Blue Elephant Homebrew

💎 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Bangle of the Arcane Assassin
Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement by a spellcaster) ___

Once per turn while wearing this bangle, you can deal an extra 3d6 damage to one creature you hit with a spell attack if you have advantage on the attack roll. The damage is of a type dealt by the spell attack. If you’re a rogue, you can choose for the amount of extra damage you deal to be equal to your Sneak Attack damage instead; you can still only deal Sneak Attack damage once per turn. If a spell would allow you to attack multiple times over the course of its duration, this extra damage can only be dealt on the turn the spell is cast.

In addition, you can ignore the verbal component required for any enchantment or illusion spell you cast while you’re in total darkness and wearing the bangle. ___

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💎 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Winterland Footwraps
Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement by a monk) ___

These blue straps keep a soft fur wrap held against your legs. While wearing them, you have resistance to cold damage, and the first time you hit a target with an unarmed strike on each of your turns, the target takes an extra 1d6 cold damage from the attack. In addition, you can move across icy surfaces without needing to make an ability check, and difficult terrain composed of ice or snow doesn’t cost you extra movement.

When you use your Step of the Wind feature while wearing the wraps, you can walk on water until the end of your turn. When you do, the water beneath your feet magically freezes into a walkable path of floating ice, allowing you to step on it freely. The ice melts after 1 minute. ___

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New year, new deathclaugust, continuing on at twenty three with Gemstone! A very rare process of living mineralization, and one that has few seen specimens as most never make it to hatching due to their organs being petrified. Lucky survivors only have it affect scale growth.

⚔️ 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Whip of the Copper Eel
Weapon (whip), uncommon (requires attunement) ___

This magic whip hums with electricity. It has 4 charges and regains all expended charges daily at dawn. When you hit a creature with this whip, you can expend 1 or more of its charges to deal an extra 1d6 lightning damage to that creature for each charge you spend. You don’t suffer the negative effects of underwater fighting when you make an attack with this weapon.

When you hit an underwater creature with this whip, it automatically takes an extra 1d6 lightning damage from the attack—as if you had expended a charge from it. When this happens, you can still spend charges from the whip to deal additional lightning damage to the creature. If you do, each other creature of your choice within 10 feet of the target must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or take lightning damage equal to half the amount dealt to the target. ___

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⚔️ 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Spatha of Martial Mastery
Weapon (shortsword), rare (requires attunement by a barbarian, fighter, monk, or rogue) ___

A long white ribbon trails behind this shimmering sword, whose blade is forged with swirls of gold. You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. In addition, you gain the following benefits.

𝘾𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙠𝙚. If you have 5 or more levels in the rogue class, you can use your Cunning Action feature to make a single attack with this weapon as a bonus action if you do not use an action to make a weapon attack or cast a spell on the same turn, as you master the balance of offense and improvisation.

𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙃𝙖𝙣𝙙. If you have 5 or more levels in the barbarian class, any target you hit with this weapon while raging takes an extra 1d6 piercing damage from it, as you master both brutal blows and the free exercise of your strength. You don’t gain this benefit if you’re holding a weapon or shield in your other hand.

𝙆𝙞 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜. If you have 5 or more levels in the monk class, you can use this weapon in place of any unarmed strike you make, as you master the grace and flow of your swordplay. Any feature that relies on or benefits your unarmed strikes, such as your Flurry of Blows or Martial Arts features, also applies to this weapon. In addition, whenever you use your Step of the Wind feature as a bonus action, you can immediately make one melee attack with the sword as part of that action.

𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙥𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘼𝙩𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙠. If you have 5 or more levels in the fighter class, you can take the Use an Object action or shove a target within your reach once per turn immediately after making an attack with this sword as part of the Attack action, as you master versatile tactics to shift the flow of battle. You can only push a target up to 5 feet away from you when you shove it in this way, but can choose to make the contested check using Dexterity (Acrobatics) instead of a Strength (Athletics) when you do. ___

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💎 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Bowstring Amulet
Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement) ___

This amulet’s bow and arrow pendant is strung with a length of well-worn bowstring. Once on ach of your turns while wearing the amulet, you can speak its command word as part of making a ranged attack with a bow or crossbow. When you do, the fired arrow or bolt magically creates a length of weightless hempen rope behind it. One end of the rope is tied to the arrow or bolt, and the other end appears in an open hand or at your feet (your choice). The rope remains for 10 minutes, until it’s cut or untied, or until you use this property of the amulet again, at which point the rope instantly unravels and disappears. The rope also disappears early if it becomes longer than 300 feet before the arrow or bolt hits a target. For the rope’s duration, the arrow or bolt can hold up to 500 pounds without breaking or dislodging from its point of impact. ___

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The Rocky Fissures Battle Map

This is Vladir’s first map, a desert scene that’s exciting to traverse and fraught with hiding places for monsters! Which monsters come to mind, GMs? 🦎

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Adventure: Expedition to Mephidia’s Tower

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Setup:  The Tourvalik coven are a circle of mystics, bloodmages, and mad oracles who have long since passed the threshold of merely dabbling in forbidden magic. They take their name from the giant Tourval, a primordial titan who’s sourcerous power was unrivaled during his life, and who the First Tourvalik served in an age before the current era. One of the giants greatest blessings was that of prophecy which he inked into his own skin as a method of record and safekeeping.  When Tourval died, his servants flensed his prophecy tattooed hide and made it into their scripture and though sections have been lost over time, its remnants still decorate their lairs like a grisly tapestry. 

Having once too often courted the forbidden and earned the ire of the righteous, the Coven has been forced to move many times, and currently reside in the tower of Mephidia, a petrified fungal watchtower built by a long forgotten drow empire at the very edge of the underdark. Possessing itself a secret library of forgotten lore and sitting on a nexus of underdark tunnels that the drow enchanted to appear wherever summoned, Mephidia’s tower is a perfect base of operations, though its lower levels are home to all manner of foul warbeast and feral thrall left behind by the previous owners. 

Currently the cult is in a tizzy, as the ink they originally made from Tourval’s blood so long ago has begun to dry, and their efforts at “stretching” it with the blood of sacrifices has begun to fail. This ink is the medium for all of the Tourvalik’s most sacred rituals, and while some seek increasingly desperate means of reviving it, other splinter factions are forming around yet more grisly alternatives. 

Planescape:  Aeon Mechanisms, the Wreckage of Primordial Order

Setup: Throughout history and across the planes, people have been unearthing ancient tangles of cogwork and metal, usually damaged and oxodised to the point of inoperability and buried in some level of strata that hints at an ancient origin. While confounding historians with notions of lost civilization, these artifacts are in fact the interdimensional flotsam of a world destroyed before time even began on the material plane.  Known as Mechanus, it was one of the first failed attempts by the gods to construct a cohesive reality out of the dream logic of the astral sea.  

Like many first drafts, Mechanus suffered every fault of creators who spend too long planning and engineering, and not enough time cultivating their skill: built from beautiful, exacting schematics but eventually collapsing under the weight of its own perfection like an overwound clock. The shock of this disaster ripped the plane apart, sending great chunks of it hurtling through the astral sea while others buried themselves like shrapnel in the material of neighboring realities. Scholars of Mechanus lore call this event “ The First Sundering”, but largely disagree on when it occurred. 

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