What are some of your favorite arcane foci your D&D characters have had?
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My Kobold Paladin's is the holy symbol of his deity, being a golden prism shaped like a stick of butter.
According to a Google search, butter was not in a stick form in the real world until 1867.
That just sounds like a gold bar
@@davea6314 he said it was a gold prism in that shape, not necessarily that it is supposed to be butter. He could have just been using it as an easy reference to picture it in your mind.
My wizard was once a streetfighter who, after impressing a traveling bladesinger, got a scholarship under his wing and turned the bladesong into the fistsong. He uses studded leather gauntlets as his spellbook and casting focus.
How does that character work, out of curiosity?
@@jonathanmarks3112 He’s a variant human who took the Fighting Initiate feat to pick up Unarmed Fighting (fists do 1d8 and damage on a grapple). I plan on giving him the tough feat later on to be more of a frontliner, but otherwise he’s pretty much just a bladesinger wizard.
One of my characters had a tuning fork made of special crystal as an arcane focus, he would strike it to cause mana to resonate between the tines to evoke spell effects.
Another wizard had traded an eye for knowledge of the arcane, and replaced it with a crystalline prosthetic that crackled with arcane power whenever he cast his spells
One of the great narative points for my wizard is that he collected arcane foci. It started as he just being paranoid as he uses magic for everything in his life but later it became recolections of his travels and trophies. He normally has two equipped, a wand (extended to be a staff) that gives +1 to spell attacks and saves and his spell-book but my favorites are a living tissue staff he took from a mind flayer that related to his back story, and the one staff that belonged to a legendary hero from a town we visited and was trusted to him. I have a few more and always like to circle between them but I always keep a staf as a walking stick
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One of my characters (hexblood tiefling) used her own broken horn as her focus. She was born into a cult, and her parents carved runes into her horns as she grew so that they could perform a ritual on her when she turned eighteen. Turns out this ritual was to bring a powerful otherworldly being into the world using her body as its vessel. Her soul would have been devoured as the being filled her body (she did not know until the ritual began), but her best friend broke one of her horns in order to sever the runes and interrupt the ritual. After escaping, she found she had some spellcasting ability that she didn't have before, but would need both horns to focus it, so she carried her broken horn around as a pendant to use as her spellcasting focus. When she cast a spell, the spell would connect and charge between the two horns before taking effect. I think this is one of the coolest spellcasting ideas I've ever thought up.
My cleric’s holy symbol was a scar on her hand that glowed whenever she channeled her power, I also took war caster as a first level feat as some flavor as obviously she could use a weapon and shield and not actually have to hold her holy symbol, a bit of metagaming to make the character flow better
Eragon vibes right there
one I really want to use, is a Longsword with runes representing each representing either one of the schools of magic or some other magical rune. this sword would not only be the foci but also the spell book, with adding spells needing the same 50gp per level in magically imbue gem/crystal dust instead of ink. still looking for the right time to use this idea
A small soapstone carved with a depiction of the Lovecraftian god Bokrug, the warlock's patron. Also had a wildfire druid that carved her totem into a smoking pipe, and her wildfire spirit was a songbird placed inside a miniature wickerman.
So. While not an arcane focus, I like the druidic focus my druid had.
No my character didn't 100% know what they were with only 3 druids existing in the world and amnesia, only finding out due to another party member that came into the sessions later being a druid themselves. But they didn't think an arcane focus was needed as they had been casting spells easy enough without one.
In reality (only me and the dm knew this at the time) his skeleton in his right hand was made out of wood and was the druidic focus that was connected to his home village.
Not me but I heard of someone who played a barbarian who really wanted to be a spellcaster, so the character started to carry a skillet around as a spellcasting foci and would hit people in combat with it and shout "CAST IRON!"
Patrick: 👎 "Boo..."
