Jasine's Ring of Restraining

November 21, 2023

Wondrous item, very-rare

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"Oh, this? Just a little trinket. Made by a little elven child in a village I once visited. Oh yes, it's quite rustic. You should take it! Try it on! It fits you perfectly, how wonderful. Oh, it's becoming too tight? Oh dear..."

Magical restraining devices have existed throughout history, and combined with gentle coercion to outright torture, they’re dastardly devices in the hands of spies. Jasine’s Ring of Restraining was designed for this exact purpose and she became famous for employing it effectively, and liberally.

Jasine the Spook was a witch masquerading as a spy, or maybe she was simply looking for new and interesting uses for her spells. No matter your opinion she was employed as a spy and used her magical abilities and sundry to execute her missions with brutal precision. Few were able to give any specifics about her, much less about her motivations.

The ring of restraining can be used to completely restrain a creature of size large or smaller. When someone utters the command word “astringo”, magical twine sprouts from the ring and grows to tightly bind a creature all over. To activate its abilities, the ring must be placed on the finger or appendage of a creature. A willing creature can choose to place the ring on their finger.

Restrained

• A restrained creature's speed becomes 0, and it can't benefit from any bonus to its speed.
• Attack rolls against the creature have advantage, and the creature's attack rolls have disadvantage.
• The creature has disadvantage on Dexterity saving throws.

An attack roll can be used to attempt to force the ring onto an unsuspecting creature’s finger. The creature can also make a dexterity saving throw at advantage to prevent the attack from succeeding. On a successful attack and failed save, the ring’s effect occurs.

Grappled, incapacitated and restrained creatures have disadvantage on their dexterity saving throw.

Unconscious and paralyzed creatures automatically fail their saving throw.

The ring’s restraints are active for 8 hours, after which the ring disintegrates, leaving no trace.

Creatures with less than 20 strength are unable to break free. Creatures with 20 or more strength can automatically break free.

The command word “dimittis” can be used to deactivate the ring, at which point it disintegrates.

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Attribution

This work includes material taken from the System Reference Document 5.1 (“SRD 5.1”) by Wizards of the Coast LLC and available at https://dnd.wizards.com/resources/systems-reference-document. The SRD 5.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.