Fellow adventurers,

wrooms to back alley

From the most sprawling sho
aar has everything
bargain bins, the Capital Baz
right price of course!
you could ever want. For the
nds as far as the
Shops, stores, stalls, and sta
tru ly a wo nde rful place for
eye can see, it’s
nd their coin.
enterprising adventurers to spe
in this guide are some
The four locations detailed
You won’t find your
of my favorite strange shops.
r her e. No typical torches,
standard adventuring gea
ic bedrolls, only
run-of-the-mill rations, or bas
curated by equally
the most unique magic items
tors.
eccentric and peculiar proprie
some of that
If you’re willing to part with
mig ht be able to find
hard-earned currency, you
den in the bizarre bazaar.
something special hid

– Flik Silverpen

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Flik Silverpen’s Guide to Bizarre Bazaars (FSG 28)
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 Bizarre Bazaars
Flik Silverpen’s Guide to Bizarre Bazaars (FSG 28) is a collection of four unique
magic item shops, their strange owners, and even more unusual merchandise.
The shops in this guide are easy to insert into any adventure as a way for the
players to spend some money, grab some fun magic items, and interact with a
weird NPC or two. The items don’t need to be attached to their respective shops
either. They can be individual quest rewards, handy pickpocket loot, or found in a
random treasure chest.
Each magic item has a simple description to explain its intended effect. It should
be easy to adapt the description into straightforward mechanics for whatever
fantasy TTRPG you are playing. If the power of an item is too strong, feel free to
change its effect or make it a one-time or rarely available feature.
This guide is intended to be a helpful resource for your table. Have fun rewarding
your players with these fun magic items!

A Note On Prices:
Each item is labeled with som
e
guidance on what to charge simple
for the item.
It helps to know how much
currency the
adventurers are carrying bef
ore entering
each shop.
Inexpensive - Individual adv
enturers can
buy multiple items.
Pricey - An individual adv
enturer can
buy one.
Precious - Multiple advent
urers must
pool their money to afford
one.
Invaluable - The adventure
rs will need
to save up.
 Sibyl’s Spellbound Shoppe
The caddy corner walls, crooked roof, and darkened windows of this smoke-filled
storefront seem out of place on the busiest intersection of the bazaar. Despite
its outwardly gloomy appearance, Sibyl’s Spellbound Shoppe is often filled with
disguised customers seeking a hex, vex, or cursed artifact.

The interior of the shop smells of burnt flowers and old books. There are no shelves,
tables, or any inventory on display. Instead, Sibyl pulls her special spellbound items
from a single enormous cauldron resting over a purple fire in the middle of the shop.

Sibyl enjoys maintaining an air of mystery and guile. She often offers items to
adventurers alongside cryptic premonitions like, “I sense an animalistic danger in
your future. Take this beastly transformation philter, you will need to drink it soon.”

Affection Potion
Pricey
Love potions are too complicated
and messy, this charming
concoction is much more effective.
To activate the potion add a single
genuine tear to the vial. Whoever
drinks the potion will be endeared
to the person whose tear activated
the potion.

Buried Treasure
Precious
An ancient iron chest without a
lock. Place a stolen item inside and
bury it. After D12 days whoever
owned the item will forget it was
stolen.

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 Golden Scarab
Frightful Mask Precious
Pricey A golden beetle figurine that rests
A plain wooden mask whose visage perfectly in the palm of your hand. For its
morphs and changes, becoming more curse to work, the scarab must be gifted
and more terrifying. Smash D10 mirrors without suspicion. Whoever holds it will
while wearing the mask to charge it. The unknowingly transfer D10 gold pieces into
first person who sees the mask after it is the gifter’s coin purse daily.
charged flees in terror.

