TOPIC: 2026 Volunteer and Participation Tokens

Thanks for your horror-themed ideas here.

Mark of the Vampire (mark slot)
Whenever an enemy is defeated, heal 2 HP. Revealing this token to an NPC may lead to unexpected consequences.

UR Charm of the willing victim - Any time during an adventure, may take an action to transfer up to 25 hp of health from themselves to another character (no dmg mitigation.)

UR +2 Stake of the Redeemer - Any crit automatically kills vampires and vampire spawn, double damage against undead.

UR Cloak of Mists - essentially a functional reprint of the cloak of displacement

UR Lantern of hope - slotless, grants +1 to saves for entire party (does not stack with other lanterns of hope)

Rare - Slotless - image is of a fancy invitation - (usable 1/run) Invitation to dinner! Roll a d20, on a 1-10 creatures from the mist feed on you! Lose 10 hp. On an 11-20, the mists feed on your enemies! All enemies take 10 hp damage.

Rare - lenses of the dark - immunity to mind control, possession, fear, and can see normally even in magical darkness

Rare - Ioun bloodstone +2 focus but -1 to all saves

A new volunteer exclusive slot, Pauldrons.

If the only way to get Pauldrons for the first few years was to Volunteer I bet it would drive up participation.

Volunteer items do +1 something or +2 something if you volunteered that year.

Ideally the vol tokens are something that can be in demand by themselves without being overpowered while also staying in demand all season long.

How about reprinting the old Vol Iouns (or making functional equivalents) :

Ioun Stone Onyx Cube
Ioun Stone Quicksilver Cube
Ioun Stone Garnet Cube

And then making a relic Transmute:

Ioun Stone Bloodstone Tear
+2 Str, +2 Dex, +2 Con

Having a transmute will encourage repeat volunteering while also keeping demand up from people wanting to make the transmute.

Endgame wrote: Ideally the vol tokens are something that can be in demand by themselves without being overpowered while also staying in demand all season long.

How about reprinting the old Vol Iouns (or making functional equivalents) :

Ioun Stone Onyx Cube
Ioun Stone Quicksilver Cube
Ioun Stone Garnet Cube

And then making a relic Transmute:

Ioun Stone Bloodstone Tear
+2 Str, +2 Dex, +2 Con

Having a transmute will encourage repeat volunteering while also keeping demand up from people wanting to make the transmute.

I love the idea of a multi year vol transmute that does not make a new slot.

Rare - Mirrored Archer's Bucker

I also +1 the idea of a multi-year volunteer item

Endgame wrote: Ideally the vol tokens are something that can be in demand by themselves without being overpowered while also staying in demand all season long.

How about reprinting the old Vol Iouns (or making functional equivalents) :

Ioun Stone Onyx Cube
Ioun Stone Quicksilver Cube
Ioun Stone Garnet Cube

And then making a relic Transmute:

Ioun Stone Bloodstone Tear
+2 Str, +2 Dex, +2 Con

Having a transmute will encourage repeat volunteering while also keeping demand up from people wanting to make the transmute.

I like the idea of this even if I'm not sure about reprinting the old tokens. We've gotten multiple requests for a Volunteer transmute, and I think it could add some definite value.

I would like one token to represent the tireless work of the Golems, and another to capture the unnatural charm of our NPCs.

BasicBraining wrote: I would like one token to represent the tireless work of the Golems, and another to capture the unnatural charm of our NPCs.

Charm of the Golem: +3 Con

Charming Charm: Wearer gains +1 to Charisma for each charm the character has equipped, up to +6. (Part of the Charming set)

I'd still love to see something like a versatility stat that could add either to focus or a physical stat (Since I don't feel like the caster lobby would be strong enough to get a pure caster vol item)

UR Mithral Coin of Fate reprint but as a Volunteer token. It would definitely have a big resale market and may drive more volunteers at the same time.

Fred