The Paladin is a class whose identity is closely tied to magic items. It’s honestly hard to imagine a holy knight clad in full plate who doesn’t have a sweet magic sword. That being said, I’m not going to mention many weapons in this article, as you’ll likely be fine with any magic weapon your DM decides to give you.

If you’re slogging through encounter after encounter over eight hours, you may need some extra hit points to pad you out. A Ring of Regeneration may be just what the doctor ordered! 

Need a pick-me-up after casting Wish? Grab a Potion of Vitality and keep moving, you’ve got gods to slay! 

Haste without any of the risk is crazy. Giving a character a free extra action, even in a limited scope, can be a massive advantage. Stock up on these if you want your party to have an advantage against top-tier enemies, as there aren’t that many ways to mitigate a potion like this! 

We’ve all considered what eternal life could look like; with enough potion’s of Longevity and some countermeasures to the cumulative penalty, your D&D character may be able to make that a reality! 

Invisibility is a bread-and-butter D&D ability; with these potions, you have access to a concentration-free version of the base Invisibility! Rogues, rejoice!

If you want to get the effects of Fly without worrying about a stray rock breaking your concentration, sending you plummeting to the ground, this potion may be just what you’re looking for! 

If you’re looking for murder juice, look no further. Oil of Sharpness greased onto a weapon turns it into a highly efficient murder weapon that will seem to always hit its mark. 

This thing is one chatty piece of timber! Oathbows don’t just compel you to hold grudges, they reward you for acting on them and punish you if you opt to ignore it. A vindictive, chatty elvish weapon? Neat! 

My first guess as to what this sword did was efficiently slay cats; fortunately, it isn’t that grim, and instead just slays anyone when you crit. Nifty! 

Don’t trust mirrors in D&D. They could contain the souls of demons. They could charm you into a Narccissian obsession, forcing you to admire just how amazing you look for the rest of time. Worst of all, they could be a Mirror of Life Trapping, condemning you to imprisonment in an extradimensional cell for all eternity. 

The brutal irony of the Monk class shines through once more. The class that desperately needs the help of magic items is also the class that qualifies and can use the least amount of them. The Monk’s reliance on unarmored defense and unarmed strikes means that it inherently doesn’t play well (or at all) with the vast majority of armor and weapons.

As is the case with all martial classes, magic items are necessary for Fighters to meaningfully contribute to the game, both in and out of combat. This goes beyond simply giving the Fighter a +1 sword and calling it a day.

Marvelous Pigments are freaking sweet. They are illusions brought to life, magical creative forms of expression you literally spawn into the world. It may be one of the messiest items to engage with in the game, though, so approach with caution! 

Of all the manuals I find the Manual of Quickness of Action the most far fetched; I can’t read my way out of my current state of clumsiness. If you’re a D&D character, though, this book can be exactly what you need to up a critical ability score you’ll be eager to use.

I’m confident my Differential Equations textbook had to be a Manual of Golems; I didn’t have the slots, and my brain sure hurt afterward. If you do have the slots, though, the Manual of Golems can be a massive benefit that enables you to create your very own Golem!

When I hear a “guaranteed to build muscle” program, my knee-jerk reaction is that I’m being scammed. Fortunately for fantasy characters, there is a proven, magical method to getting massive gains: a Manual of Gainful Exercise!

Manuals are the kind of very rare consumable everyone wants; with a week of downtime, you can radically improve your character sheet. I wish a Manual of Bodily Health could let me invest a week into myself to permanently improve my constitution in real life, but I suppose this fantasy version will have to suffice! 

I don’t entirely get why these are very rare, but if you want to pimp out your horse with some levitation shoes, you should seek Horseshoes of a Zephyr! Also, no, that’s not a typo; they are called Horseshoes of a Zephyr. Weird!

A Helm of Brilliance feels like a character sheet on its own; these complicated items have a novel’s worth of text and widely varying uses for each ability listed. They can be daunting to don, but are powerful weapons when wielded by the right person.