The Five Most Powerful Legendary Weapons in Dungeons and Dragons 5e 

In my games, when players retire a character, I create a magic weapon or item based on that character and hide it somewhere in the next campaign. The level of the item is related to the level of the character when it stopped being played. Lower level characters get lower-tier magic items, while higher level PC's get legendary items named after them.

During a campaign I ran, the fighter (Archer) at my table was upset because she couldnt find any special weapon. So during a battle against some evil giants, I had her find a strange bow that had Giant runes carved into the wood. The weapon was a *+1 bow of the storm herald* By spending an action to fire a arrow into the sky the wielder may cast the *Call lightning* spell with no material cost and no spell slot required. Also as a bonus action, the bow can magically charge the Archers quiver with lightning, the effect lasts for one minute per long rest and adds 1D8 lightning dmg to any attack the bow makes. Her character worshipped a storm God......she was pleased with the gift.

You don't know terror as a DM until your party has a vorpal sword and a divination wizard. "Hey guys, I got a nat 20 on my portent role lets go kill something!"

Dm having accidentally given out a stack of legendary gear in the previous session: "you go into the room and see the tarasque... And vecna is riding on its back." Party: "we just killed vecna in that bar fight!" Dm: "my bad. Ok, on closer inspection it's asmodeus riding the tarasque"

It isn’t like Thor from MCU. it’s like Thor from Norse Myth. Thor literally owned a magic belt and set of gloves which work in conjunction with his hammer. And his job was literally to kill giants, which he doesn’t do so much in the MCU

Thor had all 3 items. Girdle of Giant Strength = Megingjörð Gauntlets of Ogre Power = Járngreipr ...And of course... Hammer of Thunderbolts = Mjölnir The belt was even mentioned in Spider-man: Homecoming.

_One Staff to rule them all, One Staff to find them, One Staff to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them._

As an idditional fun fact on the Vorpal Sword if you cannot decapitate a monster with a nat 20, you do do the 6d8 Damage, but Crawford has confirmed that due to it being triggered by a nat 20, you also double the dice of that too. The damage is also effected by Two-handed fighting, so you can re-roll 1 and 2s

My bard suddenly multiclasses 1 level into wizard upon finding a Staff of the Magi.....

"gotta toss the hammer at disadvantage if you dont wanna get stunned" Me, who took the Sharpshooter Feat in order to throw axes around effectively: "lol no"

I love the way you guys says "We are the Dungeon Dudes" like Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in Bill and Ted. WE ARE WILD STALLIONS * Air guitar *

Me the DM: A Lich, in a fit of rage at the prospect of being defeated, snaps the Staff of the Magi over his knee activating Retributive Strike and dealing over 350 damage My players with Evasion: lol

"The greatest sorcerer wizard-king the world had ever seen..." AINZ OOAL GOWN!!!!

The Hammer of Thunderbolts is basically Mjölnir as described in the Prose Edda, except for the two-handed property. In the legend, Loki messed with the dwarves who were forging it and as a result, the hammer came out with a stubby handle. The other magic items that complete the set are also derived from Thor's raiment: they are the belt "Megingjörð," which doubles his already prodigious strength, and the iron gloves "Járngreipr," which Thor needs to wear just to handle Mjölnir.

It seems reasonable that a legendary weapon might be able to take on different shapes and sizes to serve the legendary hero. This generation's great paladin might find the holy avenger as a sword in a stone but when they pull it free and the bright light clears, they find a polearm in their hands. Or with the idea of reforging, the shards of the old holy avenger might be made into a new blade (by a legendary smith with a magical forge, hammer, and arm of course) that is then mounted on a long pole to be a polearm.

