Top Magic Items for Rangers and Rogues in Dungeons and Dragons 5e 

Don’t give Kelly the Googles of Night - let him steal them like a proper rogue.

Goggles of Night (Cursed) The goggles are enchanted with a variant of the Arcane Eye magic, that allows the BBEG to see what is being viewed by the PC.

3:12 Weapon of Warning 4:35 Slippers of Spider Climbing 6:12 Cloak of the Bat 8:12 Cloak of Displacement 9:15 Oathbow 10:45 Dancing Sword 12:05 Animated Shield 12:39 Luck Blade 14:06 Cloak of Invisibility 16:06 Sun Blade 17:43 Hat of Disguise 18:54 Figurine of Wondrous Power 19:57 Goggles of Night

One more bit about the sun blade: shocking, the light it emits is counted as sun light which sorta makes it the bane of vampire and under dark dwellers with sun light weakness as well.

The lack of magic bows and polearms in the DMG is a serious oversight. I could understand not having a magical whip, but ranged weapon users are a huge percentage of fighters, rangers, and rogues.

"STEALTHY LIGHTSABER!" I can absolutely imagine rogues sneaking up on someone, shoving the hilt into their back, then activating the Sun Blade while yelling that.

The moustache is looking great, I'm getting serious Dorian vibes from Dragon Age, I love it.

Glamoured studded leather is often overlooked in favour of the hat of disguise, but is actually a really useful disguise item. You can change it to look like any type of clothes or armour, meaning you could disguise yourself as a noble, or as a knight in full plate, or a simple peasant in rags. It comes in particularly handy for changelings who can change their body but not their clothes and would normally have to take a minute to get changed, but with the glamoured studded leather they can change their clothes immediately to match their new form.

OH MY GOD! Kelly's moustache is absoloutely GLORIOUS! I could not take my eyes off it all video

Never give a rogue anything. Make them take it!

Our current campaign has a Rogue with a Cloak of the Bat, and it has been very useful and entertaining.

Keep the moustache, it looks badass.

And all this time I thought the sun blade was just a sword that glowed with sunlight. Damn thing is a light saber?!

Slippers of climbing on a druid. Wildshapes into bear, walks to the ceiling. Jumps off ceiling onto enemies. Tada, Drop Bear lol

Sword of warning... In my head: " i waaaaarrnnn youuuuuu!"

Wilhelm has one eye, what’s he going to do with goggles? Give him a Monocle of Night

Giving Rogues magic items, how could that ever go wrong... Rangers however could be aided greatly this way! Love the video guys, you teach me so much!

Great video. Give him the goggles of night!!!

-No googles of night - it's the price he pays for that human "free" feat!- On second thought, give him _cursed_ googles of night.

7:24 Honeeey where is my super suit? Whhaaa? *WHERE.IS.MY.SUPER.SUIT?!*

Nice mustache, bro!!

Interesting alternative to the Googles of Night, I just took a one level dip into the Shadow Sorcerer from Xanathar’s for 120 ft of darkvision for my Halfling rogue. I got some nice utility cantrips, booming blade, shield and featherfall out of it too.

Give Kelly the goggles!!

For Rangers, give them some Dragon Scale Mail for +1, an extra dmg resistance, advantage against Dragons Breath, and sensing others Dragons of that type. This is especially cool for flavor if you're going the dragon slayer persona, which Rangers can totally do.

Monty keeps looking at Kelly whenever he mentions a Rogue making poor decisions with a wish. There is a story there.

Great vid. I like the Sun Blade wildcard, but you didn't mention of of the best features, which is that the Sun Blade does radiant damage instead of slashing or piercing. Very few things are resistant to radiant and a good number are radiant vulnerable or at least can't regenerate if hit with radiant damage.

Give him the goggles you monster!!!

Me before clicking on video: "Weapons of warning better be on this list" Monty: "Weapons of warning!" Me: "Thanks Monty, you're awesome"

I love the Quiver of Ehlonna for my Gloom Stalker Ranger. I've found that I can very quickly run out of arrows with a standard quiver, especially when fighting multiple enemies.

