The Sugar Cane (Patreon)

Staff, artifact (requires attunement by a spellcaster)

A perfectly iridescent walking cane composed of pure sugar that seems to sweeten the very air around it. While holding this cane you can use it as an arcane focus. This cane has 12 charges and regains all charges after a long rest. While holding this cane you gain a +2 bonus to spell attack rolls.

Sweet Dreams. While holding this cane you can cast any of the following spells by expending a number of charges equal to the level at which you cast the spell: Floating Disk, Dust Devil, Create Food and Water, Spirit Guardians, Summon Construct, Wall of Stone, and Heroes’ Feast. Food, objects, and constructs created by spells cast this way are composed of pure white sugar or confectionary treats. You can also spend 4 charges to create a sugary object as though by the Creation spell. Objects created this way are considered stone or crystal.

Candy Man. As a bonus action you can spend a number of charges to become coated in a protective layer of sugar. You gain 5 temporary hit points for each charge spent. While you have these temporary hit points you are resistant to bludgeoning, slashing, and piercing damage.

Sugar Shell. As an action you can spend 3 charges to make a ranged spell attack against a creature within 80 feet of you. On a hit, the target becomes wrapped in a cocoon of sugar. For the duration of this property the target is considered restrained and takes 4d8 bludgeoning damage at the start of each of its turns. The target must succeed on a DC 17 Strength saving throw at the end of each of its turns, breaking free of the sugar on a success. You must maintain concentration on this property as though concentrating on a spell.

You can spend an additional number of charges to target an additional number of creatures within 80 feet of you equal to the number of charges spent.

After the dust and sugar and settled, Sacchiriferous's factory was reduced to rubble. Hundreds of people gathered round to truly acknowledge that the Candy Connoisseur was no more, and that his sweets would no longer enrich their lives. As the last of the crowd shuffled away, a young child caught a glimpse of something beneath fallen brick and mortar; an ethereal and stark white cane, the very one that Sacchiriferous himself would use when he walked the cobblestone streets. And when the youth took hold of the cane, they could feel a sudden rush of inspiration take hold within, as though they could feel the touch of the Connoisseur's hand upon their shoulder.