I'm bestowing a dark gift on the ranger in my party and I want it to function as a cantrip but having one hell of a time crafting this. I've tried building it as a spell, wonderous item, and weapon.
The player in question attuned to a sacrificial dagger that whispers in his mind and gives him temp hit points with each life taken. I'm using a Dark Gifts kind of path he's headed down from my time running the Ravenloft red box.
He just took his 2nd life with the dagger and at the 3rd life taken I want to give him the following:
"Flit's Fiendish Finger: You can use an action to point this long, black fingernail to create a putrid, purple stream of mist. Make a ranged spell attack against a target within reach (120ft). On a hit, the target takes 2d8 Necrotic damage, and it can’t regain Hit Points until the end of your next turn.
The price? You secretly take 2d4 necrotic damage with each use of this grotesque but totally *****in' long, black fingernail."
So yeah, it's just the "old" Chill Touch with a bit of fiendish curse flavor. The PC, Flit is a 7th level ranger (hence the 2d8). At first I thought it wasn't working because rangers only have spells. I know they start with druid cantrips but rangers don't have cantrip slots. But I've had no luck building this on a ring, rod, wand, dart, blowgun, and javelin frames.
HELP! Any and all thoughts and help here is appreciated.
Have you tried to create a Homebrew cantrip in the homebrew tools?
Since rangers dont have cantrips, create it as a druid spell i guess.
Then add the spell to the sacrificial dagger in the homebrew tools, or as a feat since is more part of a Dark Gift than the dagger (copy the spell giving feats as an example an edit).
Then ask the player to add the feat in his character sheet (or add the new weapon)
I'm bestowing a dark gift on the ranger in my party and I want it to function as a cantrip but having one hell of a time crafting this. I've tried building it as a spell, wonderous item, and weapon.
The player in question attuned to a sacrificial dagger that whispers in his mind and gives him temp hit points with each life taken. I'm using a Dark Gifts kind of path he's headed down from my time running the Ravenloft red box.
He just took his 2nd life with the dagger and at the 3rd life taken I want to give him the following:
"Flit's Fiendish Finger: You can use an action to point this long, black fingernail to create a putrid, purple stream of mist. Make a ranged spell attack against a target within reach (120ft). On a hit, the target takes 2d8 Necrotic damage, and it can’t regain Hit Points until the end of your next turn.
The price? You secretly take 2d4 necrotic damage with each use of this grotesque but totally *****in' long, black fingernail."
So yeah, it's just the "old" Chill Touch with a bit of fiendish curse flavor. The PC, Flit is a 7th level ranger (hence the 2d8). At first I thought it wasn't working because rangers only have spells. I know they start with druid cantrips but rangers don't have cantrip slots. But I've had no luck building this on a ring, rod, wand, dart, blowgun, and javelin frames.
HELP! Any and all thoughts and help here is appreciated.
Have you tried to create a Homebrew cantrip in the homebrew tools?
Since rangers dont have cantrips, create it as a druid spell i guess.
Then add the spell to the sacrificial dagger in the homebrew tools, or as a feat since is more part of a Dark Gift than the dagger (copy the spell giving feats as an example an edit).
Then ask the player to add the feat in his character sheet (or add the new weapon)
Create it as a cantrip spell, then create a feat that give him access to that spell.
Oooh! The homebrew feat is a great workaround! I never would've thought to add that step! Thanks so much, this is great!
Building the Fiendish Finger as a feat worked GREAT!! Thanks so much for this help!
Reskin a cantrip that does 1d8 so it scales properly add +4 to the base damage so it starts at 2d8 and your done
Glad it worked out!