[Living Oasis] Splinterstaff (Patreon)

Splinterstaff

Staff, very rare (requires attunement by a spellcaster)

Component: pouch of Plant (dunedrinker) pollen

Splinterstaves are typically wielded by cactari elders in defence of their nursing sites. Witnessing a different Humanoid in possession of one is often indicative of friendship with the cactari people, mastery over the desert, and remarkably calloused hands.

This staff has 8 charges and regains 1d4 + 4 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the staff bursts into a harmless cloud of pollen and is destroyed. You have resistance to poison damage while holding this staff.

Spells. While holding this staff, you can expend 1 or more of its charges to cast one of the following spells from it (save DC 16): cloudkill (5 charges), hallucinogenic cloud* (2 charges), fog cloud (1 charge), gust of wind (2 charges), or stinking cloud (3 charges). Whenever you use this property to cast a spell that produces a cloud, it’s always centred on you and caused by a type of magical pollen expelled from the staff. You are immune to the effects of the cloudkill, hallucinogenic cloud, and stinking cloud spells cast from the staff.

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Rare variant: Reduce the DCs to 15. Remove the resistance to poison damage, and remove cloudkill from the Spells property’s list of spells.

Legendary variant: Increase the DCs to 17, the charges to 12, and the recharge to 1d8 + 4.

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