Monte's Guide to Magic Items

This guide is a conversion of various magical items from the 3.5e Dungeon Master's Guide that, as of the writing of this guide, have not been officially updated to 5e. Magical items in 3.5e have much greater variety and customization than they do in 5e, so a certain amount of standardization was necessary.

Plate Armor of Speed

Armor (plate), legendary (requires attunement)

While wearing this armor, you gain a +2 bonus to AC. It does not have a Strength requirement. Additionally, at the start of each of your turns, you can choose to expend 1 of 10 charges to act with extraordinary haste until the start of your next turn. While hasted in this manner, your speed is doubled, you gain an additional +2 bonus to AC, you have advantage on Dexterity saving throws, and you gain an additional action on each of your turns that can be used only to take the Attack (one weapon attack only), Dash, Disengage, Hide, or Use an Object action. The armor regains all charges daily at dawn.

Plate Armor of the Deep

Armor (plate), rare (requires attunement)

While wearing this armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC. Additionally, you have a swim speed equal to your walking speed, and can breathe underwater. You can communicate with any creature that knows a language and can breathe water.

Rhino Hide

Armor (hide), rare

While wearing this armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC. Additionally, once per turn when you move at least 20 feet towards a target and hit it with a melee weapon attack on the same turn, you deal an additional 2d8 damage. The target must succeed on a DC 15 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.

Absorbing Shield

Armor (shield), very rare (requires attunement)

While holding this shield, you can use your action to touch it to a target. The target must succeed on a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw or take 8d10 force damage. If this damage reduces the target to 0 hit points, it is disintegrated. This property of the shield can't be used again until the next dawn.

Caster's Shield

Armor (shield), rare

While holding this shield, you gain a +1 bonus to AC. This bonus is in addition to the shield's normal bonus to AC. You are considered proficient with this shield even if you lack proficiency with shields.

This shield has a small leather strip on the back on which a spellcaster can inscribe a single spell of 3rd level or lower, as on a scroll (see Xanathar's Guide to Everything page 133 for rules on scribing scrolls). A scroll scribed in this way has half the normal cost. There is a chance that the shield already contains an inscribed spell, as shown in the following table:

Darkwood Shield

Armor (shield), uncommon

Darkwood is as hard as normal wood but very light. You are considered proficient with this shield even if you lack proficiency with shields.

Lion's Shield

Armor (shield), rare (requires attunement)

While holding this shield, you gain a +2 bonus to AC. This bonus is in addition to the shield's normal bonus to AC. As a bonus action, you can expend 1 of 3 charges to speak the shield's command word, causing it to make a melee weapon attack against a creature within 5 feet. You have a +5 bonus to hit with this attack, which deals 2d6 piercing damage. The shield regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn.

Spined Shield

Armor (spiked shield), uncommon (requires attunement)

This shield has three outward-facing spines. As an action, you can speak the shield's command word, causing the shield to fire one of its magical spines. Make a ranged weapon attack for the spine, which has a range of 80/320 feet and deals 1d6 piercing damage plus your Dexterity modifier. You are proficient in this attack. The shield regrows 1d3 fired spines daily at dawn.

Winged Shield

Armor (shield), very rare (requires attunement)

While holding this shield, you gain a +2 bonus to AC. This bonus is in addition to the shield's normal bonus to AC. You can speak the shield's command word as an action to make the shield hover and fly until you are more than 30 feet away from the shield or repeat the command word as an action. It moves according to your telepathic commands, provided you are within 30 feet of it. It has a flying speed of 60 feet. It can carry up to 300 pounds, but its flying speed becomes 40 feet while carrying over 150 pounds.

Weapons

Throwing Weapon

Weapon (any melee weapon), common

This magic weapon has the Thrown property with a range of 30/120 feet.

Assassin's Dagger

Weapon (dagger), rare (requires attunement by an assassin)

You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. When you score a critical hit with this weapon against a surprised creature, you can reroll a number of dice equal to your Intelligence modifier. In addition, when you hit a creature with this weapon and use your Death Strike class feature, the target has disadvantage on their saving throw.

Life-Drinker

Weapon (greataxe), legendary (requires attunement)

You gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. When you hit a creature with this weapon, both you and it must make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw, taking 2d6 necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. A creature that fails the save has its hit point maximum reduced by an amount equal to the necrotic damage taken. Undead and constructs are immune to the necrotic damage.

Rapier of Puncturing

Weapon (rapier), very rare (requires attunement)

You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls with this magic weapon, which has all the properties of a sword of wounding. In addition, you can expend 1 of 3 charges as part of an attack to sap the target's vitality. The target must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or have its hit point maximum reduced by an amount equal to the damage dealt by the weapon. The sword regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn.

