Custom Magic Items #3

This is the 3rd in a series of posts revolving around the various magic items my group and I have managed to put together for play during the decade or so campaign we’ve been playing together. This item was created after the release of the 5e 2024 edition for a Monk character and is not intended to be balanced.

I encourage to you take a look at my personal rules around creating custom items for players, detailed in the first post in this series. As always, the item images have been badly composed by DALL-E2. No other use of Generative AI has been used in this post.

The Hurricane Glave

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Designed in collaboration with the Player who owns the Player Character Alder Landgrave, we wanted to put something together to help with some mobility issues that the character was suffering from. The character, as a result of some interesting origin story reasons, came to inhabit a bugbear’s body. This doesn’t have a large bearing on this item though, so we’ll leave that for another time. Mechanically though, Bugbears get a rare ability to extend their reach in melee combat. The character is able to dish out significant damage at a impressive 15ft range which is quite powerful but had no options when it came to ranged combat. I didn’t want to dispense with this combat flaw, but playing with it a little seemed fun. The player character saw the character as a neutral good person, almost paladin like. They would often attempt to interpose themselves between danger and their allies. The player should get the credit for coming up with this idea and we ran with it over a number of very fun iterations until we landed on the mechanics here. The idea of firing a chained harpoon into a low flying dragon, reeling himself in as it drags him into the sky was just too much of an opportunity to miss.

Acquisition

This was another master piece created at the Steam and Steel although the creation of which was suspiciously quick and draining for the staff there. These are indications that the party is receiving subtle help from outside interests. They’ve down right denied support from the more infernal sources during the campaign (for good reason!), but those forces still seek to aid them any way they can. These weapons and items that have been forged by the Steam and Steel bear the secret hallmarks of infernal weapon smiths and Baator Steel used in their construction that can only herald from the Nine Hells. Anyone attuned to the suffering of the Soul or have a keen eye for craftmanship of magical items, or are able to cast the Legend Lore spell will quickly learn the truth.