Hex Crystal
Pricey
A mesmerizing cursed crystal. Anyone who Impish Tome
stares at the crystal too long is cursed. Pricey
Roll a D6: An unassuming tome filled with infernal
1. You become immortal and can only die scratchings. Tear a page from this book
by magical means (But what happens (D8 pages left) and light it on fire to
when the crystal breaks?) summon a mischievous imp. It laughs and
mocks someone of your choosing for D20
2. Your wounds heal slower than normal. minutes. When the time is up or the imp is
3. Shoes no longer fit. threatened with violence, it disappears in a
puff of foul-smelling smoke.
4. You can only sleep during the day.
5. A pack of rats follows you and laughs
at your every move.
6. You can only speak in screams.
Break the crystal to end the curse.

3
 Jibbering Sproutling
Precious
A devious parasitic seed. Plant the seed
in a non-living creature. It takes a week
for its roots to take hold. After which the
creature is reanimated with a faint trace
of its former personality. It must glimpse
sunlight daily to remain animated.

Revenge’s Sword
Pricey
Stink Bomb Cauldron A sword with a secret. If this blade is used
Inexpensive to destroy another weapon any wounds
dealt henceforth is inflicted upon the
A small cast iron cauldron infused with wielder instead.
hex magic. Mix D100 ingredients in this
cauldron. Pour the brewed concoction
into a bottle and chuck it. A stinky gas will
explode outward making everyone who
breathes the putrid gas puke instantly. Swap Chalk
Precious
Two pieces of glowing green chalk. Give one
piece to a ghost and help them return to
the Gloom Tide (the underworld). Once the
ghost is able to rest, use the other piece of
chalk to draw a teleportation circle around
yourself - instantly swapping places with
another creature anywhere in the world.

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 Two of a Kind
These debonair elven twins have assembled a carefully curated collection of combos. Every
magic item is some sort of clever pair meant to impress and delight.

Edwen and Tatya are identical twins who are impossible to tell apart. They speak in unison
and mimic each other’s movements as if they were a reflection in the mirror. Their shop is
simple, classy, and strangely symmetrical.

They sell pants, goggles, earrings, and tongs. Anything that comes in a pair, including these
duos of the more magical variety:

Dual Lenses Twain Sheers

Precious Pricey
A pair of spectacles with one transparent A simple pair of silvery scissors. They can
lens and one shadowy lens. The wearer cut through any rope or chord as long as
can see normally when both eyes are open. it’s doubled up.
The right lense shows a hazy space where
magic glows. The left lense shows a strange
shadow realm.

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 Joined Jar
Inexpensive
The twin’s best seller. Two connected jars
containing nut butter and fruit preserves.
Combine them on bread to make a delicious
sandwich.
Matching Hats
Pricey
Just two good-looking hats!

Protective Pairs Rival Tusk Necklace

Precious Invaluable
A matching pair of stylish gloves and socks. A necklace forged from the opposite tusks
When wearing both pairs, health doubles. of a powerful frost troll and a mighty fire
ogre. Whoever wears the necklace cannot
be frozen or burned.

6
 Twin Compasses
Inexpensive
Tandem Shackles Two wooden compasses that always point
Pricey at each other.
A pair of connected metal manacles with no
lock or key. They can only be unlocked by
the people wearing them.

Unity
Twinned Sword and Shield Precious
Precious A simple silver bow and single silver arrow.
A fierce longsword and its protective D6 seconds after firing the arrow the
shield. Any damage done to the shield can bow and whoever is holding it instantly
be returned by the blade. teleports to wherever the arrow landed.

7
 Recovered Relics
This small and stinky shack is at the farthest edge of the bazaar. Customers are
rare, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t interesting items inside. The proprietor,
Bud (short for Budget), is an enterprising ratfolk who is keen to strike a deal, even if
means downplaying some of the less desirable effects of his wares.

Bud ventures into the Plague Wastes every couple of months to search the ruins for
discarded magic items. Luckily, Bud is naturally immune to poison so venturing into
the dangerous wastes is no big deal for him. Unluckily, the magic items he retrieves
still have some poisonous residue left over so he’s usually forced to sell them at a
steep discount.

