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Magical Item – Blood Weapon
- Type: Weapon (any weapon)
- Rarity: Uncommon, Human (Traladaran) Relic
- Original Source: Curse of Strahd (cos222) as Blood Spear
- Base Item
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- Original Item
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Base Item – Blood Weapon
Uncommon Item Value
Price: (1d6) x100 gp (100 to 600 gp) – 50% for consumable items
Base Price: 400 gp or 200 gp for expendable
Expendable Items can be attuned on use, at the cost of a random attuned item and slot.
Cursed Items auto attune on use and replace a random attuned item and slot.
Magical Items
C – Common, U – Uncommon, R – Rare, VR – Very Rare, L – Legendary, A – Artefact, Cu – Cursed
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- Magical Item – Uncommon – Blood Weapon – 400 gp
- Standard: This weapon is a bane of vampires, and a magic weapon is usually a spear, but can be of other types. Against vampires it is a +1 to hit and damage.
- Attunement: Weapon deals an additional dice of damage against vampires. When you hit with a melee attack using this magic spear and reduce the target to 0 hit points, you gain 2d6 temporary hit points. Against vampires the weapon does an additional dice of damage.
- Relic: If used by a human you gain an extra dice, if used by a Traladaran you gain an additional dice making it 4d6 temporary hit points.
Example Campaign Items – Blood Weapon
- Blood Lance (W056)
- Bloodspear of Kavan (F039)
Blood Lance (W056)
- Magical Item – Rare – Blood Lance– 2,000 gp
- Standard: This weapon is a bane of vampires and flying creatures, and a magic weapon is usually a spear, but can be of other type such as this lance. Against vampires it is a +1 to hit and damage. Lance runes become visible when if has line of sight to Vampires within 100 ft.
- Attunement: Weapon deals an additional dice of damage against vampires of flying creatures. When you hit with a melee attack using this magic lance and reduce the target to 0 hit points, you gain 2d6 temporary hit points.
- Relic: If used by a human you gain an extra dice, if used by a Traladaran you gain an additional dice making it 4d6 temporary hit points.
- Owner:
- ?? Sir Klovis (Human Fighter) Gift from Patriarch of Threshold.
Bloodspear of Kavan (F039)
Rare Item Value
Price: 2d10 x1,000 gp (2,000 to 20,000) – 50% for consumable items
Base Price: 12,000 gp or 6,000 gp for expendable
Expendable Items can be attuned on use, at the cost of a random attuned item and slot.
Cursed Items auto attune on use and replace a random attuned item and slot.
Magical Items
C – Common, U – Uncommon, R – Rare, VR – Very Rare, L – Legendary, A – Artefact, Cu – Cursed
Racial Items Link
Dragonkind, Dwarven, Elven, Genasi, Giant, Gnome, Halfling, Human
- Magical Item – Rare – Bloodspear of Kavan – 2,000 gp
- Standard: Kavan was a ruthless chieftain whose tribe Jived in the Balinok Mountains centuries before the arrival of Strahd von Zarovich. Although he was very much alive, Kavan had some traits _in common with vampires: he slept during the day and hunted at night, he drank the blood of his prey, and be lived underground. In battle he wielded a spear stained with blood. His was the first
blood spear, a weapon that drains life from those it kills and transfers that life to its wielder, imbuing that individual with the stamina to keep fighting.- This weapon is a bane of vampires, and a magic weapon. Against vampires it is a +1 to hit and damage.
- Attunement: Weapon deals an additional dice of damage against vampires. When you hit with a melee attack using this magic spear and reduce the target to 0 hit points, you gain 2d6 temporary hit points. Against vampires the weapon does an additional dice of damage.
- As an action, you can part the red mist of Boldavia, returning it to the blood from which it was generated from.
- Relic: If used by a human you gain an extra dice, if used by a Traladaran you gain an additional dice making it 4d6 temporary hit points.
- Owner:
- ??? – Camdu (Human Barbarian) Gift from barbarians of the past is Boldavia.
- Standard: Kavan was a ruthless chieftain whose tribe Jived in the Balinok Mountains centuries before the arrival of Strahd von Zarovich. Although he was very much alive, Kavan had some traits _in common with vampires: he slept during the day and hunted at night, he drank the blood of his prey, and be lived underground. In battle he wielded a spear stained with blood. His was the first
Original Item – Blood Spear
Source: Curse of Strahd (cos222)
BLOOD SPEAR
Weapon (spear), uncommon (requires attunement)
Kavan was a ruthless chieftain whose tribe lived in the Balinok Mountains centuries before the arrival of Strahd von Zarovich. Although he was very much alive, Kavan had some traits in common with vampires: he slept during the day and hunted at night, he drank the blood of his prey, and be lived underground. In battle he wielded a spear stained with blood. His was the first blood spear, a weapon that drains life from those it kills and transfers that life to its wielder, imbuing that individual with the stamina to keep fighting.
When you hit with a melee attack using this magic spear and reduce the target to 0 hit points, you gain 2d6 temporary hit points.
Content Updates
- 2021-07-18 – Updated details of Bloodspear of Kavan, changed name from Blood Spear to Blood Weapon so it works for multiple types of weapons. Added in the Blood Lance.
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