Blood Blade (5e Equipment)
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Weapon (longsword), Artifact (requires attunement) This dull-looking blade appears black, but on closer inspection is actually very dark red. When drawn from the scabbard small traces of dark energy wisp around the blade. The handle is adorned with a single black crystal. This blade radiates dark magic. Inside the crystal is trapped the cursed soul of a powerful vampire. He will give the wielder great powers, but at a price. When used in battle the Blood Blade adds +3 to Attack and Damage rolls. Random Properties. The Blood Blade has the following random properties:
Blood Sacrifice. Once attuned the wielder must sacrificed part of its own vitality to appease the vampire trapped within. To achieve this your hit point maximum is reduced by 3 per character level when you attune to this weapon. This loss is permanent, even if they subsequently give up or lose the Blood Blade. Whenever you gain a new character level, you lose additional 3 hit points. Spells. You can cast detect evil and good at will while holding the weapon. You can also cast sanctuary and protection from evil and good at will, but targeting yourself and only affecting vampires, vampire spawns and other vampiric creatures. Holy Bane. Only PCs or Neutral or Evil alignment may wield the Blood Blade. Any Good character will feel a sting of pain when holding the weapon, and will suffer 1d4 necrotic damage, plus 1d4 necrotic damage at the start of each turn it is still holding the weapon. Attacks against good aligned creatures will also cause additional 1d4 necrotic damage. Blood Leech.Each time you hit a living creature you cause additional 3 necrotic damage and regain 3 hit points. If you hit an undead with this weapon, you take 1d4 necrotic damage and the undead regains that amount of hit points. In addition, any Critical Hit on a living creature will allow the wielder to immediately regain lost hit points equal to the damage done. Destroying the Blood Blade. A disintegrate spell cast using a 9th-level spell slot, a wish spell, but doing so will release the Vampire Lord imprisoned on it. A critical hit from a Holy Avenger infused with the holy weapon spell can destroy this blade and the vampire imprisoned inside it. |
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