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Scholar’s Pipe | New Magic Item

Added 2021-07-08 14:41:54 +0000 UTC

Scholar’s Pipe

Wondrous item (pipe), rare, (requires attunement by a bard, cleric, druid, sorcerer, warlock, or wizard)

This pipe is crafted from fine mahogany, with a row of books carved into its chamber and a small scroll tied around its stem. When tobacco or a similar substance is burned within it, it wafts a lightly sparkling purple smoke. While actively smoking this pipe, your Intelligence score is 19, and you can accurately recall anything you have seen or heard within the past month. It has no effect on you if your Intelligence is already 19 or higher without it. Additionally, while smoking the pipe, you can cast detect magic and comprehend languages at will, requiring no components.

This ancient pipe was a wedding gift from one powerful court wizard to another. Its recipient grew so fond of the pipe that they smoked it incessantly, yellowing their teeth and staining their lungs black. Undeterred, they came to realize that they could not live without the pipe, for they feared what they might become in its absence. They eventually succumbed to cancer of the lungs.