I like the idea of a Gloom Stalker using a Frostbrand sword. Not onlt does it add 1d6 cold damage and give you resistance to fire damage, but it can also be used to put out all non-magical flames in 30ft once per hour. Combat starts and it's lights out: Let the Umbral Carnage begin!

One common magic item from Xanathar's Guide to Everything that would be useful for a human, or anyone without darkvision is the Moon-Touched sword, which can be placed on any sword (or any weapon/armor with homebrewing). Basically, in darkness, there's bright light for 15 feet around the unsheathed sword, and an additional 15 feet of dim light past that. Useful in situations where you need to see but are unable to use a torch.

Just started DMing a campaign 2 weeks ago. These videos are great for planning out what to give my players.

OMG this is the first time I have seen the Kelly stache style. That rocks man good on you, looking great with that stache!

Note about the animated shield: The penalty for using a shield when you lack proficiency isn't dependant on "using" a shield but "wearing" it so rogues, who lack shield proficiency, make good use of the animated shield

Why do I always expect the intro of Nerdarchy, whenever you say "we are the Dungeon Dudes"?

I came expecting comments about magic items. I found comments about Kelly's mustache. So...his mustache is magical?

I've been going back and forth on giving the rogue in my campaign slippers of spider climbing, and if it's not going going be useful or maybe even too powerful. I'm glad to know it"s a good choice!

Did anybody else notice the titles? Scritches and Rat Prince Total throwback to dungeons of drakkenheim and having to deal with the Rat Prince and being Ghosts for the Rat God

This was great! I hope you do all the classes.

“and I like seeing that happen”. It is great to give a magic item to a character assuming they will make poor choices, very devious Monty.

These sound like really awesome items! Thanks for the upload!

Much respect to the stache. Not too many of us on RU-vid with the curly stache.

I hope you guys will do this as a series for all of the classes!

Great Kaiser Wilhelm mustache! Also great stuff. Thanks for posting!

This was a surprisingly helpful video! Every one of these items was really cool, I love all of your vids (=

New episode, yay :) Awesome!

I have just gotten the Sun Blade in our campaign! I'm a Ranger and this is my first campaign ever and I'm having a great time. The DM had a really cool way of bringing the sword into the game. One of the cool ways I've used the sword was to open a barred door for a teammate. I lined the hilt up with the bar through the crack in the door and THEN turned on the blade so it erupted inside of the bar and severed it.

This has bright me so much joy. Sending this to my DM for my leaping gloomstalker archer elf

I see the dice ad just minutes after discovering role playing dice sets at DOLLAR TREE. No joke I grabbed a bunch of sets to give out to new players or loan out to anyone who forgets theirs.

The figurine is indeed an interesting choice. I am currently running a character that is essentially a combination of rogue and ranger (with a level of monk on the side), so to her that would indeed be a fitting addition in more ways than one.

The weapon of warning is such a good party item. Everyone benefits from someone being attuned to it. My level 17 Horizon Walker ranger always had one on him

Currently playing a shadow monk with slippers of spider climbing. Using shadow step combined with the slippers in exploration and combat has been really fun. Shadow step and then using the slippers to hang upside down on the ceilings and then just using slow fall for when I want to come back down

'Flight opens up many options' *looks at my Aaracochra and my Raven that, many times after performing actions, got the DM to say 'shit, I forgot you could fly'

Great timing, I'm playing a Ranger ina call starting next weekend, my Ranger is a Elf who is Insane so it will be interesting

Love you guys, keep up the work. Do have to say though Rangers have the same hit dice as Fighters at 1d10 and with light armor a Dex class only has 1 less AC than a heavy armor wearer with plate armor. Goes down by 2 more for rogues if the person is using a shield but ranger has that option too. Not saying the item was a bad choice though, cloak of displacement is amazing.

The Cloak of Displacement is very nice in an arcane trickster using mirror image with the sentinel feat. I played a campaign where my character used this combo to somewhat effectively Frontline for a short period as well as getting some virtually guaranteed kills.

