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Is this Legendary longsword "Sealed Power/Seven Wishes" too broken?
If another player can summon a CR24 creature to do their bidding, balance probably isn’t really something your table is interested in. The sword you describe has no meaningful comparison to any ...
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Player charmed by Orb of Dragonkind: what can be done?
Just take the orb away
The rules for attunement (p. 138, PHB) say:
A creature's attunement to an item ends if the creature
no longer satisfies the prerequisites for attunement, if
the item has been ...
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How can I remove smoke from a bag of holding?
No, smoke isn't an item
Bag of Holding says:
Retrieving an item from the bag requires an action.
Smoke is not an "item" in any sense of the term, as it cannot be bought, sold, grasped, etc....
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How can I word the rules for a custom Magic item that allows a caster to cast a spell (but still requires the spell slot and component)?
Frame Challenge: you don't need to. Maybe shouldn't.
For your specific circumstances, if your party sorcerer wants to have this spell, you as the DM are allowed to add it to his spell list. Modifying ...
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How can I word the rules for a custom Magic item that allows a caster to cast a spell (but still requires the spell slot and component)?
Instead of using the language of spells known or prepared, just directly say what you want it to allow: casting Revivify, nothing more, nothing less. It doesn't hook into your class's spellcasting ...
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Precedence of Firearm Rarity compared to Magic Items
There isn't because firearms are a setting-specific option and have no rarity
There are no rarities assigned at all to firearms (DMG p. 286 has a list of examples), nor are there crafting rules that ...
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Do Blast Boots ignore your Speed?
You are not limited by your Speed*
Reading the boots:
you can increase the horizontal distance of your Long Jump by up to 45 feet.
I think you might be tripping up on the "up to" clause ...
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Player charmed by Orb of Dragonkind: what can be done?
Greater Restoration should do it - but it should break both the charm and attunement.
But the orb should be aware of these risks. If the other PCs talk about their knowledge of the charm anywhere ...
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Player charmed by Orb of Dragonkind: what can be done?
Frame challenge: It should primarily be up to the characters to solve "problems", not necessarily the DM or even the players.
Starting with the most obvious point: the orb is not just a ...
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Possibility to gain magic items as feats, class features, or background
The "Inheritor" background from the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide is a variation on the Folk Hero background, but you get an item or similar thing as an inheritance.
One of the options ...
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Possibility to gain magic items as feats, class features, or background
There are only very limited options
As of today, as far as I can tell, there are no other backgrounds, feats or class features that allow you to create a magic item of choice, which I think is what ...
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How do I get back my Helmsman's Recourse after throwing it?
You can add a Returning rune to it
You just have to add a Shield Spike or a Shield Boss to the shield first, then this attachment can have both property and fundamental runes.
There are some other (in ...
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Will using a weapon not as intended (improvised) still generate "on-hit" effects?
Check with your DM
In addition to general rules for magic items and improvised weapons (which already point out that the DM may want to adjust), there are just a lot of case-by-case differences ...
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Player charmed by Orb of Dragonkind: what can be done?
Kill the character, then cast revivify.
Dying breaks all attunements, including cursed objects. While it's a little bit of an extreme measure, in the case where the party sees the character has been ...
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How can I remove smoke from a bag of holding?
Smoke is not an item
The description of Bag of Holding says that you can use your action to take out items out of it:
Retrieving an item from the bag requires an action.
Smoke is an environmental ...
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How can I remove smoke from a bag of holding?
This Is Not Explicitly Covered by the Rules of D&D 5e
You probably can't just reach in and extract the smoke with an action, but you can potentially get some or all of the smoke out by other means—...
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Does Cartomancer's Hidden Ace require you to expend a spell slot?
It doesn't matter whether or not the Ace is a magic item; it doesn't cost a slot.
Hidden Ace. When you finish a long rest, you can choose one spell from
your class's spell list and imbue that spell ...
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How can I word the rules for a custom Magic item that allows a caster to cast a spell (but still requires the spell slot and component)?
Look at character class wording
The problem is that prepared casters and casters of known spells work differently, so making this work for any spellcaster in this way is going to either be wordy and ...
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Can a character use the Misty Step spell to escape from the Iron Bands of Bilarro?
No; the Bands are "worn" and thus come with
RAW
The misty step spell says only:
Briefly surrounded by silvery mist, you teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space that you can see.
It ...
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What is the base of a Broadleaf Shield?
It has no base type
While you're wielding the shield, you gain resistance to a damage type depending on the shield's color. This resistance doubles while you have the shield raised.
The Broadleaf ...
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How many creatures fit on a Carpet of Flying during combat?
You can share the space, you just cannot fight effectively in it
The rules for creature size say:
A creature’s space is the area in feet that it effectively controls in combat, not an expression of ...
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How can I remove smoke from a bag of holding?
TL;DR
That's an interesting question. I would consider that a setting issue for the GM to answer, since it isn't clearly addressed in the rules.
Explanation
The rules specify that an 'item' takes an ...
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Is it possible to permanently remove a curse from a cursed magic item?
The single most easy way of permanently removing a curse on a magic item is to simply break the magic item.
If you want to keep its other magic properties though, this is a bad idea, because a broken ...
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Do Blast Boots ignore your Speed?
You are still limited by your speed, but have other benefits
The rules for movement say
Your movement during encounter mode depends on the actions and other abilities you use. Whether you Stride, ...
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