User:
Robert Naumann
DCI:
6115086233
Character:
Pestilence
Name:
Gulthias Staff
Rarity:
rare
Location:
DDHC-CoS - Curse of Strahd (Chapter 12): W16. Loading Winch; Druid's Body
Table:
G
Result:
Included in Count?:
true
Source:
Notes:
*Requires Attunement*
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Made from the branch of a Gulthias tree (see the blights entry of the Monster Manual), a Gulthias staff is a spongy, black length of wood. Its evil makes beasts visibly uncomfortable while within 30 feet of it. The staff has 10 charges and regains 1d6+4 of its expended charges daily at dusk.
If the staff is broken or burned to ashes, its wood releases a terrible, inhuman scream that can be heard out to a range of 300 feet. All blights that can hear the scream immediately wither and die.
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***Vampiric Strike.*** The staff can be wielded as a magic quarterstaff. On a hit, it deals damage as a normal quarterstaff, and you can expend 1 charge to regain a number of hit points equal to the damage dealt by the weapon. Each time a charge is spent, red blood oozes from the staff's pores, and you must succeed on a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw or be afflicted with short term madness (see "Madness" in chapter 8 of the Dungeon Master's Guide).
***Blight Bane.*** While you are attuned to the staff, blights and other evil plant creatures don't regard you as hostile unless you harm them.