Arcano Caboodle (PDF) — 5e Magic Items for Adventure Utility

12 Magic Items 5e players can use to drive roleplaying and storytelling, with just the right amount of weird.

For the discerning adventurer, convenience is no luxury—it's a strategy. Arcano Caboodle is a curated collection of 12 clever magic items 5e players can use to make life as an adventurer just a little easier. 

Whether you're escaping (or intruding) through a mirror, analyzing blood at a crime scene, eating dirt to stay alive (hey, it's everywhere), or channeling your inner Sherlock Holmes—this collection is packed with creative solutions to the everyday problems adventurers just keep stumbling into. 

Every purchase includes a $5 discount code toward the full Sharper Visage Catalog (PDF), so if you love what you see, you can upgrade to the full version without paying for the same content twice.

What's Inside:

12 unique magic items from The Sharper Visage Catalog:

• Includes 2 very rare magic item, 4 rare magic items, 5 uncommon magic items, and 1 common magic item
• No attunement necessary — items are balanced using tactics, roleplay, and GM fun-factor
• Item rarity and values are consistent with official 5e materials to ensure game balance and economic stability
• Each item includes a shopkeeper anecdote
• All items are compatible with 5th Edition and other d20-based systems

Format and Delivery:

• PDF Digital Download
• 10-pages
• US Trade size (6 x 9in / 152 x 229mm)
• Instant download after checkout or via email

Included Magic Items:

Curtailing Collar (Wondrous item, uncommon): Shrink your mount to pocket-size for travel, stealth, or storage—because not every dungeon has a horse door.

Dandy Key (Wondrous item, very rare): Open a portal between mirrors you’ve gazed into before. Ideal for moonlit escapes, forbidden trysts, and the occasional breaking-and-entering.

Hemometer Rod (Wondrous item, rare): Dip this investigator's rod in a few drops of blood, and the truth begins to bleed through: species, condition, poison, maybe even guilt, if you know how to read it.

Hunter's Sniffsnooter (Wondrous item, uncommon): Strap on this silver prosthetic nose to gain an absurdly powerful sense of smell, ideal for tracking creatures, solving crimes, or winning scent-based arguments.

Local Hat (Wondrous item, common): Instantly transform your headwear to blend into any crowd, village, or region, because nothing screams “not from here” like the wrong hat.

Orb of Ambiguous Insight (Wondrous item, rare): Ask this obsidian orb a yes-or-no question and get an answer that's either eerily accurate or suspiciously evasive (just don’t shake it).

Pipe of the Consulting Detective (Wondrous item, rare): Smoke your way to uncovered clues, insightful observations, brilliant deductions, and the growing suspicion that you’ve stumbled into a vast conspiracy perpetrated by a mysterious nemesis whose only aim is your downfall.

Portable Peephole (Wondrous item, uncommon): Stick this magical fabric to any surface and create a tiny illusory window. Perfect for seeing what's behind every door before you open it.

Ring of Sacrifice (Wondrous item, very rare): Cast a desperate teleport or plane shift in a pinch, but the ring is consumed by the spell (so is your finger). Worth it?

Spoon of Delicious Dirt (Wondrous item, uncommon): Scoop up sand, clay, or dirt and turn it into a nourishing (and surprisingly tasty) meal that heals you just enough to keep going.

Teleportation Trammel (Wondrous item, rare): Wind up this arcane pocket watch to create a 1-mile anti-teleportation zone—ideal for trapping enemies or preventing dramatic exits.

Witching Rod (Wondrous item, uncommon): Buzz your way to hidden doors, clues, and compartments with this vibrating divining rod that turns anyone into an honorary rogue.