I just got done DM-ing Curse of Strahd and my early decision to make the Sunsword attune to the Rogue ended up having a lot of good moments! Good call Monty

I always love to have a professional and scripted your content is (in a good way) but it's so nice to see you guys fly off the cuff with mentions of your campaigns and pleas to your DM for magic items. Lol

Weapon of Warning is almost always my first choice when it comes to acquiring a magic item. Advantage on Initiative, and can’t be surprised? Amazing.

I’m really diggin’ Kelly’s stache!

Monty's nickname is in this video is Scritches? That may be a reference I'm missing but it's adorable either way.

In playing a gloom stalker aarkocra and it’s awesome these items will go well with him

Alchemy jug. The sustainably is a very on point for a ranger, and the on-tap oil, acid, and poison is super useful for those who engage in creative play, and is an excellent tool to add to the bag of tricks. Though not a literal bag of tricks.

Kelly the mustache rocks brother. I rock the handle bar myself 👍

Give him the goggles but make them cursed with displacement so he has disadvantage on stealth, bumping into things, and attacks

As with the previous one, this is also a solid guide and I thank you for it :D

Kelly should absolutely have the opportunity to get the Goggles of Night! I feel his pain as a halfling rogue, but I bugged my DM long enough that a set showed up in a shop eventually. I'm broke, but my wealthy party companion hooked me up. I'm also currently petrified at the bottom of a lake in a giant air bubble. Time will tell if/how I get restored.

I agree with Kelly that winged boots are a massive pain for DMs. It's hard to balance an encounter when your warlock says "I'll just fly really high and start eldritch blasting them with spell sniper."

Dice! Tiny little caltrops! Adorable little squares! And all the rest! I NEED MORE DICE!!

Cloak and boots of elvenkind, Ring of Mind Shielding, Amulet of Proof Against Detection and Location some of my favorite magic items for Rangers and Rogues

The most powerful magic item of all, that moustache! Damn dude looking good 👍

Kelly's Mustache looks like the one he envisioned for Wilhelm Wolfsbane

THANK you for mentioning drizzt when you brought up the figures

Also an item for a campeign I'm working on is very similar to an animated shield only it looks like a crystal ball, shoots guiding bolts, casts light and requires spell slots to recharge it. The higher the level the longer it will last.

You guys are great and so was the video!

First of all I played as a rogue that enjoys misdirection. As an arcane trickster I came upon a deck of illusions. I took a deck of illusion and upgraded the enchantment to have a physical form deal damage and do my command. It's quite fun to get a random ally or distraction.

AWESOME mustache. My last ranger character had the same. Very robinhoody feel

Haha. I am currently playing a human rogue with the goggles of night. They are very helpful. I would say that once you hit 5th level is a good spot to get them. The player has had a little while using torches or just plain not being able to see that they will really appreciate the item.

9:20 Someone else might have written it, but the Oathbow is a longbow, which is often not available for a rogue. Great video as always folks! Watching everyone of them for a year now :) - do join their patreon folks!

Amazingly enough, I played in a game in Curse of Strahd where a rogue was the one using the Sun Blade. It made for a great time

These were great suggestions. Could you do something similar for some of the other classes

I gave my party a hat of disguise after rolling it randomly on a table after a random dungeon. The rouge of course grabbed it and it became an iconic part of his outfit... he also may have used it to sneak into an elven palace and sleep with the princess which certainly led to some interesting events

One possibility that is admittedly trickier to implement than the figurines is the Bag of Tricks. The randomness of the creatures spawned each day makes it harder to balance encounters, especially at lower levels. This is definitely an item you give at mid-level at the earliest, because speaking from experience, the person you give it to will love the little scamps and they *will* spawn all three critters at the first opportunity. Probably works best with campaigns focused on dungeon crawling.