I appreciate that you guys brought up that there isn't a published legendary bow. I had to homebrew a legendary bow for a Ranger that was in one of my campaigns a few years ago. I ended up making it a set, with a legendary quiver. Alone, the bow was a plain +3 bow. By itself, the quiver was simply an endless quiver. Together, however, the wielder could say a command word and produce flame, ice, or poison arrows for 1d6 of the chosen damage. The target would have to make a DC 17 constitution saving throw or be set ablaze, frozen (stunned), or poisoned for one turn. Effect lasted until the beginning of the PC's next turn, where the enemy would take an additional 1d6 damage. As well, when paired any attack made against the Ranger's chosen enemies (class feature) would be rolled at advantage. I named them Strider's Bow and The Dunedain's Quiver. I gave the Bow to the ranger first, after the party had slain a Giant King that had gone to war with the neighboring Elven kingdom. When they returned to the Elven King, he identified the bow for them and told them of a legendary ranger known only as Strider. This was his longbow, known as Strider's Bow, it enchanted by the Elves of his time to strike true against any enemy Strider, or whomever wielded it, fought. The Elven King also told the ranger that The Dunedain Quiver remained unfound and that he believed if the two items were reunited that greater power could be unlocked. The Elven King imparted all knowledge of where The Dunedain Quiver may be unto the party. After taking care of more pressing matters, they set off to find it. Now, I only used the LOTR references because I was blindsided by there not being an in-game legendary bow at the last second. My party had all been gathering legendary weapons to prepare for the BBEG that was looming over top of everything. When I went to search for the legendary bow and saw there was none (on the day of the session where they would fight the Giant King, where I planned for the Ranger to find this bow), I kinda panicked and fell back on ye ole' faithful, Grandmaster Tolkien.

You mentioned a Holy Avenger that’s in the form of a Polearm... ...would that make it a “Pole-y Avenger?”

"I'm starting to imagine in my head, an entire campaign where there is known threat on its way, something Godly that is going to destroy the entire existence of the world and the party needs to go and obtain the items capable of fighting back. And so the adventure is to locate and uncover each of these items and wield them against a great evil." You just described the second half of season 1 of Critical Role.

You can also reach 30 strength with a belt of cloud giant strength. Let’s say a level 18 barbarian got his hands on this magic item, and achieved a strength score of 30. He’d be able to move the DC 30 immovable rod without even rolling a check. His grapple checks cannot be below DC 30, and the highest value he can roll on an athletics check (provided he’s an expert in athletics) is 42.

Breaking the Staff of the Magi is A PERFECT use for the “contingency” spell

I think that legendary weapons should have the ability that, after attunement, the player can decide which form it will takes and can only do it once. Example is a rogue finding a Great Sword Vorpal Blade, after attunement, he can willed it to transform into a Kukri or a short sword, but will need to break and redo the attunement if he wish to change it into something else. If a ranger wish to turn the vorpal blade into a bow, the effect will pierce throught the heart instead of decapitation and will work the same way.

Party finds staff of the magi. Wizard: I deserve it, I'm the best caster Warlock: Are you serious right now? I'm the one that can only cast two spells at a time... Sorcerer: At least you've got great cantrips, edgelord. Wizard: Do you have the intelligence to use this properly? casters continue arguing Thief, sitting in the corner, already attuned to the staff with the Use Magic Device feature: Guys, let's be honest here. *casts Reduce on all of them* I'm the bigger man here. XD

Thief Rogue's eyes open widely as they see all the restricted magic items

I was also shocked by the lack of legendary or just magical ranged weapons. When I realized this, I drafted up a ranger equivalent to the holy avenger that makes favored enemy terrifying. I also love the idea of a luck bow. I will definitely use that in a game.

love the idea of "set items" that grow as you get more items or items that grow when you get more pieces of it. like some items i've made. Spellbook: sentient whit missing pages (when you find pages they are reconnected in the spellbook giving you a new spell where i use homebrew spells) a magic robe basically archmage robe but where you need attunement to the spellbook to attune to it, and the more pages you have recovered the more of it unlocks. and a magic staff where you also need attunement to the spellbook to attune to it. :D and the spellbook spells is themed in a certain theme, the one the Character is using now is Necromancer themed, and the book is LE :D

I don't agree , Dragotha wouldn't never scream in pain and would have said : ''It is merely a setback'' . 😏

I love the staff of fireballs the most. You have 50 charges to use on casting iconic spells like fireball, fireball, fireball, and pass withou.. jk it's just fireball

I like that the 20th level barbarian ability doesn’t directly say “it’s limit is 24” so if you have a giant strength belt and can still add +4 to that going up to 30

Dropped a like before the video ended just for the Jabberwocky reference. Really well done

"Monty will name them all without looking" - immediate jump cut 😁

I can imagine it now, the wizard sacrificing himself by breaking the staff against the final boss. There are tears and the party weeps... Then they find out he is on another plane. They decide he was an ass and it’s not worth the time to find him

The Vorpal Blade? Oh, you mean my "OMAI WAH MOU SHINDERU" Sword. BBEG: Nani!?!

