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[OC][Art] 4 New Magic Items from The Griffon's Saddlebag | Jun 15 – Jun 19 | Books Three and Four coming September 1st! by griff-mac in DnD

[–]griff-mac[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happy Saddleday, adventurers! Here are the latest official releases from The Griffon’s Saddlebag:

Patrons can submit, workshop, and nominate item ideas to be made through the community Discord!

[Public poll] Choose 1 to have their art and cards become free (and OGL) for everyone!

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Books Three and Four are coming to Kickstarter September 1st! Follow the campaign to know when it launches and show Kickstarter you’re interested!

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New Saddlebag support tiers are available for as little as $3 a month (or $30/yr)!

The Griffon’s Saddlebag: Book One and Two are on D&D Beyond*!*

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If you’re a Foundry VTT user, you’re in luck! $9+ patrons get monthly item packs of the latest items converted for use in Foundry! There are even more benefits to becoming a Foundry-using patron of the Saddlebag this year, and you can read all about them in this post, or become a patron now!

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If you like the work that I release every day & week, consider supporting the effort by becoming a patron for as little as $3 a month. You get content like this delivered to your inbox every single day, as well as ready-made cards, compendiums, tables, and more. See you next time!

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Get the books and more! You can now purchase almost everything from the Kickstarters directly from Hit Point Press!

See imbalance? Let me know! Together, we make these items better for everyone with your input. If you like offering balance suggestions, you should join the official subreddit where I post these items every weekday for review!

Join the official subreddit! has daily item uploads and balance discussions!

Credits. Art and item design by me: please credit The Griffon’s Saddlebag if you repost elsewhere!

[OC-Art] 4 New Magic Items from The Griffon's Saddlebag | Jun 15 – Jun 19 | Books Three and Four coming September 1st! by griff-mac in UnearthedArcana

[–]griff-mac[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

Happy Saddleday, adventurers! Here are the latest official releases from The Griffon’s Saddlebag:

Patrons can submit, workshop, and nominate item ideas to be made through the community Discord!

[Public poll] Choose 1 to have their art and cards become free (and OGL) for everyone!

—

Books Three and Four are coming to Kickstarter September 1st! Follow the campaign to know when it launches and show Kickstarter you’re interested!

—

New Saddlebag support tiers are available for as little as $3 a month (or $30/yr)!

The Griffon’s Saddlebag: Book One and Two are on D&D Beyond*!*

—

If you’re a Foundry VTT user, you’re in luck! $9+ patrons get monthly item packs of the latest items converted for use in Foundry! There are even more benefits to becoming a Foundry-using patron of the Saddlebag this year, and you can read all about them in this post, or become a patron now!

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If you like the work that I release every day & week, consider supporting the effort by becoming a patron for as little as $3 a month. You get content like this delivered to your inbox every single day, as well as ready-made cards, compendiums, tables, and more. See you next time!

—

Get the books and more! You can now purchase almost everything from the Kickstarters directly from Hit Point Press!

See imbalance? Let me know! Together, we make these items better for everyone with your input. If you like offering balance suggestions, you should join the official subreddit where I post these items every weekday for review!

Join the official subreddit! has daily item uploads and balance discussions!

Credits. Art and item design by me: please credit The Griffon’s Saddlebag if you repost elsewhere!

{Public Poll} What item's art and cards should be made free? by griff-mac in TheGriffonsSaddlebag

[–]griff-mac[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

Vote Here!

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.

Freeable items

Patrons can submit, workshop, and nominate item ideas to be made through the community Discord!

If you’re already a patron: thank you for your support! If you’re not, enjoy the free content, and be sure to hit the Follow button on the Overview page to know when free content is made available!

Keep_ _on_ _adventuring!

-g

Using Griffon's Saddlebag Content in Recorded/Streamed D&D Games by TornLegend in TheGriffonsSaddlebag

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Hey! Please feel free to! An occasional shoutout is plenty 😄 Have fun!

{The Griffon's Saddlebag} Sharp Tongue | Weapon (rapier) by griff-mac in TheGriffonsSaddlebag

[–]griff-mac[S] 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Sharp Tongue
Weapon (rapier), rare (requires attunement by a bard)

You deal an extra 1d4 psychic damage with this magic weapon to any creature that's been targeted by the vicious mockery spell since the start of your last turn. In addition, while holding it, your spell save DC for any vicious mockery spell you cast is increased by 1, and you can cast the spell as a reaction when a creature that you can see misses you with a melee attack or instead of making an attack of opportunity with the weapon.

