Encyclopedia Magica1Accessory

CreditsDesign: It is impossible to list all of the creators of the items cataloged in these volumes, but

credit goes to everyone who has created a magic item in a module, boxed set, accessory,hardbound, or magazine article published in the last 20 years.

Compilation and Development: sladeDevelopment and Editing: Doug Stewart

Project Coordination: Steve WinterInterior Black and White Art: Arnie Swekel

Interior Color Art: Gerald Brom, Clyde Caldwell, Jeff Easley, Tim Hildebrandt,Roger Loveless, and Keith Parkinson

Art Coordination: Peggy CooperGraphic Design: Dee Barnett

Graphic Coordination: Sarah FeggestadTypesetting: Nancy J. Kerkstra

Production: Paul HanchetteAcknowledgments: L. Richard Baker III, Anne Brown, Bruce Heard, Colin McComb, Ed Greenwood,

Roger E. Moore, slade, Steven E. Schend, Doug Stewart, Georgia S. Stewart, and Skip Williamswho supplied new and unique magical items. And, of course, James M. Ward, for laughing

when he heard slade had this project.

Volume ThreePick of Earth Parting to Thesis on Conditional Ruptures (Spellbook)

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PickThe pick is a tool that looks like a simplecross between an axe and a hammer. It is usuallyused during mining operations as a digging tool.

of Earth PartingXP Value: 5,000 GP Value: 25,000

Tome of MagicThis enchanted pick allows its wielder to cutthrough elemental earth quickly. The wielder ofthe pick must have strength of 17 or better. Byrepeatedly swinging the pick at elemental earth,the wielder can carve out a 10- by 10- by 60-foot tunnel per round. The pick's magical prop-erties create a smooth, clean surface regardlessof the mining skill of the user. All rubble fromthe excavation magically disappears, leaving aclear passage.

Cursed Pick of Earth PartingXP Value: — GP Value: 5,000

1992 Fantasy Collector Card 635This item functions almost exactly like theuncursed item of the same name, it allows thewielder to cut through elemental earth at a rate of10 feet by 10 feet by 60 feet per round. The wallsurfaces are clean and excavated rubble magi-cally disappears. Unfortunately the user discov-ers, after six rounds that he or she has consistentlyvaried the digging direction by 1 ° per foot, result-ing in a 360° turn and a circular tunnel. Further-more, any dwarf who uses the pick finds that alldwarven mining abilities are lost until a removecurse spell is cast.

Pick of PropitiousnessSee Stringed Instruments

Pick of StrummingSee Stringed Instruments

Pieof Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds

XP Value: 250 GP Value: 800POLYHEDRON1 Newszine 23

This magical pie looks and smells delicious, andcauses no ill effect if eaten. If the proper com-mand is spoken while holding the pie, it opensand releases 24 black pterodactyls who canunderstand and will obey the holder of the pie.

Pie, Rhubarb

They will fight or carry if so instructed,but are too dim-witted to report observa-tions or carry messages. They disappear

when slain, and cannot be replaced. This itemfunctions once.

of RaspberriesXP Value: GP Value: 700

Polyhedron Newszine 23This pie is identical to the pie offour-and-twentyblackbirds, but, when commanded to release, itinstead emits a long, loud burbling sound, audibleto all within 120 feet regardless of walls or doors.

RhubarbXP Value: 700 GP Value: 2,100

POLYHEDRON Newszine 23

This pie is also identical to a pie offour-and-twenty blackbirds, but when commanded torelease its residents, it produces a cloud of red-dish smoke in an area 60 feet across and 20 feethigh. All within the cloud start to argue aboutmeaningless things for three rounds; After that,each victim may make a saving throw vs. spellto negate the effect. Those who fail continue toargue even if attacked; those who make a suc-cessful saving throw may act normally. Thesmoke does not itself cause an NPC or monster

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Pigment, Bell's Palette of Identity

to attack, though a PC may respond violently ifdesired and if appropriate to the alignment ofthe character.

PigmentPigments are powders that have been mixed withwater, oil, or other liquid to produce a coloredpaste or paint. Most pigments are made from asingle substance, but some are blends to producea particular hue.

Bell's Palette of IdentityXP Value: 1,000 GP Value: 5,000

Tome of MagicThis device offers protection against polymorphspells and other magical effects that change a per-son's physical appearance.

The item is an artist's palette covered withbright, mystical paints. To use the item, a personmust paint a self-portrait. The painting does notneed to be created with any expertise, but thepainter must believe that the portrait is accurate.Any time a character carries this self-portrait onhis or her person, the portrait suffers the effectsof unsuccessful saving throws when massmorph,polymorph other, polymorph any object, or seem-ing spells are cast on the owner. The portrait alsosuffers the effects if a character steps in front of amirror of simple order.