I think the Robes of the Archmage are really fun, I ended up homebrewing a version of them as Magical Girl Armor for a Bard.

The "collect all the magic items to prevent horrible apocalypse" quest is like half of critical role campaign 1, and it's exceptional as an idea there!

I know I've said it before, but I like sentient magical weapons that improve as you reach higher tiers.

I absolutely loved the Jabberwocky intro to the vorpal sword.

So many cool melee weapons and staffs. And one bow. ONE. aaaand this is why i dont wanna play a ranger fighter(even though i really do)

My son is DYING for me to give him a Vorpal Sword in Storm Kings Thunder.

Great video! Makes me really want to get back into DnD, more so when the Staff of the Magi was brought up. Can't go into too much of my old, retired (because I had to stop playing DnD a few years ago) wizard's background. I got this staff at level 1, but didn't know it was the Staff of the Magi until much, much, much later on, and it took over a year (4-5 years game time), probably at least 60-70 sessions, level 20 with a few epic boons, to finally, completely, attune to it (DM took some liberties on attunement and introduced partial attunement). When Monty was talking about the retributive strike feature of the staff after the spoiler:endgame, that was exactly what happened to me. I was called back to the Arborea plane with my group, which was under attack by hordes of monsters from Hades, allianced with Arborea's monsters. Cut to the end, the group was all nearly dead, no time to rest, almost no more healing potions and magic, and at least 1 more wave of monsters that was nearly right on top of us. I couldn't consciously let the entire group die defending my home, and to the shock of the DM, I trapped my group in a wall of force dome. I gave a persuasive, solemn speech to the group and to the DM. I smashed my staff when all the monsters I can see were in range, sacrificing myself, but completely destroying them, while the wave of death washed over the force dome, protecting my group before it disappeared. I was literally in tears, couldn't even look at my character sheet anymore. No one, including the DM, never would have thought that I would kill my character after all that we went through. Despite other players and other DM opinions outside our group, the DM with the support of my group found a way to bring my character back along with the staff where my sacrifice completed the attunement, allowing full use of the staff (although the DM had a completely different idea for me to complete the last part of the attunement). haha Such memories.

You blew my mind so much with the Hammer of Thunderbolts that I had to pause the video for a minute!! I always saw the other items as a drawback, but I never realized that it doesn't say you have to be attuned to them! I've also houseruled and homebrewed magic item combinations that synergize and unlock hidden potential within each item. I took that from 4e. Also, I change the weapon types so much. If it says any sword, I basically treat it as any weapon.

As an old school D&D player I would like to say all these weapons are from 1st edition Advanced D&D. This includes the Gauntlets of Ogre power and Belt (was Girdle) of Giant Strength. :)

If anyone knows Norse mythology they know that Thor had to wear magic gauntlets and a magic belt to wield the hammer mjolnir. I find it really great that the makers of Dungeons and Dragons threw that in there for anyone who knows the story behind Thor.

I know this is an older video, but the staff of the magi section was cracking me up. great work as always from both of the Dungeon Dudes

I like the idea of set bonuses, and when they said the hammer needed the belt and gauntlets i got happy because in nordic mythos "Thor wears a belt and gauntlets that increase his power and lets him wield his hammer with great abbility"

Is master crafted bolter one of those? *crosses fingers*

We also had a bow of never missing which always hits its target and deals an extra 2D8 force damage plus the normal damage pretty OP

Next step tie an immovable rod to the Handel and it really is Thor's "hammer"

I can't help but imagine a Divination Wizard calling out a Vorpal Blade-wielder and saying, "Hey, you're using thay sword? Let me help with that. Heads up!"

Hey look, A video on items they your party will never get to use becuase no one gets to play high level games! (Yes im salty)

Great video, you inspired me with your idea for a magic item based campaign. From watching Cody on Roll20, I understand that RU-vid sends an award to channels that reach 100000 subscribers. When I first got into d&d this past February and I was searching for resources, your videos were the first I found. You had 56k subscribers then, and now you're almost at 100k. I've been counting down. You have come so far! Thank you for your excellent content and congratulations on your success.

Just started my first ever campaign recently and got the hammer of thunderbolts. Our party is already excited to go looking for the other items after we finish out current quest. It’s a great way to set long term goals for your party

Our party had to quest for the parts to make this bow and I'll leave it at that. It was a +2 Bow of displacement acted the same as the cloak when held. Not top tier item but its solid. Just sharing the idea.

