AV&ES- Roll those dice!

Misstep Marbles

After a grunt of pain the ogre, fallen flat on its back, raised itself on its elbows.
‘I’ll grind you into dust for that,’ the ogre bellowed.
Thoz knelt, holding a small bag in his hands, marbles rolled from under the ogre and into the bag.
‘By the time you get back up and collect your scattered things we will be gone,’ retorted the thief.
With surprising speed the bulky humanoid started getting back on his feet.
‘Run!’ Thoz shouted to the others as the ogre began picking up its weapons.

Usually found as roughly two dozen smoky marbles in a bag. Some enemies are particularly angry when these work as intended.

Benefit: When thrown or dropped before pursuers these enchanted marbles roll under the feet of enemies who must make a Save with a -2 modifier or fall to the ground. After 1d3 rounds the marbles roll back to their owner.

Usable by: Anyone.

False-Step Chalk

‘How many of these traps are there?’ lamented Jaundo.
‘Hopefully not more than we have chalk for,’ Uzeb the Wise replied with a grimace as he realized that there were more floor traps than he had planned for.
Best not to tell Jaundo just yet he thought to himself.

A piece of red chalk with tiny magical inscriptions carved in it. Invest in two or more pieces when adventuring in dungeons deep.

Benefit: Draw a footprint on solid ground with this chalk. For one turn the damage from stepping on pressure plate traps is centered on the inscribed footprint, despite the type of damage, although other elements of the trap still continue as normal. After ten minutes all of the markings vanish along with the piece of chalk that drew the footprint.

Usable by: Anyone.

Coin of the Snoring Guards

‘Thoz deftly flipped the coin into the roomful of goblin guards, the entire squad fell asleep and were soon snoring.
‘Now what?’ Nuli asked.
‘Now we have a few minutes to get out of here and join the others,’ replied the thief.
‘And then what?’
‘It will get very loud and we had better be far away.’
‘Then why are we talking?’
‘Exactly,’ said the concerned thief as he urged the priestess to follow him.

One one side of this gold coin closed eyes are depicted, on the other a peaceful moon setting. Handy to have when making a getaway.

Benefit: If thrown into a room with living occupants with no intent to harm them the coin will put all guards or individuals to sleep for one turn (ten minutes). Once the coin is retrieved the owner must make a Dex attribute check, failure means that the coin is dropped and its bearer falls asleep instead. After the sleeper awakens a loud alarm rings, alerting all in a wide radius.

Usable by: Anyone.

Philtre of Breathing Deep Down

The troglodytes would have looked surprised just after Frickle threw the small blue vial on the hard stone under their feet and breaking it, this releasing an essence that removed the monster’s foul stench, yet at that moment the torches all went out and the troglodytes did retreat and leave the party alone until they could figure out what was going on as the party scrambled, shouting and cursing, to get a source of light to see by.

A small glass vial of deep blue liquid. Very rare, usually just found somewhere out of the ordinary or something lost in a bet.

Benefit: When the glass vial is broken all poisonous gases, smoke and foul air of any kind are purged from a 45′ area, leaving clean air. However, all torches, candles and lanterns (magical light sources are unaffected) in a 100′ radius are extinguished and difficult to relight (1 in 6 chance) for three rounds.

Usable by: Anyone.

Grave Salt

‘Well, even if that necromancer is around, we have denied him a few playthings,’ Bakra-do said as he dropped the small vial to the ground and looked at his dark blue hand.
‘Your hand, they will know, the dead,’ the dwarf said as he nodded at the mercenary’s hand.
Bakra-do looked over at the wizard.
‘I have a couple of spells to get us out of here, probably our best bet,’ the wizard suggested.
‘Let’s do it, and hope we never come across this weird salt again,’ the mercenary snarled.

Gray salt that is very rare and expensive, when sold at all. You could cook with it, yet I would not suggest it.

Benefit: A generous sprinkling of this salt on a freshly deceased corpse will keep that body from rising as an undead creature. However, doing so marks the user of the salt’s hand, marking it a deep blue, even if gloves are worn, the hand wrapped otherwise or the salt sprinkled from its container. This causes all non-corporeal spirits in the vicinity to notice and possibly attack (50% chance).

Usable by: Anyone.

Voracious Sling Stone

Darsh the druid woke up face down in the forest, pockets empty, yet still had his staff.
Halfling bandits that lurked about the edges of this forest, he had been warned.
Wiping the dirt and lichen from his face he devised a plan.

Halflings often have quirky magic items on their shifty little bodies, this is the type of thing they have, even with its obvious downside to their kind. Small stone with a wide, hungry face etched on it.

Benefit: This enchanted stone deals 1d4+1 points of damage on a successful hit and then returns to the pouch or pocket where it is normally kept. It also consumes one ration per day, whether used or not. Can Knockout for one turn on a natural ’20’ to Hit.

Usable by: Anyone who can use a sling.

Arrow of the Held Tongue

‘The wizard Arakam winced as he was struck in the back by an arrow his companions in front of him could not see. His mouth opened to scream, yet no sound came out.
‘Is this a game of charades or something?’ asked Thoz the thief.
Arakam flailed his arms and whirled around after the second arrow hit, revealing the damage.
‘I’m on healing,’ Nuli said as she began a healing prayer for the wizard. Krogi and Thoz pulled the arrows out of the spellcaster. Thoz, finding the magical arrow, handed it to Krogi.
‘I am sure that will come in handy,’ he said to the fighter.
Krogi took a moment to consider if the magic worked if he just jabbed someone with the arrow’s point, thinking of the possibilities.
‘It might,’ Krogi agreed.

An arrow with arcane writing engraved on it. Very popular with rangers and scouts who try to pick off scouts and spies, and other rangers before they can raise an alarm.

Benefit: This +1 to Hit arrow deals 1d6 damage and the target, if struck, cannot speak for one turn (ten minutes), while the archer cannot speak for 1 round.

Usable by: Anyone who can use a bow. Or maybe just jab someone with it. Maybe.