I think you've overlooked a rogue item, amulet of proof against detection and location. If you are going up against spell-casting enemies, this provides you a quick, always-on method of defeating their scrying and true sight spells. (although it doesn't work against natural true sight, technically, unless your GM is exceptionally lenient)

For me, one of the best uses of the Sun Blade on a rogue is as a beacon for held actions, especially for other party members that don't have dark vision. Say a human wizard holds a spell for when your rogue in stealth/invisibility goes behind enemy lines to sneak attack the right enemy, to suddenly no longer have disadvantage on said spell. Can be a devastating combo for picking out ranged/squishy enemies.

Love the stache Kelly. Just enough to get notice without being too exaggerated

Kelly: craft then. Montey: let him craft them. But don’t give them to him.

I recently made a Hat of Disguise for the Forge Cleric in the first campaign I ever joined. From what we've gathered recently, the kingdom seems interested in potentially abducting her and forcing her to make magic weapons and armour for them. So we've taken a small group of us away from our home on an adventure to look into a prophecy we were given, as well as trying to look for any ruins of my people. I made the Hat of Disguise for her so she could protect her identity. Also, as far as decent magic items go, since Rangers have proficiency in Medium armour and are generally squishy, I think a fairly decent choice for bumping up their AC (which wasn't around at the time this video went up) is the Serpent Scale Armour. An uncommon magic Scale Mail that lets the wearer use their full Dexterity Modifier for the AC calculation (like a piece of Light Armour or Mage Armour) and doesn't impose disadvantage on Stealth could be a pretty valuable asset, and it doesn't even require an attunement slot

I had a Swashbuckler Rogue a while back who absolutely loved his Sun Blade . I currently have a Wood Elf , GloomStalker Ranger , Assassin Rogue with Goggles of Night ......... 150ft of Darkvision . At night most things don't know what just killed them .

For our current campaign, The Wild Beyond The Witchlight, the GM permitted a single magic item that wasn't a weapon. For my Half-elf Gloomstalker I selected Nature's Mantle for sheer flavour.

those slippers are pretty cool for a speedy monk as well. :D

As a wild card item I have always liked the Glamoured Studded Leather. Just so much you can do with this in a city campaign where you have to BS you way through places.

I have a Lv 5 Character (Lv 3 Gloom Stalker Ranger/Lv 1 Rogue/Lv 1 Forge Cleric). She is a Harengon, so she has the ability to rabbit hop (jump) up to 5x her proficiency bonus w/o provoking opportunity attacks. This works really well when trying to get out of aggro range of enemies, and even stacks with the Jump spell for an additional x3 to the distance (so with Jump spell activated, she can hop up to 45 ft away at Lv 5 as a BA). She also managed to find some Night Foot Boots (the DM roles available magic items randomly from a very large list every in-game week). These boots give her advantage on all Stealth rolls (even against magical vision) and render her footsteps silent (even when unattuned). When combined with the Umbral Sight feature, she can travel in complete darkness (with 60ft darkvision) and be invisible to any creatures that really on darkvision. So when in darkness, her enemies (or allies) cannot see or hear her at all. I also took Blind Fighting as my Fighting Style, and have already used the feature twice. I would like to make use of the Fog Cloud spell to sneak up on enemies and attack them with this feature. She has +8 to initiative rolls, as well as advantage. Hare-trigger allows you to add PB to initiative. Dread Ambusher (Ranger) allows you to add WIS modifier to initiative. And Natural Explorer (Ranger) gives you advantage to all initiative rolls. Her other major attuned magic item is a Silver Spatula, that applies the effects of the Heroes Feast spell (6th Lv) to any food prepared with it. This gives anyone who eats the food advantage to WIS saving throws, Immunity to poison and being frightened, and an extra 2d10 to the HP maximum (that lasts for 24 hrs). It also heals all poison and disease. As she is a Cleric of a Lawful Good deity, I would like for her to start using this item to start healing diseases that usually seen as incurable. I put her 2 Expertise in Investigation and Perception, and Revised Ranger gives her advantage to tracking all humanoids (Survival). I have already used the combination of several of these features on 2 separate occasions. The first was to track the 1st major boss (by myself) from the tavern (following only faint muddy bootprints left about 1 day from the seen of the crime), through a crowded town, to an abandoned rickity shack where the boss was by himself with his dog asleep. I ended up accidently waking him up and managed to escape after seeing him by dashing across the room, hopping to the top of the stairs, dashing across the yard, and then leaping onto the roof tops in order to break initiative. The 2nd time I tracked people, I ended up following the footprints for an hour until they led into a pitch black sewer. I managed to keep the trail, and came upon a cult performing a ritual to animate a corpse using worms (this cult is a major part of the story/plot of this campaign). I watched the ritual until I failed a Wis saving throw, and something possessed my shadow (a Dust Wraith) that had been following me for awhile. I managed to get the High Priest (as a fellow Cleric, I had connections and woke him up in the middle of the night) to banish the creature from my shadow, but if it hadn't been for my Blind Sight, I wouldn't have even known it was there to begin with. Overall, I am really enjoying this character. This is the first time I have played a Gloom Stalker Ranger, and currently plan on taking 8 levels in Cleric and 11 levels in Ranger total. On the next Level, I want to take the Eldritch Adept Feat (for Mask of Many Faces) because with the Cult theme and in a campaign that has several themes from the Horror genre, there are going to be several towns that I need to enter that are not friendly to Fey creatures (like Harengon) and the ability to cast Disguise Self at will will be very useful. I am a small creature (3'2'' tall, or 3'8'' tall with my ears upright), so I plan on mostly disguising as Gnomes or Halflings. And to make the disguises more believable, I am going to carry several changes of clothes for certain occasions, and then use the Disguise Self feature to change the colors of the clothes, rather than the type of clothes themselves. I will also be wearing clothing that covers the majority of my fur, so that they can't feel it if they touch my hands or arms, etc. I also want to take the Crossbow Expert Feat, but am not decided yet on the other 2 feats/ASI's I would like to take yet. What do you think about this character build so far? Does it sound interesting to you? Any comments or suggestions on what other Feats you think would be useful for me to take?