Bud’s Bargains
None of the Recovered Rel
ics have listed prices.
Bud will try his best to hag
gle the best price while
hiding the true nature of the
lingering poison. Bud
won’t lie about, but he won’t
be forthright either.
Consider the price of each
item as Pricey, but
Bud can be bargained dow
n to
adventurers find out about Inexpensive if the
the poison.

8
 Bending Bow
This twisting crossbow can shoot around
corners but while wielding it all your
movements are extremely slow.)

Count’s Cloak
Lucky Coin When you don this spectacular red cloak
you become undead and have an irresistible
While holding this gold coin you have
craving for blood.
increased luck. Every day the coin is in your
possession you suffer a light wound.

Monumentous Draught Smoke

Drink this chalky potion to gain a burst of This dingy dagger ignores armor but
incredible strength but you begin to turn while you wield it a thick cloud of smoke
to stone shortly after. It takes D6 days to obscures your vision.
become a statue.

9
 Thief’s Ring
Wearing this modest ring allows you to
levitate small objects into your hand but
you also hear constant menacing whispers
encouraging you to steal.

Unknown Toxin
It could be any type of poison, roll a D6:
1. Acid burns lungs.
2. Limbs begin to freeze.
3. Skin begins to rot.
4. Blinded. 5. Breath fire.
6. X-ray vision.

Verdure Amulet
While wearing this green amulet you can
speak to plants. You also reek of compost
and manure.

Whirlwind
Spin this howling spear to deflect
incoming missiles with a gust of wind.
While wielding the spear you are sick
with dizziness.

10
 Farin’s Floating Fandangles
Farin Stonefoot retired from working the Amberhammer Mines years ago. He prefers
spending his time with his head in the clouds, quite literally. Farin floats through the
bazaar attached to his net filled with floating items for sale.

Farin is a happy-go-lucky salesperson who enjoys sharing the gift of flight with
his customers. He takes particular interest and asks way too many questions of
adventurers with a natural ability to fly.

What’s with the anchor around his ankle? “One time I got my hands on a winged
buckler. Sent me soaring over the Dream Crags for days and days! Now this here
anchor keeps me nice and grounded when I need to be.”

Brumey
Precious
A small cloud that hovers a few
feet off the ground. It can hold a
single person and be directed to
move with a strong gust of wind.

Christopher the
Flying Fish
Invaluable
A chubby bewildered fish with
iridescent scales. Christopher can
fly and is indestructible. He likes
to torpedo through walls when
he shouldn’t. One in six chance
Christopher will simply fly away
on a whim.

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 Floating Eyeball
Inexpensive
Farin is unsure what the eyeball does.
It hovers constantly, always watching.

Fall Sweater
Pricey
An ugly knit sweater that keeps the wearer
from crashing to the ground.

Giant Pegasus Feather

Precious
A single white feather from the wing of a
flying horse. Wave it quickly to flip gravity
in a small area for D10 seconds.

Hovering Broom
Inexpensive
A simple looking broom meant for flying
not sweeping. The only problem, this
broom doesn’t like to be ridden and
flies where it wants (like riding a wild
griffin). However, it does enjoy sweeping
up messes.

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 Levitating Rope
Pricey
Make sure one end is always tied to
something or say goodbye to this 50 foot
length of normal-looking rope.

Orb of Void Goo

Invaluable
The floating mass of opaque goop placidly
hovers above the purchaser’s right
shoulder. The goo nullifies spell effects but
randomly disappears for days at a time
(roll D6 each day, on 1 – 3 it vanishes).
Potion of Flying
Pricey
A clear glass bottle filled with a light and
refreshing elixir. Drinking it grants the
ability of flight for D20 minutes. Just don’t
be high up when it wears off!

Proper Flying Carpet

Precious
A modestly woven flying carpet that can hold
four modestly sized people. If someone swears
while riding the carpet it will flap and fling the
passengers off, no matter how high in the air.