Creating Equipment and Magic Items (Voidhaven Supplement)

Much of this is a port from an original document which I (Zibby (talk)) did not write, but am putting in as a basis for how items are planned to function. Thank you to those who have contributed to this conglomerate both knowing and otherwise, which has ended up as the items and how items work in Voidhaven.

Crafting Magic Items

Crafting magic items is a time-consuming process in most games, but as this game world is meant to be a high-magic setting, crafting magic items has been modified to be considerably less time consuming. The progress in gp which can be made toward crafting a magic item increases as a character gains levels, as below. This also applies for gp per day progress when disenchanting.

Level	GP/Day
1	50
5	100
10	150
15	200
20	250

Disenchanting

A character who takes this activity is disassembling a magic item, and extracting its magical essences into a useful common material, called arcane dust. A character must be at least a high enough level to craft a given item, in order to disenchant it. For each day of disenchanting, the character makes progress toward destroying the magic item based on their level as above, up to the full value of the item. Upon destruction of the magic item, they obtain a pile of arcane dust, a glowing blue metallic powder, worth half the value of the magic item it was extracted from. This dust counts as a magic item, and can only be sold through the selling a magic item downtime activity on p.129-130 of the DMG, but cannot be broken down any farther. Residuum can be used in the place of spell components, if you lack a components pouch or focus, and can be spent to cover the gp value of valuable spell components, but it is always consumed when used this way. Arcane dust can be spent in the place of the monetary expense of copying spells into a spellbook. It's main purpose is to be spent to reduce the crafting time of a new magic item, by artificially reducing its value for crafting purposes at a 1:1 ratio. (IE, if you have 50gp of arcane dust, and make a magic item with a value of 90gp, then you only need to craft up to 40gp of that to complete the item. The item is still worth 90gp, you just took a shortcut.) It is always consumed when used, releasing its metaphysical form from its temporarily physical state.

Many thanks to Kydo for your original work on Disenchanting.

Magic Item Values in Voidhaven

(Sane magic item prices)

Introduction

Have you ever wondered how much an item truly costs? Have you been wanting to find or craft an item but aren’t sure how it fits in to the grand scheme of things? Did you ever look at sovereign glue and say to yourself, “There is no way that glue is worth 500,000 gp when Sentinal shield is worth 500gp”. Well you are in luck because this guide is for you. Brainstorming with the Giant In the Playground, /r/ DnDNext, and EnWorld forums, Saidoro has put together a set of tables that break down the costs, reasons for the costs, and DMG page to find the item.

DM Preface

Your world need not sell the magic items for the prices given below. Your world does not even need to sell the magic items below at all. The primary purpose of the tables below is to establish the relative price of magic items so that you can have a reasonably sane economy and/or so that you can quickly eyeball how much the swag you’re giving your players is worth. The items are divided into a few different lists for your convenience. The lists are as follows:

• Consumables are items that are used some set amount of times (usually once) and then are gone.
• Summoning Items are items that summon creatures to kill things or solve problems for you.
• Combat Items are items that primarily make the user better at killing things. Some also have other killing-unrelated effects, but these are not the primary source of their utility.
• Noncombat Items are items that primarily make the user better at solving problems in a killing-unrelated manner. Some also make the user better at killing things, but this is not the primary source of their utility.
• Game-Changing Items are items that can have major effects on the way the players engage with the world or that can resculpt the campaign world in some major way all on their own. They are not necessarily overpowered, but the GM should take a look at them to make sure that the items they allow are compatible with the sort of game and world they want to create.

Each is discussed further in their own section. By adjusting the prices of the various lists, the DM can make it easier or harder to get their hands on various types of problem solving abilities.

Again, the prices below are not absolute. The DM may adjust the prices of items individually or by list, they may make any item available or not, they may say that magic items can’t be sold for gold at all and that the below prices only roughly estimate value when people are trading magic items for other magic items or they may even not show these tables to their PCs at all and just use them to estimate treasure values. The below lists are intended as a tool, not an imposition on your campaign world.