In all seriousness, that was pretty funny.
my current druid's spellcasting focus is himself (or atleast will be when he hits lvl 2 and becomes a stars druid).. allow me to explain:
my druid is a crystal fungus creature who was recently (and accidently) created. in the process of its creaton it bonded itself to the kid who created it and devoured his left eye in the process. his roots merged with the brain and nerves of the kid who is his host, giving the kid the dark gift of symbiotic being. at lvl 2 when he becomes a stars druid i plan to use the star map that the stars druid can aquire and pick the option for a crystal that displays stars when light is shown through it. i'm going to flavor it as the crystal fungus evolved so that the main body looks like a night sky with stars within, becoming his own star map. now, since the roots are attached to the nerves of his host and spread throughout the body, he'll be able to focus his magic from anywhere on his body
I had a Genie Warlock street Magician who actually jad 3 different foci. The first was a cane rhat matched her costume, with an ornamane on the top in the shape of a Jack-O-Lantern, which most of her beam-like spells would shoot out of. Her 2nd was her pact of rhe tome book, which was just a "Being a magician for Dummies" Book with half the pages pretidigated blank for her warlock shenanigans. But her third and the best was her Genie Bottle, which was actually her tophat. Her projectile based spells were cast by aiming the bottom of the of the hat like a cannon, and she had a running gag of saying "I have a thing for this!" and reaching into her tophat and pulling out random, unrelated objects. Using bottled respite and going inside would reveal a sort of VIP lounge style space complete with clean and comfy velvet furniture, ornate chandeleir a small bar and a stage. The former being where her Efreeti Patron could be found chugging back shots of Cinnamon Whiskey. This patron was also the one who would give her the items when she reached into her hat, which she fucked up usually out of spite as she was gaslit by my PC into making her the Efreeti's Patron and even as her assistant in certain performances.
My spell focus for my tiefling wizard is one of her own horns. It had been broken off in her teens and she'd kept it as a reminder to keep getting stronger.
I had a Wizard/Monk with the hermit background who was a member of an order of wizards who would spend a year watching over an obelisk deep in the woods. This obelisk had shifting squares with runes and according to the order we were meant to protect it. However, during my time with it I discovered a dreaded secret about it just before I was to be relieved of my duty. It draws power from each new member and will release a terrible evil on the world. So I took a part of the obelisk. It was a small square section like a Rubik's cube with arcane symbols randomly shifting. I ran hoping to keep it from the order. Then I learned to cast spells via the foci would consist of me solving a side or more squares aligned to draw upon the power. The order was furious and hunted me as I hold the only piece of that damn obelisk. Now I draw power from it, ironically I still protect it. From the very order wishing to restore it and the evil within.
My favorite arcane focus ever was a Longsword that my Wizard could attune to and use as a spellcasting focus, plus it used my Intelligence mod for attacks and damage.
A lantern that doubles as a cat carrier for my wildfire spirit
I had a Tiefling Gloomstalker Ranger Dualwielder who lost his arm during the first mini bossfight we had on the campaign (due to an opportunity attack critical hit to stop him from casting cure wounds that downed him) before coming back to consciousness after the rest of the party finished the boss, he had a vision from Dispater (his demonic father) in which I understood that he meant that the lost arm could still be useful, so my guy took it with him. Later when we were taking a long rest in a safe house, I dedicated time to make a druidic focus with the bones of that arm, making the symbol of Dispater into a necklace. Yes the edge was powerful in him. Couple sessions later the campaign died off and I don't play with the group anymore so... welp
Well, Druidic Focus, but my first D&D character Daphne did have a Staff of Frost, but later in the campaign got a homebrew magic item. Long story short, Daphne is an oddly adorable homebrew chimera who resembles a horse mixed with a skunk, and as a Druid, can't really get good armor. As such, the party Artificer eventually created her a suit of horse barding out of magically enchanted wood, which had a unicorn horn on the helmet that acted as a focus for her magic. So now she didn't have to stop to cast spells or trying to run on three legs. The fact it was gift from a friend inuniverse added to it.