Another good thing about the Sun Blade for more underhanded characters is that it's just a longsword hilt until you want it to be a sword. This opens up interesting possibilities for sneaking it into places where you wouldn't normally be *allowed* to carry a sword. The average town guard is not necessarily well-versed in Arcana, so with a little bit of bullshittery like "this is just a sentimental item and a lucky charm to me" or "oh, I still gotta take that to the blacksmith to get it fixed" you might get them to think it's just a broken weapon not worth confiscating.

Hey, just a comment on audio. It's better to keep the voices in the center or only slight to the side. That's because if you are not listening on earplugs which is common, you actually get less volume, plus it's Tiresome on the ears. Also the sides are inverted haha. Loving the channel, the videos and thanks for all your work! And hit me up if you need help with audio!

Hoky crap, y'all scared me! XD Your audio here is different from some older vids i've been watching, and i wasn't expecting you guys to sound like you're on either side of my head. ^_^;

Cannot stop looking at Kelly's mustache. It's a great facial hair art piece!

I play a Rogue (Scout subclass) in our campaign, and although it doesn't really tie into the standard rogue play style, she gave us a Decanter of Endless Water and I use that at every possible opportunity.

Who else likes the video before you watch it? I already know I’m going to like it, right?

My 1st character was a multi-class Wood Elf Ranger/Rogue. He did have 2 of the items mentioned: ▶Slippers of Spider Climbing ▶Goggles of Night Other useful items I had: ▶Gloves of Missile Snaring (if you don't like getting shot at or shit thrown at you, you can potentially catch the object and shoot or throw it back of the enemy!). ▶Efficient Quiver (3 extradimensional compartments Small holds up to 60 arrows or bolts, Medium up to 18 javelins (or similar), & Large up to 8 spears (trident, bows, etc). For a ranger or Rogue that shoots or throws things, it's helpful! ▶Blinkback Belt (Pathfinder Item: Can hold up to 4 small weapons and if you throw such weapon, it automatically teleports back to your belt at the end of your turn.) Rogues love their daggers, so this is invaluable! Because I had so many items, I made a specific set for Ranger only, Rogue only, or a mix depending on the environment I was in.