One my dm gave us a super OP great sword that would deal 1D100 Force damage instead af dealing regular damage We destroyed everything in our path until some drow stole it, wonder what they did with it?

The moonblade is too powerful for this list.

In me and my friend's campaign we were given a holy avenger very early on, but it was a holy avenger meant for a size huge dragon and required insane strength to use. We've slowly been hoarding up enlarge potions and elixirs of giant strength for the day my mute paladin can use it.

So, I recently finished a homebrew campaign as a PC, and the DM did something really cool. She took our characters and homebrewed weapons that met our playstyles, but kept their own theme to further the story. They started out as simple +1 weapons and a shield that had a single basic property to them. They had been forged, but not fully imbued with the power they were intended for, so it was up to us to collect them and bring them to these temples and complete rituals to basically power them up. 2nd level was basically a resistance, an elemental damage bonus (both mostly the same type), and level 3 granted immunity to that type, more damage, and some unique top tier ability I was a wood elf ranger who fancied a bow (so unique) and one of these "god forged" items was a bow created by the goddess of night Nix. It's elemental type was lightning and it came with 5 special arrows. 3 were a more generic lightning damage arrow, one was a sleep arrow, and the third was an arrow that if I spent 3 round doing nothing but charging, and hit on the 3rd round with a 15 or higher, the creature died. No exceptions, nothing. Its 3rd level ability was the arrows would always come back after I fired.

In my stories there are these weapons/items that are legendary. The blade The key The crown The rod The book The shield These items are eternal, they cannot be destroyed and only one can be wielded by any being at any time. The gods are forbidden from using them and cant track or control them in anyway. The blade is a weapon that can shift into any weapon as a free action and can cut through enchantments and spells The key is actually a dagger, that can cut through the walls of reality (planeshift) and also make a chracter immaterial. The crown grants psionic influence and telekinesis. You can temporarily shift a targets alignment to whatever you want. The telekinesis acts as mage hand but the wieght limit is 20lbs x your level plus wis or cha or int mod. The rod is a small rod about two feet long of carved metal and it functions as a repository of magic spells. As long as a caster holds it he has unlimited spell slots. There are no limits to how many times he can cast. It also grants all meta magic feats. The book is actually an instrument that changes form. sometimes a flute, sometimes a drum or guitar, whatever. Playing the instrument will grant a vision of the past or compell a target to reveal truth. The shield is a small tarnished buckler that when released will orbit the wielder and block any melee or ranged attacks made with a weapon. Completely. It wont block unarmed attacks or magic blasts, but it will completely nullify any weapon mundane or magical directed at its target. If the buckler is held in both hands it can create an impenetrable wall of force that can stop anything. Wall of fire, massive flood wave, a cavalry charge, a dragons breath or even a dragon crushing you. Nothing can bypass its defense.

I like to homebrew some legendary items. Here are some. The Infinite Light Bow: +2 Longbow. This bow uses any any form of light to do radiant damage equal to double what the bow normally does (2d8 for longbow, 2d6 for shortbow), in addition, it ignores cover, and adds +1 to your dex up to 20. The Spear of Destiny: +1 longspear grants advantage on every attack and can grow up to 15 feet without becoming unwieldy. A monk who uses this as a monk weapon can adapt it to be blunt, slashing, piercing. It comes with 1 daily charge of time-stop. The Venomous Words Dagger: +3 dagger that produces a toxin that can only be removed by either a specific saving throw or remove poison, and has one of the three properties. A poison that deals 1d8 damage per turn and can be removed by a constitution saving throw, a paralytic that requires a constitution saving throw, or a love potion that compels the target to do anything you ask other than obvious self-harm and can be overcome with a charisma saving throw. Songbow: +1 Crossbow that, every time it fires provides a 1d8 inspiration dice to any ally (including the user) who the user chooses. This doesn't work on allies who already have inspiration.

