Most Iconic & Unique Items in RPG History

[Abu Antar]

Definitely one of the most iconic items ever: Always a great joy to behold when you grab em the one and only that makes you strong:

Stop promoting drugs.

 

[Dyskolos]

Scroll of Icarian Flight from Morrowind

It was just mindblowing to see that it was possible to jump over half of the game world.

It's also so memorable an instance of trap design. Not the sort where you equip an unidentified item that ends up cursed and you should've known better but here you watch a man fall screaming from the sky to his death, find scrolls of flight on his corpse, and - why not - use them yourself.

 

[Marat]

 

[Peachcurl]

Golden Pantaloons.

 

[Filthy Sauce]

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

I completed D2 with all classes on Hell and never saw a SoJ. An entire generation of gamers must have been doing a tremendous amount of farming (or duping), or maybe I just used the wrong patch (1.09)?

Yes this was actually one of my points. I was also talking about battle.net mainly. In the early years, esp. before LoD, SoJ was almost a mythical item due to it's power and rarity (mechanics for spawning it weren't widely know). I would say it was definitely the most sought after item, perhaps aside from dual-leech rings, but only dupers and those in the know seemed to have one. So it was at the same time used as a currency, but a large part of the playerbase never had even a single one, including me. I didn't possess one for many years, and by then you already had runewords and whatnot.

Back in the day there was a whole price chart for what an SOJ was worth and one of them was 40 chipped gems. I saw someone in one of the channels offer to pay 40 chipped gems for an SOJ so I told him to meet me in a private game. He comes in, opens trade, I put down the SOJ and he says "one sec." He runs his mule Necromancer's boney little ass to the personal stash and a few minutes later it all begins. I wait as just about every tiny square in that trade window is filled up with gem after gem after gem, one by one, because that was the way. They were all chipped topaz gems with a few scattered ones here and there.

Then I typed to him, "I didn't intend to trade, I just wanted to see if you'd actually put 40 chipped gems in the trade window." Then I closed and exited game.

 

[smaug]

Girdle of Hill Giant Strength/Girdle of Strength

How has this not been mentioned?

 

[Dorateen]

Girdle of Hill Giant Strength/Girdle of Strength

Fun anecdote about a Girdle of Giant Strength. In Pools of Darkness, there is one available that can be picked off the body of a dead elf in Myth Drannor. I missed it the first time exploring the area, but after moving on, I made a secondary party through the use of the Export function to go back and retrieve the item.

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

Enserric, the talking sword from NWN: Hordes of the Underdark. In addition to talking, he's a vampiric sword, so he comments about the taste of everything he's being swung at. Always brings a smile to my face the first time I grab him.

 

[d1r]

Girdle of Hill Giant Strength/Girdle of Strength

How has this not been mentioned?

Because it's boring? What's so unique about a stat increase?

 

[Dorateen]

Girdle of Hill Giant Strength/Girdle of Strength

How has this not been mentioned?

Because it's boring? What's so unique about a stat increase?

Because in old D&D/AD&D stat increases were actually not that common. And Girdles of Giant Strength were one of the few ways to attain exceptional strength. Gauntlets of Ogre Power might get a character to 18/00 but the Girdle goes into the twenties, which was unheard of for most players in earlier editions.

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

Ban everyone who mentions talking weapons.

 

[Lagole Gon]

I like this one, for some reason.

 

[Desiderius]

Girdle of Hill Giant Strength/Girdle of Strength

How has this not been mentioned?

Because it's boring? What's so unique about a stat increase?

Because in old D&D/AD&D stat increases were actually not that common. And Girdles of Giant Strength were one of the few ways to attain exceptional strength. Gauntlets of Ogre Power might get a character to 18/00 but the Girdle goes into the twenties, which was unheard of for most players in earlier editions.

And thus began the slide into D3/MMO-style itemization hell. Items should tell stories that mere stats cannot.

Let the One Ring be your guide.

 

[Peachcurl]

Ban everyone who mentions talking weapons.

Something to look forward to:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/674930/Boyfriend_Dungeon/

Romance your swords! Capture the hearts of weapons to level them up in this “shack-and-slash” dungeon crawling adventure.

Reviews
“I'm going home and telling my mom I'm gay for swords now.”

About This Game
Date up to seven weapons, from dancing swords to heart-piercing daggers

 

[mondblut]

Blade Cuisinart.

 

[Falksi]

As others have said, Lilarcor for obvious reasons.

Boots of Blinding Speed for sure too. I wish that they'd drop crafting, and include far more "combine-able" items which are useless individually, but which used together like the BOBS are game-changers. Really adds to that sense of mystery and wonder.

Other note-able ones I can think of are:

• Squall's Gunblade in FF8 - fucking retarded in every way, but just so cool it doesn't matter.

Fuck. I thought there'd be more.

 

[GloomFrost]

Holly Hand Grenade and Alien Blaster!

 

[Gregz]

Some of my favorites:

D&D - Staff of the Magi, Deck of Many Things, Ring of the Ram

Everquest - Journeyman's Boots, Flowing Black Robe

Diablo II - Stone of Jordan

Temple of Elemental Evil - Fragarach, Scather

Deus Ex - Dragon's Tooth

Master of Magic - Torin (not an item, but he wins)

NetHack - Mjollnir

Daggerfall - The Hircine Ring

The Bard's Tale - Fire Horn

Wasteland - Proton Axe

 

[Cryomancer]

There are so many interesting items. Why nobody mentioned Robes of Vecna?

Gothic franchise : Claw of Beliar + Adanos Robe

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And the iconic power armor from Fallout franchise? With the iconic brush gun and anti materiel rifle?

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[Goldschmidt]

Dudes, path of exile has the best unique items in the world !!!!! If you love juicy items, you'll love POE !!!!!! In that particular aspect it def. blows away classic rpg giants as Baldur's Gate, Might and Magic and Wizardry

Too many examples

 

[Desiderius]

Lies, damned lies, and...

 

[I'm Big Into Anal]

the oculus in two worlds two is pretty unique

 

[0sacred]

the fanny pack

 

[Marat]

Bag of Holding.