[Swordtember] Day 24 - Storm's Eye! (Patreon)

Component: volatile mote of air

Storm's eye houses a miniaturised storm ripped from the Elemental Plane of Air, which it channels to produce a blade of erratic lightning. Ever since the artificer Elbert Ainstein received a shock from such a weapon, leaving him with permanently static hair, such blades come with a warning to wear rubber gloves when wielding them.

While grasping the hilt of this sword, you can use a bonus action to cause a blade of pure lightning to form, or make the blade disappear. You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon, which deals lightning damage instead of its normal damage type. The sword has 3 charges and regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn.

Blade of Lightning. As a bonus action while holding this sword, you can spend up to 2 charges to channel more energy into the blade. Until the end of your turn, the reach of attacks made with this sword increases by 5 feet for each charge spent, and the first time you hit a target with an attack using this sword, it deals an extra 2d8 lightning damage for each charge spent.

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Rare variant: Increase the save DC to 15, the charges to 5, the charges regained to 1d4 + 1, and the damage of Overcharge to 5d8. You can spend up to 3 charges to use the Blade of Lightning property. The item has the Lightning Rod property.

Lightning Rod. As a reaction when a creature within 20 feet of you that you can see takes lightning damage, you can divert the flow of power towards yourself. You gain resistance to lightning damage until the end of your next turn, take the lightning damage instead of the creature, and the sword regains 1 expended charge for each 10 damage taken this way. Once this property of the sword has been used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.

Very rare variant: Increase the save DCs to 16, the charges to 7, the charges regained to 1d4 + 3, the bonus to attack and damage rolls to +2, and the damage of Overcharge to 7d8. You can spend up to 4 charges to use the Blade of Lightning property. The item has the Lightning Rod property.

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