[Rise of the Rime Reaper] Mini theme week! Cold Shoulder (Patreon)

Cold Shoulder

Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement)

Component: Beast (glaciershark) ice plates

The icy plates of the fearsome glaciershark stand strong against the crushing might of warhammers, the deadly edges of blades, and even gouts of scorching flames. And if, somehow, a blow manages to penetrate your defences, they can help reduce the swelling, too.

This item has 3 charges and regains all expended charges daily at dawn.

Frostplate. As a bonus action while wearing this pauldron, you can expend 1 charge to cause plates of ice to grow across your body, ending the wet condition on yourself and granting you 4d6 temporary hit points that last for 1 minute, or until you use another bonus action to make them melt away. While you have these temporary hit points, you have a +1 bonus to AC and vulnerability to thunder damage.

Winterproof. As a reaction when you take cold damage while wearing this pauldron, you can syphon some of that damage into growing icy plates to protect yourself. You immediately use the Frostplate property, without expending a charge, and reduce the cold damage taken by the amount of temporary hit points you gain from it.

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New Condition: Wet

A wet creature is one that has recently been swimming or soaked in water, or who has been subjected to an effect such as the glacial gunlance’s Cold Shower property. Wet creatures have disadvantage on saving throws against spells and effects that deal cold or lightning damage, disadvantage on saving throws made to resist the effects of extreme cold, and advantage on saving throws against spells or effects that deal fire damage.

A creature ceases to be wet if it takes off affected clothing or armour (a creature with wet fur stays wet even if it removes these items), spends 1 hour drying itself around a source of heat, or takes 5 or more fire damage in a single instance.

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Rare variant: You don’t gain a bonus to AC while you have temporary hit points from the Frostplate property.

Legendary variant: Increase the charges to 5.

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