The character's saving throw is made normally.If successful, the spell simply fails. If the savingthrow is unsuccessful, the portrait is altered,reflecting the effect of the spell, but the characterremains unharmed. Once the portrait suffersthese effects, it no longer can offer protection forthe person it represents.

A person on the Plane of the Gray Waste, car-rying a picture made from Bell's palette of iden-tity is protected from the effects of fading on thisplane. It is the picture that slowly fades to graywhile the person retains all of his or her color.After two weeks in that plane, the charactermakes a saving throw against being trapped in theGray Waste. If the saving throw is unsuccessful,the portrait becomes useless to the person whopainted it.

There is always a risk that some denizen of theGray Waste will discover a baneful use for a dis-carded painting. Travelers are wise not to leavesuch personal effects behind on this plane. A sin-gle Bell s palette of identity can be used to paintId4+1 portraits.

of BlackmoorXP Value: 300 GP Value: 2,500

GREYHAWK* AdventuresThis set of multicolor paints was enchanted whenthe city of Blackmoor was in full power. After thecity and castle fell into ruin, the wizard used thepaints to insure his own survival in the hostileland.

Each set has five applications of each color.Each color comes in a tiny jar held in a box ofholding (as the smallest bag of holding). Thepaint is applied all over the body of the userand lasts for 24 hours. During this time itseffects can only be taken away by a removecurse.• Red transforms the user into a 7th-level fighter

with an AC of 2, a two-handed sword +1, and70 hit points.

• Blue transforms the user into a 7th-level priestwith an AC of 3, a footman s mace +2, and 60hit points. Spells should be selected immedi-ately—three 1st, three 2nd, two 3rd, and one4th-level spell.

• Green transforms the user into a 7th-levelranger with an AC of 4, a long bow +3, and56 hp.

• Black transforms the user into a 7th-level thiefwith an AC of 6, a dagger +2, and 32 hp.

• White transforms the user into a 7th-levelpaladin with an AC of 1, a long sword +3, and67 hp.

• Brown Transforms the user into a 7th-leveldruid with an AC of 6, a quarter staff +2, and44 hp.Using the paints twice in a 24-hour period

results in the instant death of the user. Uponreturn to normal, the user regains ldlO lost hitpoints. For purposes of operating in theassumed class, all ability scores are treated asat least the minimum starting scores requiredfor the class for the duration of the effect. Atransformed character has all the memories ofthe original character but all the powers of thenew class. Failure to adhere strictly to the lim-its of the assumed class breaks the magic andrestores the original form. A transformed char-acter is proficient in the new weapon magicallyacquired (that vanishes with the effect) and inany weapons known and used before the trans-formation.

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Pill of Plentiful Water

of LongevityXP Value: 5,000 GP Value: 25,000

DUNGEON1 Magazine 10The pigments necessary to paint a portrait oflongevity are created from the blood of the sub-ject to be painted, many hard-to-acquire materi-als, and a wish spell, which gathers the necessarylife force from the surrounding land (often caus-ing plagues and other natural disasters). The pig-ments may be altered to paint other subjects byuse of limited wish and alter reality spells,applied together with the blood and sweat of thenew subject.

Nolzur's Marvelous PigmentsXP Value: 500 GP Value: 3,000

DUNGEON MASTER 1 Guide

These magical emulsions enable their possessorto create actual objects simply by depicting theirform in two dimensions. The pigments are appliedby a stick tipped with bristles, hair, or fur. Theemulsion flows from the application to form thedesired object as the wielder concentrates on thedesired image. One pot of Nolzur's marvelouspigments is sufficient to create an object of 1,000cubic feet by depicting it in two dimensions overa surface 100 feet square. Thus, a 10- by 10-footrendition of a pit would result in an actual 10- by10- by 10-foot pit; a 10- by 10-foot depiction of aroom would result in a 10- by 10- by 10-footroom; and so on.

Only normal, inanimate things can be cre-ated—doors, pits, flowers, trees, cells, but mon-sters, people, golems, and the like can't becreated. The pigments must be applied to a sur-face (a floor, wall, ceiling, or door).

From Id4 containers of pigments are usuallyfound, normally with a single instrument about1-foot long with which to apply them. It takesone turn to depict an object with pigments.Objects of value depicted by pigments, preciousmetals, gems, jewelry, ivory, appear to be valu-able but are actually made of tin, lead, pastegems, brass, bone, and similarly worthlessmaterials. Normal armor or weapons can, ofcourse, be created.