Consumables Consumables represent all items that can be used up when used in their intended manner. By default, consumables are somewhere around one tenth the price of an equivalent permanent item. The scroll prices below represent a typical scroll of that level. Scrolls with significant direct value, such as scrolls of fabricate or wish, may be priced differently. Name Value Page Rarity MM Page Spell Scroll level 0 10 200 Common Ammunition +1 (each) 25 150 Uncommon Potion of Healing 50 187 Common Quaal's Feather Token Anchor 50 188 Rare Spell Scroll Level 1 60 200 Common Philter of Love 90 184 Uncommon Ammunition +2 (ea) 100 150 Rare Potion of Poison 100 188 Uncommon Dust of Dryness (1 pellet) 120 166 Uncommon Elixir of Health 120 168 Rare Keoghtom's Ointment (Per dose) 120 179 Uncommon Spell Scroll Level 2 120 200 Uncommon Potion of Fire Breath 150 187 Uncommon Potion of Greater Healing 150 187 Uncommon Potion of Climbing 180 187 Common Potion of Heroism 180 188 Rare Potion of Invisibility 180 188 Very Rare Potion of Mind Read-ing 180 188 Rare Potion of Water Breathing 180 188 Uncommon Scroll of Protection 180 199 Rare Nolzur's Marvelous Pigments 200 183 Very Rare Potion of Animal Friendship 200 187 Uncommon Spell Scroll Level 3 200 200 Uncommon Quaal's Feather Token Fan 250 188 Rare Quaal's Feather Token Whip 250 188 Rare Potion of Diminution 270 187 Rare Potion of Growth 270 187 Uncommon Dust of Disappearance 300 166 Uncommon Necklace of Fireballs (One bead) 300 182 Rare Potion of Gaseous Form 300 187 Rare Potion of Resistance 300 188 Uncommon Universal Solvent 300 209 Legendary Spell Scroll Level 4 320 200 Rare Ammunition +3 (ea) 400 150 Very Rare Potion of Speed 400 188 Very Rare Sovereign Glue 400 200 Legendary Horn of Blasting 450 174 Rare Potion of Superior Healing 450 187 Very Rare Dust of Sneezing and Choking 480 166 Uncommon Necklace of Fireballs (Two beads) 480 182 Rare Oil of Slipperiness 480 184 Uncommon Potion of Flying 500 187 Very Rare Arrow of Slaying (ea) 600 152 Very Rare Spell Scroll Level 5 640 200 Rare Bead of Force 960 154 Rare Elemental Gem 960 167 Uncommon Necklace of Fireballs (Three beads) 960 182 Rare Potion of Clairvoyance 960 187 Rare Potion of Vitality 960 188 Very Rare Spell Scroll Level 6 1280 200 Very Rare Potion of Supreme Healing 1350 187 Very Rare Chime of Opening 1500 158 Rare Necklace of Fireballs (Four beads) 1600 182 Rare Oil of Etherealness 1920 183 Rare Ioun Stone Absorption 2400 177 Very Rare Spell Scroll Level 7 2560 200 Very Rare Quaal's Feather Token Bird 3000 188 Rare Quaal's Feather Token Swan Boat 3000 188 Rare Oil of Sharpness 3200 184 Very Rare Necklace of Fireballs (Five beads) 3840 182 Rare Potion of Invulnerability 3840 188 Rare Gem of Brightness 5000 171 Uncommon Spell Scroll Level 8 5120 200 Very Rare Deck of Illusions 6120 161 Uncommon Necklace of Fireballs (Six beads) 7680 182 Rare Spell Scroll Level 9 10240 200 Legendary Ioun Stone Greater Absorption 31000 177 Legendary Rod of Absorption 50000 195 Very Rare Talisman of Ultimate Evil 61440 207 Legendary Talisman of Pure Good 71680 207 Legendary Robe of Useful Items Items * 5 195 Uncommon Summoning Items Summoning items give their users shiny new friends to help them destroy their enemies or solve problems. With the exception of the Onyx dog, the Silver Raven and the Ivory Goat of Terror, the value of these items is heavily dependent on how expensive mercenaries are in your campaign world. The basic rules makes hiring even quite competent allies startlingly cheap, and while these items aren’t based on the ridiculous 2 gp/day rule, they do assume that hiring combat ready minions is a relatively cheap activity that most players will be doing a little bit of if the situation warrants it. Adjust the below prices accordingly if this is not true in your campaign world. Name Value Page Rarity MM Page Ivory Goat (Travail) 400 169 Rare 326 Goldean Lion (ea) 600 169 Rare 331 Ivory Goat (Traveling) 1000 169 Rare 336 Staff of the Python 2000 204 Uncommon 324 Onyx Dog 3000 170 Rare 332 Silver Raven 5000 170 Uncommon 335 Silver Horn of Valhalla 5600 175 Rare 344 Marble Elephant 6000 170 Rare 322 Bowl of Commanding Water Elementals 8000 156 Rare 125 Brazier of Commanding Fire Elementals 8000 156 Rare 125 Censer of Controlling Air Elementals 8000 158 Rare 124 Stone of Controlling Earth Elementals 8000 205 Rare 124 Brass Horn of Valhalla 8400 175 Rare 344 Bronze Horn of Valhalla 11200 175 Very Rare 344 Iron Horn of Valhalla 14000 175 Legendary 344 Ivory Goat (Terror) 20000 169 Rare 326

