Robe of Useful Items 5e
Wonderous item, uncommon
This robe has cloth patches of various shapes and colors covering it. While wearing the robe, you can use an action to detach one of the patches, causing it to become the object or creature it represents. Once the last patch is removed, the robe becomes an ordinary garment.
The robe has two of each of the following patches:
Dagger
Bullseye lantern (filled and lit)
Steel mirror
10-foot pole
Hempen rope (50 feet, coiled)
Sack
In addition, the robe has 4d4 other patches. The GM chooses the patches or determines them randomly.
Robe of Useful Items Patches
| d100 | Patch |
|---|---|
| 01-08 | Bag of 100 gp |
| 09-15 | Silver coffer (1 foot long, 6 inches wide and deep) worth 500 gp |
| 16-22 | Iron door (up to 10 feet wide and 10 feet high, barred on one side of your choice), which you can place in an opening you can reach; it conforms to fit the opening, attaching and hinging itself. |
| 23-30 | 10 gems worth 100 gp each |
| 31-44 | Wooden ladder (24 feet long) |
| 45-51 | A riding horse with saddle bags |
| 52-59 | Pit (a cube 10 feet on a side), which you can place on the ground within 10 feet of you |
| 60-68 | Potion of Healing (4) |
| 69-75 | Rowboat (12 feet long) |
| 76-83 | Spell Scroll containing one spell of 1st to 3rd level |
| 84-90 | Mastiff (2) |
| 91-96 | Window (2 feet by 4 feet, up to 2 feet deep), which you can place on a vertical surface you can reach |
| 97-00 | Portable ram |
Commentary by Sam West, Twitter: @CrierKobold
The Robe of Useful Items speaks to the days of old dungeon crawls where a 10 ft. pole and ample access to rope was vital. This single cloak holds so many little nifty things, and is an easy magic item to seek out if you want to expand your inventory.
4d4 averages to ten extra patches. That’s a ton of little extras that can range from rowboats and riding horses to random spell scrolls and money.
The most common item to get with the random patches is the 24 ft. wooden ladder, with thirteen results on the d100. The portable ram is the least likely to occur, with only four outcomes producing it.
Spell scrolls may be entirely unusable if you produce them, as if the spell of the scroll obtained isn’t on your spell list, you can’t use it.
The Iron Door is unique in that it not only springs into existence but fits and hinges into a specific space.
A pit definitely is a lack of an object, yet the Robe of Useful Items can conjure one, functionally vacating a 10 ft. cube of space on the ground next to you.
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