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Flavour Shots: +1 Weapons

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A Flavour Shot is a short description of game artefacts and phenomena for use by Dungeon Masters, Game Masters and Storytellers in their games. Feel free to drag and drop these into your own games, and modify to suit. Let us know if you end up using them. Some will be portals to other realms, some will be magic items, others will be monster encounters. This time, it’s…

A generic +1 longsword

Flavour Shot D&D magic itemsThe light from the torch glints off the handle of a sword, the blade buried in the pile of gold coins and burlap sacks. The metal hilt looks unusual to the fighter since wooden and leather-bound grips are more familiar on their weapons. The beginnings of the blade seamlessly merge with the crossguard, another unusual trait. The construction doesn’t seem recognisable; the local smiths couldn’t have made this.

As the light source shifts closer, the metal of the sword demonstrates an iridescent sheen, a rainbow of colours drifting around it as the torch moves. The fighter firmly pulls at the grip, the sword easily shifting loose the treasure around it and revealing that the blade is sunk deeply in the spine of a humanoid skeleton. It is long since dead, and many of the ribs are also broken, but here lay a blade of mysterious construction and material, a century old at least, that not only managed to bury its tip in the bones of a creature but survive the time, decay and hardness without a single blemish, scratch or nick.

Removing the blade from the bones reveals a perfect and pristine blade, lighter than the iron blades swung by the King’s soldiers yet keener, too. No scabbard lies with it, but why bother when it seems to tug at the mind of the wielder to sally forth and find evil?

Making magic items special

What other ways do you make treasure and magic items unique in your games? Unusual materials, designs and details can turn discovering a simple uncommon +1 weapon into a memorable experience. For more ideas on making magic items in your campaign more special, check out Forgotten Magical Items Volume I from Stainless Steel Dragon.

This book has over 1000 weapons and armor items usable for virtually all roleplaying games. The PDF book also includes random monster generation charts for items of slaying or polymorphing, a section on sentient magic items and more.

Share your ideas for making magic items in D&D and other games more flavourful in the comments below.

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