Bloody Bodkin (Patreon)

Weapon (dagger), uncommon

This magic weapon can be used as a spellcasting focus. You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this weapon, as well as a +1 bonus to spell attack rolls you make while holding it.

The hilt of this dagger is a sturdy glass vial, and the blade is hollow with a hole near the tip. When you roll the maximum number on a damage die of this weapon on an attack against a creature or if you hit a creature that is incapacitated, the vial instantly fills with the target's blood. While the vial is full of blood, it cannot collect another creature's blood until emptied. Creatures without blood are immune to this effect.

Blood Thread. When you cast a spell while holding this dagger, you can add the vial of blood contained in it to the spell's material components (if any), which is consumed as part of the spell. If the creature whose blood was used as part of casting the spell is affected by the spell and must make a saving throw, it makes its saving throw with disadvantage.

Blood. The scarlet river coursing through us all, the thread that keeps us tethered to this mortal coil. As such, there is no medium more powerful and resource as precious to the practitioners of the dark arts. Yet as most are loathe to part with their sanguine fluids, creative measures were taken by the witches of yore to extract this vital ingredient with expediency.

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