[Swordtember 2024] Censor-Sword of the Damned (Patreon)

Censer-Sword of the Damned

Weapon (any sword), rare (enhanced attunement)

Component: Pouch of Fiend dust

Something must cut away and burn the gods' failed experiments to pave the way forward for more demonic ambitions. In the censer's choking smoke, whispers remind the wielder that they are righting the wrongs of the world. 

This weapon has 5 charges and regains 1d4 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. It deals necrotic damage instead of its normal damage type.

Smoking Shadows. As a bonus action while holding this weapon, you can expend 1 charge to enshroud yourself in accursed smoke, becoming heavily obscured until the start of your next turn. When you do so, creatures of your choice within 5 feet of you take 1d6 necrotic damage. 

Enhanced Attunement. If you are evil-aligned, you can enhance your attunement to this item. While enhanced, the item gains the Censure the Self-Righteous property, and while holding it, you can sense the alignment of any creature you can see or hear. 

EA: Censure the Self-Righteous. While holding this weapon, you can expend 3 charges to cast counterspell, using Charisma as your spellcasting ability. If the target of the spell is good-aligned and its spell is successfully countered, it also takes 1d10 necrotic damage. 

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Uncommon variant: Reduce the DC to 13. The Smoking Shadows property doesn’t deal damage. 

Very rare variant: Increase the DC to 16, the damage of the Smoking Shadows and Censure the Self-Righteous properties to 2d6, and the slot level at which counterspell is cast to 5th level.

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