If the creature can’t have its head cut off for some reason, it instead deals 6d8 damage.

When you roll a crit, you cut off a creature’s head and it dies.

It ignores resistance to slashing damage.

Here is what makes the vorpal sword legendary: And what’s better than the ol’ vorpal sword? To go beyond very rare, we need a weapon that hits the legendary status. It doesn’t matter if it’s a dagger or a greatsword, the rarity stays the same. We’ll start with weapons that just get a bonus: +1, +2, and +3. And we can do this by referencing the rarities on magic items. To understand magic items, you need to understand how magic items scale. I tried it with armor recently, but the trouble I ran into is that coming up with twenty levels worth of upgrades on a magic item was pretty tough. This isn’t my first official attempt at making magic items that can level. And this makes for a great model on how to do this. Before the Buildįortunately, Unearthed Arcana just dropped some pretty killer rules for Sidekicks. Otherwise, feedback without anything to back it up gets ignored (or at most a smile emoji like this 🙂 ) Thanks! Design Notes If you can give me a valid reason with examples why something is off, 9/10 I’m likely to make changes to the content and credit you for doing so. They aren’t officially part of the game.Ĭonstructive feedback is welcome and appreciated in either comments or social media. These game mechanics are in draft form, usable in your campaign but not refined by final game design and editing. The material here is presented for playtesting and to spark your imagination. The concept is simple: a weapon that gains levels as you do. But an official request recently came in from no less than two patrons.

Oddly, this is one that I get a lot of requests for.

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