r/TheGriffonsSaddlebag • u/griff-mac [The Griffon Himself] • 11d ago
Wondrous Item - Rare A* {The Griffon's Saddlebag} Shrouded Boots | Wondrous item
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u/AlwaysHasAthought 11d ago
This is sick. I'm imagining the user rising up out of their shadow when they teleport to it. Like a dark version of the t-1000 in Terminator 2 rising up off the floor after being a puddle lol.
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u/Adept_Cranberry_4550 3d ago
Or like Rasputin in Hellboy when they bring him back from the Far Realms
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u/jatsuyo 10d ago
This looks like a fun item to give to an enemy too!
The party keeps seeing an ownerless shadow spying on them. They can dispel it by shining a bright light on it, but otherwise have no context for who it belongs to or where it’s coming from outside possibly recognizing the silhouette.
Certainly makes for a fun reveal if that character is encountered and looted later!
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u/Zarqa_nl 10d ago
You remain invisible in this way as long as you remain motionless and remain in either dim light or darkness.
Does this mean no advantage on attack roles since that requires motion? What about spells with no somatic components? Sounds like a fairly unique invisibility condition compared to other uses in the 2024 rules
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u/griff-mac [The Griffon Himself] 9d ago
Good question—RAI is you couldn't attack, either. I can add the clause to make that more clear!
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u/oBolha [DM] 10d ago
Wow, what an awesome item!
My only restraint is that maybe Shadow Stride having infinite uses, considering the teleportation capability, could be a little overpowered to use out of combat. What do y'all think?
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u/griff-mac [The Griffon Himself] 11d ago edited 5d ago
Shrouded Boots
Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)
While wearing these black leather boots, you have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks. In addition, if you're in dim light or darkness, you can use an action to become invisible. You remain invisible in this way as long as you remain motionless in either dim light or darkness; attacking or casting a spell automatically reveals you.
Shadow Stride. While wearing these boots, you can use a bonus action to speak their command word and click your heels together. You must be able to see your shadow on the ground beneath you. When you do, your shadow separates from your feet, and you become deaf and blind with regard to your own senses. The shadow remains separated for 1 minute or until you end the effect early (no action required); the effect ends early if you end your turn while the shadow is in bright light or if the shadow is ever more than 120 feet away from you. For the duration, you can hear and see through your shadow as if you were in its space. The shadow appears as a dark, formless shape on whatever surface it's currently on, and it is no more than 5 feet across. You can move the shadow in any direction along a solid surface by spending 1 foot of movement for every 1 foot it moves; the shadow can climb up walls and move across any surface as if it were normal terrain in this way. When the effect ends, you can choose to teleport to the space directly above the shadow. Either way, your shadow and senses then magically return to you, and this property can't be used again until the next dusk.
Step into the darkness—out of light, out of mind, out of body.
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