AV&ES- Roll those dice!

Time-worn Coin


‘This thing is taking forever! Three nights and we are still not at whatever the coin is trying to reveal to us?’ Dhontor exclaimed.
‘Patience, the coin never shows anything false, it just sometimes takes time,’ replied Zoolka the magic-user.
The next morning the coin had stopped short of its usual nocturnal wandering, just before a grate in the dungeon floor.
‘The coin has stopped, something of great value is just below!’ Zoolka said excitedly to the others.
An ominous hiss could be heard from the grate.
‘Your coin didn’t mention any guardians, did it?’ inquired Xetell the thief.
‘No, no it didn’t. It only reveals places holding items of great value.’
The hissing grew louder.


A tarnished, ancient silver coin with a small hole in the direct center. Easily overlooked, yet invaluable to an adventuring party, for the most part.

Benefit: Place the coin on the ground and leave it overnight. By morning it will have moved up to 100 yards toward the nearest buried object of significant historical importance. It ignores ordinary treasure.

It seeks: ancient tombs, lost relics, buried idols, lore and/or spell libraries, forgotten ruins and ancient (and often significant) bones. It has no sense of danger to convey to its owner about what it seeks.

Usable by: Anyone.

Rose of Iron


The rotund creature loped towards Jaundo, its strange, feather-like antennae waving towards the fighter’s sword. It appeared frustrated when it made contact and the weapon remained intact.
Jaundo used that moment of frustration and surprise to stab the thing, it’s rust coloured blood stained the blade, yet did not affect it. Then Uzeb the Wise cast a spell that held the creature in its tracks while Jaundo finished it off.
‘Probably not a lot of treasure in this thing’s lair,’ Jaundo said as he patted the iron rose on the sword’s blade.
‘We won’t know until we snoop around,’ the wizard suggested.


An intricate rose forged entirely of iron. Extremely useful if you are very lucky with it.

Benefit: Place the rose upon any ordinary weapon and it will stick to it, as if it were magnetic, even against bronze, because the adhesion is magical. Until sunset the weapon cannot be: rusted, broken, bent, or disarmed. In addition, this weapon also counts as magical for purposes of striking creatures immune to mundane weapons. After sunset the rose returns to its owner’s hand. Needs three days to recharge before it can be used again.
After each use roll 1d6, on a result of ‘1’ the rose dissolves into a small pile of rust, its magic exhausted.

Usable by: Anyone with a metal weapon.

Salt of an Unknown Ocean


Thoz smiled at the menacing hobgoblins. This irritated them more. One stepped forward and howled in pain and stepped back, nursing its hand.
‘Clever move, spying on that wizard,’ said Krogi.
‘And finding out that he was summoning hobgoblins to follow us, very good,’ added Nuli.
‘I must remember to keep my own spells and intentions a more guarded secret,’ said Arakam the magic-user, half-jokingly.


A seemingly inexhaustible amount of thick grained sea salt found in a small silver lined salt cellar. Very useful when traveling around summoning mad wizards.

Benefit: Sprinkle this enchanted salt around a doorway, camp, or room and for the next eight hours, the area is protected against magically summoned creatures, extra-planar or not. Any summoned creature attempting to enter must Save vs. Spells with a -2 modifier or be unable to cross the salt and take 1d4+2 points of damage. The salt does not affect naturally occurring monsters, meaning those that are already present or naturally wander on site. No matter how much salt is taken, there are only three uses per week will be in any adventuring group, the rest wafting off mysteriously.

Usable by: Anyone.

Pearl from a Strange Sea


Dhiv looked over his shoulder and his eyes widened; the trio of bugbear mercenaries was getting closer.
‘What are we going to do to get through this door?’ the adventurer asked in a panic.
‘I was going to save this for later,’ Welter said as he withdrew a pearl from a pouch and stretched to set it on the small window in the door and poured water over it. Immediately the door became a sheet of water, running like a waterfall that went nowhere. Welter jumped through the watery door. Dhiv, amazed, followed.
‘Where did you get that?!’
‘It was something overlooked a few treasure caches back,’ replied the henchman.
Dhiv was going to say something, yet Welter pressed a finger to his lips as the bugbears approached on the other side, seemingly lost the scent of the duo and doubled back.


A medium sized grey pearl that always feels wet. Rumored to be from the Outer Planes, but which one?

Benefit: Place the pearl upon any solid surface and pour a cup of water over it. For 1 turn, that surface behaves like shallow saltwater, possible effects/uses include: a stone floor becomes something one can swim through, a wall becomes a vertical pool, a wooden door becomes a sheet of water (if you can find a place where the pearl will stay in place). Objects fall through normally and reappear when the magic ends and living creatures caught inside are expelled safely when the duration expires. Usable once per day.

Usable by: Anyone.