Here is an ornate, silver beard-ring wrought like a tiny beer mug, and gives you a +1 bonus to all melee attack and damage rolls. By attuning to this item, you instantly grow a long, artfully-braided, prehensile beard (of any colour you wish), even if you cannot normally grow one. Once attuned, you gain the following abilities:
Mage Beard: You may cast Mage Hand as an action without any components, which causes the beard to extend up to 30 feet and manipulate small objects, just like the spell (but it cannot attack).
Flurry of Beard: Whenever you spend a ki point to make an unarmed strike as a bonus action, or to use Flurry of Blows, you can instead make the attack(s) with your beard. Use your relevant monk damage die, but replace the damage type with slashing.
Tangle of Beard: As a bonus action after attacking, you may spend a ki point to attempt an Acrobatics check against the target’s Athletics or Acrobatics skill (providing it is of large size or smaller). If the creature fails, it is grappled by you. On subsequent turns, the target can spend its action to repeat the check to break free.
If you have a creature grappled, you cannot use Flurry of Beard. You can end the grapple on your turn as a free action.
Curse: If you critically fail an attack roll with the beard, you manage to hit yourself with it, and suffer slashing damage equal to one roll of your monk damage die. If you critically fail the Acrobatics check to grapple, YOU become entangled with your own beard. Even so, you are unwilling to part with the ornament. Attunement can only be broken by a Greater Restoration spell, or Remove Curse spell (the latter of which requires a DC 20 spell skill-check).
Notes: Bonus: Natural Attacks, Damage: Natural Attacks, Monk, Damage, Buff, Combat
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