Screaming Bolt

Weapon (bolt), rare

When fired, each creature within 20 feet of the path of the bolt must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened for 1 minute. The target can repeat the save at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Potions

Oil of Align Weapon

Potion, rare

This oil can coat one weapon or up to 5 pieces of ammunition. Applying the oil takes 1 minute. Each vial of oil is associated with a particular alignment: good (holy), law (axiomatic), chaos (anarchic), or evil (unholy). For 10 minutes, the coated weapon gains the properties of an aligned weapon of the same type.

Potion of Aid

Potion, uncommon

When you drink this potion, your hit point maximum and current hit points increase by 5 for the next 8 hours.

Potion of Barkskin

Potion, uncommon

When you drink this potion, your skin gains a rough, bark-like appearance, and your AC can't be less than 16 for the next hour regardless of what kind of armor your are wearing.

Potion of Ability Enhancement

Potion, rare

These potions come in six varieties, each of which affects a different ability score: potion of boar's strength (Strength), cat's grace (Dexterity, bear's endurance (Constitution), fox's cunning (Intelligence), owl's wisdom (Wisdom), and eagle's splendour (Charisma).

When you drink this potion, you have advantage on ability checks made with that ability for the next hour.

Potion of Blurring

Potion, uncommon

When you drink this potion, you gain the effect of the blur spell for 1 minute (no concentration required).

Oil of Darkness

Potion, uncommon

This oil can coat a single object with a surface area of up to 10 square feet. Applying the oil takes 1 minute. Magical darkness spreads from the object to fill a 15-foot radius sphere for 10 minutes. Covering the object with an opaque object blocks the darkness.

Potion of Darkvision

Potion, rare

When you drink this potion, you gain darkvision with a radius of 60 feet for the next 8 hours. If you already have darkvision with a radius of at least 60 feet, the range of your darkvision increases by 30 feet for the duration.

Potion of Swimming

Potion, uncommon

When you drink this potion, you gain a swimming speed of 40 feet for the next hour.

Potion of Poison Protection

Potion, very rare

When you drink this potion, you become immune to poison damage and the poisoned condition for 1 hour. If you are poisoned when you drink the potion, the poison is neutralized.

Oil of Invisibility

Potion, rare

This oil can coat a single object with a surface area of up to 10 square feet. Applying the oil takes 1 minute. The object becomes invisible for 24 hours.

Potion of Hiding and Sneaking

Potion, uncommon

When you drink this potion, you gain a +10 bonus on Dexterity (Stealth) checks for 1 hour.

Potion of Levitation

Potion, rare

When you drink this potion, you gain the effect of the levitate spell for 10 minutes. You can change your altitude as if you had cast the spell.

Oil of Levitation

Potion, uncommon

This oil can coat a single object with a surface area of up to 10 square feet that weighs 500 pounds or less. Applying the oil takes 1 minute. The object rises 5 feet into the air and floats there for 10 minutes. The object can be moved freely by physical labor, and continues to float in place for the duration.

Potion of Misdirection

Potion, rare

When you drink this potion, choose another creature or object within 30 feet. Whenever you are subjected to any divination spell or other effect which would sense your properties, the effect instead targets the other creature or object as long as it is within 30 feet.

Potion of Protection from Arrows

Potion, very rare

When you drink this potion, you ignore the first 50 damage dealt by nonmagical ranged weapon attacks made within the next 10 minutes.

Potion of Undetectable Alignment

Potion, rare

When you drink this potion, you become immune to any effect that would sense your alignment.

Potion of Vision

Potion, uncommon

When you drink this potion, you gain advantage on Intelligence (Investigation) checks for 1 hour.

Oil of Light

Potion, common

This oil can coat a single object with a surface area of up to 10 square feet. Applying the oil takes 1 minute. The object radiates bright light in a 60-foot radius and dim light for an additional 60 feet. Covering the object with an opaque object blocks the light.

Potion of Displacement

Potion, very rare

When you drink this potion, you project an illusion that makes you appear to be standing in a place near your actual location for 1 minute. Creatures have disadvantage on attack rolls against you. If you take damage, this effect ceases to function until the start of your next turn. The effect also does not function if you are incapacitated, restrained, or otherwise unable to move.

Oil of Flame

Potion, uncommon

This oil can coat one melee weapon or up to 5 pieces of ammunition. Applying the oil takes 1 minute. For 1 hour, the coated weapon deals an additional 1d6 fire damage. A flammable object hit by this weapon ignites if it isn't being worn or carried.

Oil of Keen Edge

Potion, very rare

This oil can coat one slashing or piercing weapon or up to 5 pieces of slashing or piercing ammunition. Applying the oil takes 1 minute. For 1 hour, the coated weapon is magical and scores a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.

Potion of Magic Circle

Potion, legendary

When you drink this potion, you and each creature within 10 feet of you gain the effect of the protection from evil and good spell for 1 hour (no concentration required). A creature only gains this effect while they remain within 10 feet of you, and a creature that moves within 10 feet of you gains the effect even if they were not within range when you drank the potion.

