A Review of the Role Playing Game Supplement Weekly Wonders – Villainous Magic Items

Weekly Wonders – Villainous Magic Items by Alex Riggs and Joshua Zaback is a role playing game supplement published by Necromancers of the Northwest for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. As such, it is covered by the Open Game License and some parts are considered to be Open Game Content as a result.

The supplement is available as a seven-page PDF from DriveThruRPG for $1.49 but was purchased at a reduced price as part of a special bundle. Two pages are the front and rear covers, one the front matter and one the Open Game License.

The Introduction says that the villains often seem to get all the coolest toys, and that this supplement contains a number of over-the-top magic items for them.

The detested spear can give the target negative levels.

The doom cannon deals fire and electrical damage, unlike a normal cannon, and can be supercharged with blood from a humanoid creature.

The mask of torment can inflict psychic torment on the wearer.

The ring of life sapping is a ring whose wearer can curse a piece of jewellery, causing the jewellery’s wearer to age in their stead and the wearer can also transfer life from the other.

The rod of random suffering inflicts random maladies on a target.

Salamander plate is plate armour that provides protection from heat and can cause touched metal to be affected by a heat metal spell.

The sarcophagus of transposition can transform the recently dead into powerful undead servants.

The shield of the devouring defiler defends against summoned creatures.

The smoke helm can emit poisonous smoke.

Venomous snake rope will transform into a poisonous snake should someone tied up in it attempt to escape.

Weekly Wonders – Villainous Magic Items in Review

The PDF is bookmarked with all sections linked. Navigation is good. The text maintains a two-column format and appeared to be free of errors. There are no illustrations. Presentation is adequate.

This is a nice selection of magic items, most of which, in addition to their special powers, have more mundane but still useful functions. None of them are particularly astounding, but they are decent. Weekly Wonders – Villainous Magic Items can be found by clicking here.