I find that I don’t usually put magic items in a game randomly. MOST of the time I will place an item in the game for a reason or give out unique items. Sometimes I will create new items based upon old video games. My Magic Items are usable in any of the D&D Editions.

The Cabin Door came to me when I was making a world book for the Final Fantasy 1 World (Details on that later). I was thinking about how in those games you could carry around “Cabins” that would heal your party. I came up with this item.

The Cabin Door looks like a 2-inch model door, and you could easily make a small pile of them, if you buy enough (In the Final Fantasy Worlds they are for sale). When you place one on the ground upright, it grows to a standard door size. (about 6 feet tall, but this can be changed) Inside is a pocket dimension that looks like a cabin, with beds and food and all the comforts of home for about 10 people.

The user may enter the cabin, and get a good night’s rest, a good meal, and some nice R&R. If they close the door for the night, then no time passes outside. If they leave the door open, then time flows normally.

If you are the type to have realistic healing in your game, the players could theoretically stay inside for a longer period to recover, and if they do, then adjust the time to a 24-hour period for 1 hour. So that if a player needs a month’s bedrest to recover, they could stay in the cabin door for that period, and only a 30-hour period would have passed in the real world.

I tend to make “Magic Item Cards” for every item in my campaign, even if it is in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. I do this for a couple of reasons, 1 so If I give it to the players, they can easily refer to the card, instead of spending precious game time to research and write the information down. (We only play once a week and only have about 2~3 hours at a time.)

I also do this, so that if I wish to edit the item I can do so, and it feels normal. I did this with the Onyx Panther (Edited from the Onyx Dog, because they were in a Cat Kingdom)