Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement)
A fur cloak made from werewolf hide, its toothy maw hooding the wearer’s face.
Primal Body. While wearing this item you gain the following properties:
You have advantage on Wisdom (perception or survival) checks that rely on sight and smell.
Your unarmed strikes deal 1d6 slashing damage instead of their normal damage, and you can make unarmed strikes using ...
2024-10-26 18:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)
Honestly, for all the fuss people make over these creatures, I can’t quite see the appeal. Certainly, I sympathize with the short-lived and their obsession with prolonging their inevitable demise, but there are so many other appealing avenues to pursue! So great was my perplexion that I could stand it no longer, and I sought to procure a specimen to study. The desert and pyramid did nothing for my knees, but it wa...
2024-10-24 19:04:45 +0000 UTC
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Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)
A desiccated arm bound in ceremonial wrappings, twitching all the while. To attune to this item, you must hold it to your body for 1 hour, after which it replaces one of your arms. Your unarmed strikes with this arm deal necrotic damage instead of the normal bludgeoning.
Touch of Decay. As an action you can cause the wrapping around this arm to unravel and attempt to grapple a creature ...
2024-10-24 16:00:21 +0000 UTC
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Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement)
A lovely piece, is it not? The hardest part was finding a vampire willing to donate even a drop of their valuable blood, but I suppose I shouldn’t have expected a creature that lives off of blood to be generous with their own. It took some persuading, but once I had taken-I mean acquired enough from my generous benefactor I was able to understand the machinations of their curious magical properties. Unfortuna...
2024-10-22 16:03:56 +0000 UTC
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Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement)
An elegant brooch with a deep red gem at its heart, embellished with aristocratic bombast.
Blood Is Life. You can attack a creature with your fangs, which are a simple melee weapon with finesse with which you are proficient and deal 1d6 piercing damage. When you hit a creature with blood that is above CR 0 with this attack, you gain a blood die (1d8). You can only have a total number of...
2024-10-22 16:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Wondrous item, rare
Ah, quite the discerning eye you possess! Though dull at first glance, these little gadgets have the very substance of life itself coursing through them. The only pair in existence, I swear upon my honor, gifted to me ever so kindly by a doctor in a far off land, but I shan’t bore you with the details. Admittedly, he was reluctant to part with the culmination of his life’s work, but after some “negotiating” he was more than happy...
2024-10-15 16:07:37 +0000 UTC
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Wondrous item, rare
A pair of heavy screws that pulse with powerful necromantic alchemy.
It’s Alive! While holding this pair of magic items, you can cast the Raise Dead spell by inserting them into the body of a viable target. If successfully brought back to life, the creature is considered attuned to this magic item, which cannot be removed from its body unless it dies. This item gains the following additional properties whi...
2024-10-15 16:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Dust settles as the door creaks behind you to suffocate the noise outside. A dimly lit room greets you as you strain your eyes to make out empty shelves and cobweb-covered containers cluttering the countertop. Just as you begin to question why you came in here at all, a playful voice chirps “Greetings and salutations my newfound friends! Wholeheartedly I welcome you into my humble market of wonders, where all your wishes are mine to fulfill. Now, whomst do I have the pleasure of engagin...
2024-10-11 17:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Our theme for our Curio this month is going to be "Something Recovered from a Haunted Manor"! Now it's time to decide the function for out spooky Curio.
2024-10-11 17:00:10 +0000 UTC
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We have a new video to wrap up Swordtember! We talk about our 10 favorite creations we’ve made in the last 5 years designing swords for this challenge. We hope you enjoy hearing our thoughts and process for designing them!
2024-10-07 17:48:10 +0000 UTC
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It's Spooky Season once again folks! Let's see what theme our curio for this month will center around.
2024-10-01 17:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Easily print your cards with our Tarot-sized Cards! Here's all of our releases for August and September. Enjoy!
2024-10-01 04:15:06 +0000 UTC
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The PDF compilation of Swordtember V: 6 Blades of the Swordtember Challenge!
2024-10-01 04:08:22 +0000 UTC
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Weapon (longsword or whip), rare (requires attunement)
Forged from a mineral gifted from the heavens, the branching blade once symbolized the power and authority bestowed upon the land’s rightful ruler. One fateful day, the palace was besieged by a rival kingdom who challenged the monarch to a duel for control. A decisive blow fractured the crystalline blade and laid the ruler low. For centuries, its fragments laid dormant, but when a worthy hand grasped ...
2024-09-30 14:56:00 +0000 UTC
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Weapon (longsword or whip), rare (requires attunement)
A fractured branching blade of fulgurite glass, held together with magical lightning. You gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls to this weapon.
Chain Lightning. As a bonus action, you can transform this weapon between longsword and whip form as the separate pieces are linked by electricity.
Longsword: This weapon deals an additional 2d6 lig...
2024-09-30 14:54:39 +0000 UTC
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Weapon (greatsword), legendary (requires attunement)
Death, such a wasteful thing. So many pass with so much left to be done, lives empty and incomplete; a fate most cruel.
Is it not better to live on for the sake of others? To assist in their endeavors, even after expiration, making the world a better place. Truly, there can be no greater sacrifice or purpose in one's existence than this; eternal, unending, everlasting, undying, infini...
