Workshop Week 02 — Shaedenstaff results! (Patreon)

Thanks for hanging out last night and helping make this exciting new item, heroes! This item will go through the usual balancing process and will be added to the Saddlebag here on Tuesday when we hold the next Direction poll! Here are the results of your direction and company:

Shaedenstaff
Staff, very rare (requires attunement by a sorcerer, warlock, or wizard)

This staff was made with the end of a horn reclaimed from a fallen huge undead creature. You have advantage on saving throws to retain your sanity against the planar affects of being in the Shadowfell.

The staff has 15 charges for the following properties. The staff regains 2d6 + 3 expended charges daily at dusk. If you expend the last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the staff disintegrates in a plume of pitch black smoke and emits a terrifying scream audible out to 300 feet.

Annihilating Strike. When you hit with a melee attack using the staff, you can expend 1 charge to deal an extra 1d10 necrotic damage to the target.

Spells. While holding the staff, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast one of the following spells from it, using your spell save DC: calm emotions (1 charge), darkness (2 charges), dispel evil and good (5 charges), inflict wounds (3rd-level version, 3 charges), or circle of death (6 charges). 

Miss the stream? Check out the VoD using the link below and see how this was made!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_M7kEn1UTI

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Another tight poll this week! Thanks for the votes, everyone!

I'll be updating this post just before 7:30pm EDT tonight with the exclusive YouTube link to the stream. You should get an email alerting you to the change!

For this week, we'll be making something from the Shadowfell. If you voted for the other options, don't worry! They can come back for other weeks in the future.

Loose ideas from the comments, both from those that suggested them as well as other non-related ones, have given me these three ideas we can work on tonight:

• Dark armor that absorbs light and can create darkness, including giving resistance to Radiant damage.

• A staff made of billowing shadow and chains that can recreate physical and psychological elements of the Shadowfell, allowing it to cast a selection from spells like calm emotions, flame blade (conjuring one made of smoke instead—the shadow blade spell isn't usable for us since it's not in the SRD), darkness, death ward, mislead, major image, harm, or circle of death.

• A chain whip from the Shadar-kai, although we couldn't reference as much since they're not within the SRD. Could either make it classified as a whip or a flail with a 10 foot reach.

Let's make something! See you tonight!