Ring of Regeneration

- Category: Ring
- Rarity: Very Rare (Requires Attunement)
While wearing this ring, you regain 1d6 Hit Points every 10 minutes if you have at least 1 Hit Point. If you lose a body part, the ring causes the missing part to regrow and return to full functionality after 1d6+1 days if you have at least 1 Hit Point the whole time.
Tactical Applications
Continuous Healing: Regains 1d6 hit points every 10 minutes and regrows lost body parts. Exceptional for sustained combat, exploration endurance, and recovery from severe injuries including dismemberment.
Class Synergies:
- Any Class: Universal utility for healing and recovery regardless of class or build specialization
- Tank Builds: Perfect for characters designed to absorb damage and maintain frontline presence
- Exploration Specialists: Essential for characters facing extended adventures and dangerous environments
- Melee Combatants: Excellent for characters engaging in frequent close combat and physical confrontations
Build Considerations: Requires attunement but provides ongoing healing and regeneration capabilities. Most valuable for characters prioritizing survivability and sustained combat effectiveness.
Acquisition Methods
Crafting Requirements: Requires regeneration magic, healing enchantments, and life essences. Creation cost 15,000-30,000 gp and takes 30 weeks.
Common Sources:
- Healing specialists and regeneration enchanters
- Treasure hoards of legendary healers and life-focused creatures
- Commission from master enchanters specializing in healing magic
- Found in the collections of regeneration researchers and healing experts
- Sometimes discovered in life sanctuaries or obtained from regenerating creature encounters
Alternative Acquisition: Often found in locations with strong connections to healing magic and life energy.
Value & Trade
Estimated Value: 20,000-40,000 gp, with high demand among adventurers and combat specialists.
Trade Considerations: Extremely valuable among all adventurers and anyone requiring sustained healing and recovery.
Character Integration
Roleplay Elements: Suggests experience with severe injuries, extended adventures, or professional roles requiring enhanced recovery capabilities.
Character Concepts:
- Veteran adventurer with regeneration expertise and extensive combat experience
- Exploration specialist using continuous healing for extended expeditions and dangerous environments
- Character with history of severe injuries requiring advanced healing and recovery
- Survival expert combining regeneration with traditional healing techniques
Adventure Hooks
The Extended Expedition: Adventures requiring sustained endurance where regeneration provides crucial advantages.
The Severe Injury Recovery: Scenarios where regeneration enables recovery from dismemberment and serious wounds.
The Continuous Combat: Encounters where ongoing healing determines survival and combat effectiveness.
The Healing Research: Missions involving regeneration magic where the ring provides research advantages and healing insights.
Variants & Customization
Greater Ring of Regeneration (Legendary): Enhanced healing rate and additional recovery effects with improved regeneration capabilities.
Ring of Perfect Regeneration (Artifact): Includes immunity to aging and comprehensive healing with ultimate recovery.
Warrior's Regeneration Ring (Very Rare): Optimized for combat with enhanced healing during battle and improved recovery.
Specialized Variants:
- Explorer's Healing Ring: Enhanced for adventure with improved environmental resistance and stamina recovery
- Tank's Recovery Ring: Optimized for damage absorption with enhanced healing and threat management
- Survivor's Regeneration Ring: Specialized for endurance with enhanced recovery and sustained healing capabilities
Lore & History
Origins: Created by ancient healers who needed reliable recovery from the severe injuries sustained in dangerous magical research.
Historical Significance: These rings enabled legendary adventures and the survival of impossible expeditions through continuous healing.
Cultural Impact: Represent the pinnacle of healing magic and the conquest of mortality through regenerative enhancement.
Magical Craft: Demonstrates master-level understanding of healing magic and the most complex regeneration processes.
Balancing Notes
Introduction Timing: Appropriate for levels 10-18 when sustained healing becomes crucial and regeneration provides significant advantages.
Campaign Impact: Provides ongoing healing balanced by high cost and attunement requirement.
Healing Focus: Most valuable in campaigns featuring extended adventures and sustained combat challenges.
Encounter Design
Recommended Challenges:
- Extended scenarios where continuous healing enables sustained performance and endurance
- Combat encounters where regeneration provides crucial survival advantages and recovery
- Exploration missions where ongoing healing determines success and expedition completion
- Injury scenarios where regeneration enables recovery from severe wounds and dismemberment
Healing Adjustments: Encounters may need to account for continuous healing and enhanced recovery capabilities.
Related Items
Healing Items: Other items that enhance recovery and provide healing capabilities.
Regeneration Equipment:
- Items that improve healing effectiveness and recovery speed
- Equipment for sustained adventures and endurance challenges
- Tools for healing magic and regeneration enhancement
Complementary Equipment: Items that enhance healing abilities or provide additional recovery benefits.
Roleplay Opportunities
Healing Mastery: Characters develop expertise in regeneration techniques and advanced healing methods.
Recovery Leadership: Regeneration capabilities create opportunities for leading extended expeditions and dangerous adventures.
Survival Excellence: Continuous healing enables impressive endurance demonstrations and sustained adventure capabilities.