James' RPG Art makes animated scenes to help players visualise environments and add immersion and tone to your games. He has created over 300 scenes from official WotC adventures and many unique locations that are often found in a D&D adventure. He releases 4 new locations each month for his patrons.
James has included FOUR scenes from the Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign setting:
Bryn Shandar
Easth...
2025-01-13 16:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Loot Tavern is one of the most prolific item makers in the 5e scene! Their work continues to fill in the game's item and flavor gaps with fun and interesting magic items. They enjoy creating items of varying rarities, so if that's a thing you really like to see in an item, be sure to check them out! They also release other content, much like the Saddlebag, so if you want to expand your haul of magic items and side content, Loot Tavern is a great optio...
2025-01-13 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!
The Mighty Falconer's Mitt's art and card files are now public and considered OGL content*! Grab them with the links below or on the Ledger+! Have fun with them, and keep on adventuring!
Art and Cards
2025-01-11 15:38:28 +0000 UTC
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Hey heroes!
Each week on Discord, community members nominate other members' suggested items to be made into official Saddlebag items. The top two most voted-for item ideas each week get made, following back and forth workshopping and discussion.
You can submit your ideas on 2025-01-11 13:55:01 +0000 UTC
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Want to use or print a lot of cards, but shudder at the thought of downloading all those files?
Never fear, hero! Download a month's worth of cards in a simple .zip file, ready for you to print at home or professionally, as well as the digital files to use for your Roll20 games!
Keep on adventuring!
2025-01-10 21:50:40 +0000 UTC
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Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement)
This oversized glove can be worn over an existing gauntlet or similar hand covering. It has 3 charges and regains all expended charges daily at dawn. While wearing it, you can use an action to expend 1 of the glove's charges to summon a spectral falcon to your outstretched, gloved hand. When you do, choose one of the following two options:
Scout. The falcon immediately flies up to 60 feet and becomes invisible (like a scrying&nbs...
2025-01-10 16:43:59 +0000 UTC
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Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement)
This colorful mask stretches to fit your face. While wearing this mask, you have advantage on any Strength (Athletics) or Charisma (Performance) check you make. In addition, your unarmed strikes can deal bludgeoning damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier on a hit, and other creatures take a −2 penalty to ability checks and saving throws made to escape or resist being grappled by you.
Dramatic Leap. While wearing the mask, you can...
2025-01-09 17:20:56 +0000 UTC
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Wondrous item, uncommon
While wearing this hooded mantle, you can speak its command word using an action. If you're an elf or gnome, you gain the "reduce" effect of the enlarge/reduce spell (no concentration required). If you're not an elf or gnome, this property has no effect. Once this property has been used, it can't be used again until the next dawn.
This is stereotyping! This is demeaning! This is—"
"This is the only way we're getting into that vault, now put it on."<...
2025-01-07 16:49:35 +0000 UTC
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Wondrous item, uncommon
This short brass scope weighs 1 pound. Looking through the scope causes everything to appear extremely colorful. Rotating the barrel of the scope causes a series of twisting visual effects to simultaneously occur and overlap, creating a brilliant display of randomized colors and patterns over top of the viewed scene.
When you peer through the lens at a creature that you can see within 60 feet of you, you can speak the kaleidoscope's command word using an action to force that creature to suc...
2025-01-06 16:29:36 +0000 UTC
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Hey heroes!
Each week on Discord, community members nominate other members' suggested items to be made into official Saddlebag items. The top two most voted-for item ideas each week get made, following back and forth workshopping and discussion.
You can submit your ideas on 2025-01-04 13:55:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!
The Bag of Forging Coals' art and card files are now public and considered OGL content*! Grab them with the links below or on the Ledger+! Have fun with them, and keep on adventuring!
Art and Cards
2025-01-04 13:54:00 +0000 UTC
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Wondrous item, uncommon
When found, this leather bag is filled with 1d6 + 2 smoldering coals. They remain hot within the bag, keeping it warm to the touch on the outside. When a coal is placed in a fire, such as a campfire or forge, the fire remains at its optimal temperature (based on its original intended use) for the next 8 hours without having to add any additional fuel to it. At the end of the 8 hours or when the coal is removed from the fire, roll a d4: on a 1, the coal sputters out and ceases to be magical. A cre...
2025-01-03 17:39:52 +0000 UTC
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Wondrous item, common
This glass goblet has a colored tint to the outside, which undulates around the glass. Flicking the glass with your finger using an action causes the color to alternate between deep red, pink, and a light golden color. Water that's drunk from the glass tastes like a fine wine that corresponds to the glass's color: red, rosé, or white, respectively.
I love hydrating with wine.
2025-01-03 12:47:00 +0000 UTC
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Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)
Coiling ivy has been magically wrapped to form this pair of bracers. A glint of druidic magic still lingers within them. While wearing the bracers, you gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with your unarmed strikes, or a +2 bonus if you have proficiency in the Nature skill. This bonus also applies to any save DC or ability check you make to grapple another creature.
The bracers have 5 charges and regain all expended charges daily at dawn. When a creature becomes...
2025-01-02 16:44:00 +0000 UTC
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Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)
This swirling brass medallion hangs from a long golden chain. You have resistance to psychic damage while wearing the amulet.
The amulet has 5 charges and regains all expended charges daily at dawn. While wearing the amulet, you can use an action to expend 1 of its charges to hold it in front of you while facing a creature that you can see within 20 feet of you. If the creature can also see you, it must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or become charmed by you until ...
