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21. A wizard.
22. A list compiled by Creighton Broadhurst listing those very 20 things found in a wizard's lab.
23. A hungry, abandoned familiar.
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21. A wizard.
24. A lot of that wizard copies inside some glass canisters, with the following labels:"I, II, III, IV..."
26.) A brightly-painted iron-maiden stands in one corner, with door slightly ajar. Upon closer inspection, the interior appears to have been entirely redecorated with numerous varieties of mushrooms. A soft pillow rests upon a small chair in the middle.
26. Bat guano and sulfur.
31. A large chest. Once opened, it is found to have small bins, all neatly stacked, labeled, and sorted alphabetically by spell name. If a bin is opened, a quantity of the material component(s) of said spell are present. There's an awful lot of bat guano in the 'fireball' bin....
32. The wizard's apprentice. Someone's got to clean up the messes that generated those first 20 items after all.
33. A summoning circle. Anyone want to guess what's in it?
Edited for numbering.
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34. "The wizard's beard and how to grow it." by Gandalf
35. A dapper collection of pointy hats.
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36.) A Bhaalspawn.
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37) letters to a girl(or a boy) that he(or she) never dared to send.
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- Backup spellbooks.
- Research materials: scrolls, inks, esoteric tomes, et cetera
- Possibly a familiar
- Probably some magical traps like Sepia Snake Sigil or worse...
- A clone
- Simulacrum servants
- Divination foci - Crystal balls, silver mirrors, and a creepy collection of finger nail clippings, locks of hair, various and seemingly random personal belongings belonging to people other than the wizard, and drawings and pictures of those people. This collection likely includes items belonging to the party members as well.
- An assortment of alchemical items from vials of acid to tanglefoot bags
- Animal and humanoid bones
- Spell components galore
- A few expensive gems
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50. A small stuffed crocodile hanging from the ceiling
51. A skeleton with carefully labelled bones
52. A map of the local cemetary. About half of the graves are crossed off.
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53. a blue police box that seems to have arrived recently
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55. A bunch of murder hobos.
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56. A letter dated several years in the future. Its contents read, 'Do not attempt time travel under any circumstances! - Your future self.'
60. Some cryptic warnings pinned to a noticeboard. They might just be reminders to restock on something, but they could be more dire!
79. A large book titled "How to Summon Dragons". Sadly the last few pages have been burnt away.
80. The pointy shoes of the wizard who used to own this lab.
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81. Several exhausted wands stuck upside-down in various shallow tubs of flavored syrup; apparently, they're now being used to make magical lollipops.
82. A hand-sized box filled with several miniscule dolls made from stick segments and colorful thread; when held to eye level, each momentarily projects a different thought in your head, all of them unpleasant. These are the wizard's private fears and worries.
83. An undead-human-tongue-on-a-stick that makes a silly raspberry noise when approached.
84. A permanent silent image of a dead former adventuring companion.
85. A large obsidian stele written in dense Draconic; scrawled in magically-preserved blood at the bottom are the wizard's signature and the personal cartouche of a dragon.
I think you should mention the original source of your list OP (assuming you were not the one that wrote that list in the first place)
http://www.ragingswan.com/20-things-to-find-in-a-wizards-laboratory/
I referenced that in my first post on the thread, too.
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86. A stuffed and mounted kobold that espouses insults and bad advice to intruders.
87. A row of yearbooks from wizard school.
89) A side room containing several owls, several bears, and some juvenile owlbears.
90) A side room containing a tank of piranha, a large cage/run for several bunnies, and another cage containing several baby of these.
91) A 10'x10'x10' pit that several bits of debris strangely floating in it.
92) Doorways that are actually gates to other parts of the complex on different planes.
93) Two Wizards.
95. A pool table covered with books and papers, and half a cue ball with a splintered pool cue.
96. A dart board on the back of the door with several crossbow bolts sticking out of it.
97. A verruca gnome.
98. A locked, lead-lined container marked 'Do not open until the apocalypse.'
99. A rack of staves. All of them are beautifully made and ready for enchanting, though none are magical as of yet.
100. A rack of wands. Some of these do bear magical abilities.
101. A chalkboard with a "to-do" list. Includes things like shop for rare components, send correspondence to a colleague, and have tea with the neighbors.
102. A chalkboard with the apprentices' "to-do" list. Includes "feed the owlbears", "clean the lab-DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING!", "study pages 405-816 in the master text, test tomorrow", and "make lunch".
103. An enchanted broom, forever sweeping the floor.
104. A piece of heavy furniture with a magic weapon enhancement bonus.
105. A magical cabinet with an infinate number of drawers, each with a different object inside, however if you remove any object for more than a few minutes the entire cabinet ceases to function until the object is replaced.
106. A squid still alive, but nobody knows where it came from.
107. A group of skeletons standing in formation, holding different coloured flags. They appear to raise and lower their own flags in response to which flags they see.
104. A piece of heavy furniture with a magic weapon enhancement bonus.
110) An extremely heavy, and nearly undecipherable, book with a weapon enhancement bonus.
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111: A massive poster detailing the complete anatomy of a great wyrm red dragon.
112: An abstract clockwork device depicting the worlds in the solar system: Surl, The Heat-Scarred; Miria, the Wind Dancer; Istoria and her twin moons, Tana and Sheeda; Saber, the Blood Brother; Siegmund, the Emperor (a gas giant); Sieglinde, the Empress (also a gas giant); and a gray planet only known as "the Stillborn."
113: A poster of a black-haired succubus. She is wearing nothing but blood red lipstick, mithril heels, and a +6 tiara of alluring charisma. Written on the corner of the poster is a declaration of love and devotion in Abyssal, next to a perfect lipstick imprint.
114. A hand-written chart of the letters (or most common phonemes) in Common, Elven, Dwarven, Goblin (with the note "best guess"), Draconic, and several other languages.
115. A mortar and pestle; next to that, a small brazier with a good supply of charcoal, all set on the wizard's workbench.
116. Carefully-sealed jars of colored powders, ranging the gamut from mandrake root essence to saffron to ground toadstool.
117. Shelves lined with bottles filled with various fluids: Mint oil, virgin's blood, holy water, thrice-boiled licorice root, &c.
118. In the corner, set in the floor, a nine foot pentagram made from cast silver. It is engraved with various arcane runes.
119. Various base materials for creating staffs: a six-foot tall piece of rose quartz (for Staffs of Healing), a perfectly cylindrical granite shaft (for Staffs of Earth and Mud), and so on.
120: A small metal box with a glass pane clearly marked "In Case of Emergency, Break Glass." Inside the box is a Scroll of Greater Teleport.
121: A corn-husk broom that, when talked to, can only say, "Swish-swish, swish-swish aree! A magical spell to help you see! Nuttob B, tceles! Swish-swish-aroo!" (Or "Flipper over, flip flip! Elcric d'na, trats!" depending on who you ask.)