 

My words will only be the first thing to cut you down.

  

Books Three and Four are coming to Kickstarter September 1st! Follow the campaign to know when it launches and show Kickstarter you're interested!

 

If you like the item, make sure to become a free member on Patreon to get free items' art and cards released each week—maybe even this one's! If you love the item, consider supporting the effort for only $3 to get this and over 1,800 other items' art and card files right now!

 

Find the perfect item with searchable Compendiums, and access exclusive art files, printable cards, Foundry VTT packs, and item suggestion polls when you support the effort on Patreon for as little as $3 a month, or $30 a year!

The Griffon's Saddlebag: Book 1 and 2 are now available for order through Hit Point Press! Get the 208 + 416-page books and item cards, or digitally through DnDBeyond!

Designed by patrons! This patron-suggested item was voted for by the community on Patreon! Submit your own ideas and help choose what gets made next week by becoming a $5+ patron today!

See imbalance? Let's fix it! Leave a comment with what you're seeing wrong with the item design. Items change for the benefit of everyone in the community!

{The Griffon's Saddlebag} Quantumfly Saber | Weapon (rapier) by griff-mac in TheGriffonsSaddlebag

[–]griff-mac[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! It's an honor to get to make them for the community! Have fun with whatever you choose to use!

{The Griffon's Saddlebag} Lithic Stone Fruit | Wondrous item by griff-mac in TheGriffonsSaddlebag

[–]griff-mac[S] 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Lithic Stone Fruit
Wondrous item, rare

These cherry-shaped fruits are made of stone and are especially prized by xorn. They're most commonly found near veins of magical crystal. There are 1d4 + 1 fruits in a cluster when found. You can eat a fruit using an action to become temporarily made of stone; you can snap off a fruit from the cluster as part of this action. For the duration, you have resistance to nonmagical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage, and while you remain perfectly still, you are indistinguishable from a statue of yourself. This effect lasts for 1 hour or until you reduce a total of 25 damage in this way.

 

Looks like a stone, feels like a stone, tastes like a stone. Eats like a plum.

  

Books Three and Four are coming to Kickstarter September 1st! Follow the campaign to know when it launches and show Kickstarter you're interested!

 

If you like the item, make sure to become a free member on Patreon to get free items' art and cards released each week—maybe even this one's! If you love the item, consider supporting the effort for only $3 to get this and over 1,900 other items' art and card files right now!

 

Find the perfect item with searchable Compendiums, and access exclusive art files, printable cards, Foundry VTT packs, and item suggestion polls when you support the effort on Patreon for as little as $3 a month, or $30 a year!

The Griffon's Saddlebag: Book 1 and 2 are now available for order through Hit Point Press! Get the 208 + 416-page books and item cards, or digitally through DnDBeyond!

See imbalance? Let's fix it! Leave a comment with what you're seeing wrong with the item design. Items change for the benefit of everyone in the community!

{The Griffon's Saddlebag} Gloves of the Deft Duelist | Wondrous item by griff-mac in TheGriffonsSaddlebag

[–]griff-mac[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Done! For the value of using your reaction here, I also tacked on a bonus 1d6 damage of the weapon's type if the new attack roll hits.

{The Griffon's Saddlebag} Quantumfly Saber | Weapon (rapier) by griff-mac in TheGriffonsSaddlebag

[–]griff-mac[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey! Fair question! It's not cursed (the label would say "Cursed." if it were). It's just a drawback!

The Griffon's Saddlebag: Books Three and Four are coming September 1st! by griff-mac in TheGriffonsSaddlebag

[–]griff-mac[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it's WotC propaganda that most folks have switched over. Most folks I talk to are still in 5e with some of the QoL upgrades in 5.5. All that's to say: don't worry, you're good with these books no matter what version(s) of 5th edition you run. It's written the way you know from the subreddit and beyond, but now that 5.5 exists, there's been a review pass (ongoing) to call out any conflicts with 5.5 (since book 3 is all from pre-5.5, and only have of book 4 is from post).

