My favorite Twittersnip magic items of the year 2024, chosen from my Twitter feed.
2024 Magic Items (Best of)
Athena’s Purification Tonic: Drinkers receive wisdom and strength (+2 each) like that of the Greek goddess. Lasts for a few hours. Physical components are an owl feather and gorgon blood.
Beetle Slippers: Made of wool with glass beadwork of colorful insects, these have soft leather soles let the wearer walk up walls and on ceilings like a beetle does.
Bookmark of Bonding: Very annoying cursed item that glues together whatever two pages it is placed between. The bookmark can be slid out but the pages are bonded together and lost forever.
Concentration of Arachnia: This dark, swirling potion attracts spiders of all kinds wherever it is sprinkled.
Dagger of The Dauntless: A thief’s weapon that gives them an astounding +5 on courage while “on the job.”
Eyepatch of the Osprey: Commonly used by one-eyed pirate captains. It gives their remaining eye the visual acuity of a raptor’s.
Flute of Cerberus: This Greek-themed musical instrument is three flutes in one, played by a common mouthpiece. It is used to charm and command any sort of canine. It’s carved from a solid piece of obsidian.
Helm Of Silver Pride: This +1 helm allows a character of old age (65+) to fight as well as they did at age 25.
Horn of Princely Scoffing: The owner of this golden drinking horn will resist every attempt to impress them, responding with snobbish quips. Which can be either good or bad depending on the circumstances.
Lycun’s Tea of Growth: Spiritual growth, not physical. Drink the magic tea and the completion of your next adventure has a 50% chance of raising your Wisdom score.
Morsha’s Manual of Freezing: Contains all the useful ways a freezing spell can be utilized, from preserving food to fighting deities. (The owner must already know the spell to use the book.)
Oily Witch Cloth: Low level female mages use this lightly magicked material to wrap perishable items for shipment or preservation. The items will last up to 5x longer, depending on the level of the witch.
Olvin’s Guide to Vampiric Weddings: Love can strike even the Undead. This book contains helpful magic associated with marriages for these creatures along with fashion, reception, and honeymoon ideas.
Pitcher of the Halfling: Serves up to six halfling-sized portions of the kinds of beverages halflings like to drink. Recharges within 24 hours.
Plough of the Serpent: Not only furrows a field but attracts all kinds of snakes to it that will eat small vermin or poison larger invading creatures, at the owner’s choice. The serpents will never harm the wielder of the device.
Ring of Olfactory Defense: Protects the wearer from odor attacks, like from a giant skunk or siren pheromones.
Ring of Sculpting Vegetation: Made of gold and set with small emeralds. Lets the wearer create topiaries, clear paths through brush and forest, and clean up neglected gardens. (Does not work on plant monsters.)
Roc Bone Shard, Fossilized: Very rare and valuable, used as a component in flight spells where the target would normally be too large and heavy to fly.
Sagisward’s Resolute Journal: Tasks or goals written in this book have an additional 25% chance of coming to fruition when all seems hopeless. Multiple goals can be written, but as soon as one of them is completed, the book disappears.
Staff of Pollution: Has only one power but it does it well. When pointed at an area or body of water, the staff befouls it so badly that beings will flee.
Sword of Somersaulting: Only a +1 weapon, but when the owner holds it they are capable of performing acrobatic flips and tumbles every other round to avoid blows.
Tome of Dark Places: List of innately evil areas where dark magic spells can be crafted with ease – 25% less time and components, and 25% greater chance of success.
Unicorn Honey: Magical and very rare, made from the flowers of a plant fertilized by unicorn dung. A vital component of many healing and anti-poison spells.