In addition, aberrations, celestials, elementals, fey, fiends, and undead cannot willingly move to a space within 10 feet of you. If they enter the area unwillingly (such as if you move towards them, or if they are pushed into the area), they are not forced to move away.

Elixer of Truth

Potion, very rare

When you drink this potion, you must succeed on a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw or be forced to speak nothing but the truth for 10 minutes. You are compelled to answer any questions asked of you during that time, but for each question you can make a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw, ending the effect on a successful save.

Oil of Magic Vestment

Potion, varies

This oil can coat one set of armor or clothing. Applying the oil takes 10 minutes. For 8 hours, the coated item is magical and grants a bonus to AC depending on its rarity. Coated clothing is treated as armor that grants an AC of 10 plus the target's Dexterity bonus.

Potion of Nondetection

Potion, rare

When you drink this potion, you gain the effect of the nondetection spell for 8 hours.

Potion of Rage

Potion, very rare

When you drink this potion, you fly into a berserk rage. For the next minute, you have advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws, you gain a +2 bonus when you roll for damage with a melee weapon attack using Strength, and you have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.

Curse. Additionally, while the potion is in effect, you are cursed. As long as you remain cursed, you must take the Attack action on each of your turns to attack a creature.

Potion of Remove Curse

Potion, rare

When you drink this potion, all curses affecting you end. If the curse is caused by a magic item, the curse remains on the object, but the potion breaks the drinker's attunement to the object so it can be removed or discarded.

Potion of Tongues

Potion, very rare

When you drink this potion, you gain the effect of the tongues spell for 1 hour.

Potion of Water Walk

Potion, common

When you drink this potion, you gain the effect of the water walk spell for 1 hour.

Potion of Hope

Potion, legendary

When you drink this potion, you gain advantage on all attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws, and a +2 bonus to all damage rolls, for the next minute.

Rings

Rods

Rod of Splendour

Rod, legendary (requires attunement)

While holding this rod, you double your proficiency bonus on any Charisma checks you make. It has the following additional properties:

Noble Garb. While holding the rod, you can use your action to garb yourself in expensive clothing and jewelry. You choose the appearance of the apparel, though it must cost no more than 10,000 gp. If any piece of the apparel leaves your possession, or if you use this property again, all of the apparel immediately disappears.

Palatial Tent. While holding the rod, you can use your action to cause a huge silk pavilion up to 60 feet wide to appear centered on a point of your choice within 120 feet. Inside the tent are temporary furnishings and food sufficient to entertain as many as 100 people for a day. The tent lasts for 24 hours, at the end of which the tent and all objects associated with it (including any items removed from the tent) disappear.

Once you have used a property, it can't be used again until the next dawn.

Staffs

Staff of Evocation

Staff, very rare (requires attunement by a druid, sorcerer, or wizard)

When you roll for damage for an evocation spell while holding this staff, you can treat any 1 on a damage die as a 2.

The staff has 10 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast one of the following spells from it, using your spell save DC: magic missile (1 charge), shatter (2 charges), fireball (3 charges), ice storm (4 charges), wall of force (5 charges)

The staff regains 1d6 + 4 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the staff explodes, dealing 5 fire damage to each creature within 5 feet.

Staff of Illusion

Staff, rare (requires attunement by a bard, druid, sorcerer, warlock, or wizard)

While holding the staff, you can cast the minor illusion spell at will.

The staff has 10 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast one of the following spells from it, using your spell save DC: disguise self (1 charge), mirror image (2 charges), hypnotic pattern (3 charges), major image (3 charges), mislead (5 charges).

The staff regains 1d6 + 4 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the staff is destroyed.

Staff of Illumination

Staff, rare (requires attunement by a cleric, druid, or wizard)

While holding the staff, you can use a bonus action to cause it to emit bright light in a 15-foot radius and dim light for an additional 15 feet. You can use a bonus action again to snuff out the light.

The staff has 10 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast one of the following spells from it, using your spell save DC: dancing lights (1 charge), daylight (3 charges), sunburst (8 charges).

The staff regains 1d6 + 4 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the staff is destroyed.

Staff of Necromancy

Staff, very rare (requires attunement by a cleric, sorcerer, warlock, or wizard)

When you reduce a creature to 0 hp with a spell from the staff, you regain a number of hit points equal to the charges expended to cast the spell. You can only regain hit points in this way once per spell.

The staff has 10 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast one of the following spells from it, using your spell save DC: inflict wounds (1 charge), ray of enfeeblement (2 charges), enervation (5 charges), circle of death (6 charges)

The staff regains 1d6 + 4 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the staff is destroyed.

Staff of Passage

Staff, very rare (requires attunement by a bard, sorcerer, warlock, or wizard)

This staff has 20 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast one of the following spells from it, using your spell save DC: dimension door (4 charges), passwall (5 charges), teleport (7 charges), astral projection (9 charges)

The staff regains 2d8 + 4 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the staff is destroyed.

