Gamemaster's

Toolbox
D
ispensing magic items

is one of the joys of GMing—

yet they are sources of great power

and wealth, so opportunities to reward

adventurers with fun relics are limited.

That’s where Enchanted Trinkets come

in! These magic items all have a minor,

largely flavorful effect, and in a pinch

they can be permanently expended or

broken to have a greater impact.

Note that while each of these has

a listed rarity it is suggested to use WRITING Mike Myler

COLOR ART Sade
the gold values included with each to EDITING Mike Myler
LAYOUT Frank Michienzi
reflect their expendability.

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Confusing Keyring
Wondrous item, uncommon (cost 120 gp)
Most of the time these bits of enchanted iron
appear to be nothing more than a worn metal ring
with a handful of sticks affixed to it. For 1 hour after
touching the confusing keyring against another
keyring with at least 5 or more keys, it takes on an
identical appearance though the keys on it are all
slightly different. A creature handling a disguised
confusing keyring can’t realize the difference until it
makes a DC 12 Intelligence saving throw.
Alternatively, you can use an action to expend
this item’s magical power to transform it into a
single key identical to a key of your choice from
the last keyring it mimicked. A minute afterward it
disintegrates into nothing.
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Crown of Spirits
Wondrous item, common (requires attunement;
cost 90 gp)
This silver circlet looks like it must be hundreds
if not thousands of years old. While you are attuned
to and wearing the crown, a miasma clouds your
vision incurring disadvantage on Intelligence
(Investigation) and Wisdom (Perception) checks
(lowering your passive Investigation and passive
Perception by –5), but you gain advantage on saving
throws against being charmed or possessed by an
aberration, fiend, or undead.
Alternatively, you can use an action to expend
the magic within the crown and choose a creature
that you can see within 100 feet. If the target is not
a construct or undead, it regains 3d4+3 hit points.
In addition, if the target is charmed or possessed
by an aberration, fiend, or undead, it is no longer
charmed or possessed. Afterwards the crown loses
its magic and becomes a mundane item.
Double Flask
Wondrous item, uncommon (cost 150 gp)
Lacquered mahogany wood is wrapped around
this ordinary looking silver hip flask. When the
top is unscrewed it reveals two small corks, each
leading to one half of the receptacle. The double
flask can hold up to two potions, concealing the
magical aura of both.
You can use an action to uncork both receptacles
at once and simultaneously drink both potions.
Afterwards the receptacle halves merge together
and the concealing magic is destroyed, turning it
into a mundane drinking flask.
Enduring Hat
Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement;
cost 125 gp)
The brim of this fashionable chapeau is lightly
charred, enhancing the garment’s drama. While
you are attuned to and wearing this hat, you gain
advantage on saving throws made against fire.
Additionally, when you take fire damage from an
attack, effect, or spell you can use your reaction to
allow the hat to absorb more of the heat. You take 15
less fire damage as the hat catches fire and inciner-
ates into a pile of cinders.
Ghostly Boots
Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement;
cost 150 gp)
A slight blue sheen emanates from these supple
leather boots and they seem to weigh like nothing
at all. While you are attuned to and wearing these
boots, you gain a +2 bonus on Dexterity (Stealth)
checks that rely on moving silently.
Alternatively, you can use an action to expend
the magic within the boots and turn invisible. You
remain invisible for up to 10 minutes. If you attack
or cast a spell while invisible, roll a d6. On a result
of 4–6, your invisibility ends. If you cast a spell that
does not deal damage, roll 2d6 instead and take
the lowest result. At the end of the duration
the boots lose their magic and become a
mundane item.
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Haunted Belt
Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement; cost
100 gp)
An extremely faint violet aura radiates from this
leather strap and tarnished buckle. While you are
attuned to and wearing this belt, you gain advan-
tage on saving throws made against poison.
Alternatively, you can use an action to expend
the magic inside of the belt. For the next 1d4+3
rounds, you can move through other creatures
and objects as if they were difficult terrain. You
take 5 (1d10) force damage if you end your turn
inside an object. At the end of the duration the
belt loses its magic and becomes a mundane item.
Illusory Sheathe
Wondrous item, common (requires attunement;
cost 90 gp)
Gold and silver inlays run the length of this oiled
black ironwood sheathe. After a weapon has
been holstered in this sheathe for a minute or
longer, when you draw it out the blade is
invisible until after you have made an attack
with it. You have advantage on attack rolls made
with the unsheathed weapon while the blade is
invisible.
When you hit a creature with the weapon
most recently enchanted by this sheathe, you can
use a bonus action or reaction to expend the magic
inside of it. The sheathe becomes a mundane item
and for the next 1d6+3 rounds
the weapon grants a
+1 magical bonus
to attack and
damage rolls.
Mad Journal Phantom Gloves
Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement; Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement; cost
cost 100 gp) 120 gp)
Nonsensical messages and strange drawings In the light of the moon the leather of these
cover the outside of this worn and tattered tome. gloves appear to be ghostly and made from ethe-
Over the course of ten short rests you can read and real mists. While you are attuned to and wearing
decipher this book by making DC 18 Intelligence these gloves, you gain a +2 bonus on Dexterity
checks, gaining a cumulative +2 bonus per previous (Sleight of Hand) checks.
successful check. When you succeed on at least four Alternatively, you can use an action to expend
of these checks, you understand the writing and the magic in the gloves and cast silence on a crea-
illustrations inside of the journal, and are able to ture you are grappling (instead of an object or
attune to it. area). The effects of the silence last for 1 minute or
While you are attuned to this book, you gain until the creature makes a Charisma saving throw
advantage on saving throws against being charmed (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your
or frightened. In addition, whenever you make one Charisma modifier) to negate this effect. Either way
of these saves, roll 1d20. On a result of 3 or less you afterwards the gloves become a mundane item.
gain a short-term madness.
Alternatively, you can use an action to rip out
the forbidden knowledge scrawled throughout the
tome and use it to wreak havoc upon minds in a
15-foot radius. Creatures in the area make a DC
13 Wisdom saving throw, gaining a short-term
madness for 1 minute on a failure. Any creature
immune to psychic damage automatically succeeds
on this saving throw, and creatures with resistance
to psychic damage have advantage. Afterwards the
book’s magic is gone, making it a mundane object
filled with blank pages.

