Magic item ingredients- Cloak of Protection (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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What's a unusual but sensible ingredient used to make a Cloak of Protection? Could be something you harvest from a defeated monster or collect from nature or an abstract concept.

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[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

If you use the Xanathar's rules on crafting it suggests using a CR 4-8 creature for an uncommon item such as a Cloak of Protection. I tried to come up with some interesting options from that but nothing felt like a great fit (admittedly I only checked the MM). The ok-ish options I came up with would be the hide from a chimera, oni, or some kind of wyrmling or young dragon.

[-] eerongal@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 year ago

A cloaker is cr8 and seems pretty fitting, especially since the cloaker gets some "protection " while wrapping up someone with it's life transfer

[-] SkyyHigh@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, it’s right in the name isn’t it? Seems perfect.

[-] NightFantom@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

Why not all of these? Maybe the barbarians in the cold mountains of the north use the hide from the native cave chimeras, but the southern elves use powdered copper dragon scales (they trade for them with a copper dragon), and the dwarves use sandworm guts (nasty little side quest)

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The hide of a monster that has a notoriously high AC for its CR. Maybe a Gorgon?

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