[12 Days of Giftmas] Candy Cane-Sword (Patreon)

Candy Cane-Sword

Weapon (rapier), uncommon (requires attunement)

Component: pouch of plant pollen

Many legends tell of the elven peppermint mines of the north, where candy grows from the stone in ore veins or clusters of crystals. Weapons made from this saccharine material are purposefully crafted to be as delicious as they are deadly, and any that don’t meet these high standards are ground down and consumed by the tireless miners for more energy.

Minty Fresh. This weapon deals an extra 1d4 cold damage to the first target it hits on each of your turns. Additionally, if you hit a creature that has a breath weapon with an attack using this rapier, it must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be unable to use its breath weapon for 1 minute. An affected creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success. Once a creature succeeds on its saving throw against this property, it automatically succeeds on these saves for the next 24 hours.

Sharp Sugar. Over the course of 1 minute, you can lick the tip of the weapon to an even sharper point, granting it a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it for 10 minutes. After this property has been used, it shouldn’t be used again until the next dawn. Each subsequent time you do so, you must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned while the bonus to attack and damage rolls lasts. For each ten times that this property of the weapon is used, it becomes smaller, turning into a shortsword at first, then a dagger, and finally being destroyed.

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Rare variant: Increase the DCs to 15. The weapon deals an extra 1d6 cold damage to each target it hits, instead of 1d4 to the first one it hits on each of your turns.

Very rare variant: Increase the DCs to 16 and the duration of the bonus from the Sharp Sugar property to 1 hour. The weapon deals an extra 1d8 cold damage to each target it hits, instead of 1d4 to the first one it hits on each of your turns.

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