Melodious Quill
Wondrous item, common (cost 65 gp)
This peacock feather quill seems to keen and sing Portable Sundial
whenever it is being used to describe melodies. Wondrous item, common (cost 55 gp)
When you use the quill to prepare a piece of music This battered Tiny-sized 5 pound piece of granite
and practice with that piece of sheet music for at is constantly reorienting itself to be pointed in the
least 1 hour each day, after a week you gain a +2 correct direction. You can use an action to smash
bonus on Charisma (Performance) checks to play the sundial against the ground, destroying it and
that piece of music. suppressing the effects of a darkness spell for
Alternatively, you can use an action to destroy the 1d4+1 rounds.
quill by breaking it in half. For the next 1d4 hours
you gain advantage on Charisma (Performance)
checks made to perform pieces that the quill has
been used to transcribe into sheet music.

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Reader’s Candle
Wondrous item, common (cost 65 gp)
A brass cage surrounds this wicked wax
cylinder. You can use an action to speak the candle’s
command word, making it shed bright yellow light
in a 5-foot radius and dim light for an additional
10 feet. By using a bonus action to speak a different
command word, you can direct the candle to float
above your shoulder.
Alternatively, you can use an action to remove
the candle from its brass cage and swallow it. For 1
hour after doing so you float just above the ground.
While floating, you can use your reaction when you
fall to reduce any falling damage you take by an
amount equal to five times your level. In addition,
creatures following your tracks do so with disad-
vantage unless tracking you by scent. You are not
able to float on any surface that would not normally
support your weight.
Sneaky Eyepatch
Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement;
cost 150 gp)
Bands of leather are attached to both sides of
this patch of tightly pleated cotton. While you
are attuned to and wearing this eyepatch, you
can see through it but take a –2 penalty on Intel-
ligence (Investigation) and Wisdom (Perception)
checks. In addition, you can use a bonus action to
feint a creature within your reach with a Charisma
(Deception) check opposed by its Wisdom (Insight)
check. Once you have used this feature against a
creature, it becomes immune to the effect.
Alternatively, you can use an action to make
the eyepatch disperse into a searing burst of light
that blinds you for 1 minute. When you regain
your sight, for the next 2d4+2 rounds you benefit
from extremely discerning sight (as the detect evil
and good, detect magic, and detect poison and disease
spells, but not requiring concentration).
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Stout Greaves
Wondrous item, common (requires attunement;
cost 70 gp)
The edges of these leather greaves are rimmed
by brass and silver. While you are attuned to
and wearing the greaves, your carrying capacity
doubles and your speed is not reduced by wearing
heavy armor.
Alternatively, you can use an action to expend
the magic within the greaves. For the next minute
your Speed increases by 10 feet and you can take
the Dash action as a bonus action. Afterwards
the greaves lose their magic and they become a
mundane item.
Wild Tassel
Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement;
cost 150 gp)
It is as though a wind were constantly blowing
upon this ornament, its fraying threads and strings
never completely still. You can only attune to this
item after it has been affixed to a nonmagical melee
weapon that does not have the Heavy property. If
the tassel is removed from that weapon, you must
attune to it again.
While you are attuned to this item, on your turn
when you take the Attack action you can unleash
the spirit inside of the weapon’s ornament to make
an additional melee attack with that weapon. When
the result of that attack roll is odd, the attack targets
a creature of your choice within your reach. When
the result of that attack roll is even, the attack targets
you instead. Once you have used this feature, at the
start of each of your turns, roll a d6. If the result of
the roll is a 6, you regain the use of this feature.
Alternatively, when you hit a creature with the
weapon attached to this ornament, you can use
a bonus action or reaction to expend the magic
inside of it. The ornament loses its magic and
becomes a mundane, but for the next minute the
weapon grants a +1 magical bonus to attack
and damage rolls. e