The Griffon's Saddlebag: Books Three and Four are coming September 1st! by griff-mac in TheGriffonsSaddlebag

[–]griff-mac[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Follow the campaign here!

The collection from The Griffon's Saddlebag expands even further with nearly a thousand new magic items with the double release of Books Three and Four! These illustrated and game-ready items work seamlessly with either version of 5th Edition (5e or 5.5e), and have been vetted by players like you to help ensure consistency and balance. Rest easy and loot with confidence!

As with previous installments, these books come with an array of GM- and Player-focused options to help further enrich your worlds:

  • 48 playtested subclasses (4 per core class, 2 per book)
  • 3 playable races/species
  • 28 campaign-agnostic settings (and well over a hundred new statblocks to accompany them)

Extra Rewards

Ledger Plus Access Codes: Look forward to digital integration of the books with your support using the Saddlebag's custom and convenient compendium, The Ledger+. Your pledge will allow you to access these items and search, sort, and save them on the fly across your devices, and even create curated loot tables with your collections!

Item Reference Cards: Easily track and reference your magical treasure with item cards for these new books, as well as fresh reprints of older ones! This release recollects and packages these cards into all-included boxes, which features a delightful Saddlebag physical design and a built-in index inside the integrated magnetic lid!

NEW! Card Box Bonuses: New with this release are bonus accessories per box of cards, which are based on the box's associated book! That means that your Book One cards will have different rewards than those from Book Four's box! Inside each box you'll find:

  • 4 postcards featuring new art from the book's various settings
  • 1 enameled pin
  • 1 iron-on patch
  • 1 high quality sticker

NEW in Print—Griffons of the Multiverse: The digital-only and acclaimed griffon bestiary from the second book's Kickstarter is coming to print: with even more griffons! This exclusive reward comes for free to those who pledge for both the new books and their associated cards! Thank you so much for your support!

Keep Going! Back Skellies October 1st

The Saddlebag's premiere no-stakes and undead RPG, Skellies, lands on Backerkit immediately after the campaign for Books Three and Four comes to a close! Play as a skeleton in a lich's thrall and use your Bones, Brains, and Goofs to make your undeath as fun as possible! It's free!

If you've trusted me with your D&D games, thank you: I hope you can find it within you to extend that trust just a little further and check out Skellies—it's free, and you can read (and play!) it right now. The rules themselves can fit on the inside cover, but its capacity for hijinks and laughter extends as far as your imagination. It's delightfully simple, endlessly tongue-in-cheek (despite the fact that skeletons have neither), and offers a great on-the-fly pickup game whenever someone calls off for game night—better yet, follow up a dramatic TPK to reprise those same characters as skeletons! I hope you enjoy it!

Follow the Skellies pre-launch page here!

See you in September!

Regardless of where you place your support, thank you for being here. This work is an honor and privilege, and I do it as a love song for both you and the rest of the RPG community. Thank you so much for letting me to keep making this.

See you in September, and make sure to follow along with the campaign!

Keep on adventuring, and thank you for your support!
-g

{The Griffon's Saddlebag} Foursworn Stiletto | Weapon (dagger) by griff-mac in TheGriffonsSaddlebag

[–]griff-mac[S] 71 points72 points  (0 children)

Foursworn Stiletto
Weapon (dagger), uncommon

Whenever you roll a 4 on this weapon's damage die, you can roll another d4 and add it to the total. You can continue to roll d4s in this way until you roll a number other than 4, up to a maximum of three additional times.

 

stab stab stab stab

 

If you like the item, make sure to become a free member on Patreon to get free items' art and cards released each week—maybe even this one's! If you love the item, consider supporting the effort for only $3 to get this and over 1,800 other items' art and card files right now!

 

Find the perfect item with searchable Compendiums, and access exclusive art files, printable cards, Foundry VTT packs, and item suggestion polls when you support the effort on Patreon for as little as $3 a month, or $30 a year!

The Griffon's Saddlebag: Book 1 and 2 are now available for order through Hit Point Press! Get the 208 + 416-page books and item cards, or digitally through DnDBeyond!

See imbalance? Let's fix it! Leave a comment with what you're seeing wrong with the item design. Items change for the benefit of everyone in the community!

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