Side note, the Staff of Frost, which technically counts as it is a magic focus, was an item we found VERY early in the campaign via luck of the draw of order of missions we went in. The party collectively, inuniverse and out, agreed Daphne should have it because she (and I) would be the least likely to count. Just like the Scroll of Tarrasque Summoning we found later. Which made an otherwise just really good magic item special.
Scroll of Tarrasque Summoning? There’s a story behind that one. Please tell.
@@jonathanmarks3112 Long story short, we were in the final area of Rime of the Frostmaiden, and had just defeated the Demilich serving as the arc villain (by luring him to what amounts to an arcane fusion reactor and throwing every single strength saving throw spell or feature we had at him at once, overwhelming his Legendary Resistances and hurling him into it) and were raiding his study. We came across the scroll.
Well, after a conversation with the party (including someone wanting to try and turn it into a WAND of Tarrasque Summoning), the party ultimately decided Daphne was the only party member everyone one hundred percent trusted not to actually use it outside of an absolute do or die situation, and thus it went into her bag.
Note, it's never been used, even when she showed up as an NPC in another campaign which canonically was her from decades if not over a century in the future (because Druid) and still had it in her bag.
I think my only really interesting arcane focus was a wand that acted as the bow to the violin of my Warlock/Bard multiclass.
For my wizard, it was her wedding ring.
Had an organ as a bard musical focus.
which one? i feel like the pancreas would be best but maybe a bit unwieldy
for me i had a celestial warlock rod of the pact keeper. in the shape of a stein as his patron was an angel known for good food and fights. basically a barbarian angel. I flavored his spells as shooting out his mouth after taking a sip.
The tooth of the first monster an exiled Dwarf killed away from home. When channeling power, it heats up and burns his hand, making him skeptical of using magic.
clockwork sorcerer who had a clockwork mechanism that was also there heart ! 😎
My drow bard was captured by slavers who kept her as a circus attraction. When she escaped she unalived one and used their head as a base to make an otamatone, which is her main instrument. The other one was turned into a deathwhistle through a similar process.
I know what you're gonna say. "It's not rare or special." But just gimme a moment. I like playing a bard. I also like to have a flute as a necklace. My favorite spell thunder wave. So just imagine a half elf bard or aasamar bard playing a heavy metal thunder wave on a flute! Thunder wave creates a boom that can be heard 300ft away. My bards almost always go heavy metal. I just like the idea of a pretty boy bard killing monsters and evil with heavy metal rock and roll from a flute...just in vision that finally boss fight in the Thor Ragnarok movie and the music is done with a flute. Trust me it's hilarious!
In our Dragonlance campaign my black robe, aberrant mind sorcerer uses his tattoos as a focus.
They showed up after his test at the tower of high sorcery and now he's level 8 and they cover most of his body.
Black smoke pours off of the tattoos whenever he uses magic and for his dragon breath spell he inhales the smoke and exhales flame.
Probably my favorite caster I've ever played.
My current caster character is a Tortle Warlock/Sorcerer multiclass. His warlock Archfey patron requires him to be stoned to use his Warlock magic, and his focus is a Hookah that is in a baby bjorn style harness strapped to his torso.
His Eldritch Blast originally took the form of smoke tricks, but after picking up a Lever Action Rifle, he breathes some of the smoke into the chamber and pretends to shoot the rifle instead.
I used to have a very vain tiefling wizard. His name was Vain! He had a focus that served double duty as a hand mirror, it even came in handy in a fight against creatures that were invisible unless reflected.
I had a barbarian that multiclassed into druid quite late in a long-running campaign. The party artificer was able to make me a druidic focus out of materials we had collected; the claws of a wendigo and teeth from a shadow dragon. We called it Tooth and Claw.
I also have an idea for a wizard spellbook that's a film reel, with each spell printed on part of the celluloid.
One of my players made a Triton pact of the genie warlock, who used an orb as his arcane focus but flavor texted it to resemble a netted blue glass buoy. For extra fun his flavored his Dao (earth genie) to be contained in a conch shell, instead of a lamp or bottle.