Combat Items Combat items are primarily good for killing things. A few have other uses as well, like the luckstone or the Ioun Stone Mastery, but their biggest effect is making their owner better at killing or not getting killed. Increase the price of these items if you want your players mostly getting oddball magic items that don’t interact much at all with combat. All items which are weapons or armor add the cost of the base weapon or armor that makes them up to their price. Name Value Page Rarity Vicious Weapon 350 209 Rare Adamantine Armor 500 150 Uncommon Mithral Armor 800 182 Uncommon +1 Weapon 1000 213 Uncommon Sword of Life-Stealing 1000 206 Rare Ioun Stone Protection 1200 177 Rare Wand of the War Mage +1 1200 212 Uncommon Bracers of Archery 1500 156 Uncommon Circlet of Blasting 1500 158 Uncommon Javelin of Lightning 1500 178 Uncommon Prayer Bead - Smiting 1500 182 Rare Wind Fan 1500 213 Uncommon Sword of Sharpness 1700 206 Rare Staff of the Adder 1800 203 Uncommon Dancing Sword 2000 160 Very Rare Glamoured Studded Leather 2000 172 Rare Pipes of the Sewers 2000 185 Uncommon Prayer Bead - Bless 2000 182 Rare Saddle of the Cavalier 2000 199 Uncommon Sword of Wounding 2000 207 Rare Frost Brand 2200 171 Very Rare Dagger of Venom 2500 160 Rare Gloves of Missile Snaring 3000 172 Uncommon Ioun Stone Agility 3000 177 Very Rare Ioun Stone Fortitude 3000 177 Very Rare Ioun Stone Insight 3000 177 Very Rare Ioun Stone Intellect 3000 177 Very Rare Ioun Stone Leadership 3000 177 Very Rare Ioun Stone Strength 3000 177 Very Rare Staff of Withering 3000 205 Rare Cloak of Protection 3500 159 Uncommon Oathbow 3500 183 Very Rare Ring of Protection 3500 191 Rare +2 Weapon 4000 213 Rare Boots of Speed 4000 155 Rare Dragon Scale Mail 4000 165 Very Rare Elven Chain 4000 168 Rare Ioun Stone Regeneration 4000 177 Legendary Iron Bands of Bilarro 4000 177 Rare Prayer Bead - Curing 4000 182 Rare Rope of Entanglement 4000 197 Rare Wand of Enemy Detection 4000 210 Rare Luckstone 4200 205 Uncommon Wand of the War Mage +2 4800 212 Rare Flame Tongue 5000 170 Rare Periapt of Wound Closure 5000 184 Uncommon Ring of Evasion 5000 191 Rare Ring of the Ram 5000 193 Rare Tentacle Rod 5000 208 Rare Animated Shield 6000 151 Very Rare Armor of Resistance 6000 152 Rare Arrow-Catching Shield 6000 152 Rare Belt of Dwarvenkind 6000 155 Rare Bracers of Defense 6000 156 Rare Ioun Stone Reserve 6000 177 Rare Pearl of Power 6000 184 Uncommon Pipes of Haunting 6000 185 Uncommon Ring of Resistance 6000 192 Rare Robe of Scintillating Colors 6000 194 Very Rare Scimitar of Speed 6000 199 Very Rare Shield of Missile Attraction 6000 200 Rare Giant Slayer 7000 172 Rare Mace of Smiting 7000 179 Rare Brooch of Shielding 7500 156 Uncommon Amulet of Health 8000 150 Rare Dragon Slayer 8000 1166 Rare Gauntlets of Ogre Power 8000 171 Uncommon Headband of Intellect 8000 173 Uncommon Mace of Disruption 8000 179 Rare Mace of Terror 8000 180 Rare Nine Lives Stealer (Fully Charged) 8000 183 Very Rare Wand of Magic Missiles 8000 211 Uncommon Wand of Web 8000 212 Uncommon Staff of Thunder and Lightning 10000 204 Very Rare Wand of Binding 10000 209 Rare Wand of Fear 10000 210 Rare Ioun Stone Awareness 12000 177 Rare Rod of the Pact Keeper +1 12000 197 Rare Staff of Charming 12000 201 Rare Sunblade 12000 205 Rare Staff of Healing 13000 202 Rare Ring of Shooting Stars 14000 192 Very Rare Ioun Stone Mastery 15000 177 Legendary +3 Weapon 16000 213 Very Rare Hammer of Thunderbolts 16000 173 Legendary Rod of the Pact Keeper +2 16000 197 Rare Staff of Fire 16000 201 Very Rare Staff of Swarming Insects 16000 203 Rare Wand of Paralysis 16000 211 Rare Ring of Fire Elemental Command 17000 190 Legendary Dwarven Thrower 18000 167 Very Rare Wand of the War Mage +3 19200 212 Very Rare Efreeti Chain 20000 167 Legendary Ring of Free Action 20000 191 Rare Sentinel Shield 20000 199 Uncommon Staff of Striking 21000 203 Very Rare Ring of Spell Storing 24000 192 Rare Vorpal Sword 24000 209 Legendary Ring of Water Elemental Command 25000 191 Legendary Rod of Alertness 25000 195 Very Rare Staff of Frost 26000 201 Very Rare Instrument of the Bards - Fochulan Bandlore 26500 176 Uncommon Instrument of the Bards - Mac-Fuirmidh Cittern 27000 176 Uncommon Rod of Lordly Might 28000 195 Legendary Rod of the Pact Keeper +3 28000 197 Very Rare Instrument of the Bards - Doss Lute 28500 176 Uncommon Instrument of the Bards - Canaith Mandolin 30000 176 Rare Mantle of Spell Resistance 30000 180 Rare Ring of Spell Turning 30000 193 Legendary Prayer Bead - Favor 32000 182 Rare Wand of Fireballs 32000 210 Rare Wand of Lightning Bolts 32000 211 Rare Wand of Polymorph 32000 211 Very Rare Instrument of the Bards - Cli Lyre 35000 176 Rare Scarab of Protection 36000 199 Legendary Sword of Answering 36000 206 Legendary Staff of the Woodlands 44000 204 Rare Spellguard Shield 50000 201 Very Rare Cloak of Displacement 60000 158 Rare Robe of Stars 60000 194 Very Rare Weapon of Warning 60000 213 Uncommon Prayer Bead - Wind Walking 96000 182 Rare Instrument of the Bards - Anstruth Harp 109000 176 Very Rare Instrument of the Bards - Ollamh Harp 125000 176 Legendary Prayer Bead - Summons 128000 182 Rare Holy Avenger 165000 174 Legendary

