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Ebonclaw

Added 2022-03-09 17:00:37 +0000 UTC

Ebonclaw
Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement by a monk)

These black iron gauntlets menace with spikes along the knuckles. While you are wearing these gauntlets, your unarmed strikes deal an extra 1d6 piercing damage.

If you kill a hostile creature of CR 1 or higher with an unarmed strike while wearing these gauntlets, you draw some of the creature’s life energy into yourself and regain 1 ki point.

Curse. Each time you regain ki using these gauntlets, a darkness begins to take hold of you. When you do so for the 7th time, your spirit becomes addicted to the life force of others. You can no longer regain ki points when you take a short or long rest, but the ki points you siphon from each creature you slay is now equal to one roll of your martial arts die. Additionally, your maximum number of ki points is doubled. When you finish a long rest you lose all remaining ki points if you haven’t regained ki points using these gauntlets since your last long rest.

When this curse takes hold, the gauntlets undergo a transformation, revealing their truly sinister nature. They now deal extra necrotic damage equal to one roll of your martial arts die on a hit instead of the extra piercing damage.

Ebonclaw, forged of infernal soul-stealing iron, shackles the wearer to the pain they can inflict with their clenched fists.