Item: magic one-string banjo; when played, the face beatboxes an accompaniment. The instrument is not versatile enough to be used for many different Bard spells, but it can be used by anyone to cast a limited form of Animate Objects, causing them to stomp and shuffle awkwardly along in time with the music rather than actually doing your bidding. The spell lasts as long as you can keep the song up.

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Encounter: Hellfire Ray; can emit hellfire at will (as the spell named after him), dealing 4d6 points of Fire damage–Half the damage is fire damage, but the other half results directly from unholy power and is therefore not subject to being reduced by fire resistance. Would be a true menace in the world if he wasn’t a shuffling, whiny schlub with a nasal voice, although this guise may suit him by causing his friends, enemies, and customers to doubt his fiendish power.

Item: Cream Corn Pop Tarts; for half an hour grant the ability to vomit at will, this vomit then causing anyone that comes into physical contact with it to vomit as well, with their own vomit having the same effect, ad infinitum.