I made modular D&D magic item cards that LEVEL UP 

What a GREAT idea! I got excited when i saw "cards" because we've been working on a trading card system for D&D - utilizing actual D&D monsters! Different concept, but I clicked right away and im glad I did! Can't wait to talk about it with my viewers during my stream Thursday, hopefully I'll send em your way!

30K subs is criminally low for you- I wish you success because you heckin' deserve it my dude! Keep at it!

You could print weapons on standard sized playing cards, and print the checkboxes too, then put the cards in pro/perfect/tight fit sleeves and fill in the boxes by marking the sleeves. Room for expansion/customization by printing on the sleeves too.

I too, want a TTRPG that works similarly to the way the book Jake's Magical Market does abilities. The basics are a 10 card limit and cards can be combined to upgrade them. Some cards have active abilities, such as casting a fire ball or a special sword move, most active abilities have cool downs. There are other cards that are have passive abilities or other unique abilities. It would mesh really well with this idea! I'd highly suggest a read or listen.

I love this idea! I've always hated the fact that the +1 weapon that might have carried the character through the toughest levels gets handed to another character or worse, sold off as trash treasure. My fix (which was much simpler than yours but also MUCH less refined) was to add half the character's PB to the item (if it was a weapon) or allow it to grant a spell or Feat (if not). Your idea has SO much more depth and versatility! It's brilliant!

When I heard DC 35 and 40, I assumed I missed something and you made this for Pathfinder...

This sound a lot like how weapons runes work in Pathfinder 2E but with experience instead of gold. And I like it!

My character was killed by a plant monster, and we agreed with the DM on a nice little story with a magical curse and seeds from the plant that grew into my body through my wounds. My character came back as a reborn spore druide (because plant monster & seeds), and gained a nice magical weapon which is a thorn vine symbiotic weapon that grows out of my hand (based on a whip weapon). Here are the current stats: ----------------- Citrullus Symbiotic Thorn Vine Whip Weapon (Whip), Uncommon (requires attunement by a Druid) Attack Type: Melee Reach: 10ft. Damage: 1d4 + [proficiency bonus - 1]d4 acid damage + ability modifier Damage Type: Slashing Weight: 3lb. -- Properties: Finesse, Reach -- This long, whip-like vine is covered in thorns and is a symbiotic weapon that grows out of your hand. As a bonus action, you can sheathe the whip by causing it to retract into your hand, or draw the whip out of your hand again. To attune to this symbiotic weapon, you wrap the whip around your wrist for the entire attunement period, during which time the whip painfully embeds its tendrils into your arm. A creature hit by this weapon takes an extra [proficiency bonus - 1]d4 acid damage as the weapon’s power grows with its host. Symbiotic Nature. The vine cannot be removed from you while you are attuned to it, and you cannot voluntarily end your attunement to it. If you are targeted by a spell that cleanses the corruption out of your body, your attunement to the vine ends, and it is destroyed. Cursed. You cannot use other weapons with your main hand while you are attuned to the vine. Druid focus. The vine can be used as a druid focus while it is in your hand. ----------------- We have plans to evolve the weapon, but my DM needs to think about its new powers first. My current ideas are: - You gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic whip, but attack rolls made against plant and undead creatures with this weapon have disadvantage. - When you successfully attack with this weapon, you can choose to entangle the creature and keep it captive by using your action each turn. A creature restrained by the vine can use its action to make a Strength check against your spell save DC. On a success, it frees itself, and you will have to use a bonus action to summon a new vine. OR alternatively we can just make it so that I can cast Ensaring strike on it (would be simpler but potentially more powerful). - You can grow a less powerful version of this weapon into your offhand that can be used with two weapons fightning (probably same damage of 1d4 + [proficiency bonus - 1]d4 acid damage, but without the additional powers that we will be adding to it). - When you hit a target with the vine, thorns fly out to nearby ennemies, dealing 1d6 acid damage in a 5 feet radius around your target As for how it will evolve, we haven't decided yet, but I think it would be nice to gain a new power when I gain a new point in proficiency, and it will involve some cut scenes (where I go back see a druid master or something like that to help me unlock new powers)

Oooh I love this! I started making magic items that level when I accidentally gave a player a pathway to a Cloak of Invisibility … at level 2 😂😂😂 I love how many great ideas yours had!

This is a terrific idea. Holy cow. The players (and my players) are going to love it.

I've done something similiar to help "level up" my players current weaponary. They can find elemental crafting runes as rewards which can be applied to a weapon to make it better, making a standard weapon +1. They also come with an extra damage charge which they can expend on hit (damage depends on the element of the rune) which recharges each morning. This gives the players the choice of which weapon they wish to improve and a bit of player narrartive as one of them is a smith and so improves the weapons for the party

This is great! I just did something like this in my home game, where the player found an intelligent magic sword, but it's not all that intelligent yet. The sword will level up, becoming more powerful and more dangerous even to the wielder. I think I'll make a sweet card for it like this. Thanks!

I love everything about this. Thank you for the inspo!

Pretty sweet, I dig the idea. Nice to see you walk through the process, too.

Seems like a fun and interesting idea. I believe DnD 4e had some features like this. With the hundreds of magical items in officially published books, I'm guessing you're leaving those as is. This seems more relevant for extremely unique magical items, artefacts, or sentient items. From the examples you presented, you did this on extremely unique magical items, or homebrewed items. The modularity gives you a lot of flexibility to try features and if they're unbalanced then you can more easily adjust. This could be fun for mastercraft magical item creation too.