2024-09-29 18:11:31 +0000 UTC
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Weapon (greatsword), legendary (requires attunement)
A massive, graven blade resembling a stone memorial. You gain a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon, which deals an extra 2d8 necrotic damage to Undead creatures that ignores resistances and immunities.
Entomb. As an 8-hour ritual you can bind the essence of a large or smaller humanoid creature that died within the last hour by placing its body upo...
2024-09-29 18:08:50 +0000 UTC
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Weapon (dagger), very rare (requires attunement by a bard)
With each and every stumble, the fool would fall upon his face, only to be followed by yet another gout of blood from a bandit’s neck. Even as he bowed to apologize for his clumsiness his blade swung back to thoughtlessly pierce yet another raider in the throat. With each apparent blunder the gang's numbers began to dwindle; the hijinks that had previously amused them now filled them with terrible...
2024-09-18 15:15:52 +0000 UTC
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Weapon (dagger), very rare (requires attunement by a bard)
Laughter is the best medicine, but an even better weapon. You gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls you make with this magic weapon, which you can use as a spellcasting focus. While holding this weapon, you add your Charisma modifier to any Dexterity (Acrobatics) checks you make.
Crowd Killer. While holding this weapon, you can cast Tasha's Hideous Laughter without...
2024-09-18 15:14:26 +0000 UTC
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Weapon (pistol), rare (requires attunement)
On the field of battle, there is little time to worry for one's honor and fair fighting...
…so sayeth the weak of spirit and black of soul! Dire circumstances are no excuse for forgetting one's manners and sense of propriety. Grasp thine blade firmly in hand, and educate these brutes in the way of proper gentlemanly conduct!
Pierre the Proper, before being assaulted by 7 bandits and...
2024-09-11 18:46:18 +0000 UTC
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Weapon (pistol), rare (requires attunement)
Bullet and blade; all one needs for a proper duel. You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. This firearm counts as a shortsword for the purposes of melee weapon attacks.
Point-Blank. When you hit a creature with a melee attack using this weapon, you can immediately make a ranged attack with this weapon against the same creature as a bonus action or b...
2024-09-11 16:00:17 +0000 UTC
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Fragmented takes the win as the theme for Swordtember 2024! Let's figure out what the function of this weapon is going to be.
2024-09-10 17:05:00 +0000 UTC
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Weapon (greatsword), legendary (requires attunement)
Long ago, a great paladin led the divine armies against the vampire hordes and their dread lord. When she and the lord clashed, their hatred turned to passion, and eventually to love. Their union ended the war and produced an heir to the lord’s kingdom, but when her ability to walk in sunlight was discovered, the heir was spirited away to save her from the ambitious vampiric aristocracy who sought to st...
2024-09-06 18:27:27 +0000 UTC
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Daybreak
Weapon (greatsword), legendary (requires attunement)
A golden blade that glows with the searing light of the rising sun. You gain a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. When you hit an undead with it, that creature takes an extra 2d10 radiant damage.
Radiant Lance. As an action, you hold out Daybreak and a beam of brilliant sunlight lances out in a 5-foot-wide, 60-foot-long lin...
2024-09-06 18:25:04 +0000 UTC
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Once again, it's Swordtember! As before, here are some themes that we loved but didn't have space for, so you all can decide the theme for our final sword! In case of a tie, we'll take the top two themes and combine them into a single item.
2024-09-03 20:34:20 +0000 UTC
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Weapon (shortsword), legendary (requires attunement)
Testing Entry #16
Work is slow, but steady. With each day we come closer to understanding the artifact's inner workings. Admittedly, I remain baffled that such advanced technology existed in ancient times, but once its mechanisms are laid bare the mystery will be no more. Once we understand the last of its secrets, I have little doubt the world will ever be the same.
-F...
2024-09-03 16:08:34 +0000 UTC
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Weapon (shortsword), legendary (requires attunement)
An archeological find harnessing a mysterious energy none can understand. You gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls you make with this weapon, which has 8 charges and regains all charges after you finish a long rest.
Play. As a bonus action you can click the button on the hilt of this weapon to spend a charge, causing the blade to glow for 10 minutes. For the duration, this w...
2024-09-03 16:00:15 +0000 UTC
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We got together with some fellow artists to celebrate the 5th year of Swordtember! We all talk about our process in designing a sword for the first prompt: Wings.
We had so much fun discussing our work with fellow creators Sinlaire, Faith, 2024-09-01 17:28:33 +0000 UTC
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Weapon (longsword), legendary (requires attunement)
Alabaster wings encase the holy power of this blade from sight until necessary. You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls you make with this magic weapon which deals an extra 1d8 radiant damage on a hit.
Dormant Grace. This weapon is normally sheathed within its many feathered wings. While sheathed, this weapon deals bludgeoning damage instead of the normal slashing until...
2024-09-01 17:16:23 +0000 UTC
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Armor (any), very rare (requires attunement)
Even after death, the mighty dragon's heart continued to beat with terrible force. Many considered it an ill omen, clamoring for its destruction. But there were some who saw the potential in vitality so powerful that it persisted well into the afterlife. Through rigorous experimentation and careful necromantic applications, they harnessed this vigor and bestowed it upon only their most powerful warriors, those wh...
2024-08-31 19:00:04 +0000 UTC
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