[Vacation Content 6/7] Loot Tavern: Robes of the Raiju (Patreon)

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Robes of the Raiju

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement) Component: Elemental (raiju) core of air

To forcefully direct a lightning bolt’s erratic flight is to change its very nature. To control the destructive force with which it strikes is to strip it of its power. To harness the true might of the lightning, it’s not enough to wield it as a crude weapon… you must become it in full.

These robes have 4 charges and regain all expended charges daily at dawn.

Lightning Form. As a bonus action while wearing these robes, you can expend 1 charge to transform your body into pure electricity until the start of your next turn. Everything you’re wearing and carrying also gets transformed, as long as it remains on your person. Your body and transformed objects retain their basic shapes and functions, and you gain the following benefits for the duration:

• Lightning Immunity. You have immunity to lightning damage.
• Lightning Strikes. You have advantage on unarmed strikes and attack rolls made with the transformed weapons against creatures made of metal or wearing metallic armour. These attacks deal lightning damage instead of their normal damage type.
• Shocking Reprisal. Whenever a creature hits you with a melee attack, it takes 1d6 lightning damage.
• Bolting Dash. Once on each of your turns, you can dash in a straight line as a bolt of lightning, spending movement to do so as normal. You can move through creatures when you do this, and their spaces aren’t considered difficult terrain for you. Whenever you move into another creature’s space, it must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 2d6 lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Uncommon variant: Reduce the DC to 13 and damage of Bolting Dash to 1d6. The Lightning Form property doesn’t have the Shocking Reprisal benefit.

Very rare variant: Increase the DC to 16 and damage of Bolting Dash to 3d6. Your attacks with Lightning Strikes also deal an extra 1d6 lightning damage on a hit.

Legendary variant: Increase the DC to 17 and damage of Bolting Dash to 3d6. Your attacks with Lightning Strikes also deal an extra 2d6 lightning damage on a hit. You gain a +1 bonus to AC while wearing these robes.

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