sculpted like a ram’s head, with a protruding faceplate and curling horns.
2
a frog-mouth helm.
3
a kettle helm.
4
a barbute.
5
a bascinet.
6
an armet.
7
a burgonet.
8
a sallet.
9
a heaume.
10
a galea.
11
a Corinthian helmet.
12
a lamellenhelm.
13
a turban helmet.
14
a zischagge.
15
tall and conical like a capirote, with a stoically molded face-mask.
16
a morion.
17
shaped like a spiny conch shell.
18
a spangenhelm.
19
shaped like an isocahedron.
20
a kabuto.
D20
This helmet is made
1
of carved kraken beak.
2
from scrimshawed behemoth ivory.
3
from a hoof of the Bull of Heaven severed in the tauroctony.
4
from the melted-down crowns of conquering kings.
5
of reforged fragments from a thousand bloody battlefields.
6
with iron chipped from the walls of Dis.
7
from dragon-scale.
8
from the pit of a peach of immortality.
9
from silver smelted with concentrated moonlight.
10
from an impossible alloy of theoretical metals.
11
from the gilded reliquary of a saint’s skull.
12
from the horn of a rhinoceros-god.
13
from a single piece of deep viridian jade.
14
from ectoplasmic resin extracted from the crushed brains of psychics.
15
of bronze plucked from the dreams of a reciter of heroic epics.
16
out of a ruby pried from a giant-queen’s diadem.
17
of honest steel etched with mandalas of micro-runes.
18
of cold-forged meteoric iron.
19
from the torn-out and layered pages of an abjurer’s grimoire.
20
from the fossilized cap of a prehistoric mushroom.
D20
This helmet has
1
a ribbon trailing from its peak.
2
a red feather crest.
3
a pair of spectacles welded over the eyes.
4
a mail coif attached.
5
a family of pixies living in it right now.
6
a shining halo appear around it when used.
7
a secondary enchantment placed on it that adjusts its size and shape to comfortably fit the head of whoever wears it.
8
the image of a third eye painted in blood on its forehead-covering section.
9
a pair of wings on its sides.
10
a striped zebra-hair crest.
11
inlaid jewels tracing out the zodiac across its dome.
12
a glowing holographic sun-disc flashes above its wearer’s brow when its power is used.
13
a secondary enchantment placed on it that always obscures its wearer’s facial features in shadow.
14
enamelled golden trim.
15
a lion-mane crest.
16
a secondary enchantment placed on it that, if it is currently unclaimed, cause it to ring like a gong when humanoids come close to it.
17
flower and thorn patterns engraved across its surface.
18
a crescent moon emblem on its brow.
19
its maker’s signature stamped on its inner surface.
20
an illusory enchantment placed on it that makes its wearer’s head appear to be a skull.
D20
While this helmet is worn,
1
the wearer receives a curious sort of longevity. Should they die while wearing it, their mind is transferred into the helmet. If another person then puts the helmet on, the former wearer has a chance to permanently possess them. If this attempt fails the former wearer’s mind is lost forever.
2
any attacks on or attempts to influence the wearer’s mind are reflected back on their origin.
3
its wearer’s thoughts and reflexes are accelerated. If they’re not surprised, they always act first in the initiative order.
4
its wearer can deliver smashing headbutts, as a +1 warhammer, with double damage against inanimate objects.
5
its wearer cannot be blinded, deafened, affected by scents, or suffocated.
6
its wearer suffers no distance penalty to ranged attacks.
7
the wearer will regenerate any lost limbs or other organs as fully-functional prosthetics made from the same material as the helmet.
8
its wearer can expand it into an invulnerable hemisphere around them for up to 1d6 10-minute turns.
9
all of its wearer’s enemies are filled with unnatural awe and terror, and so have disadvantage on morale checks.
10
its wearer can disguise it as a hat of such fabulous splendour that they receive a +2 bonus to all reaction rolls with intelligent parties.
11
its wearer gains an awareness of space within a ten foot radius around them. This awareness is not precise enough to discern fine details, but can detect things like covered pit traps, secret doors, and people sneaking up behind the wearer.
12
its wearer can access the memories of past wearers. When encountering ruins, ancient monsters, artifacts, and the like, they have a 2-in-6 chance of remembering a useful detail about it.
13
its wearer can wreathe themself in spectral fire, dealing 1d6 damage per round to anything that’s grappling them, swallowed them, possessed them, or is otherwise in intimate contact with them.
14
its wearer can shoot lasers from their eyes, as per a +1 longbow with infinite ammunition that ignites flammable materials it strikes.
15
the wearer can communicate telepathically with any being by pressing heads together with them (beings must have heads).
16
the wearer cannot be petrified, mutated, transmuted, or otherwise unnaturally transformed by a cause they did not bring upon themself.
17
all of its wearer’s allies are filled with unnatural courage, gaining advantage on morale checks.
18
its wearer suffers no penalties from pain, exhaustion, hunger, and the like. These things can still eventually kill them though.
19
its wearer can change their own size, as per the spells enlarge person or shrink person cast by a magic-user of the same level as the wearer, once per day.
20
its wearer can become invisible, as per the spell cast by a magic-user of the same level as the wearer, once per day.
D20
This helmet was once
1
the prized possession of a paranoid emperor, who wore it every moment of his short and brutal reign.
2
used as a cook-pot by a devilish chef, and still smells faintly of sharp spices.
3
made in a previous cycle of the universe, and is one of that cycle’s few surviving artifacts.
4
tapped by a forge-wizard to mass produce inferior imitations, degrading the helmet from its original power.
5
a grave good in the tomb complex of the first emperor.
6
worn by a demilich.
7
worn by a mystery knight who won countless tourneys over centuries (or at least many knights assuming their identity did).
8
passed between the warriors of a dozen undersea nations after its first bearer’s ship was wrecked.
9
claimed to be a sign of divine favour by the warlord who wore it.
10
the symbol of a dynasty that collapsed under its own ambition.
11
among the regalia of a demigod of war.
12
shattered in catastrophic battle. The secret of its reforging is coveted.
13
given as tribute to a barbarian horde to spare a city-state from their depredation.
14
thought forever lost after it fell down a fissure, until it reappeared at the head of a troglodytic crusade.
15
worn by the leader of a slave revolt.
16
pursued by the revenant of a former wearer, and might still be for all anyone knows.
17
worshipped as the earthly abode of a tutelary spirit.
18
used as a mendicant’s cup by its most famous bearer, who swore off violence and lived an ascetic life thereafter.
19
part of a full matching suit of enchanted armour. Anyone who bears a piece of the suit dreams vague omens of the others’ positions.
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