In a DRAGONLANCE® Campaign: Nolzur'smarvelous pigments are called Branchala's paintson Ansalon.

Yellow KohlXP Value: 5,000 GP Value: 25,000

The Emirates of YlaruamKohl is a greasy, pigmented eye makeup. An evilalchemist has discovered a formula that turnsldlO pounds of metal into gold. He concealed itby fashioning it and its container to resemble awoman's makeup case. The stratagem backfired;an apprentice in his shop mistook the substancefor real kohl, and sold it to a woman.

PillPills are small water-soluble tablets that serve anumber of purposes. First, pills can be swallowedto relieve the symptoms of a number of ailments.Second, they can be dissolved in fluids to pro-duce a desired effect.

Desalination TabletXP Value: 10 GP Value: 100

Port of RAVEN'S BLUFF™

These orange pills are about the size of a marble.Each pill transforms one gallon of seawater intofresh, drinkable water. Incidently, each pill alsocauses 1 d4 points of damage to water weirds andwater elementals

Hangover ReliefXP Value: 40 GP Value: 200

DRAGON* Magazine 73This small pouch contains 2d6 pills, each shapedlike a huge teardrop. If a pill is dissolved in water,and the water is immediately consumed, alleffects of alcoholic hangovers disappear.

of Plentiful WaterXP Value: 100 GP Value: 500

DRAGON Magazine 73These blue pills are about the size of aspirintablets, usually found in a group of 2dlO. Whencovered with spittle, a pill expands and changeswithin 10 seconds, becoming one gallon ofwater. Customarily, one would dab the pill inone's mouth and then quickly pop it into awaterskin or bucket to expand. If the pill is leftin the mouth, the water may (5% chance) drownthe victim as it expands and is forced into thelungs. (The chance rises to 50% if no one ispresent to help the victim. Back-slapping orsome similar action helps the victim to expelmost or all of the water.) If the pill is swal-lowed, the victim's stomach may burst (10%

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chance), resulting in death, but in any case itcauses incapacitating discomfort.

Pillow of RegenerationXP Value: 800 GP Value: 4,000

POLYHEDRON Newszine 43Usually found mixed with bedclothes or on furni-ture, this magical cushion doubles the rate atwhich hit points are regained and cuts by half thetime needed in rest to regain spells. Time must bespent actually reclining against the cushion.

Pipe of Heated WindXP Value: GP Value:

DRAGON Magazine 73This pipe looks like a curved metal pipe that isclosed at one end. When the command wordinscribed on the side is spoken, hot air streamsfrom the open end. It is ordinarily used to drythings, especially hair.

PitcherA pitcher is a container used to hold fluids. Pitch-ers normally have elaborate handles sturdyenough to hold the weight of the pitcher as wellas any fluid poured into it.

of BlendingXP Value: 300 GP Value: 1,500

DRAGON Magazine 73This is a black, covered pitcher or cylinder withone button on it. Objects are placed in thepitcher, the button is pushed one or more times,and the lid is closed; the item then blends,smashes, and breaks up whatever is inside.However, if anything harder than food or simi-larly soft material is blended, the item probablyceases to function permanently. Chunks of iceare the hardest usable material, and only if theyare in a supporting liquid. The number of timesthe button is pushed determines how long thesmashing goes on.

Continuous WaterXP Value: 600 GP Value: 1,800

DRAGON Magazine 73This is a half-gallon open glass pitcher. Each dayup to five gallons of water can be poured fromthe pitcher, provided it has not been tightly cov-ered at any time in the preceding 24 hours.

PlankXP Value: 700 GP Value: 3,500

War Captain's CompanionThis magical item is popular among the piraticaland privateering humans throughout the Grey-space crystal sphere. When extended, the plankmagically stretches far beyond the gravity planeand atmosphere envelope of the ship. Prisonersdestined to "walk the plank" are sent out on it tobe sent adrift in wildspace and suffocate.

On the plank, a step taken is actually the equiv-alent of four steps, meaning a character takingyard-long strides actually moves 4 yards withevery step. This allows the blindfolded plankwalker to be set adrift much faster than normal. Italso helps alleviate the irritating tendency of pris-oners to stand at the brink of disaster overlong.The plank can be extended once an hour.

PlateThe term "plate" describes two kinds of objects.One type of plate is a shallow, circular dish madeof earthenware, wood, or metal. These are used tohold food. Another kind of plate is a flat, polishedpiece of metal that is engraved and etched withsymbols, drawings, and writing. This type ofplate is used during the minting process.

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