dungeonstrugglers
patreon
Husk
🕑 Added 2025-01-16 16:20:02 +0000 UTCHusk
Armor (shield), very rare (requires attunement by a druid)
While holding this shield, you have a +1 bonus to AC. This bonus is in addition to the shield's normal bonus to AC. When you use your Wild Shape druid feature to turn into a Beast, the segments of this shield magically reassemble over your new shape to form an insectoid exoskeleton. Your new form gains a +3 bonus to its AC.
One With the Swarm. As an action while holding the shield, you can cast the insect plague spell centered on yourself. When cast from the shield, the spell only affects creatures of your choice, and it moves with you for the duration. Additionally, when you take damage while this spell is active, you can use a reaction to command the insect swarm to shield you and halve the damage taken. Each time you use this reaction, the damage that insect plague deals is reduced by 2d10. The spell ends if its damage is reduced to 0d10. Once One With the Swarm has been used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn unless you expend a spell slot of 5th level or higher (casting insect plague at the level of the spell slot expended).
Moonlight refracted off of the green-black carapace of the monster as it burst from the treeline. Its roar sent shivers down my spine. Our logging camp had beefed up defenses in response to warnings from the locals. “A druid protects this forest” they said… but this thing must’ve tore itself straight from hell. I saw snow-white fur beneath its serrated armor. A pair of antennae protruded from its head bedecked with six unblinking eyes. Its maw and claws were ursine. We launched a last-ditch volley of arrows at it, but they clattered against its shell to no effect. The beast smashed through our meager palisade in the blink of an eye. We turned to run, but the bug-bear was too quick. It destroyed my comrades with horrid savagery. As quickly as the carnage started, it was over. The monster pinned me down with one bloody paw, large as my chest, and it spoke this message to me “I am Ursius, I speak for the trees. Defile this land again and your blood will quench its roots. Flee now, and tell the others what fate befell you here.”