I love to give out magic trinkets that level up over time, but always made them go up with player levels. I love the idea of it being based on how often its used and it makes so much sense. Great idea and video!

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That is an awesome idea! Thank you so much for the instuctions and your first Hand experiences :D

This came at a really great time for me! I've been workshopping a magic weapon system for a campaign I'm writing up right now. I want them to scale with the players and I decided to have items found throughout the world which can be used to upgrade the weapons, and there will be three tiers of upgrades. I have a section on my custom character sheets where the weapon card would go, and I very well might steal the transparent film idea. Great stuff as always!

You definitely gained a patron subscriber from me! Thank you for this amazing content

These items are great. I like the disc. Keep making videos I’ll keep watching

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great idea, i try to have level ups for items but hadn't seen a way to have it printed. great idea, love it

Typo in axe sheet for attunement "score a critical hit it. Once"

I love this idea! I'm brewing a new campaign and this is definitely something I want to add!

I haven’t even watched the video yet, but I just wanted to say that I get so excited whenever I see that you posted a video!

The items I craft for my players gain new powers based on the players levels. Adding the modularity you described in an idea that hasn't occurred to me in the past, however going forward I may start experimenting with this

This a FANTASTIC idea! This makes me want to make something similar for homebrew Monsters and NPCs!

I've never been a fan of items that "level up" with the PCs ...BUT! I have used "unlock new powers" on items in the past so that PC's "signature items" don't become effectively useless. I REALLY like your take on this and your method(s) of "unlocking new powers". Very cool video. Gonna bookmark this one as a reference for the future!

Amazing. Going to add this to my next game

Hey Kelly, I appreciate your ingenuity and passion for the game… it’s really amazing and I’ve been enjoying the content so far… keep it up 🔥

Thanks for the inspiring content.

The concept is amazing. Also Obsidian-friendly!

Amazing. Great work! Though you can also just make the upgrades happen with character development or something related to story.

The fact that the upgrades is pretty cool, but I think you missed a cool opportunity to upgrade the visuals of the item when you upgrade it, by overlaying the extra visuals on top of the old visual. You could go from a sword to a sword with cool gilded details added to the hilt, to a gilded sword with flames licking the blade for example

I've done something similar. An artifact item that gains abilities as the character gains Proficiency bonus. worked pretty well all things considered.

Came up with a similar thing a while back... but I lacked the follow through to actually put it to print. 😅 Well thought out! And more importantly, shared with others. GJ

I had an idea of "broken" magic items. Like if they were looked at with Detect Magic the thing would register but what it does isn't active. I don't remember exactly what my idea was to fix the magic but I wanted the items to have different ability that got progressively harder to fix. Just so they wouldn't have completely busted stuff to early. I think I might consider your idea.

I'm definitely going to steal some of this. One of my player's character's has a dagger that steals a small portion of his XP to level up but I'm not sure the value of being a level behind the rest of the party actually matches the usefulness of the dagger.

I like this idea!

I was literally just working on a magic weapon that can level up for my table’s artificer!

really neat idea - might have to introduce something similar for my players - I especially like the idea of a weapon that attunes on a crit. give them a basic +1 weapon to start (or even a non-magical, but nice, family heirloom)

Absolute genius. Imagine doing this for a good game.

You must be everyone's favorite GM

That's fking awesome. Dead Reckoning (Pirate Game) has this system I love it.

What about metal cards with magnetic numbers?

I love the idea, but i think that restricting the initial attunement to require a critical hit with the weapon is asking a lot. It removes the player from the equation, leaving them hoping for a die role to allow them to even get the base level of a magic item. By level 4 or 5 a player is likely to have a +1 item (or the equivalent of), so doing this instead could limit them. A +1 doesn't seem like much, but over time it means the player hits more often and does more damage. I would suggest they attune as any other magic item and start with the +1 bonus.

Do it just like in stories - give the heroes one or two overpowered items early and it becomes a big part of their story. Not 1 for each player; that's cheesy. But maybe give them to less dynamic classes (like Barbarian or Champion Fighter) or less experienced players. MUCH fantasy fiction is about 1 or 2 characters with powerful magic being supported by other characters. It works fine to great.

I love this idea! I have one question though - how do you intend players to gain levels in the slot 1 ability? Do they add a dot every time they crit or simply land an attack with the weapon? As they wouldn't have any activatable abilities unlocked yet.

Im going to let my players buy me pizza for a loot boxes now thank you!

Aghhh! I don’t like this, and I’m grumpy! In my day we didn’t have “transparent printer film” to make “modular item cards.” In my day you had a Crown Royal bag full of dissimilarly colored dice and a Mountain Dew. You went over to your friend’s house without a notebook cause you were an idiot, and you wrote the details of your magic mandolin on a 7-eleven receipt only for your mom to wash your pants, reducing the mandolin to a pocket full of crumbly wet paper, and you said, “Oh no! I can no longer cast bardic inspiration for free because I’m a moron!” And that’s the way it was and we liked it! We loved it!

Fourth Edition used cards for powers and items.

Very neat but you could just use paper or even just card sleeves

Is this in any way inspired by Mystic Vale?

Sometimes it's scary being a gamedev/writer, because I see stuff like this and I just can't tell - am I THAT unoriginal, or is it just the algorithm... either way good stuff though :D

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"What is necessary to unlock an upgrade. Should be something not too easy but also not too hard" Hm i wonder what genius idea he will share with us "That's right, it's the roll of a dice, like everything else in this fricking game"😢

ok but why do you have to look like an absolute creep?

Your mustache has some great ideas. It should think about going solo.

I had to put a piece of tape across the middle of the screen.