2025-01-01 16:19:20 +0000 UTC
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Weapon (dart), uncommon
This five-pointed dart is decorated with pieces of ever-frozen ice. When thrown, a streak of shimmering icy dust trails behind it. A target hit by the dart takes an extra 3d4 cold damage; it then takes 1d4 cold damage again at the start of each of its turns for 1 minute. The effect ends early if the target takes any fire damage or it uses an action to fall prone and roll on the ground. Whenever you roll a 4 on the cold damage dealt in this way, the target's speed is reduced by a cumulative 10 fee...
2024-12-30 17:26:14 +0000 UTC
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Hey heroes!
Each week on Discord, community members nominate other members' suggested items to be made into official Saddlebag items. The top two most voted-for item ideas each week get made, following back and forth workshopping and discussion.
You can submit your ideas on 2024-12-28 13:55:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!
The Ring of Silverware's art and card files are now public and considered OGL content*! Grab them with the links below or on the Ledger+! Have fun with them, and keep on adventuring!
Art and Cards
2024-12-28 13:54:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! As the title says, the Saddlebag will be on break from January 12th to January 26th (two weeks) and returning on Monday the 27th.
If you also saw the previous post about the change in weekly schedule, you also know why this time off is scheduled when it is. In short, this time off is going to be spent handling moving, completing immigration paperwork, and getting ourselves situated in our new home(land), so I thank you
2024-12-27 22:31:18 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Earlier this month I posted this poll regarding shifting Saddlebag's weekly release schedule to four items each week, down from five. I also gave some context. In short, we're moving abroad, and by reducing the output by one item, it affords me the opportunity to stay on top of the Saddlebag monthly releases, work on books and exciting side projects (like Skellies, Callings...
2024-12-27 22:30:52 +0000 UTC
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Weapon (greatsword), legendary (requires attunement)
This red blade harkens to an ancient, celestial harbinger of strife and ruin. You gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. A target hit with the weapon takes an extra 1d6 psychic damage from the attack. The weapon has 10 charges for use with the following properties. It regains 1d6 + 4 expended charges daily at dawn.
Incite Strife. When you hit a creature with an attack using the sword, you can expend...
2024-12-27 16:23:43 +0000 UTC
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Weapon (glaive), rare (requires attunement)
A target hit with this weapon takes an extra 1d4 fire damage from the attack. If your alignment is evil or if you're a tiefling, you're considered a hellish creature for the purposes of this weapon's properties, and the fire damage increases to 1d6.
The weapon has 4 charges, or 6 charges if you're hellish. It regains all expended charges daily at dawn. When a creature makes a melee attack against you and you're holding the scythe, you can use your reaction to expend 1 of...
2024-12-26 16:24:08 +0000 UTC
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Ring, common
While wearing this ring, you can use a bonus action to mentally command the ring to transform into a fork, spoon, or other harmless element of a set of cook's utensils (such as a ladle or spatula). The transformed ring returns to its normal form on your finger if you mentally end the effect (no action required) or are no longer holding it.
Every food is finger food.
2024-12-25 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement by a bard)
This accordion emits a crackling dirge when played and sends motes of flame lurching from it as air passes through. If you're attuned to the instrument, you are proficient with it. While you're attuned to the accordion and have it on your person, you have resistance to fire damage.
Explode. While holding the instrument with two hands, you can use an action to play a note so foul that the accordion explodes, sending out a wave o...
2024-12-24 15:44:01 +0000 UTC
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Wondrous item, uncommon
You can use an action to lock an unlocked door with this key, provided the door has a keyhole. If the door has a functioning mundane lock, the door is then locked using its normal statistics and DC to pick it. If the door doesn't have a functioning lock, it's then magically locked (DC 15); it remains locked in this way for 24 hours or until the door is opened by magical or mundane means. A door that's magically locked using this key can also be opened by it.
And with that, I was ...
2024-12-23 16:53:29 +0000 UTC
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Hey heroes!
Each week on Discord, community members nominate other members' suggested items to be made into official Saddlebag items. The top two most voted-for item ideas each week get made, following back and forth workshopping and discussion.
You can submit your ideas on 2024-12-21 13:55:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!
The War Mage's Staff's art and card files are now public and considered OGL content*! Grab them with the links below or on the Ledger+! Have fun with them, and keep on adventuring!
Art and Cards
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2024-12-21 13:54:00 +0000 UTC
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All is dust. The last whimper of life is snuffed out in a choke of ash and fire. The seas lie stagnant, still and smooth as sheets of glass. The sun hangs enormous on the horizon; night has fled the world, the sky a sheer face of pitiless fire. So swift is the calamity that befell the world that trees were burned to ash, yet they remained upright. So sudden, that the very air burned even as people screamed, their cries swallowed in a silence that remains unbroken.
And yet, look to the horizon: glorious Wanderho...
2024-12-20 18:19:19 +0000 UTC
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Weapon (morningstar), rare (requires attunement)
The head of this morningstar is in the shape of a rose. You gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. The weapon has two forms: bloom form (if the weapon is in bright light) or bud form (if the weapon is in dim light or darkness). Iron petals unfurl from the weapon's spiked head while in bloom form, and enclose it while in bud form. While in bud form, the weapon deals bludgeoning damage, instead of piercing.
While holding the weapon, yo...
2024-12-20 16:33:19 +0000 UTC
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Staff, very rare (requires attunement by a sorcerer, warlock, or wizard)
This staff can be wielded as a magic quarterstaff that grants a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it. At one end of the staff is a crystal orb, while a crystal blade is affixed to the other; your attacks with this weapon deal either bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage (your choice each time).
The staff has 10 charges for the following properties. The staff regains 1d8 + 2 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the las...
2024-12-19 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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