Staff of Size Alteration

Staff, rare (requires attunement by a bard, druid, sorcerer, or wizard)

While holding this staff, you can use an action to expend 1 of its 5 charges to cast enlarge/reduce from it using your spell save DC.

The staff regains 1d4 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the staff is destroyed.

Staff of Swarming Insects

Staff, rare (requires attunement by a cleric, druid, or warlock)

While holding this staff, you can use an action to expend 1 of its 4 charges to cast insect plague from it using your spell save DC.

The staff regains 1d3 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the staff is destroyed.

Staff of Transmutation

Staff, very rare (requires attunement by a druid, sorcerer, warlock, or wizard)

This staff has 10 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast one of the following spells from it, using your spell save DC: expeditious retreat (1 charge), alter self (2 charges), blink (3 charges), polymorph (4 charges), disintegrate (6 charges)

The staff regains 1d6 + 4 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the staff is destroyed.

Wands

Wand of Ability Enhancement

Wand, uncommon

This wand has 7 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast the enhance ability spell from it. For 1 charge, you cast the 2nd-level version of the spell. You can increase the spell slot level by one for each additional charge you expend.

There are six other varieties of wands of ability enhancement (bear's endurance, bull's strength, cat's grace, eagle's splendour, fox's cunning, and owl's wisdom), each of which can only create one of the effects of the enhance ability spell.

The wand regains 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the wand's last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into ashes and is destroyed.

Wand of Darkness

Wand, uncommon

This wand has 7 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast the darkness spell from it.

The wand regains 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the wand's last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into ashes and is destroyed.

Wand of Daylight

Wand, uncommon

This wand has 7 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 of its charges to cast the daylight spell from it.

The wand regains 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the wand's last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into ashes and is destroyed.

Wand of Poison Protection

Wand, uncommon

This wand has 7 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 of its charges to cast the protection from poison spell from it.

The wand regains 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the wand's last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into ashes and is destroyed.

Wand of Shattering

Wand, uncommon

This wand has 7 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast the shatter spell from it (save DC 13). For 1 charge, you cast the 2nd-level version of the spell. You can increase the spell slot level by one for each additional charge you expend.

The wand regains 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the wand's last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into ashes and is destroyed.

Wand of Silence

Wand, uncommon

This wand has 5 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 of its charges to cast the silence spell from it (save DC 13).

The wand regains 1d4 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the wand's last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into ashes and is destroyed.

Wand of Calling Lightning

Wand, rare (requires attunement by a spellcaster)

This wand has 3 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast the call lightning spell from it (save DC 15). For 1 charge, you cast the 3rd-level version of the spell. You can increase the spell slot level by one for each additional charge you expend.

The wand regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the wand's last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into ashes and is destroyed.

Wand of Contagions

Wand, rare (requires attunement by a spellcaster)

This wand has 7 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 of its charges to cast the contagion spell from it (save DC 15).

The wand regains 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the wand's last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into ashes and is destroyed.

Wand of Dispel Magic

Wand, rare (requires attunement by a spellcaster)

This wand has 7 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast the dispel magic spell from it using your spellcasting ability. For 1 charge, you cast the 3rd-level version of the spell. You can increase the spell slot level by one for each additional charge you expend.

The wand regains 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the wand's last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into ashes and is destroyed.

Wand of Keen Edge

Wand, rare (requires attunement)

This wand has 3 charges. While holding it, you can use your action to expend one of its charges and touch it to a slashing or piercing weapon, or up to 5 pieces of slashing or piercing ammunition. For 1 hour, the weapon is magical and scores a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.

The wand regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the wand's last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into ashes and is destroyed.

Wand of Illusion

Wand, uncommon

This wand has 7 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 of its charges to cast the major image spell from it (check DC 13). Alternatively, you can expend 3 charges to cast the 6th-level version of the spell.

The wand regains 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the wand's last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into ashes and is destroyed.

Wand of Slowing

Wand, rare (requires attunement by a spellcaster)

This wand has 5 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 of its charges to cast the slow spell from it (save DC 15).

The wand regains 1d4 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the wand's last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into ashes and is destroyed.

Wand of Suggestions

Wand, uncommon

This wand has 7 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 of its charges to cast the suggestion spell from it (save DC 13).

The wand regains 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the wand's last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into ashes and is destroyed.

Wand of Searing Light

Wand, rare (requires attunement by a spellcaster)

This wand has 7 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges to fire a ray of light from it. Make a ranged spell attack using your spellcasting ability. For 1 charge, the ray deals 4d8 radiant damage. The ray deals an extra 1d8 radiant damage for each additional charge you expend. It deals maximum damage to undead creatures.

The wand regains 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the wand's last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into ashes and is destroyed.

Wand of Anchoring

Wand, rare (requires attunement by a spellcaster)

This wand has 7 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 charge and anchor a creature within 60 feet to its current plane of existence. The target creature must succeed on a DC 15 Charisma saving throw or become unable to use teleportation or interplanar travel for 1 hour.

