[Rise of the Kaiju] Koibuto (Patreon)

Koibuto

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)

Component: Dragon (koi) horn

Koi dragons are the souls of rivers, their limbs, fingers, and claws the tributaries that feed their trunk. They are noble yokai that find invigoration in success against the odds, often rewarding toiling farmers with bountiful harvests. A helm fashioned from a koi dragon’s terracotta-coloured horn is the embodiment of these facets: empowered by perseverance and able to imbue its wearer with the fluid wrath of a raging torrent.

This helmet can hold a maximum of 4 charges.

Swim Upstream. While wearing the helmet, you can cause it to gain 1 charge by doing either of the following:

• Making a successful attack roll with disadvantage against a hostile creature of CR equal to or higher than your level.
• Making a successful saving throw with disadvantage against an ability, spell, or effect of a hostile creature of CR equal to or higher than your level.

Soul of the Dragon. While wearing the helmet, you can use a bonus action and expend 4 charges to temporarily embody the aspect of Bakuryo, transforming your body into water and gaining the following benefits for 1 minute:

• You have resistance to all damage types except cold, force, lightning, and poison.
• Your melee attacks deal an extra 1d8 thunder damage on a hit.
• You can move through the spaces of hostile creatures. When you do, the creature must succeed on a DC 15 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. A creature can only be forced to make this saving throw once on each turn. A Huge or larger creature automatically succeeds on this saving throw.

Once this property of the helmet 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. You gain a +1 bonus to AC while wearing this helmet.

Legendary variant: Increase the DC to 17 and the thunder damage to 2d8. The Soul of the Dragon property grants you immunity to fire damage, as well as nonmagical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage, for the duration. You gain a +1 bonus to AC while wearing this helmet.

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