As the shadows grow long and the nights grow dark, the time has come to plumb the depths of the shadowfell with magic items like these.
Long nights and the slow descent into Winter beckon thoughts of liminence and woe. It is a time when darkness draws out your fears—when the living conjure the dead, or worse. And that’s exactly what these magic items in D&D will let you do.
After all, sometimes you’ve just gotta commune with potentially baleful spirits to know what to do next!
Spirit Board
If there’s one thing that’s going to meddle with forces beyond your ken, it’s the Spirit Board. This magic item is now standard in the Dungeon Master’s Guide, despite it’s ravenlike imagery. No longer confined to the misty prisons of Ravenloft, this ornate wooden board allows you to divine the future by communing with those Beyond the Veil.
To use it, you simply spend some number of the item’s three charges, place your hands on the planchette, and then argue a little about whether or not someone is moving it before a message is spelled out for you as you cast either Augury or Commune. But take care, you may not always like the answers you receive.
Luba’s Tarokka of Souls
Of course, sometimes those lingering spirits are less helpful. Potentially because they have been imprisoned – such is the case with souls caught in the web of Luba’s Tarokka of Souls. This Tarokka Deck has often guided heroes on their journey—and occasionally run into souls so wicked, people of such pure evil that the deck’s creator, Mother Luba, ensnared them within the confines of the deck.
This Tarokka deck can alter your fate (or someone else’s), but when it does, some of those trapped souls may escape the deck and go on the rampage. You might help a friend avoid the reaper’s scythe, but in doing so, unleash a Death Knight’s soul as it terrorizes the living. It is said there are 14 souls contained within, but some say there is a secret 15th—a deadly lich that may grant a special boon if it can be somehow released and destroyed.
Demon Skin
By comparison, a Demon Skin is positively benign. Though it is still creepy and gross. This magic item, out of the recent Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth, is a pot of shadowy ichor. A bubbling black substance, that, when you attune to it, flows over your body, adhering to the countours of your skin. It replicatess the effects of armor, which can be worn under normal clothes without impeding your bodily functions.
It comes in Chain Mail, Plate Armor, Ring Mail, or Splint armor varieties. Sure, it’s a foul ichor that adheres to your naked skin—but you know? Not too bad.
Iggwilv’s Cauldron
Iggwilv, who is better known as the witch Tasha at varying points in history, has a reputation as a fearsome witch. And her cauldron is a potent reminder of the arcane might she commmands. It comes in two forms: a golden cauldron emblazoned with trees and falling leaves and broomsticks, or one of dark iron, emblazoned with bats, toads, cats, lizards, and snakes. Both cauldrons are considerably magical and allow a wielder attuned to it to conjure dark powers.
The gold cauldron lets you create a hearty stew, which can nourish up to four people for every gallon of water you pour into the cauldron. Or if you pur wine into it, you can grant temporary hit points to those who imbibe the transfigured liquid. Or both water and wine let you use it to Scry.
The iron cauldron is much eerier. You can scream into it to summon a swarm of bats to fight on your behalf. If you pour A GALLON of blood into the cauldron, you can cast those nearby into a magical slumber. You can create a magic wand out of dead frogs. Or even freeze those within 1,000 feet in time. Possibly forever.
Reaper’s Scream
Finally Reaper’s Scream—a morningstar that glows with sickly pale light and is inscribed with a rune of death. Whenever you get a natural 20 on an attack roll with this weapon, you gain 10 temporary hit points, giving you a thorny damaging effect as long as you have them. And as a bonus action, you can invoke the rune of death, unleashing the screams of every single creature that has ever bee slain by this weapo in a single burst, which is about as metal as it gets.
Happy adventuring!
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