I really like the idea of having a staff or orb or amulet that's maybe only a +1 focus as a part of a broken staff of the magi. One of the coolest things from Midnight was the leveling artifacts that could only have their true power unleashed at very high levels, but would grow in strength as the story progressed.

my favorite AD&D weapon will always be lilalcor from baldurs gate 2. usually, the sentient weapons always seem to urge you to kill things because they want/need to drink the blood/power/essence/whatever. but lilalcor doesnt. it just wants you to kill stuff because its kind of an ass ;D. supposedly cause the person used to be kind of an ass -.-

You all should have had the Moon Blade on the list. I get the elf and alignment restrictions, but it provides a LOT of backstory for a character or a path for them to pursue. Not to mention it has MULTIPLE concurrent characteristics possible, such as acting as a Vorpal Blade. Still, really liked the episode! Appreciate how much you all can cause me to think about characters and worlds (like one of my favorite characters that I’ve ever built - a Gloomstalker Rogue Arcane Archer, from your video a few weeks ago)

Can you do a video on Gods

I made my own legendary bow, I imported the Epirus Bow. The rogue in my highlevel campaign has it, and yes you have to "charge" it up but drawing the string, aiming and waiting. the longer you wait the more the damage increases exponentionally. And when charged it acts like a seige weapon from the movie "Immortals".

"A radiant sword glows from the case do y-" "Yes I do."

I like to create weapons that grow as characters level. Start with a sentient +1 sword, and eventually end with a +3 sword with abilities and stuff if you get stuff to make your weapon grow.

I was waiting for joe to come in to the camera view and yell “EGNACIOUS” as you were about to say one of the weapons😂

A character I run has recently acquired a vorpal short sword, named Sylence. It’s the first legendary item I’ve ever had for any character I’ve ever run, and I’ve been playing since 1986. Here is a brief description: Sylence is fey-crafted from black mithril, the blade running with veins of ruby and gold. In moonlight it glows, producing dim light in a 5ft radius. The legendary blade has an infamous and sinister reputation, causing most to distrust it (and its wielder) despite its power. Anyone who draws it feels a flash of pain, repeated every time it strikes true, never letting its wielder forget the price of power. I have gone as far as buying a set of dice and a wyrmwood dice vault purely for Sylence. In game, my character has yet to draw the blade in anger. Using this weapon is a big deal - it means you intend to kill. Not merely wound or defeat. When he does decide to use it, I intend the moment to be dramatic and narratively important.

Give me a Rod of Lordly Might any day of the week. I had one in 2nd edition, and OMG. Our DM has never handed one out again.

Hammer of thunderbolts is a reskin of the mjolnir from v1

Sitting here, watching this excellent video when my daughter walks in. She takes one look at Monty and then at me, says: "Did you make a video? That is so cool!" I am confused until I realize... Same color hair/beard - check. Same hair/beard style - check. Same exact Star Wars tee - check. Same basic body frame - check. Well, at least she confused me for someone awesome.

I've watched so many of these videos recently. Why is this the only video where I can't not look at the screen without shipping. This is so out of nowhere.

I'm suspicious of that edit cut just before Monty perfectly recited the Staff of the Magi! lol (I'm kidding)

In Out of the Abyss we got the Dawn sword. Very powerful. A demon lord killed the half orc wielding it and swallowed it along with him. We went to get it back. Edit: Then my cleric got an artifact? A tome that would give her +1 Wisdom but its in celestial so she can't read it and gain its benefit.

I really like the idea of giving legendary items to low level characters. but tweaking them so that the item grows with the character. keeps the characters from getting boarded with magic items (bag full of +1 swords) and works with my DM style....minimal but very magical items. thanks for the video guys

The vorpal sword is my vampire's almighty weapon. Dual wielding the Vorpal blade and the Bane of dragons, he cuts a bloody swath across the land and leaves no one left to tell others of their oncoming doom

I love the idea of weapons that grow in power and ability as the campaign progresses. I'm crazy as a DM of 8 players, and I have decided that all 8 of them have a favored weapon to find that will unlock as they level and do crazy things. Then if they survive to level 20, they fight a tarrasque that has an elder brain welded to it's face.

The group I DM for is about 16th level and I absolutely love homebrewing my own Very Rare/Legendary magic items. Right now, my homebrewed items that the player characters have kept are as follows: Nightwatch Captain's Boots, requires attunement, advantage on initiative, advantage on perception checks made alone, and low-light vision 120' Scythe of the Feathered King, requires attunement by an Eldritch Knight, has the following properties that can be used once per long rest: cast dust devil at 4th level, misty step, invisibility for 60 seconds, and cast Call Tornadoes (call lightning except tornadoes and bludgeoning damage) An upgraded Staff of Fire, which adds Firestorm for 7 charges, all costs reduced by one charge, and regains all the charges after long rest. What do you guys think? My players adore these items and if there are other DMs who want to use these in their game, please feel free

I currently play as a paladin, but I favor a maul, so my dm is actually making a maul version of the holy avenger for me

As someone whose first character is a EK/Draconic Sorcerer who iconically uses Glaives, and whose second character is a Scout/Deep Stalker Ranger who specialises in bows, I have become very accustomed to browsing home brew for cool legendary items to fawn over

There's an abundance of magic swords, but a dearth of other weapons. Swords were basically a sidearm irl, so we should have a lot more magic weapons that *aren't* swords; especially polearms.