Alternatively, you can expend 4 charges to target a 20-foot radius sphere centered on a point you can see within 60 feet. All teleportation or interplanar travel into, out of, or within the area is blocked.

The wand regains 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the wand's last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into ashes and is destroyed.

Wand of Ice Storms

Wand, rare (requires attunement by a spellcaster)

This wand has 7 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast the ice storm spell from it (save DC 15). For 1 charge, you cast the 4th-level version of the spell. You can increase the spell slot level by one for each additional charge you expend.

The wand regains 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the wand's last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into ashes and is destroyed.

Wand of Inflict Wounds

Wand, varies

This wand has a number of charges depending on its rarity. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast the inflict wounds spell from it. For 1 charge, you cast the 1st-level version of the spell. You can increase the spell slot level by one for each additional charge you expend.

The wand regains a number of expended charges depending on its rarity daily at dawn. If you expend the wand's last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into ashes and is destroyed.

Wand of Poison

Wand, rare (requires attunement by a spellcaster)

This wand has 7 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges and touch it to a creature within 5 feet. The target creature must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. For 1 charge, the target creature takes 4d10 poison damage immediately and 2d10 damage at the end of its next turn. For each additional charge you expend, the damage (both initial and later) increases by 1d10. On a successful save, the target takes half of the initial damage and no damage at the end of its next turn.

The wand regains 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the wand's last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into ashes and is destroyed.

Wand of Enfeeblement

Wand, uncommon

This wand has 7 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 of its charges to cast the ray of enfeeblement spell from it (save DC 13, +5 to hit).

The wand regains 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the wand's last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into ashes and is destroyed.

Wand of Walls

Wand, rare

This wand has 13 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 4 or more of its charges to cast the wall of fire spell from it or 6 or more of its charges to cast the wall of ice spell from it (spells save DC 15). For the base cost (4 charges for wall of fire, 6 charges for wall of ice), you cast the spell at its lowest level. You can increase the spell slot level by one for each additional charge you expend.

The wand regains 2d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the wand's last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into ashes and is destroyed.

Wand of Stoneskin

Wand, rare

This wand has 3 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 of its charges to cast the stoneskin spell from it.

The wand regains 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the wand's last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into ashes and is destroyed.

Wondrous Items

Chaos Diamond

Wondrous item, legendary (requires attunement by a creature of chaotic alignment)

This lustrous gemstone is the size of a human fist. It has the following properties, each of which can be used 1d4 times per day and regain expended uses daily at dawn. The DM should roll secretly each day for each property separately. If you attempt to use a property that does not have any uses remaining, nothing happens and the action is wasted.

Confusion. You use an action to cast the confusion spell from the gem (save DC 19).

Anti-Law Aura. You use an action to cast the magic circle spell from the gem (save DC 19). The spell is centered on the gem and moves with it, and cannot be oriented in the reverse direction. The circle affects all lawful creatures instead of one of the usual types of creatures affected by the spell.

Word of Chaos. You use an action to cast the divine word spell from the gem (save DC 19). The spell does not affect chaotic creatures.

Cloak of Chaos. You use an action to cast the holy aura spell from the gem (save DC 19). The light is multicolored, and the aura only flashes to blind constructs and lawful-aligned celestials and fiends.

Chime of Interruption

Wondrous item, rare

While holding this chime, you can use an action to strike it, causing it to emit a resonant tone for 1 minute. During this time, any creature that attempts to cast a spell that requires verbal components within 30 feet of the chime must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw (as if it took damage while concentrating on a spell) or the spell fails. Once struck, the chime cannot be used again for 10 minutes.

Circlet of Blasting, Major

Wondrous item, rare

While wearing this circlet, you can use an action to cast the scorching ray spell from it, except each ray deals 4d6 radiant damage. When you make the spell's attacks, you do so with an attack bonus of +7. The circlet can't be used this way again until the next dawn.

Darkskull

Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement)

This ebony skull continually emits a dark aura in a 60-foot radius around it. Celestials, elementals, and fey can't enter this area, nor can such creatures charm, frighten, or possess creatures within it. Any creature charmed, frightened, or possessed by such a creature is no longer charmed, frightened, or possessed upon entering the area.

Undead in the area have advantage on attack rolls and saving throws. When an undead creature enters this area for the first time in 24 hours, it gains 20 temporary hit points.

Drums of Panic

Wondrous item, rare

These hemispherical kettle drums always come in pairs. If you use your action to sound both, all creatures within 120 feet of the drums (but farther than 20 feet away) must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or be affected as though by the fear spell. The drums can't be used this way again until the next dawn.

Dust of Appearance

Wondrous item, common

Found in a small packet, this powder appears identical to dust of disappearance. There is enough of it for one use. When you use an action to throw the dust into the air, the dust coats all creatures and objects within 10 feet of you for 2d4 minutes. Invisible creatures and objects coated by the dust become visible. The dust also foils any illusion that masks a creature's true location (such as mirror image or a displacer beast's Displacement).

