2023-12-09

2023 Advent Calendar Day 8: Candy Cane Weapons

Giant candy cane. 2d6 + Strength piercing or bludgeoning damage, heavy, two-handed. Can choose to deal only 1 + Strength bludgeoning damage instead, and automatically grapple the target (escape DC = your Strength score) or knock it prone.

Candy cane dagger. 2d4 + Dexterity piercing damage, light, finesse. Can choose to leave it in the target, losing the weapon, but the target takes 1d6 cold damage automatically at the end of each of their turns until the dagger dissolves (see below) or the target uses an action to remove it.

Every time it's used, it gets a cumulative -1 to hit and damage; when it gets to -5 it breaks or dissolves.

It's very late and I'm feeling uninspired so it's short and simple today. Give 'em to your gingerbread orcs and call it a day.

Every kid on the planet has probably sucked a candy cane down to a sharp point and pretended to stab their siblings with it. Now you can do it as adults too! There's a probably-apocryphal story that the shape of candy canes is based on a shepherd's crook to represent Jesus as the shepherd of mankind, so be sure to tell your players the good news about the Lord while posses of baked goods are beating them into a slush pile.

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