Haven’t played it yet but I have a College of Creation Bard concept. The bard would be an extreme writing nerd and as such, all spells and abilities would be flavored as occurring from his writing. His arcane focus would be a pencil and paper that he constantly writes on regardless of circumstance. For instance, mid battle he could be writing about an earthquake and as such, the spell Earth Tremor would activate.
Here are three of my focuses, one wizard, one artificer, and one druid
My mountain dwarf transmutation wizard accidentally transformed his spell book into glass as an apprentice, he could still write spells into it but he also discovered it worked like an orb focus. Whenever he cast a spell the book would float out of his hand and flip open to the page of the spell and either a single or a whole sentence of runes would appear on the page as the spell was cast. Any spells with an aoe or ranged attack effect would erupt out of the page.
My lizardfolk artificer used his wand, which was shaped out of a hydra's fang, and worked as a knife, as a bayonet on his clockwork rifle. He stabbed a lot of people with it and caused a lot of internal injuries when casting spells inside their bodies. My trademark combat combo was to stab my wand into the belly of an enemy and cast a cheap 1st level spell like burning hands or magic missile, my gm allowed me to do this after working out a custom feat for me when I'd described how I wanted to play him. Allowing me to make a melee attack with my arcane focus on an enemy and if I succeeded in hitting them I could cast a spell into their body, lv 1 only, causing wild magical effects related to the spell cast inside of my enemies.
My kobold druid had a pair of antlers growing out of his skull, he would tie pieces of bark, herbs, feathers, fur, bones, fangs, and other such neat little trinkets into his horns and use them as his druidic totem.
A bobblehead Jesus. It was a Rifts game, and my leyline walker found a bobblehead Jesus in some pre-rifts ruins. She didn't grasp the cultural context of a bobblehead, she just knew it was a depiction of a deity, so she kept it and used it as a focus when she cast spells. I rolled really well on my spell casting rolls every time I used it, so the character became more and more convinced that it was a holy relic with actual power.
My aasimar warlock's patron is her fiance, who died the night before their wedding. Her arcane focus is her wedding ring. Tangentially related, but in her form of dread she is dressed in the wedding dress she never got to wear.
I know there is a weird stereotype about warlocks falling for their patrons, but please give these two a happy ending.
@@jonathanmarks3112 She didn't fall for her patron, they were already in love before he got his powers. But yes, fingers crossed for a happy ending.
Not something I've used or seen (I don't even actually play the game), but an idea that's been floating around in my head: a child spellcaster (not sure which class) whose focus is their stuffed toy, which would spring to life and start dancing whenever they casted a spell.
(And yes, this was indeed inspired by Lulu from FFX, and, to an extent, Shiki from TWEWY.)
My Dragonborn Hexblade uses a crystal as his focus, but since his patron is an ancient dragon spirit, I flavoured it that the crystal is actually a drop of the Dragons blood. IRL I then got a Dragons bloodstone pillar (about 5cm long) and sewed it into the back of a glove as a prop.
I've never gotten to play the actual character, but I've had a really cool one in the drafts for a while:
A forest gnome that has a hobby of crafting terrariums and ecospheres, and over the years has accidentally picked up several Chwingas that were hiding in rocks and plants using their "Natural Shelter" action. Eventually, the Chwingas develop a fascination for the gnome, and over countless years their magical gifts have accumulated and granted the gnome some basic spellcasting abilities.
Mechanically, the gnome is a Genie patron warlock, with the collection of Chwingas serving as the patron, and they might demand random trinkets based on their whims. The Genie's Vessel is an ecosphere bottle that becomes a lush greenhouse when you enter it via bottled respite. Any of the genie types could fit, since Chwingas vary by the environment they're found in, but I think Dao works best, as the base Chwingas are really associated with plants and earth.