Dust of Illusion

Wondrous item, common

Found in a small container, this powder resembles chalk dust, but changes color and form if closely observed. There is enough for one use. You can use an action to sprinkle the dust on yourself or another creature within 5 feet, with the target gaining the effect of the disguise self spell with an illusion of the sprinkler's choice. A creature that wishes to avoid the dust must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw.

Dust of Tracelessness

Wondrous item, uncommon

Found in a small bag, there is enough of this ordinary-looking dust for one use. You can use an action to toss a handful of this dust into the air, coating a chamber of up to 100 square feet of floor space with dust as if it had been undisturbed for 10 years.

Alternatively, you can use an action to sprinkle this dust along a trail. All evidence of up to a dozen creatures that caused the trail disappears up to 250 feet back into the distance. No magical aura lingers from the use of the dust.

Eyes of Doom

Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement)

These crystal lenses fit over the eyes. While wearing them, you automatically sense the presence of living creatures that don't have total cover from you within 60 feet, and you know how many hit points they have. You can use an action to activate one of the following properties:

Doom. You target a creature you can see that can see you. The target creature must succeed on a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened until the end of its next turn.

Fear. You target a creature you can see that can see you. The target creature must succeed on a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw or be affected as though by the fear spell. You can't use this property again until the next dawn.

Eyes of Petrification

Wondrous item, legendary (requires attunement)

These crystal lenses fit over the eyes. While wearing them, you can speak their command word as a bonus action to activate the eyes, allowing you to petrify creatures who meet your gaze. If a creature starts its turn within 30 feet of you and you can see each other, you can force the creature to make a DC 19 Constitution saving throw if you aren't incapacitated. On a failed save, the creature magically begins to turn to stone and is restrained. It must repeat the saving throw at the end of its next turn. On a success, the effect ends. On a failure, the creature is petrified until freed by the greater restoration spell or other magic.

A creature that isn't surprised can avert its eyes to avoid the saving throw at the start of its turn. If it does so, it can't see you until the start of its next turn, when it can avert its eyes again. If it looks at you in the meantime, it must immediately make the save.

Gauntlet of Rust

Wondrous item, rare

While wearing this metal gauntlet, you can use an action to make a melee weapon attack. If the target is made of a ferrous metal (iron, adamantine, mithral, etc.), it takes 5d12 necrotic damage.

Gloves of Dexterity

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)

Your Dexterity score is 19 while you wear these gloves. They have no effect on you if your Dexterity is already 19 or higher.

Glove of Storing

Wondrous item, uncommon

While wearing this glove, you can speak its command word as a bonus action to cause one item held in your hand to disappear into an extradimensional space. The item can weigh no more than 20 pounds and must be able to be held with one hand. As a bonus action, you can snap your fingers, causing an item stored within the glove to appear in your hand. An item stored within the glove is held in stasis.

Hand of Glory

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)

This mummified hand hangs by a leather cord. Rings placed on the hand's fingers while you are wearing it around your neck function as if you are the wearer.

Up to two rings that you attune to that are worn by the hand don't count against your normal limit of attuned items.

Hand of the Mage

Wondrous item, common (requires attunement)

This mummified elf hand hangs by a golden chain. While wearing it around your neck, you can cast the mage hand spell at will.

Harp of Charming

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)

When you play this harp for 10 minutes, you can attempt to influence the minds of the audience. You must make a DC 13 Charisma (Performance) or Charisma (harp) check. On a success, each creature of your choice within 120 feet that can hear your performance is subjected to the effects of the mass suggestion spell (save DC 13), except the spell can affect more than twelve creatures.

On a failure, each of the creatures is immune to the effects of the harp for the next 24 hours.

Helm of Underwater Action

Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement)

While wearing this helm underwater, you can see in darkness within 120 feet of you as if it were dim light, and your sight bypasses water conditions which obstruct vision (but not solid objects, such as weeds).

As an action, you can speak the helm's command word to create a globe of air around your head, allowing you to breathe air while underwater. The globe disappears if you use your action to speak the command word again, or take off the helmet.

Horn of Fog

Wondrous item, common

While holding this horn, you can use an action to blow it, causing a cloud of fog to appear in a 10-foot cube next to you. The cloud moves 10 feet away from the point where you blew the horn to create it each round on your turn. The cloud's area is heavily obscured, and it lasts for 10 minutes or until a wind of moderate or greater speed (at least 10 miles per hour) disperses it.

Horn of Goodness/Evil

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement by a creature of evil or good alignment)

This item changes its nature to match yours. If you are good, it is a horn of goodness while you are attuned to it. If you are evil, it is a horn of evil. A horn of goodness only protects against creatures of evil alignment, while a horn of evil only protects against those of good alignment.

