Phoenix042
2017-03-26, 12:54 PM
So this is a homebrew bow I've made for a ranger in one of my games.
Bow of the Falling Star
Weapon (longbow), very rare
This celestial longbow is made of a single shaped piece of flexible glass, but weighs only one pound. The bow is almost completely an opaque blue-black color except for the bowstring, which is made of silver wire.
Fine points of light occasionally streak across the surface of the bow, like falling stars across the sky. On a clear night, it is possible to notice that these lights mirror actual falling stars in the sky above.
The handle guard is spiked, and the spikes glow faintly when fiends, undead, or aberrations are within 120ft.
While wielding this Bow, you can speak the following words in celestial to activate the corresponding power:
Beacon
Whenever you fire an arrow from this bow, you can whisper this command word and cause the arrow to shine with pale blue light. The arrow emits bright light out to 10ft and dim light 10ft beyond that. The light fades one minute later or when you use this power again.
Starfire
As an action, you can whisper this command word and fire a single silvered arrow at a point within range. When it reaches that point, the arrow bursts into harmless silver flame in a 20ft radius, burning away all illusions and magical darkness in the area and clinging to anything it touches for one round, emitting dim light in a 10ft radius. Until the end of your next turn, attack rolls against affected creatures have advantage, and those creatures cannot be hidden by magic.
Once you have used this power, you cannot do so again until the next dawn.
Lodestar
Under a clear night sky, you can perform a ritual to guide you to any place that could be seen from the heavens above. The ritual takes 10 minutes, during which you must carefully etch a description of your desired destination into the shaft of a silvered arrow. Afterwards, you fire the arrow skyward and whisper this command word. The arrow shines like a star and hangs high in the sky above your target place, remaining there until you reach it. If you lose track of the arrows light, you can instinctively find it again by studying the clear night sky for a few minutes.
You cannot use this power again until you have reached the place marked by this ritual.
Hopefully the theme comes across without me needing to clarify.
What do you think? What do you like? What could use some work, or even a rethink?
Bow of the Falling Star
Weapon (longbow), very rare
This celestial longbow is made of a single shaped piece of flexible glass, but weighs only one pound. The bow is almost completely an opaque blue-black color except for the bowstring, which is made of silver wire.
Fine points of light occasionally streak across the surface of the bow, like falling stars across the sky. On a clear night, it is possible to notice that these lights mirror actual falling stars in the sky above.
The handle guard is spiked, and the spikes glow faintly when fiends, undead, or aberrations are within 120ft.
While wielding this Bow, you can speak the following words in celestial to activate the corresponding power:
Beacon
Whenever you fire an arrow from this bow, you can whisper this command word and cause the arrow to shine with pale blue light. The arrow emits bright light out to 10ft and dim light 10ft beyond that. The light fades one minute later or when you use this power again.
Starfire
As an action, you can whisper this command word and fire a single silvered arrow at a point within range. When it reaches that point, the arrow bursts into harmless silver flame in a 20ft radius, burning away all illusions and magical darkness in the area and clinging to anything it touches for one round, emitting dim light in a 10ft radius. Until the end of your next turn, attack rolls against affected creatures have advantage, and those creatures cannot be hidden by magic.
Once you have used this power, you cannot do so again until the next dawn.
Lodestar
Under a clear night sky, you can perform a ritual to guide you to any place that could be seen from the heavens above. The ritual takes 10 minutes, during which you must carefully etch a description of your desired destination into the shaft of a silvered arrow. Afterwards, you fire the arrow skyward and whisper this command word. The arrow shines like a star and hangs high in the sky above your target place, remaining there until you reach it. If you lose track of the arrows light, you can instinctively find it again by studying the clear night sky for a few minutes.
You cannot use this power again until you have reached the place marked by this ritual.
Hopefully the theme comes across without me needing to clarify.
What do you think? What do you like? What could use some work, or even a rethink?