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Shatterspire

Level 4 Transmutation

Roots twist and crack the earth as jagged stone pillars erupt in a shifting maze of stone. With a flick of the caster's hand, one explodes—showering enemies in razored shards. Terrain control and deadly force, carved from nature’s wrath.

💬 Would you climb, hide… or duck?

Art by Midjourney

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💎 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Foggy Kettle
Wondrous item, uncommon ___ This kettle is eight inches in diameter, five inches tall, and weighs 1 pound. When filled with water, the kettle begins to rumble and swirl; a 10-foot-radius sphere of fog is then emitted from the kettle’s spout after 1 minute. The fog lightly obscures the area, or heavily obscures it if the kettle has gone unmoved for 1 or more rounds. The sphere of fog spreads around corners. The kettle also releases a faint whistle while emitting fog, which can be heard by any creature within 30 feet of it. The kettle continues to produce fog for 1 minute. The effect ends early if the water is poured from the kettle or if its lid is opened. Once the effect ends, the kettle ceases to be magical for 1 hour—you must then replace any of its remaining water to cause it to rumble and swirl again. ___ ✨ Patrons get huge perks! Access this and hundreds of other item cards, art files, and compendium entries when you support The Griffon’s Saddlebag on Patreon for as little as $3 a month!

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Gates of the City

Tell the guards to open up the gates! Imagine naming your game, your campaign, your magnum opus after a fabulous city. Now, you didn’t want to rush your newbie players to this bustling metropolis right off the bag, and maybe the prologue took a little longer than you thought it would, down a few unexpected detours through iron mines, or shadowed lands. In any case, they’re in sight of the city now, and with this map they’ll be able to make a grand entrance! Unless, of course, the city happens to be under siege, or the land itself has been corrupted, a red misty abyss now encircling the town where once a peaceful river flowed! Fully animated and with three variants, this map is sure to make your party’s arrival at the Gate a memorable one!

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⚔️ 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Wyrmstaff
Staff, very rare (requires attunement by a spellcaster) ___

This dark staff features a dragon coiling around a gemstone at its top. A wisp of smoke drifts from the dragon’s mouth. While holding this staff, you have advantage on any saving throw against an effect created by a dragon. In addition, while a wyrmling is summoned by the staff, you have resistance to the damage type the wyrmling is immune to.

𝙎𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙤𝙣 𝙒𝙮𝙧𝙢𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜. While holding the staff, you can use an action to summon a dragon wyrmling in an unoccupied space that you can see within 30 feet of you. The wyrmling can be any kind of chromatic or metallic dragon of your choice, but once a wyrmling has been summoned, that kind of dragon wyrmling can’t be summoned by the staff again until the next dawn.

The wyrmling is friendly to you and your companions for the duration. In combat, the wyrmling shares your initiative count, but takes its turn immediately after yours. It obeys your verbal commands (no action required by you). If you don’t issue any commands to the wyrmling, it defends itself from hostile creatures but otherwise takes no actions.

The wyrmling disappears when it drops to 0 hit points or after 1 hour. It disappears early if you use an action to dismiss the wyrmling or summon another one. The wyrmling uses your spell attack bonus and spell save DC for its attacks and breath weapons, respectively. Whenever the wyrmling uses its breath weapon, you can choose for the effect to simultaneously originate from both the wyrmling and the end of the staff (no action required by you), provided you’re holding the staff. A target in the area of both instances of the breath weapon is affected only once. ___

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In case you need it for your D&D games or siege actions— here's what the ballistic trajectory of a flaming pumpkin fired out of a trebuchet looks like.

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A mighty enchantment indeed, with almost infinite possibilities for customisation. Of course, building a whole new persona for someone is delicate work and small mistakes can lead to disastrous complications but, in the hands of a skilled manipulator, this spell is truly terrifying.

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Hello adventurers!! 😊​ Today I bring you a dark and mysterious underground lake, perfect for all kinds of great encounters (and boss battles)! 🪨🌊🌑

You can find this map and many others right now on my Patreon!! https://www.patreon.com/posts/cave-lake-112256151

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Oh to be a warlock with a horny patron. The pact stipulates that you consent to sex anywhere, any time. They fuck you in camp, in front of your party, in the middle of a busy tavern, anywhere.

Do you go with the devil? Sadistic, dominant, cruel. They get more pleasure from your screams than your pussy. Do you go with the eldritch horror? All writhing tentacles and cold indifference. You don't even think they enjoy the sex, they just want to observe you. Do you go with the archfey? Ravenous libido. Fucking you so hard and so often that you're always a little sore. Sickly sweet as long as you obey.

And of course, the big question: what happens when they reveal that the pact doesn't specify that the consent is limited to them? That anyone can fuck you? Anywhere. Any time.

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💎 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Journal of Dreams
Wondrous item, common ___

While this journal is on your person, it magically records the contents of any dream you have. The dream is labeled with your name, date, and dream duration. The dream itself is recorded in long-form prose, as if it were a short story.

If you cast or are targeted by the “dream” spell while the journal is on your person, you can choose to transform the dream into one from the journal. To do so, the messenger and the target of the spell must both be willing, and either of them can end the dream (and spell) at any time. ___

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Looks like fresh bread and homemade honey is on the menu for tonight! 🐝🍯

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Tips for writing those gala scenes, from someone who goes to them occasionally:

Generally you unbutton and re-button a suit coat when you sit down and stand up.

You’re supposed to hold wine or champagne glasses by the stem to avoid warming up the liquid inside. A character out of their depth might hold the glass around the sides instead.

When rich/important people forget your name and they’re drunk, they usually just tell you that they don’t remember or completely skip over any opportunity to use your name so they don’t look silly.

A good way to indicate you don’t want to shake someone’s hand at an event is to hold a drink in your right hand (and if you’re a woman, a purse in the other so you definitely can’t shift the glass to another hand and then shake)

Americans who still kiss cheeks as a welcome generally don’t press lips to cheeks, it’s more of a touch of cheek to cheek or even a hover (these days, mostly to avoid smudging a woman’s makeup)

The distinctions between dress codes (black tie, cocktail, etc) are very intricate but obvious to those who know how to look. If you wear a short skirt to a black tie event for example, people would clock that instantly even if the dress itself was very formal. Same thing goes for certain articles of men’s clothing.

Open bars / cash bars at events usually carry limited options. They’re meant to serve lots of people very quickly, so nobody is getting a cosmo or a Manhattan etc.

Members of the press generally aren’t allowed to freely circulate at nicer galas/events without a very good reason. When they do, they need to identify themselves before talking with someone.

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A warrrior with abundant osteoptimism and one more skeleptical re: bone toughness.

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A pair of commissions I got for a lovely bard ✨

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Bloodborne Monster Manual - Hemwick Charnel Lane

As promised; here are the Hemwick monsters, free for everyone!

- Tuz

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Art by Maria Lapina

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between “begone thot” and “piss yourself”, which is the more powerful dragon shout?