While holding the horn, you can use your action to blow it, protecting you with a magical ward. You and each creature within 10 feet of you gain the effect of the protection from evil and good spell for 1 hour (no concentration required). A creature only gains this effect while they remain within 10 feet of you, and a creature that moves within 10 feet of you gains the effect even if they were not within range when you blew the horn.

In addition, aberrations, celestials, elementals, fey, fiends, and undead cannot willingly move to a space within 10 feet of you. If they enter the area unwillingly (such as if you move towards them, or if they are pushed into the area), they are not forced to move away.

If the horn is blown, it can't be used again until the next dawn.

Horn of the Tritons

Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement)

This horn has 3 charges, and regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. While holding the horn, you can use your action to blow it, expending a charge and activating one of the following properties:

Calm Waters. You calm all rough waters within 1 mile of you.

Summon Sharks. If you are in a body of water where such creatures dwell, you attract aquatic predators to your location. The creatures arrive in 1d10 minutes. They are friendly towards you and do their best to obey your commands. Roll on the following table.

Fear. Aquatic creatures with an Intelligence score of 3 or lower within 500 feet must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or be affected as though by the fear spell. A creature that succeeds on the saving throw is frightened of you for 1 minute. It can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Incense of Meditation

Wondrous item, legendary

If you take a long rest while this incense is burning nearby, for the next 24 hours when you would normally roll one or more dice to restore hit points with a spell, you instead use the highest number possible for each die.

The incense must be burning for the entire rest. After burning for 8 hours, or if it is ever snuffed out, the incense is destroyed.

Ioun Stone, Greater Sustenence

Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement)

This item is an ioun stone, and has all of the properties common to ioun stones.

You don't need to breathe while this iridescent spindle orbits your head.

Lens of Detection

Wondrous item, uncommon

While this circular prism is held over the eye, you have advantage on Intelligence (Investigation) checks that rely on sight, and on Wisdom (Survival) checks made to follow tracks.

Lyre of Building

Wondrous item, legendary

While holding this lyre, you can use your action to strike the proper chords, warding nearby objects against harm. Each object within 300 feet becomes immune to the disintegrate spell and to all damage for 1 hour. Once you use this property of the lyre, it can't be used again until the next dawn.

Additionally, you can strum the lyre to build structures. Each hour of playing is the equivalent of 100 average humans laboring for 10 days. The lyre cannot only construct aboveground buildings, but dig ditches and mines. You must supply any raw resources required for the construction. For each hour played after the first, you must succeed on a DC 15 Charisma (Performance) or Charisma (lyre) check or the effect ends. You must use your action each round to maintain the effect. If the effect ends, either because you failed the ability check or stopped playing, this property of the lyre cannot be used again until 10 days have passed.

Mantle of Faith

Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement)

You have resistance to radiant damage and nonmagical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage while you wear this cloak.

Mirror of Opposition

Wondrous item, legendary

This mirror can be activated or deactivated by speaking its command word. If a creature sees its reflection in the mirror's surface while it is active, the mirror expends a charge to create an exact duplicate of that creature, including its possessions. The duplicate immediately attacks its original to the best of its ability, and doesn't stop until either it or the original is dead. When either the duplicate or the original is killed or destroyed, the duplicate and all of its items disappear.

The mirror has 4 charges. It regains all expended charges daily at dawn.

Murlynd's Spoon

Wondrous item, uncommon

When you place this unremarkable spoon into an empty container, the container fills with a thick, pasty gruel. The gruel tastes of warm, wet cardboard, but is highly nourishing. The spoon can produce enough gruel to feed up to four humans each day, refilling each day at dawn.

Orb of Storms

Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement)

While this 8 inch diameter sphere is on your person, you can tolerate temperatures as low as -50 degrees or as high as 140 degrees. While you are holding it, you can use the following properties:

Control Weather. You cast the control weather spell from the orb. You can't do so again until the next dawn.

Storm of Vengeance. You cast the storm of vengeance spell from the orb. You can't do so again for one month.

Pearl of the Sirines

Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement)

While holding this pearl, you have a swim speed of 60 feet. In addition, you can breathe underwater, and your weapon attacks are not hindered by water.

Robe of Blending

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)

While wearing this robe, you gain a +10 bonus to Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide. Additionally, you can use an action to cast the disguise self spell from it at will. The spell ends if the robe is removed.

Robe of Bones

Wondrous item, rare

This robe appears to be unremarkable, but while wearing it you can see various patches that resemble undead creatures. While wearing the robe, you can use an action to detach one of the patches, causing it to become the undead creature it represents. Once the last patch is removed, the robe becomes an ordinary garment.

The robe has two of each of the following patches:

• Small skeleton (use the skeleton statblock, but Small size and 11 hit points)
• Skeleton
• Wolf skeleton
• Small zombie (use the kobold zombie statblock)
• Zombie
• Bugbear zombie

Salve of Slipperiness

Wondrous item, very rare

As an action, you can coat a creature of Large size or smaller, or a surface or object of up to 100 square feet, with this salve.

