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[Vacation Content 1b/14] James RPG Art | Four Rime of the Frostmaiden Scenes

James' RPG Art makes animated scenes to help players visualise environments and add immersion and tone to your games. He has created over 300 scenes from official WotC adventures and many unique locations that are often found in a D&D adventure. He r...

2025-01-13 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post

[Vacation Content 1a/14] Loot Tavern | Spatiotemporal Catastrophe, Megalodon

Loot Tavern is one of the most prolific item makers in the 5e scene! Their work continues to fill in the game's item and flavor gaps with fun and interesting magic items. They enjoy creating items of varying rarities, so if that's a thing you really like ...

2025-01-13 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Public Poll—The Mighty Falconer's Mitt is now free!

Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!

The Mighty Falconer's Mitt's art and card files are now public and considered OGL content*! Grab them with the links below or on the 2025-01-11 15:38:28 +0000 UTC View Post

Heroic Ideas — Runner Up poll! Choose 2 community item ideas to be made!

Hey heroes!

Each week on Discord, community members nominate other members' suggested items to be made into official Saddlebag items. The top...

[Cards] Pack of Item Cards from December 2024

Want to use or print a lot of cards, but shudder at the thought of downloading all those files?

Never fear, hero! Download a month's worth of cards in a simple .zip file, ready for you to print at home or professionally, as well as the digital files to use for your Roll20 games!

Keep on adventuring!

Mighty Falconer's Mitt

Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement)

This oversized glove can be worn over an existing gauntlet or similar hand covering. It has 3 charges and regains all expended charges daily at dawn. While wearing it, you can use an action to expend 1 of the glove's charges to summon a spectral falcon to your outstretched, glov...

Mask of the Plumed Pugilist

Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement)

This colorful mask stretches to fit your face. While wearing this mask, you have advantage on any Strength (Athletics) or Charisma (Performance) check you make. In addition, your unarmed strikes can deal bludgeoning damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier on a hit, and oth...

Mantle of Shrunken Stature

Wondrous item, uncommon

While wearing this hooded mantle, you can speak its command word using an action. If you're an elf or gnome, you gain the "reduce" effect of the enlarge/reduce spell (no concentration required). If you're not an elf or gnome, this property has no effect. Once this property has been used...

Distant Kaleidoscope

Wondrous item, uncommon

This short brass scope weighs 1 pound. Looking through the scope causes everything to appear extremely colorful. Rotating the barrel of the scope causes a series of twisting visual effects to simultaneously occur and overlap, creating a brilliant display of randomized colors and patterns over top of ...

Heroic Ideas — Choose 2 community item ideas to be made!

Hey heroes!

Each week on Discord, community members nominate other members' suggested items to be made into official Saddlebag items. The top...

Public Poll — The Bag of Forging Coals is now free!

Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!

The Bag of Forging Coals' art and card files are now public and considered OGL content*! Grab them with the links below or on the 2025-01-04 13:54:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Bag of Forging Coals

Wondrous item, uncommon

When found, this leather bag is filled with 1d6 + 2 smoldering coals. They remain hot within the bag, keeping it warm to the touch on the outside. When a coal is placed in a fire, such as a campfire or forge, the fire remains at its optimal temperature (based on its original intended use) for the nex...

Waterwine Goblet

Wondrous item, common

This glass goblet has a colored tint to the outside, which undulates around the glass. Flicking the glass with your finger using an action causes the color to alternate between deep red, pink, and a light golden color. Water that's drunk from the glass tastes like a fine wine that corresponds to the gl...

Bracers of Nature's Grip

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)

Coiling ivy has been magically wrapped to form this pair of bracers. A glint of druidic magic still lingers within them. While wearing the bracers, you gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with your unarmed strikes, or a +2 bonus if you have proficiency in the Nature skil...

Medallion of Hypnosis

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)

This swirling brass medallion hangs from a long golden chain. You have resistance to psychic damage while wearing the amulet.

The amulet has 5 charges and regains all expended charges daily at dawn. While wearing the amulet, you can use an action to expend 1 of its charges to ...

Comet Dart

Weapon (dart), uncommon

This five-pointed dart is decorated with pieces of ever-frozen ice. When thrown, a streak of shimmering icy dust trails behind it. A target hit by the dart takes an extra 3d4 cold damage; it then takes 1d4 cold damage again at the start of each of its turns for 1 minute. The effect ends early if the ...

Heroic Ideas — Choose 2 community item ideas to be made!

Hey heroes!

Each week on Discord, community members nominate other members' suggested items to be made into official Saddlebag items. The top...

Public Poll — The Ring of Silverware is now free!

Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!

The Ring of Silverware's art and card files are now public and considered OGL content*! Grab them with the links below or on the 2024-12-28 13:54:01 +0000 UTC View Post

The Griffon's Saddlebag is on vacation from January 12th to the 26th!

Hey everyone! As the title says, the Saddlebag will be on break from January 12th to January 26th (two weeks) and returning on Monday the 27th.

If you also saw the previous post about the change in weekly schedule, you also know why this time off ...

THANK YOU! A New Year, A New Home, A New Schedule—4 items a week starting January 1st.

Hey everyone!

Earlier this month I posted this poll regarding shifting Saddlebag's weekly release schedule to four items each week, down from five. I also gave some context. In short, we're moving abroad, and by reduci...

Red Rider's Blade

Weapon (greatsword), legendary (requires attunement)

This red blade harkens to an ancient, celestial harbinger of strife and ruin. You gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. A target hit with the weapon takes an extra 1d6 psychic damage from the attack. The weapon has 10 charges for use with...

Hellish Reaper

Weapon (glaive), rare (requires attunement)

A target hit with this weapon takes an extra 1d4 fire damage from the attack. If your alignment is evil or if you're a tiefling, you're considered a hellish creature for the purposes of this weapon's properties, and the fire damage increases to 1d6.

The weapon has 4 charges,...

Ring of Silverware

Ring, common

While wearing this ring, you can use a bonus action to mentally command the ring to transform into a fork, spoon, or other harmless element of a set of cook's utensils (such as a ladle or spatula). The transformed ring returns to its normal form on your finger if you mentally end the effect (no action required)...

Firewood Accordion

Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement by a bard)

This accordion emits a crackling dirge when played and sends motes of flame lurching from it as air passes through. If you're attuned to the instrument, you are proficient with it. While you're attuned to the accordion and have it on your person, you have resistance t...

Locking Key

Wondrous item, uncommon

You can use an action to lock an unlocked door with this key, provided the door has a keyhole. If the door has a functioning mundane lock, the door is then locked using its normal statistics and DC to pick it. If the door doesn't have a functioning lock, it's then magically locked (DC 15); it remains...

Heroic Ideas — Choose 2 community item ideas to be made!

Hey heroes!

Each week on Discord, community members nominate other members' suggested items to be made into official Saddlebag items. The top...

Public Poll — The War Mage's Staff is now free!

Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!

The War Mage's Staff's art and card files are now public and considered OGL content*! Grab them with the links below or on the 2024-12-21 13:54:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Wanderhold, the Seedship — New Setting and Subclasses!

All is dust. The last whimper of life is snuffed out in a choke of ash and fire. The seas lie stagnant, still and smooth as sheets of glass. The sun hangs enormous on the horizon; night has fled the world, the sky a sheer face of pitiless fire. So swift is the calamity that befell the world that trees were burned to ash, yet they...

2024-12-20 18:19:19 +0000 UTC View Post