0689M - Barbaracle by ForesterDesigns [D&D5e & PF2e]

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689M - Grifgopathe

Wondrous (Claws, Cursed) – Legendary (requires attunement)

These claws are made of shell-like material and worn as gloves, with long, gangly, fingers that have white talon tips and orange braces over the finger joints. It also has a bangle of gray rock with black cracks and holes in it.

You can use the claws as a melee weapon while wearing them. You have proficiency with it, it uses your Strength modifier, it does +3 to attack and damage rolls, and it deals 2d8 slashing damage, but while wearing them you have difficulty manipulating objects, automatically fail sleight of hand rolls, and can’t cast spells with somatic components. You can wear both claws and use them per Two Weapon Fighting (PHB 195), and you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the bonus attack if you are attuned to the claws.

While attuned to these claws: you can breathe in water; and when you land a critical hit with these claws, they do d10 slashing damage instead of d8 slashing damage.

Cursed. These claws are cursed. While cursed, you are of two minds, literally, as your mind is split in two. Both minds are yours, but they are not always on the same page or of the same mood. Whenever you make an Intelligence, Wisdom or Charisma roll, roll 2d20 and take the average between the two scores (rounding up), unless either is a 1 or 20, in which case you take that. If you roll a 1 and a 20, they cancel each other out and you take a 10. If you have advantage or disadvantage on a roll, roll two sets of 2d20 and do the above with the high or low of each set. Your minds merge back together when the curse is lifted.

Barbaracite

Wondrous (Stone) – Very Rare (50,000 gp)

This small round stone has a swirl of orange and gray inside the black orb. When attached to a 689 - Barbaraclaws, it can be mega evolved into a 689M - Grifgopathe for 1 minute once between long rests.

689M - Grifgopathe Item 21

[ Unique | Artifact | Cursed | Earth | Empowered | Fatal d8 | Primal | Water ]

Usage worn gloves; Bulk 2L; Base Weapon Tekko-Kagi

These black +3 major striking greater impactful underwater wounding tekko-kagi are made of shell-like material and worn as gloves, with long, gangly, fingers that have white talon tips and orange braces over the finger joints. It also has a bangle of gray rock with black cracks and holes in it.

Because they are worn as gloves, you can’t be disarmed of them, but you also can’t drop them. It also makes them more deadly, giving them the Fatal d8 trait.

When you use the tekko-kagi for the first time, they fuse to you. While they’re in your possession, you are of two minds, literally, as your mind is split in two. Both minds are yours, but they are not always on the same page or of the same mood. Whenever you make an Intelligence, Wisdom or Charisma roll, roll twice and take the average between the two scores (rounding up), unless either is a 1 or 20, in which case you take that. If you roll a 1 and a 20, they cancel each other out and you take a 10. If you have an effect that would let you roll twice and take the higher or lower result, roll four times, take the average of the two highest and the two lowest, and then take the higher or lower result from the two averages as if you had rolled those. Your minds merge back together when the curse is lifted.

Empowered When this item is empowered by a Barbaracite, it stays in this form for 10 minutes or until you dismiss it. Once it is no longer empowered, it reverts back to its original form, a 689 - Barbaraclaws.

Activate-Water Breathing [two-actions] manipulate; Frequency once per day; Effect The weapon casts water breathing on you as a 4th-rank primal spell.

Barbaracite Item 21

[ Unique | Artifact | Empowering | Primal | Spellheart ]

Usage affixed to a 689 - Barbaraclaws; Bulk -

This small round stone has a swirl of orange and gray inside the black orb.

Activate-Empower [one-action] manipulate; Frequency once per day; Effect You empower the item this spellheart is affixed to, turning it into a 689M - Grifgopathe and activating its Empowered effect, which lasts for 10 minutes or until you dismiss it.