Necromancer's Dagger - This dagger is made of a black metal with a carved ivory skull serving as its pommel. In the hands of anyone other than a necromancer it is a simple + 1 dagger. In the hands of a necromancer, it has the following additional abilities: + 2 to all turning / control undead attempts; may attempt to permanently control one undead (only one may be permanently controlled at a time.) Undead must have no more hit dice than half the level of the necromancer in question. Note, the possessor of a Necromancer's Dagger no longer gains hit points from rest. These life energies are instead funneled to the dagger. The possessor can still be healed via magical means.
OGL
Note - Necromancer is an optional character class in Swords & Wizardry Continual Light. The beta rules are available at The Tavern's Discord Server, pinned in the swords-wizardry-light channel.
https://discord.gg/fReGmuD
Art copyright Patrick E. Pullen. Used with permission.
Thanks to The Tavern's supporters at both The Tavern's Patreon and directly through Paypal, we have a monthly backing of over $150. This means 4 to 5 monsters for Swords & Wizardry Light / OSR per month, 4 to 5 Swords & Wizardry Light / OSR magic items per month AND backers at $1.50 a month or higher via Patreon will get a collected PDF of the prior month's releases emailed to them. Paypal backers will need to email me in the middle of October to receive theirs.This is the first release for the month of October.
That's a pretty clever dagger. And a pretty clever racket! To think, I've just been blogging for the fun of it all this time.
ReplyDeleteI'm averaging 75 posts a month in 2017, which is about my normal pacing over the past few years. I couldn't do this if I didn't have a blast doing it. If some of my readers want to put some coin in the tip jar, I am ever grateful.
DeleteI've actually commissioned art for the October Tavern adventure in addition to adding to the stock art collection.
That's great! One of the most important things for attracting an audience is that you have to post frequently, even if it is to say you don't have anything new to say. That's true about every successful blogger.
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