Matthew Harvey

Welcome back to Magic Item Mondays. After last week’s look at the Alchemist’s Compass, we’re pivoting from the hunt for the future to the echoes of the past. Today’s featured hoard-filler is a bit more atmospheric, a bit more melancholy, and a lot more revealing: The Lantern of the Forgotten.

Welcome back to Magic Item Mondays, the series where we dig through the dusty shelves of arcane vaults to bring you unique loot for your next session. This week, we’re looking at a tool that is less about combat and more about the thrill of the hunt: The Alchemist’s Compass.

There is a specific kind of nervous energy that settles in your stomach about twenty minutes before you all sit around the table. It’s a mixture of excitement, stage fright, and the lingering fear that they might decide to ignore your meticulously prepared plot hook in favour of befriending a random sentient turnip.