you already know about the chosen subject, the more precise and detailed the pages in the tome are. The information you learn is always accurate, but may be not be all the information available, or be obscured by figurative language.
Once used this property of the tome can not be used again until the next dawn.
This large silver ring is nearly 3 feet in diameter, several inches tall and delicately thin. Along its length is a groove, and at the front it is notched through to the groove where an extravagantly large diamond is set.
When you attune with this item the groove and diamond begin to glow a soft white, and it floats of its own accord to just a foot over your head, remaining there as closely as possible. While attuned to this halo you are resistant to Radiant damage and have advantage on Religion checks.
Heaven’s Wrath
While the halo floats above your head you can call on a sliver of the might contained in the armories of the Upper Planes. As an action you can raise your hand to the sky, pulling down 1d6 shining translucent swords. They fly to your side with a flourish, and will slowly orbit you, hilt upwards, for the next minute or until they shatter.
You can have up to 6 swords orbiting you, and while at least one sword orbits you you can make a melee spell attack against any creature you can see within 60 feet of you as an Attack action. If you are able to make multiple attacks with the Attack action, this attack replaces one of them.
On a hit you deal 1d8 + your Intelligence(Religion) modifier Radiant damage as the sword seems to pass right through the creature. On a miss the sword shatters.
If you are not a spellcaster you use your Intelligence modifier as your spellcasting modifier for this feature.
Angelic Properties
The halo will float above your head even in an antimagic field, despite the rest of its effects being nullified. Additionally, if you are ever separated from the halo you can summon it back to you as a bonus action unless it is blocked by an antimagic field or a ward against magical travel such as
Curse. If you are ever more than 15 feet from the halo you take 1 psychic damage each minute and head inexplicably aches. If you are on a different plane from the halo you are also Blinded until you are once again on the same plane.
The only way to unattune from the halo apart from
This tall brass rod is etched with an abstract circular design that seems to be devoid of any pattern and has a 4 foot section of a curled, shriveled, Aboleth tentacle affixed to its top. The tentacle is a dark sickly green, and it’s so tough you aren’t sure you could pierce it.
While you are attuned to this tentacle you can breathe underwater and have a +5 on any Intelligence (Religion) checks, and +5 on Intelligence (History) checks to recall things about religions or gods.
Bloody Awakening
Once per short rest as an action if you slice your hand or wrist and drip your own blood onto the tentacle as you hold the rod the tentacle rejuvenates, and expands down the rod engulfing your arm. For the next minute you can not use that arm as it is encased in a giant tentacle. However you may make melee attacks with proficiency with the tentacle. It has a reach of 10 feet and deals 2d6 bludgeoning damage on a hit.
After the minute is up the tentacle shrivels once again, receding back up the rod, and releasing your arm, now covered in slime. Until the next day your arm remains a pale green tint where the tentacle covered it and the cut you made to awaken the tentacle refuses to fully close, even in response to magical healing.
Aboleth’s Eye
While the tentacle is engulfing your arm you may use an action to focus your gaze and force all creatures in a 30 foot cone to make a Wisdom saving throw DC 14 or take 1d6 psychic damage.
These bracers have alternating bands of silver and pearl underneath the plain leather exterior that lay flat against your skin. The bands of silver have fine barbs that poke through the bracers to make several rows of spikes.
Once per long or short rest as bonus action you can begin concentrating on the bracers as if you are concentrating on a spell. As you do so bubbles of energy grow from the spikes and coalesce into a barrier around you before fading.
For the next 10 minutes while you maintain concentration any bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage you take is reduced by your Intelligence modifier.
As an action you can focus this barrier to another creature you can see within 30 feet. If you end your turn out of sight or farther than 30 feet away from the creature the barrier returns to you. While you are focusing the barrier around another creature you do not gain any benefit from it but must maintain concentration.
These bracers have a layer of leather to give them their flexibility but the bands of silver underneath the leather are apparent, not to mention the plates of silver with pearl inlays along the back of the bracers. Extending backwards from the wrist area of each bracer is a single silver spine.