My Wizard uses a ring as his Arcane Focus - it glows red when he's casting magic... or simply when he wants it to. He was based on one of my World of Warcraft characters, whose son (my main) has a similar ring, which I stated belonged to his father, before I introduced said father. It occurs to me that in the various stories and events that I've had occur, Donovan has never actually attempted to take the ring back. But yeah, in short, the Ring as an Arcane Focus is simply a reference to that... but it's the only Arcane Focus I've had that actually had some significance.
My Halfling Divination Wizard Marjory. She was loosely based on the Log Lady from the tv show Twin Peaks. Her focus was a piece of firewood which contained the spirit of her younger brother.
Currently playing a plasmoid druid who *is* the arcane focus. They've got potions and arcane components constantly sloshing around in their body, which they make more of or combine together to cast spells. Their spell slots are just how much material they've got, so they get smaller as the day goes on.
My sorcadin pirate used a non-functional pistol. Non-functional in the sense that it didn't fire bullets. Rather, it has magical runes on the inside of the barrel. From it, he could "shoot" a ray of frost, a fire bolt, a lightning lure grappling beam, or a bolt of lightning. He would always quicken these spells, while having Shadow Blade active, which took the shape of a ship anchor forming out from the focus.
My Warlock had a hand-mirror. It was all tied in to his patron. Noble background, patron of the Arch-fae. The patron was trapped in an enchanted mirror, in corner of of one of the family vaults. Character found the fully body mirror with the fae inside and they started chatting. The usual, "What the hell? Who are you? Why are you trapped in a mirror?" Ect. Ect. Character was told the Arch-Fae was trapped due to a forbidden tryst he had with a human. Not focusing on the character and getting to the point, when he entered the pact when ever he would see his reflection, the reflection's eyes would turn green and the patron could move/talk out of the reflection. (it was illusioned so only I could see it but people with true sight or high enough perception/insight could see through it and notice that i wasn't talking to myself.) So the warlock's focus was a hand mirror that let him talk to his Arch-fae wingman. It was a lot of fun.
I had a Warlock character, Fathomless subclass with her background being that she does fishing. Except, she uses her staff as her fishing rod
i had a cleric who had a tattoo as a holy symbol/focus! my reasoning was "it's a prominently displayed emblem, and considering his backstory (raised in a hag coven) i dont think he has an actual item", and thankfully my dm lets me do rule of cool stuff sometimes
i also had a bard (college of spirits) with a tarot/tarokka deck as a focus, since they were basically a conman boardwalk fortune teller, and a cowboy paladin whose focus was just.....gun.
A first time player of mine in my comedic dnd world with custom lore is an artificer warforged with insanely cool backstory and comedially high charisma as he rolled pre-chosen stats (his own choice dont jump me pls) so secretly inspired by his ramble to me after the game i secretly made his arcane focus a motherboard / cog within him with a tape ontop signed as “charisma module” All this time he was casting from his chest so that would make sense in the future and be revealed by the end of an arc where his character slowly breaks from age
I wanted my cleric's holy symbol to be a massive tattoo of his goddess Eilistraee on his left shoulder and arm. I was told no, but he does have the tattoo either way. He is a pirate so tattoos are par for the course for him.
We were playing with very, VERY immature DM I don’t remember who got it but the item in question was made from private parts of demigods mended lengthwise, depending on current enviormantal conditions it may have been used as staff or whip.
The worst part about this one-shot was that IT was THE MOST normal item we received.
Honorable mention: the cloack of stealth (cursed, and stinky), I will not disclose the origin of the fur it was made from.
My Half-orc necromancer's focus is his shovel, he has a ruby of the warmage on said shovel.
My favorite arcane focus I've had is an old revolver for my warlock so everytime she would cast Eldredge blast she would shoot the gun it was a good low level way of being able to use a gun in dnd
A compass. I played as a celestial warlock devoted to a lesser sea deity. Said deity symbol was a compass.
Also my artificers' crossbow (Gauss pistol that shoots trash from her pockets at enemies)
Haven't had a chance to play it but I have this concept for a Warlock which started as a joke about Warlocks always needing a short rest. He is a bugbear (known for being lazy) and I made him a hexblade (gotta exploit that extra reach) but his spellcasting focus is....his favorite pillow.
