Game is fantastic but this map. God help you if you didn't have this map while playing.

We just have to be clever with the items. For fun, I am going to think up uses for each of these.

It's kind of one-sided thinking if you imply that ALL of these items were created with the end result listed above in mind.

fyi gourds are commonly used as magical artifacts in Chinese mythology

I suspect they are trying to crowdsource the paperwork required by their Ring Of Bureaucratic Wizardry. Clever.

As a chaotic neutral fighter, I would open every melee with a blast from ye olde Wand of Wonder. Occasionally useful, but always entertaining. That is until I ran out of charges.

What no Head of Vecna? No wait, that was our stupid filter.

You don't seem to get that easily 85% of DM'ing is about dicking with your players.

Oh god.. that brings back bad memories. In a D&D campaign that lasted for years, we had an elder red dragon (think Smaug, but red and more of an asshole) who was the groups nemesis. We get to have the final confrontation and track her down to her lair and slay her. After the battle, the anti-paladin, his thief wife…

1) Ring of Contrariness - handy for creating conflict between groups/people/nations

Regarding 1 and 7 - I used to run my campaign with a very careful magical balance. Items were difficult to craft and the process could go awry even in expert hands. Cursed items were often just leftovers from an attempt to create something useful. So, a ring of contrariness could have originated in an apprentice…

"People who look at the brooch, uh… forget numbers. Like they forget five is more than three, how currency exchange works, and more."

I submit the single greatest old-school D&D crap shoot, the Deck of Many things. What will the next card bring? Something wonderful? Something useless? Or will it instantly trap your consciousness on another plane of existence, sending your body into a coma? By all means, take a card.

These sound like items that Tigtone needs.

Why on EARTH would miss out the Belt Of Gender Realignment? Purely there for the DM to fuck with the players (and would backfire when you got the one in twenty players* who secretly quite liked the idea).

Though I was just born when this controversy was started, I remember it was in full swing by the time I was six or seven. I watched one of those judge shows where a kid was on trial for convincing his friend to kill himself while playing fantasy roleplaying, alluding to D&D.
By the time I was old enough to start…

Hope this gets read, I have an interesting story about D&D/LARPING that showed how the controversy can echo throughout time and impact today.

My mother died of cancer 5 years ago.