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Public Poll — The Fists of Fury are now free!

Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!

The Fists of Fury's art and card files are now public and considered OGL content*! Grab them with the links below or on the 2025-02-15 13:54:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Fists of Fury

Weapon, legendary (requires attunement)

These dark iron knuckledusters come in a pair, and are slightly warm to the touch. You can wield one in either hand, transforming your unarmed strikes with your fists into magical weapon attacks. You gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with your unarmed strikes in this way...

Scuttling Spine

Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement)

This chitinous back brace is in multiple segments and faintly wiggles on its own. When you attune to this item, you must hold it to your exposed back for the entire duration, at which point its bug-like limbs cling to your back and hold it tight to your spine. While you're attun...

Miniature Mage's Magic Hand

Wondrous item, uncommon

This minute finger puppet holding a wand can be worn or removed using an action. While wearing the puppet, you can use an action to cast the mage hand spell from it. When you do, roll a d20. On a 20, you instead cast the arcane hand spell from the puppet, using a spell sav...

Miraculous Bread Box

Wondrous item, common

This bread box weighs 3 pounds and always smells like fresh bread. If no bread is in the breadbox, a fresh loaf magically appears in it daily at dawn. The type of bread is random: use the table below whenever a new loaf appears to determine the type of bread.

2025-02-10 16:59:34 +0000 UTC View Post

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 Celestial Ambrosia is now free!

Hey adventurers! Happy Saddleday!

As part of the weekly cycle of items, you get to vote for an item's art and cards to be made free for everyone. Some items may already be free, which accounts for any missing entries you may see in the poll.

Majordomo Staff

Staff, uncommon

The head of this staff is in the likeness of a butler standing at attention. While holding it, you can use a bonus action to transform it into a walking cane, or back into a staff. The staff has 3 charges and regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the s...

Celestial Ambrosia

Potion, legendary

Drinking this potion fills you with a heavenly feeling of moral clarity, which lasts for the next 24 hours or until you do something that can be characterized as evil (at the GM's discretion). For the duration, you gain the following benefits:

• You emit a warm, soft glow, which sheds dim light...

  2025-02-06 16:19:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Narwhal Stiletto

Weapon (dagger), rare (requires attunement)

You gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. In addition, you gain a swimming speed of 30 feet and can hold your breath for up to 1 hour. While you're underwater, the weapon grants you a variety of benefits if you're holding it:

• The dag...

  2025-02-04 16:56:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Bone Picker

Weapon (war pick), uncommon

You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. When you make an attack roll with it and roll a 20, the target is magically compelled to attack only you for the next minute. For the duration, the target has disadvantage on attack rolls against creatures other than you....

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 Gauntlets of the Storm Sailor are now free!

Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!

The Gauntlets of the Storms Sailors' art and card files are now public and considered OGL content*! Grab them with the links below or on the 2025-02-01 13:54:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Grimweaver's Shawl

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)

This ragged shawl is stitched to a threadbare hood and mantle using scraps of found clothing. A brass pin holds the shawl together. When found, 1d4 + 2 pieces of found clothing have been stitched together to make the shawl. You have resistance to necrotic damage and are proficient w...

Gauntlets of the Storm Sailor

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)

These gauntlets give off a faint glow while there's an active thunderstorm within 5 miles of you. While wearing the gauntlets, you have resistance to lightning damage.

Ride the Lightning. When a creature within 30 feet of you that you can see tak...

Toadstool Mace

Weapon (mace), rare (requires attunement)

This mace is made in the likeness of a toadstool. It releases a gentle plume of glimmering spores when swung. You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon.

When you hit a creature with this weapon and roll a 6 on the weapon's damage die, roll a d4...

Lazar's Magic Eye

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement by a creature missing an eye)

You can use this magic item as a replacement for a missing eye, even if you're not attuned to it. While it's in your eye socket, it can’t be removed by anyone other than you, and you can see through the item as though it were a normal eye. While it's i...

[Vacation Content 14/14] Spectre Creations | Barbarian: Path of Shamanic Wrath

Spectre Creations is, genuinely, a creator whose work I trust implicitly, creating everything between monsters, player options, game mechanics, and spells They are also a member of the team that works on the monthly Saddlebag settin...

2025-01-26 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post

[Vacation Content 13/14] Bonus Action |

Bonus Action and I actually started our content creation journeys at (almost exactly) the same time, which speaks to his tenure in the community. He creates items and illustrated monsters, so if you like Saddlebag content but want to explore some other g...

2025-01-25 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post

[Vacation Content 12/14] Moonlight Maps |

Moonlight Maps is a well known and active cartographer. His printed map atlases are some of my favorites! He also has a great assortment of map packs you ...

2025-01-24 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

[Vacation Content 11/14] Tom Cartos | Build-a-Bastion Modular Tile Series

Tom Cartos is a classic name among cartographers. These maps come with tokens and variants to fully control the scene for your adventurers in person or via VTT. He's a longstanding and active figure in the community, and if you haven't see...

2025-01-23 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

[Vacation Content 10/14] The Fluffy Folio | Homebrew (Tiny Ooze)

The Fluffy Folio creates whimsical monsters and magical critters that always inspire delight. They're also make the occasional magic item (especially potions), for those of you looking for even more magic item...

2025-01-22 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

[Vacation Content 9/14] 1985 Games | Tales of Obojima Combat Potions

1985 Games is a good friend and beloved creator in the TTRPG community. Their map tile sets, pins, and dice are all some of my favorite physical goodies—I've actually had a sticker of theirs in my wallet for the better part of two years now! All this goes to say: s...

2025-01-21 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

[Vacation Content 8/14] Sinlaire | Hunger magic items

Sinlaire is a bonkers talented artist and lore-builder who makes gorgeous and compelling items and stories! If you're the kind of person who likes art PSDs, too, you can get them from their Patreon! I mean seriously, can y...

2025-01-20 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

[Vacation Content 7/14] D&D Shorts | Advanced Ryoko's Guide player content

D&D Shorts is a preeminent D&D Youtube creator, and is behind the push fulfilling the wildly successful Ryoko's Guide to the Yokai Realms Kickstarter with Loo...

2025-01-19 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

[Vacation Content 6/14] DMDave | Shadowrock: A Vampire Adventure!

DMDave and I go back a long time, and if you've enjoyed the settings from the last year or so, you'd be enjoying his craftsmanship already! Dave is the writer for adventures in the space, and finds limitless ways to tell n...

2025-01-18 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

[Vacation Content 5/14] SlowQuest | Magivend Beverages

Slowquest, or Bodie, is an illustrator and creator of whimsical, feel-good content. Maps, critters, hilarious goblins, and sweet little adventures for any party or people. It's virtually impossible for me to not smile when looking at and reading o...

2025-01-17 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

[Vacation Content 4/14] Mage Hand Press | The Complete Witch Class!

Mage Hand Press are long-time friends of the Saddlebag and are, truly, some of my favorite people to see whenever I get to a convention. Their latest book, Valda's Spi...

2025-01-16 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

[Vacation Content 3/14] JKW | Shrine to the Dragon Lord (treasure map)

John Webb is the author of many official Saddlebag settings, so if you like those, you're already a fan of his work. His Patreon page is FREE (but you can tip him!), and it's there that he shares a lot of other content that's either camp...

2025-01-15 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post

[Vacation Content 2/14] CzePeku | Free month of their Token Generator tool!

Cze and Peku are long-time friends of the Saddlebag, and have been sharing content with me and you for years at this point. Their maps are beautiful and flush with variations, making it easy to use as a one-stop-shop and resource for your TTRPG needs (no matter the...

2025-01-14 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post