Workshop Week 19 — Meet the Furious Flail!

Hey heroes!

Here's the first draft of the item from last night! Thank you for the votes and ideas with this item, and if you could hang out during the stream, thank you for being there! This item can and may change between now and next week when it's officially added to the Saddlebag.

Furious Flail
Weapon (flail), very rare (requires attunement by a barbarian)

This magic stone flail has the heavy property. If you're raging while holding the flail, its volcanic nature reacts to your fury. When it does, the basalt handle extends, giving the weapon both the reach and versatile (1d10) properties. In addition, while you're raging, the flail deals an extra 1d8 fire damage to any target it hits. You take 1d4 fire damage when the flail transforms in this way and again at the start of each of your turns if you're holding the flail. The flail returns to its normal form and cools if you are no longer holding it at the end of your turn or if your rage ends.

Volcanic Fury. You can use an action to smash the flail into the ground at a point within the weapon's range. When you do, the ground erupts, spewing a mixture of earth and fire in a 20-foot cube centered on that point. Each creature other than you in that area must make a DC 16 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 2d12 bludgeoning damage and 2d12 fire damage, or half as much on a successful one. In addition, the ground in that area becomes difficult terrain until cleared. It takes 1 minute to clear an affected 5-foot-square space of the rubble by hand. Once this property of the flail has been used, it can't be used again until the next dawn.

Foolish people believe nature to be kind and patient. I know a different kind of nature.

See you next week, heroes!

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I'm live! Come hang out with me on Youtube and let's make a flail together!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgH444hyusM&feature=youtu.be 

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Let's start raging! These are just ideas, and their finer mechanics can be revised during the livestream and during the balancing process.

I'll be updating this post just before 7:30pm EST tonight with the exclusive YouTube link to the stream. You should get an email alerting you to the change!

Ideas

Enraged Mage's Crest — A crest that, when worn, allows you to cast low level spells even while raging or expend spell slots to temporarily gain additional resistances.

Shield of the Mountain's Fury — A hulking tower shield with a tranquil mountain at its center. When raging, the mountain glows hot and shows cracks of magma breaking through the shield's metal. This shield would increase your movement in difficult terrain and reduce the movement of enemies nearby as you become a small walking earthquake.

Furious Flail — A flail that channels rage. Its damage die increases and it gains the reach property when you rage with it. It could potentially deal psychic damage and impart some manic effects to those it hits.

Let's make something! See you tonight!