The Game Master's Guide to Evolving Magic Items

Want magic items that grow with your characters and engage your players? This guide provides a simple process for creating compelling magic items and introduces a new concept known as evolving signature magic items!

The Game Master's Guide to Evolving Magic Items is written for D&D 5E, though its concepts can apply to any fantasy RPG. You will find:

• A simple explanation of how magic items are meant to be rewarded in 5E. Know exactly how many items to provide to your players at each level of play!
• Guidelines for modifying existing magic items to make them feel unique and engage your players.
• Advice for making cursed items fun!
• A system for creating signature items customized to each character.
• Rules to evolve those signature items over time so they grow with characters and keep your players engaged!

Magic Items you customize with this process will enchant your players. The items stay useful and interesting across your entire campaign, and can even launch their own quests as players seek to uncover an item's full potential. Importantly, this method keeps you in control and avoids power creep. 

This guide came from my guest appearance on Dragon Talk, the official D&D podcast. Host Shelly Mazzanoble and I discussed this technique and used it live on the air to come up with ideas for magic items. I'm an accomplished Colombian-American game designer fortunate to have worked with Wizards of the Coast, Penny Arcade, MCDM, Dwarven Forge, Hasbro, and others.

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