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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8949158" data-attributes="member: 2209"><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/381858/250-Best-Magic-Items-Curios-Oddities-and-Trinkets?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">250 Best Magic Items: Curios, Oddities, and Trinkets</a>5eHungry Monkey: ?Mummified Vampire Bat: ?Undead: However, there may be a reason the weapon failed and was abandoned–one that is not obvious to the new owner. Maybe the weapon was cursed (and restoring it to full power also restores its curse), or perhaps the former owner is tied to the weapon–either psychically or physically. What if restoring the weapon resurrects the former owner or brings them back as an undead to reclaim their stolen property? The GM can have all sorts of sneaky fun with this…The best curses shouldn’t kill but utterly transform the character in undesirable ways (like slowly turn them undead or into a monster) if not removed in time.Intelligent Undead: ?Ghast: If you die before dawn while using the skull [of the grim feast]'s power, you rise as a ghoul (MM) in a number of rounds equal to 1 + your Constitution modifier. However, if you are attuned to the skull, you rise as a ghast (MM) instead.Casting remove curse or greater restoration on you before you die dispels the curse. Casting either spell on you after you die prevents you from rising as undead. Casting either spell on you after you have risen as undead has no effect.Ghost: ?Ghoul: If you die before dawn while using the skull [of the grim feast]'s power, you rise as a ghoul (MM) in a number of rounds equal to 1 + your Constitution modifier. However, if you are attuned to the skull, you rise as a ghast (MM) instead.Casting remove curse or greater restoration on you before you die dispels the curse. Casting either spell on you after you die prevents you from rising as undead. Casting either spell on you after you have risen as undead has no effect.Skeleton: Bone Bludgeon magic item.Skeleton Servant: Book of False Life magic item.Vampire Lord: ?Vampire Spawn: ?Zombie Servant: Book of False Life magic item.Bone BludgeonOddity, weapon (any bludgeoning), common (does not require attunement)This is a bludgeoning weapon made from a single bone or many bones that may be humanoid or monster in origin. The weapon includes scrimshaw art of dancing skeletons along its ivory shaft.Radiates: Necromancy magic (unstable).Power: You deal 1 extra point of necrotic damage with this weapon.Special: If you attune to this weapon, you can use it to tap on a tombstone or on the skull of any nonanimated skeleton; the corpse then animates as a skeleton under your control for 24 hours before collapsing into dust. When the duration ends, or your skeleton is reduced to 0 hit points, you suffer 1 level of exhaustion. You cannot have more than a single skeleton under your control with this item at a time.Note: If buried in a normal six foot deep grave, a skeleton takes 10 minutes to reanimate and dig itself out. Otherwise, it could be faster or slower depending on how deeply it is buried. An unburied skeleton reanimates and is ready to command on the round after you tap its skull.Book of False LifeCurio, common (does not require attunement)This leather-bound book details how to bring the dead back to a semblance of false life. It is inked in the blood of the undead.Radiates: Necromancy magic.Power: If you spend a short rest reading and contemplating this book, you can animate a single Tiny to Medium-size skeleton or zombie servant within 5 feet as a 10 minute ritual. The ritual can only be conducted at night, in dim light or darkness, or anytime while underground. Skeletons and zombies created in this way are exactly as described in the MM, except they only have 1 hit point and they cannot attack. Each time you use this item's power, you suffer 1 level of exhaustion. You can only create and control 1 skeleton or zombie at a time with this book.Special: If you choose to attune to this item, you no longer suffer exhaustion from using it the first time each day.Special: If you are attuned and an undead, or a cleric of a god of death or undeath, a necromancer, a sorcerer with a necromantic or shadow sorcerous origin, or a warlock of a patron of death or undeath, you do not suffer exhaustion when you use this item's power. In addition, you can create and control a number of skeletons and zombies with this book equal to your proficiency bonus.</blockquote>

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