I often feel like the Patron Saint of Seldom Used Rules, Mechanics, and Fluff in Dungeons & Dragons. If it’s there, I want to use it! If nobody at the table has ever had cause to don or doff their armor, rest assured that the character with the heaviest metal armor is going for an unexpected swim at some point. I can’t help myself! 😂

One thing that needs some love is trinkets! Players will often choose one, but leave it among the lint in their pocketes because they don’t know how to work it into their game.

Player Tip: If you’re one such player, ask your Dungeon Master, and you may be pleasantly surprised when, after some thought, they find a way to help you work it into the game in some fun or meaningful way. We’re here to help!

Or, if you’re a Dungeon Master that wants to have some fun with trinkets, choose some yourself to add a fun flourish to your story. Hey, you’re a player in this game too, you know!

From the 2014 Player’s Handbook (and the 2024 Player’s Handbook as well 😡). Let’s do the mummified goblin hand with my very own El Mop/Doype spin added to it:

A mummified goblin hand: It’s the right hand of Grol, freely removed by the goblin himself and delivered to Glasstaff by Droop as a token of Cragmaw loyalty. As a result, Grol is elevated to King of the Cragmaw goblin tribe by Glasstaff, and becomes the wizard’s “right hand.” This grizzly token is kept in a glass jar filled with embalming fluid in Glasstaff’s Quarters in Tresendar Manor. The jar’s close proximity to the faint necromantic aura emanating from the nearby crevasse in the Redbrand Hideout has transformed the hand into a crawling claw.

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