[Swordtember 2024] Phoenix Dive (Patreon)

Phoenix Dive

Weapon (any sword), rare (requires attunement)

Component: Elemental (phoenix) core of fire

Always is it darkest before the dawn, and desperate is it before the last gambit that might turn the tide of battle. One sacrifice can change the future—and this blade all but begs its wielder to make it. 

While unsheathed, this weapon sheds bright light in a 15-foot radius and dim light for an additional 15 feet. 

Last Flight. While wielding this weapon, you can use an action on your turn to burst into flames, taking 6d6 fire damage that can’t be reduced or prevented in any way. With a flap of the sword, you immediately fly to an unoccupied space that you can see within 60 feet of you without provoking opportunity attacks, creating a fiery explosion in a 15-foot-radius sphere when you land. Each friendly creature in the area gains 3d6 temporary hit points. Each hostile creature in the area must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 3d6 fire damage and is blinded until the start of your next turn. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage only.

If the fire damage you take from this property reduces you to 0 hit points, you don’t fall unconscious right away and can take the rest of your turn as normal. At the end of your turn, you fall unconscious, and you and everything you’re wearing and carrying are transformed into a pile of ashes. At the start of your next turn, you emerge from the ashes, along with all of your equipment, with 1 hit point remaining, and immediately regain 6d6 hit points. 

Once this property of the weapon has been used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.

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Very rare variant: Increase the DC to 16, the fire damage dealt to hostile creatures to 4d6, and the temporary hit points to 4d6. You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this weapon. 

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