The Phoenix's Beak

Swirling on a stream of ethereal flame, this exotic weapon relentlessly tests the mettle of all those who disturb its rest. Its pick-head is fashioned from charred iron and adorned by black feathers on the backend, which lends the armament a bird’s head appearance. Well-worn leather protects its treant-wood handle and is capped off by a sliver of a phoenix’s talon.

By His left hand he pierced evil’s shell

Into the rent expanse, Castille poured holy flame

With empty eyes, He watched it burn to ash

Just as He had His beloved kingdom.

Woe, but every man’s heart also contains evil

And there is not enough fire to consume it all.

The Phoenix's Beak

Small construct, unaligned

Armor Class 17 (natural armor)

Hit Points 38 (7d6 + 14)

Speed 0ft

Fly 50ft (hover)

Str 12 Dex 16 Con 15 Int 1 Wis 5 Cha 1

Saving Throws Dex +5, Con +4

Condition Immunities blinded, charmed, deafened, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned

Damage Resistances fire

Damage Immunities poison, psychic

Senses blindsight 60ft (blind beyond), passive Perception 7

Languages -

Challenge 2 (450 XP)

Biting Strikes.

The phoenix's beak has a critical range of 19-20 with its war pick attacks.

Antimagic Susceptibility.

The pick is incapacitated while in the area of an antimagic field. If targeted by dispel magic, the war pick must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against the caster's spell save DC or fall unconscious for 1 minute.

False Appearance.

While the phoenix's beak remains motionless and isn't flying, it is indistinguishable from a normal war pick.

Actions

Multiattack.

The phoenix's beak makes two attacks as one action.

War Pick.

Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (2d4 + 1) slashing damage and 5 (1d6) fire damage.

The Phoenix's Beak

Unique Magical Weapon. Requires Attunement.

The Phoenix’s Beak is a magical martial weapon that inflicts 2d4 piercing damage. Anytime a critical hit is scored with Phoenix’s Beak, it deals an additional 1d6 fire damage. Along with the rest of The Ashen Panoply, The Phoenix’s Beak counts as one attunement no matter how many pieces of the set the character carries.

Comments

Frame Mimic

Rattling from the shadows, a gaggle of rat-gnawed bones march forward eager to slay the living. One of them lags behind, looking a bit more solid than the rest. You know your mace should have broken the leading skeletons to pieces. Yet, it merely cracked bones instead of shattering them. Tentacles lash out from the slower skeleton, adhering to you and pulling you closer to the maw manifesting from its ribcage. This is the frame mimic. The spawn of the ossuary mimic, this monstrosity also feels a kinship to the undead - specifically animated skeletons. It adopts a group of such horrors and its very presence temporarily empowers them. This is why the skeletons keep it around instead of hacking it to pieces as they would any other living thing. On top of that, frame mimics develop a supernatural stubbornness that can only be called boneheaded. So powerful is this force of will, that it mends their wounds as they plough forward against deadly spells. Frame Mimic Medium Monstrosit...

Brocade Mimic

The masked bard in gaudy attire was strumming away when the bar fight started. It kept playing even as chairs broke and mugs flew. Not one strum was missed even when blood was spilled. Then someone grew sick of the racket and stuck a hand ax into the bard's neck...with a wooden thunk. The fancy vest exploded with teeth, tentacles, and eyes. Then there was the color spray... The first brocade mimic lurked in the rafters of a bard college. Instead of eating a future player, it learned alongside them and caught a passion for the arts. Of course, it could have become an instrument but that wasn't quite grand enough. The mimic became a set of fancy clothes and was worn out the front doors. Sometimes it and its spawn become a bard's best friend. sometimes it pilots a dead one around for a bit, and other times it takes over a mannequin to strike out on its own. No matter how, the show must always go on. Brocade Mimic Medium Monstrosity (shapechanger), neutral ...

Yoke Mimic

Something tore apart the bandits you've been tracking, but it's not obvious what chewed and in some cases melted them. Maybe there's a wyrmling in the area? Either way, all that remains alive in the camp is a pair of oxen burdened by their cart. Though, they are quite nonplussed given the violence that must have occurred around them. Surely these simple beasts couldn't be the case of the carnage, could they? As you ponder this, the oxen start plodding away, pulling the cart of goods with them. Trying to stop them was the logical thing to do... their yoke coming undone with twin, yawning mouths not so logical. You know what that means... initiative rolls, please. Relatively benign, for a mimic, the yoke mimic was cultivated by an industrious farmer. They didn't see the point of wasting an animal that came into their care, even a strange monstrosity such as this one. It became a valuable tool not only to get fields plowed, but also kept the animals attached to it d...

Search This Blog