Creature. Whenever a creature coated with this salve makes a Dexterity check to escape or resist a grapple, squeeze though a small space, or escape from bonds, they can treat the number rolled on the die as a 20.

Surface. A surface coated with this salve becomes slippery, as if a grease spell was cast on it.

Scabbard of Keen Edges

Wondrous item, very rare

While holding a weapon sheathed in this scabbard, you can use a bonus action to expend a charge to magically enhance the weapon for 1 minute. You score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20 on attacks made with the enhanced weapon.

The scabbard has 3 charges, and regains all expended charges daily at dawn.

Golembane Scarab

Wondrous item, uncommon

While wearing this beetle-shaped pin, you can use your action to sense the presence and location of any construct within 60 feet. Additionally, your weapon attacks count as magical for the purposes of overcoming a construct's resistance or immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Shrouds of Disintegration

Wondrous item, uncommon

If a corpse is placed inside these fine, embroidered burial wrappings, you can speak the shrouds' command word to cause the corpse to turn to dust. The shrouds then become nonmagical. These shrouds cannot be used under any circumstances to disintegrate a living or undead creature, or a construct.

Silversheen

Potion, uncommon

This oil can coat one weapon or up to 5 pieces of ammunition. Applying the oil takes 1 minute. For 1 hour, the weapon counts as silver for the purposes of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Stone of Alarm

Wondrous item, common

While holding this cube, you can use your action to speak its command word to affix it to an object, or to detach it. When the object is touched by a creature that does not first speak the command word, the object emits a piercing screech for the next hour.

Stone Horse

Wondrous item, very rare

While within 30 feet of this full-sized horse statue, you can use a bonus action to speak its command word and cause it animate, using the statistics of a warhorse, or return to its immobile stone form. The horse is a construct, is immune to poison and psychic damage, and it cannot be poisoned or become exhausted. Its carrying capacity is doubled (1,080 lbs), and the horse suffers no penalties for being partially encumbered. The horse does not regain hit points after completing a short or long rest.

If you cast a greater restoration spell (or use a similar effect that cures petrification) on the horse while it is below maximum hit points, you can choose to have it become a normal, flesh-and-blood warhorse. Its type changes to beast, and it can spend hit dice and heal over long rests as a normal creature. When it reaches maximum hit points, it reverts to its stone form.

Alternatively, you can feed the horse gems to heal it while in its stone form. It must use its action to eat the gems, and it heals 1 hit point for every 10 gp worth of gems it eats.

Stone Salve

Potion, rare

This glass vial contains 2 doses of gray ointment. As an action, one dose can be applied to the skin of a petrified creature, ending the petrified condition. Alternatively, if applied to the flesh of a non-petrified creature, they gain the effect of the stoneskin spell for 1 minute.

Strand of Prayer Beads

Wondrous item, varies (requires attunement by a cleric, druid, paladin, or ranger)

While holding this strand of small beads, you can use your action to activate one of the following properties, each of which is tied to a particular bead. If a bead is removed from the strand, it becomes nonmagical. Once a bead is used, it can't be used again until the next dawn.

Bead of Blessing. You cast the bless spell.

Bead of Healing. You cast the lesser restoration spell, or the cure wounds spell as a 3rd-level spell.

Bead of Karma. When you cast a spell that deals damage or restores hit points, you add your spellcasting ability modifier to the damage or healing.

Bead of Smiting. You cast the flame strike spell (save DC 17)

Bead of Summons. You summon a deva, glabrezu, or horned devil. The chosen creature apears in an unoccupied space you can see within 30 feet of you. The summoned creature is friendly to you and your companions and follows your commands, and it disappears after 1 hour or when it drops to 0 hit points (if you use this bead frivolously, or use it to summon a creature opposed to your own alignment, the deity that the summoned creature served punishes you by confiscating your equipment and preventing you from using a bead of summon ever again. This can only be reversed by the intervention of a deity)

Bead of Wind Walking. You cast the wind walk spell.

    A strand of prayer beads has the following beads on it, depending on its rarity. Other strands with different assortments of beads might exist.

Vest of Escape

Wondrous item, uncommon

While you are wearing this vest, you can use your action to retrieve magical lockpicks from an invisible pocket that only you can use. While using these tools, you have advantage on Dexterity (Thieves' Tools) checks made to pick locks. If you take off the vest or the picks leave your possession, they disappear back into the pocket. Additionally, you have advantage on Dexterity (Acrobatics) checks made to escape or resist a grapple, squeeze though a small space, or escape from bonds.

Druid's Vestments

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement by a druid)

When you regain expended used of Wild Shape while wearing this robe, you gain one extra use of that ability.

Intelligent Items

This section requires at least a small disclaimer.

The special abilities available to intelligent weapons in 3.5e have mostly been repurposed for use with randomly generating artifact properties. As such, I won't be reprinting them here.

However, the various intelligent items I'm converting from the 3.5e DMG do use results from these tables and have relatively few special abilities aside from these.