[Swordtember 2024] Forlornucopia (Patreon)

Forlornucopia

Weapon (any sword), rare 

Component: Fiend (demon) blood

When summoning blessings of extraplanar aid, it’s crucial to triple check to which plane your runes correspond. Casting a ritual of plentitude with abyssal runes can yield some interesting results.

This item has 5 charges and regains 1d4 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn.

Rotten Healing. As a bonus action while holding this sword, you can expend 3 charges to feed a fruit produced from the sword to a willing creature within 5 feet of you. The creature takes 1d6 necrotic damage, then immediately regains 3d8 hit points.

Corrupted Prosperity. When you hit a creature with an attack using this weapon, you can expend 1 charge to extend a twisted blessing onto it. The creature regains 1d4 hit points and makes a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, the next time that creature takes damage before the start of your next turn, it takes an equal amount of extra necrotic damage.

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Uncommon variant: Reduce the DC to 13, the charges to 4, the recharge to 1d4, and the healing of the Rotten Healing property to 2d8.

Very rare variant: Increase the DC to 16, the charges to 6, and the recharge to 1d4 + 2. The weapon has the Infest Corpse property.

• Infest Corpse. When you kill a creature with this weapon, you can choose to summon a swarm of insects, whichappears in its space. The swarm is an ally to you and your companions and lasts for 1 minute, until it’s reduced to 0 hit points, or until a new swarm is summoned. It shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It obeys your verbal commands (no action required by you). If you don’t issue any, it takes the Dodge action and uses its move to avoid danger. You can’t use this property when you kill a creature that lacks blood.

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