The First Fantasy Campaign: Magical Items Summary

A chart for determining magical items (including weaponry, equipment, formulas and potions, and books, manuscripts and maps) appears towards the end of JG 37 "The First Fantasy Campaign".

The weaponry category includes "lightning bolt thrower" and "fireball thrower".  Similar devices were described in more detail in DA3 "City of the Gods".

A hand blaster ("wand of sunflame") which functions as a "fireball thrower", from DA3 "City of the Gods".  Illustration by Jim Holloway.

The equipment category includes many of the items from the prior section "Description of Mechanical Marvels" which suggests that these two sections were originally intended to be presented together.*

*DA3 also includes descriptions for the communicator ("talk box") and medkit ("cube of healing")

The formulas and potions category includes many of the prototypical potions appearing in OD&D.

The books, manuscripts and maps section includes technical manuals, as well as "formula" (spell?) scrolls, and treasure maps.

One wonders if this table was the basis for the treasure tables appearing in OD&D, given the similarities.