O my God my halfling rogue character found A lucky blade in the form of a dagger At level 6 the DM described the jewels on the hills looking dull and expended

I have given out exactly 0 of these. I normally craft a magic item for my players that they get before level 5 that grows and advances with them, often having different conditions for its own level up. The rogues dagger that grows as it kills, the wizards staff that draws power when they visit a magic nexus, the paladin's polearm that is blessed by multiple celestials as they are helped, ext

Now I kind of hope that one of the magic characters in my party finds a Staff of the Magi, just for my Shield Master to use it as an 800 damage nuke and walk out of the explosion completely unscathed.

Don't limit yourself with the RAW. It is easy enough to homebrew legendary weapons like this. If you have a party which would enjoy this kind of high-level play, create a weapon for each of them, send them out on a long quest chain and bring them together in an epic quest to save the multiverse in the Final Battle.

I love how Monty pronounces "Iron"

"I wish the luck blade's wish counter could recharge"

Vorpal blade: "Let's make it a -small- chance only." Fighter, perpared to Action Surge into 12 consecutive attacks: "Hold my pint..."

Vorpal Bow: on a nat 20, the arrow fired from the vorpal bow strikes the target's head and takes their head clean off.

How do you read the special abilities on the Sword of Sharpness? Because of the wording I allow the large bonus and ability to cut off a limb when the character rolls up to a 20 or more...not a natural 20, but adds up to 20. Mainly out of the reason that it's pretty much a useless magical sword and yet awarded so late in levels. And the wording is different of that of say the Vorpral Sword which is its legendary cousin. Let me know what you think though

Love this list! So question kinda tied to magic items...I gave a curse item that you cant take off once put on. The board tries pulling it off as an item that cant be lost. Would you call that deception or persuasion?

One time as a player our paladin had the staff of magi at a low level and we were right next to the BBEG and they had me hostage and they threatened to break the staff over his head then proceeded to roll a natural 20 on intimidation

I made a custom weapon once for a Devil Siege type of campaign. It was a LG Prismatic Sword. When you hit a creature with hit. You would roll a 1d6 and check the result of it as if you were hit the spell Prismatic Spray. The weapon was so powerful the Paladin turned around and slaughter the keepers of the weapon. Became a Fallen Paladin.

26:22 yes, there is a seriuous lack of non hammer, non sword magic items in general. as a lance using cavalier dwarf it annoys me that there isn't a single magical lance, same goes for spear or polearm users note: wrote this right before you mentioned the very same thing edit: there is the sun blade for rouges, and it is really good as it is a 2 handed weapon that can sneak attack

Me a dm for my friends: gives ervery party member 1 legendary at lv3 My party 😁yay Me 😊💭 “you are so dead” Me raises all challenges by my party’s powerlevel (math op) so the 1st Boss had 250hp+ on their lv5-7

Nice vid. From previous editions, the weapon my shadow dancer had acquire, is the sword of dancing... oh the fun to be had!

My friend and I have a small dnd game going on where I am a drow ranger and he homebrewed me a bow. It's a bow that was given to me by Mellora the mother of elves. It has a +1 to hit, as a bonus action cast shield on one ally for +2 AC, 2 druid cantrips of my choice used once daily, and find animal companion as a ritual once per day. The animal companion is chosen out of the 1/4 cr creatures by rolling a d10, 3 times or until the same number appears twice and that is the creature summoned. Once it appears, you have to make 3 animal handling checks. Its successful on 2 successful animal handling throws. I ended up rolling for a psuedo dragon and actually managed to make her a part of my team. It's been fun using it so far in our campaign!

Someone casts Faerie Fire and sends the fighter in with a vorpal sword. Harvest-time.

Holy avenger weaker than previous. Used to be anti magic.

In my campaign there are gems that players can just wear or embed into their equipment to get the effects, so it's not bound to a certain type of weapon.

Staff of the magi would be perfect for Caleb. A master of all magics after taking down the cerebus assembly