My tiefling artificer Glim uses a screwdriver as his Arcane Focus, because reasons!
One of my warlocks in oneshot campaign signed pact of the trigger with Eldrich horror (from Steinhardt's Guide to the Eldritch Hunt) for "Big Gun". It was a perfecly balanced siege canon and it was glorius. Also aparently that's was pretty convinient to summon it with just an action and no transportation troubles. The only downside was that you cant move with it much. And yes it was totally inspired by Top Secret film(1984).
Ooooh~! I know just the story for this one.^^
My friends and I have been playing Storm King's Thunder campaign (no spoilers), and I rolled up a half-elf divination wizard (later multi classing into an artificer) named Milo Tiberius, heavily based off of the character Milo James Thatch from Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
Milo inherited a large spellbook from his late father who was a high elf archeologist. The book itself looks similar to the Shepherd's Journal from the movie, but as big as a large encyclopedia book, has a sling attached to its spine so that it can be carried around like a satchel, and an emerald jewel embedded into the center of the cover. Technically the jewel on the book is the focus, but the spellbook itself has all the interesting stuff about it.
In life, Milo's father spent his many long elven years exploring and studying ancient ruins and civilizations. The spellbook itself, is a record of all the spells the father had found on his journey, in the hopes of preserving part of the culture's history by preserving their spells within its pages.
By all accounts, the spellbook is probably the most complete collection every known spell of every known caster archetype in existence, and probably some unknowns as well. From the simplest of cantrips to the most destructive of rituals. In the wrong hands, this spellbook could potentially destroy all of Faerun.
Luckily, the book is heavily _heavily_ enchanted.
Years of buffs, spells, and enchantments woven upon enchantments, have created a complex matrix over the book and its contents. The spellbook itself is near indestructible, save for being thrown into a volcano or exposed to dragon fire. And the contents of the pages are completely invisible to everyone's eyes as they flip through the pages. The only spells a person can glean from looking through the book are those that they can already cast or know themselves.
Every time Milo gains new spells, either through scrolls or leveling up, he's not copying them down into his own spellbook. Instead, he's deeply studying over his father's spellbook, examining its complex spell matrix and slowly unraveling it to reveal every new spell he wishes to learn. Spell scrolls are used as ciphers to finding the parts of the matrix that are keeping the spell hidden in the book, and pulling it apart to reveal the spell already there inside the book itself.
In short, Milo is carrying around an encyclopedia of every spell ever created in existence, quite possibly the most powerful spellbook you can imagine. No amount of Dispel Magic will break it open, and trying to force through the lock fully will take years of dedicated research.
And I love the fact that I'm using it as a thematic tool as to how our bookish wizard is gaining new spells and leveling up as he pours over the spell matrix and picks at it in order to unravel it.^^
These days Milo uses a +2 metal quarterstaff as his focus, which is hollowed out on the inside to allow him to contain crystals he made. The crystals act like spellscrolls that can be used only once without needed to spend a spell slot. When the crystals are spent, Milo racks the staff like a shotgun to dispense the crystal and readies the next one to be used. (and I've prepared and used a lot of level 5 Fireball crystals with this thing before.)
The spellbook is still around though, and is still an integral part of Milo's character as the archive for all of his known spells, wielding the staff in one hand and the book in other as he casts fireballs left and right like a crazed pyromaniac. (as you do when you're a wizard...)
Half ork wizard multi-class into Monk lost most of his teeth in a fight have them replace with gemstones and that is his magic foci
I had the idea of having a wizard with a monocle for his spell focus. To allow him to focus on a person better.
Had him made, but never played the character. I am waiting for my current campaign to end...
