Workshop Week 10 — Meet the Nightstalker's Kanabo! (Patreon)

Hey heroes! Here's a first look at the Nightstalker's Kanabo, as made together during the stream from earlier this week! Thanks for hanging out with us and making this flavorful new item possible! This item may change before it's officially released on Patreon early next week!

Nightstalker's Kanabo
Weapon (greatclub), very rare (requires attunement)

This studded greatclub once belonged to a hungering oni and excels at subterfuge. You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. The first time that a sleeping creature takes damage from an attack made with this weapon, that creature does not wake up, and the weapon deals psychic damage instead of bludgeoning. In addition, when you roll a 20 on an attack roll with this weapon, the target of the attack must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or fall asleep until the end of your next turn, the sleeper takes damage, or someone uses an action to shake or slap the sleeper awake. While the target is asleep, it is unconscious. Undead and creatures immune to being charmed or magically put to sleep automatically succeed on this saving throw.

The weapon has 3 charges and regains 1d3 expended charges each day at dusk. While holding the kanabo, you can expend 1 charge as a bonus action to cast either invisibility (targeting only yourself) or sleep (3rd-level version).

Sleep grips the body,
closed eyes upon bloody fields.
Bones shatter and break.

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I'm live, heroes! Come hang out with me as we work together to make the Nightstalker's Kanobo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnfEjzdb0Jk

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Hey heroes! Glad to be back this week with another stream!

This week you chose to work with something from an oni! Something spooky and haunting and big! I was surprised: I thought you'd go with oozes! Oozes will return next month for the first of the month run-off, though! Using your suggestions for an oni-themed item, I've put together the item ideas below. Rarities at the end of each idea are suspected rarities and can be subject to change!

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!

Item Ideas

• Nightstalker's Kanobō — A classic Japanese weapon for an oni that capitalizes on sleeping targets. The first attack this makes against a sleeping target doesn't wake them (dealing psychic damage instead), and can put targets to sleep on a critical hit. Would have 3 charges to cast sleep, invisibility, or darkness with as a bonus action. Probably a +1 weapon. (very rare, requires attunement)

• Shapechanger's Glaive — A glaive that contains some of the lingering magic of a fallen oni. You can reduce its reach from 10 to 5 feet as a bonus action, and cast enlarge/reduce, alter self, or gaseous form using charges from the blade. These spells could only target the wielder, and would deal more damage than normal when enlarged, without suffering the penalties of being shrunken. Casting alter self would give some extra height adjustment, too. (rare, requires attunement)

• Oni's Claw — A severed hand of an oni that's been magically preserved to hold onto some of its original owner's magic. As a bonus action, you can speak its command word to gain 10 hit points at the start of your turn (while you have at least 1 hit point) for 1 minute (maybe hour). Each time you do, one of the oni's five fingers curls down. Once all are clenched, it becomes a nonmagical trinket. At the end of the regeneration effect, the creature needs to make a DC 12 CON save or suffer from a physical trait normally seen on oni: blue skin, black nails and teeth, etc. until targeted by a greater restoration or remove curse spell. (rare)

Cast your vote! See you tonight!