Hollow Weapons and Bloodhunter Weapons

A hollow dagger.

Hollow Weapons

Hollow weapons are special weapons which ignore magical wards and banes. Missile weapons impart the hollow quality to their ammunition. There are three known keyworded types.

·  Lifehollow weapons ignore magic spells as well as inborn properties which require a weapon to be magic in order to damage the target.

·  Banehollow weapons ignore magical plusses from armor and similar artificial defenses.

·  Truehollow weapons ignore both types of protection.

Hollow weapons are partially translucent, appearing as if made from smoked glass instead of their normal material. No hollow weapon may have any magic spell cast on it, nor can it have a magical plus to hit or damage. If a character wields such a weapon it is impossible to hide in the dark because it emits a dim pink and blue nimbus at all times, clearly visible in the dark.

Chorizite

Hollow weapons take advantage of the antimagic properties of the mineral Chorizite. Chorizite ore is quite valuable, trading at 100:1 with gold by weight (1,000 GP per pound.)

An alchemist, hedge wizard, magic-user or elf can imbue a potion with the pink, chalky ore and then a blacksmith or weaponsmith can imbue a weapon with hollow qualities. One weapon can be so imbued with 10cn worth of Chorizite valued at 1,000 GP plus 50 GP for the alchemist’s labor and expertise. Each time a weapon is imbued it will gain one property, based on the kind of Chorizite potion the alchemist makes.

Each Chorizite potion takes one day and 50 GP in materials; a finished potion sells for 1,100 GP.

A blacksmith takes one day to imbue a weapon with the potion at a cost of 100 GP.

The entire process takes locating some Chorizite, two days, and 1,200.

Other uses for Chorizite

Chorizite potions can be used to attempt to strip the magic from a magic item. This takes one hour and can be performed by anyone.

Chorizite can be applied to other permanent items such as shields, armor, equipment, etc.; this makes the items immune from enchantments of any kind, including magical enhancement.

Can chorizite be applied to a container or even a room? Perhaps...

 

A vial of bloodhunter oil.

Bloodhunting Weapons

Bloodhunting weapons are infused with Bloodhunter Oil. When a Bloodhunter weapon hits and damage is rolled, reroll all die rolls of 1 or less.

Making Bloodhunter Oil

This special infusion is made from the bodies of magical predators such as Bulettes or Hell Hounds, or the bodies of demons, and is therefore both rare and expensive. An alchemist, Hedge Wizard, Elf or Magic-User can make up to six doses at a time, which takes a week. One application of Bloodhunter Oil costs 2,000 GP. An alchemist can make it from seven pounds of appropriate flesh. This oil can be applied by a blacksmith or weaponsmith. A bow so enchanted confers this property to its arrows but a sling cannot be so enchanted.

Creatures without blood or some analog are not affected by this quality. Thing such as golems, zombies and gargoyles, for instance, are immune.

Bloodhunter Oil can be applied to hollow weapons and vice-versa.