My Gothic Warlock has a ruby-inlaid Gothic cross
I’m working on a sorceress that uses her knitting as her focus. Still working on the details. Won’t be in any campaigns anytime soon.
oh boy, have I got one
it is homebrew, so beware. but it's actually fairly balanced for it.
playing in a dichotimous campaign as an artificer
the first subclass is just battle smith, nothing special
it's the 2nd one that things get interesting
master maker
at level 3, you can replace one of your arms with a Battlefist
this battlefist deals 1d10 magical bludgeoning damage and can use either your strength or your intelligence as the modifier
it cannot be removed by any means except you taking an action to willingly do so
and...it acts as a spell focus
one of the prepared spells is also Thunderous Smite
needless to say, this is a fun thing to reflavor
at level 9, it also acts as a shield, and can have 2 infusions on it, and you get 1 extra infusion slot, but that infusion HAS to go onto the Battlefist
damage also goes up to 2d10 at this level
the level 15 capstone ability also has some neat things, but that is not the point here
My Dragonborn artificer lost his left arm from an injury
He now has a battlefist in its place
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I had a (sorta) hipster, who's arcane foci were a nipple piercing.
Right until the bbeg found out where it were.
He proceded to Rip it out, and stab me in the eye 🫣😏
silicon carbide in the shape of a sphere stuck on top of a quarter staff. turns the hole thing into a blunt weapon and wizard staff. bonebreaker in lord of the rings style. the black lizard wizard. wack!
A paper hand fan that had been scribbled over with wax crayons as a kid. It was later fae touched for my wild sorceress to use. 😊
Edit) technically it belonged to her mother as a family heirloom and was made with silk cloth and fine wood and painted. As a child my character thought it looked too sad so drew on it. The fae saw this and decided to appear to and they touched the fan the child happily showed them. Parents were scared and tossed the fan thinking it cursed now after her parents snatched OP away in a hurry at the incident. OP rescued and hid it but later forgot about until later the fae returned and she became a wild sorceress thanks to the fae.
my star finder nuar technomancer uses a pocket watch he got from his dead grandfather as a spell focus the most notable thing about said watch is that the outside out had eldritch marking and a depiction of Cthulhu on it the and the numbers on the face ae the symbols for Cthulhu and the other eldritch beings the symbols glow so long as he has spell slots left luckily he is not a squishy so if he does run out of spell slot he has a handy scythe to deal with enemies
Playing mage I took the feat that lets me be a human calculator. My focus was a calculator. Our GM let my brain be my focus. I didn't question it even though it wasn't as intended because um hey he let me do it and can't break the rules or the game if the GM has said cool go for it.
I have this idea for a green kobold hexblood wizard with a massive pointy hat as his focus the hat is bigger then he is woth two hole for his eyes and a little flap for the stove pipe for when he cast tiny hut the hat becomes the roof and he would have a pet mastiff he would ride he got the hat from his grandma who found him as a hatchling
It's so grating hearing him pronounce it fo-si instead of fo-ki. And I'm a fellow American, good grief.
None. You will go track down your individual spellcasting components and _you will like it_
Gotta say, I was honestly getting so annoyed hearing "foci" pronounced as "Foe Sai" instead of "Foe Kai" and was about to comment, but taking a step back I decided to look it up, Brittanica official site informed me it is, in fact pronounced "Foe Sai"
Just goes to show, never to late to learn something new, and to always fact check before assuming you're right about something XD
Minute gang
My favorite has to be when my wizard Jack Avery Whittaker successfully managed to reproduce an aberrant dragon mark onto his hand after much study. A feat mind you that almost killed him and left him in near debilitating pain long thereafter. However once he acquired the mark’s epic boon, which was immortality, it was decided by the DM thanks in part to his arc up to that point that this signified his mastery of the synthetic aberrant mark and since I could already cast one spell with it he said I could start using it as an arcane focus, which I did. So by that point my wizard had no spell book thanks to a combination of being a conjuration wizard and having the Keen Mind feat, and no wand while being functionally immortal.
Most of the time he just dressed like a normal guy anyways so there ended up being a running joke that people thought he was a bard.