Once per long or short rest as a bonus action you can begin concentrating on the bracers as if you are concentrating on a spell. As you do so large translucent bubbles project from the spines and coalesce into a sphere around you. For the next 10 minutes while you maintain concentration any damage you, or any other creature you consider friendly within 15 feet of you, take is reduced by your Intelligence modifier. This effect does not apply to psychic damage.
This wide gold circlet is set with a single cloudy aquamarine and is etched with a pattern resembling a brick wall.
This circlet has 4 charges, and regains 1d4 charges each day at dawn. When you must make a Wisdom, Charisma, or Intelligence saving throw you can choose to expend a charge to gain advantage on that saving throw. If you expend a charge in this way while incapacitated you automatically succeed the saving throw, as the effect meets with an impenetrable wall within your mind.
Additionally, when you attune to this item you may pick a mental saving throw, either Wisdom, Charisma, or Intelligence, and are proficient in saving throws using the chosen ability until you un-attune to the circlet.
This simple round shield is rimmed with a band of clear crystal that is hard as iron.
While attuned to this shield you have proficiency with Intelligence saving throws if you did not before. This shield has 3 charges that recharge on a long or short rest. While you are wielding this shield as a reaction you can choose to expend a number of charges to activate it at the end of another creature’s turn.
Force of Mind
You expend 1 charge to target a creature within 30 feet and make an Intelligence check contested by the target’s Wisdom or Intelligence check (the target chooses the ability to use). If you succeed, you knock the target prone and push it 10 feet away from you.
Mental Grasp
You expend 2 charges to instantly cast
This game set is extremely unique; as you travel the wooden board morphs its wooden and ivory inlays to portray major features in the landscape. It has a small drawer underneath it to hold up to 20 figurines, made from precious stones and bone, and weighs 10 pounds. When you find it has 4 pieces carved from gemstones, 3 pieces made from goblin bone, 2 from human bone, and 1 from ogre bone. These pieces allow you control both friend and foe as you move them across the board in the deadly game of war.
The Bones of my Enemies
You can create a figurine for any type of enemy that is size Large or smaller as long as you have bones from that creature to carve the piece from. To create a piece for the board you must spend a short rest attempting to do so and make a DC 14 Intelligence (Arcana) crafting check to properly form it. If you fail this check the material used is damaged and can not be used again. Pieces made in the same manner out of gemstone and precious materials, worth at least 50gp, can be bound to any willing creature no matter the type of creature. The drawer in the board can only hold up to 20 pieces, but you can create as many as you wish. During a long or short rest you can organize and choose which pieces are stored in the drawer to enable you to quickly identify pieces while setting up.
Set the Playing Field
You can take a whole turn to set up the board and bind any number of pieces from the drawer to creatures. To bind a piece to a creature it must be within 300 feet and you must be able to see it. Additionally, the piece must be carved from the bones of the same type of creature you are binding it to, unless you are binding a gemstone piece to a willing creature. If it is undead the bones must be from the type of creature it was before it died. Once a piece has been bound in this way you cannot bind it to another creature for the next hour. If you require pieces that are not in the board’s drawer you may find, take out, and bind 3 additional pieces as an action. You may bind any number of additional pieces from the drawer as a bonus action. If the board is moved after it is set up you must spend a turn setting it up again.
Total Control
While the board is set up you can move up to three pieces as an action, choosing one of the following effects for each piece. Each time you move a piece that is bound to an unwilling creature it may make a Wisdom saving throw against your spellcasting DC. On a success, the creature is not affected. If you are not a spellcaster you use your Intelligence modifier as your spellcasting modifier for this effect.
- Move. The creature must move up to 15 feet in any direction you choose, this movement does not count towards their movement next turn and is made as if disengaging. A creature will not move if it would certainly lead to it’s death.
- Help. You help the creature with your overview of the battlefield as if using the Help action. This can include aiding them in attacking another creature.
- Attack. Using the creature’s reaction they must make a melee attack against another creature within reach that you consider an enemy.
- Reveal. If you are proficient with Dragonchess you can reveal the position of a creature you have bound. Until the end of your next turn any bound creatures of your choice are aware of the revealed creature’s location even if they cannot see them or are blinded.