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Monday, January 22, 2007

Recommended Cards for DMG Wondrous Items (Head, Shoulders, Eyes, Torso)

Head (Eyes)
HH99 - The silver circlet with geometric designs can represent circlets of blasting or persuasion. It is also a good choice for a certain magic item in the Age of Worms campaign, and so is part of the Whispering Cairn Item Set.

HH 102 - The velvet and bone crown with skulls and ruby eyes will be our hat of disguise, at which point the wearer can make it look like a hat or any other sort of headgear.

IP53, HH107 - The dyed fur headband with a simple symbol is the one and only choice for the headbands of intellect. It's alo my pick for the phylacteries of faithfulness and undead turning. Why? According to the DMG, a phylactery is "a small box containing religious scripture affixed to a leather cord and tied around the forehead." RW97 Cube would be another alternative.

RW100 - The silver helm with the hidden catseye diamond can easily serve as the helms of comprehend languages and read magic, telepathy, teleportation, and underwater action. It's a bit of a stretch as the helm of brilliance, but there isn't anything closer currently.

RW101 - The rust colored clay mask with real teeth is a excellent representation of the mask of the skull. I'm not sure whether the mask occupies the head or the eyes slot, but for the time being it's a reasonable proxy for the eyes of charming, doom, and petrification (eyes); the goggles of minute seeing and night (eyes); and the darkskull. I was also going to call it for the lens of detection, but the Adventure Gear set is giving us AG 30 Magnifying Glass, which is a much better match.


Shoulders (Body, Torso)
HH100 - This white cloak with golden curls and arching lines is my recommendation for the cloaks of resistance, although it could easily be switched with IP 50, HH101 below.

IP49 - The blue cloak with embroidered moons and stars suggests the cloaks of etherealness and the bat. Lacking more Robes, it's also a reasonable choice for the robes of eyes and stars (body).

IP50, HH101 - This ornate white and black cloak with gold trim and red lining will be our cloaks of Charisma.

RW95 - With a plain white exterior and a starry blue interior, this cloak looks more like a cape or mantle than the others. With that in mind, I'd use it for the cape of the mountebank, the mantles of faith and spell resistance, the cloak of the manta ray, and wings of flying. It's also a possible proxy for the carpets of flying, at least until the Adventure Gear bedroll arrives.

RW96 - This patchy green cloth and leather cloak with the eyes in back seems like camouflage to me, so I'd suggest it for the cloaks of arachnida, displacement, and elvenkind as well as the vest of escape (torso), druid's vestment (torso), and robe of blending (body).

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