Hello! I'll be running my wife through Princes of the Apocalypse, but she'll only be playing 2 characters: an Elven Druid and a Half-Elf Paladin. I'm going to make them 3rd level to start, so that will be a help, but there's still gaps.

I need a few magic items to help cover the roles of other character classes and I'd like suggestions for appropriate magic items.

Thoughts?

Thanks.

Well, it's up to you of course, but what I would recommend is giving the party face either the Helm of Comprehending Languages (or a home-brewed one to lesser effects), and maybe a scroll or spell with a one time defensive use.

Alternatively, if you want to be generous give them 1d4 magic items in the Magic Item Table B.

Give the Paladin a warhammer that can act as a Sword of Dancing for up to a minute and the Druid a faerie dragon as an animal companion (presto one - slightly crazy - magic user). Maybe let the dragon have some thief-like skills.

Otherwise, I would just whip up a pair of NPC's to fill in the holes.

Try my homebrew.

"Tharngard Captains Sword"

Sorry for such a short post.

A shield guardian might be appropriate here. It would provide a dependable tank to protect the druid while the paladin dealt with the front line, or vice versa.

II second this, perhaps a rusty old shield guardian (maybe remove the regeneration or damage absorbing abilities so its not totally invincible at low levels) to give the party a reliable tank and give the characters a little bit of a buffer in difficult encounters. I have used this is a campaign that I am running with my wife playing a single PC and it is working very well. 

It wouldn't really be necessary give them any magic items. Nothing is so much of a threat that magic items are needed to defeat them.

That way, when she does find something, it's pretty special.