Noncombat Items Noncomat items give some sort of problem-solving ability not directly related to combat. Some, like the Eversmoking Bottle and the Boots of Levitation are also useful in combat, but that isn’t where the bulk of their utility comes from. Increase the price of these items if you’d rather have your players resort to combat more predictably instead of coming up with complicated schemes that avoid direct fighting. Name Value Page Rarity Helm of Comprehend Languages 500 173 Uncommon Driftglobe 750 166 Uncommon Trident of Fish Command 800 209 Uncommon Cap of Water Breathing 1000 157 Uncommon Eversmoking Bottle 1000 168 Uncommon Quiver of Ehlonna 1000 189 Uncommon Ioun Stone Sustenance 1000 177 Rare Ring of Warmth 1000 193 Uncommon Goggles of Night 1500 172 Uncommon Horseshoes of the Zephyr 1500 175 Very Rare Mariner's Armor 1500 181 Uncommon Necklace of Adaption 1500 182 Uncommon Ring of Water Walking 1500 193 Uncommon Wand of Magic Detection 1500 211 Uncommon Wand of Secrets 1500 211 Uncommon Gloves of Swimming and Climbing 2000 172 Uncommon Heward's Handy Haversack 2000 174 Rare Rope of Climbing 2000 197 Uncommon Ring of Feather Falling 2000 191 Rare Boots of Elvenkind 2500 155 Uncommon Eyes of Minute Seeing 2500 168 Uncommon Eyes of the Eagle 2500 168 Uncommon Ring of Jumping 2500 191 Uncommon Dimensional Shackles 3000 165 Rare Eyes of Charming 3000 168 Uncommon Medallion of Thoughts 3000 181 Uncommon Ring of Swimming 3000 193 Uncommon Bag of Holding 4000 153 Uncommon Boots of Levitation 4000 155 Rare Ring of Animal Influence 4000 189 Rare Boots of Striding and Springing 5000 156 Uncommon Cloak of Arachnida 5000 158 Very Rare Cloak of Elvenkind 5000 158 Uncommon Gloves of Thievery 5000 172 Uncommon Hat of Disguise 5000 173 Uncommon Horseshoes of Speed 5000 175 Rare Immovable Rod 5000 175 Uncommon Lantern of Revealing 5000 179 Uncommon Periapt of Health 5000 184 Uncommon Periapt of Proof Against Poison 5000 184 Rare Slippers of Spider Climbing 5000 200 Uncommon Cloak of the Bat 6000 159 Rare Cloak of the Manta Ray 6000 159 Uncommon Ring of X-Ray Vision 6000 193 Rare Cape of the Mountebank 8000 157 Rare Portable Hole 8000 185 Rare Apparatus of Kwalish 10000 151 Legendary Boots of the Winterlands 10000 156 Uncommon Folding Boat 10000 170 Rare Ring of Invisibility 10000 191 Legendary Helm of Telepathy 12000 174 Uncommon Cube of Force 16000 159 Rare Ring of Mind Shielding 16000 191 Uncommon Rod of Rulership 16000 197 Rare Mirror of Life Trapping 18000 181 Very Rare Amulet of Proof Against Detection and Location 20000 150 Uncommon Robe of Eyes 30000 193 Rare Gem of Seeing 32000 172 Rare Plate Armor of Etherealness 48000 185 Legendary Gamechanging Items Gamechanging items significantly impact either the gameworld as a whole or the sort of things that are capable of challenging their holders. I don’t really see either of these as a problem, but they may not fit with some campaigns or some settings, so the DM should take a careful look at the items on this list and decide whether or not they are allowed. Name Value Page Rarity MM Page +1 Armor 1500 152 Rare +1 Shield 1500 200 Uncommon Sending Stones 2000 199 Uncommon Wings of Flying 5000 214 Rare Alchemy Jug 6000 150 Uncommon +2 Armor 6000 152 Very Rare +2 Shield 6000 200 Rare Ebony Fly 6000 169 Rare Bronze Griffon 8000 169 Rare Broom of Flying 8000 156 Uncommon 174 Serpentine Owl 8000 170 Rare Winged Boots 8000 214 Uncommon 327 Dwarven Plate 9000 167 Very Rare Potion of Longevity 9000 188 Very Rare Carpet of Flying 12000 157 Very Rare Ring of Regeneration 12000 191 Very Rare Sphere of Annihilation 15000 201 Legendary Armor of Invulnerability 18000 152 Legendary Talisman of the Sphere 20000 207 Legendary +3 Armor 24000 152 Legendary +3 Shield 24000 200 Very Rare Defender 24000 164 Legendary Ring of Earth Elemental Command 31000 190 Legendary Robe of the Archmagi 34000 194 Legendary Ring of Air Elemental Command 35000 190 Legendary Cubic Gate 40000 160 Legendary Crystal Ball 50000 159 Very Rare Helm of Teleportation 64000 174 Rare Daern's Instant Fortress 75000 160 Rare Ring of Telekinesis 80000 193 Very Rare Cloak of Invisibility 80000 158 Legendary Rod of Security 90000 197 Very Rare Staff of Power 95500 202 Very Rare Obsidian Steed 128000 170 Very Rare 235 Decanter of Endless Water 135000 160 Uncommon Amulet of the Planes 160000 150 Very Rare

