Photos of real items to inspire fantasy magic items

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In a recent RPG Pub Club game of Dungeon Crawl Classics, my late, lamented wizard, Pelamar the Fortunate was a former costermonger. At one point I used my trusty fruit knife to carve whistles from apricot stones for the group to use as signalling devices. Nobody actually used them, but I thought it was cool...
 
I've been collecting images of potions and magic items

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... I'd like to make cards that showed an image with space for notes by the Players as they figure out what the thing is/does.
 
In a recent RPG Pub Club game of Dungeon Crawl Classics, my late, lamented wizard, Pelamar the Fortunate was a former costermonger. At one point I used my trusty fruit knife to carve whistles from apricot stones for the group to use as signalling devices. Nobody actually used them, but I thought it was cool...

There's an RPG Pub Club?
 
That was a thing Edgewise Edgewise tried to get going, where people would rotate running games, allowing people to try games out. There wasn't that much interest at the time.


I think I proposed something similar once as a way to get those bucket list games to the table...
 
I really liked the format he proposed. Maybe someday.
It wasn't a total failure. Simlasa Simlasa and I were the only ones from the Pub who joined in, but Edgewise Edgewise was able to fill out the rest of the group from people he knew. While it didn't work as a Pub-related activity, that group has stayed together. In fact, we are playing Warlock tonight.

It would be cool to get the original idea going. The Pub has grown a lot since then, so it might be more viable now.
 
It wasn't a total failure. Simlasa Simlasa and I were the only ones from the Pub who joined in, but Edgewise Edgewise was able to fill out the rest of the group from people he knew. While it didn't work as a Pub-related activity, that group has stayed together. In fact, we are playing Warlock tonight.

It would be cool to get the original idea going. The Pub has grown a lot since then, so it might be more viable now.
Now that I've successfully ran several games with a Roll20/Zoom combo (due to the pandemic), I'd be up for it. Eastern Time Zone.
 
What's always strange for me, is sometimes magic items are indistinct from an ordinary one--it's just that it is forged by legend, and stories. Though I like ornate stuff.

As for the gun? I had mages in a game use gun's like that, they were defense specialists (And buff/debuff) but they had access to alchemical gunpowder instead of attack spells, though the guns require magic to work. (Because without they exploded.)
 
What's always strange for me, is sometimes magic items are indistinct from an ordinary one--it's just that it is forged by legend, and stories. Though I like ornate stuff.
Like this seemingly worn and plain blade. In the hands a or true believer becomes a flaming sword of justice. Or the owner of this blade becomes immortal, and maybe a little frayed on the edges like the sword.
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Like this seemingly worn and plain blade. In the hands a or true believer becomes a flaming sword of justice. Or the owner of this blade becomes immortal, and maybe a little frayed on the edges like the sword.
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Yeah. Then again I'm working on a novel idea (nothing is written down yet, where someone mistakes the legend of a person, for his weapon--Forged by death itself. Then what happens when people assume they're lying about what death did, and just how dangerous they are even without a blade.)
 
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