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Items that Won’t be priced

Candle of Invocation: Because we’ve learned a thing or two from 3.5

Deck of Many Things, Efreeti Bottle, Iron flask, Ring of Three Wishes, and Luck Blade: Because Wishes

Well of Many Worlds: Because if the GM wants you to have a TARDIS you’ll have one and if they don’t you won’t

Wand of Wonder: Because lolrandom

Ring of Djinni Summoning: It’s pretty much everything from the gamechanging list in a single item

Bag of Tricks: Creating permanent living creatures does absolutely silly things to the economy

Tome of the Stilled Tongue: No wizard would ever sell this

Manuals and tomes +2: If these come up, the GM is probably giving them to the whole party as a “level up” type thing

Belt of giant Strength and Potion of Giant Strength: breaks bounded accuracy

Rod of Resurrection: Plot device

Helm of Brilliance: Lolrandom

Bag of Beans: Lolrandom (Seriously, it summons mummy lords with treasure filled crypts)

Staff of the Magi: Too much power

Manual of Golems: This is a blueprint, not an item. Use whatever rules go into pricing blueprints for your campaign and adjust the golem crafting prices as needed

Cursed items

Credits: Saidoro: For the list and the work putting it all together. SalmonSquire: For the layout of the original document. Wizard of the Coast: For making a great 5th edition of D&D. Giant In The Playground: For their help refining the list. /r/DnDNext and EnWorld: For their extra input.

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