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3.5 Geeks: Homebrew Spell: Greater Eldritch Homunculus

...and with Strange Aeons even Death may die. -The Necronomicon.

5th-level conjuration

Casting Time: 10 minutes (ritual casting: 20 minutes)

Range: 30 feet

Components: V, S

Duration: Instantaneous

Classes: Warlock

You summon a spirit that becomes a undead construct that assumes the form of an unusually intelligent, strong, and loyal creature, creating a long-lasting bond with it. Appearing in an unoccupied space within range, the construct takes on one of two forms-- a smaller, winged familiar form (traditionally a bat or a raven, though not necessarily) or a larger, flying, amphibious mount form (traditionally a Flying Giant Octopus, but not necessarily) --both of which are aesthetically influenced by the nature of the warlock’s patron. The construct has the statistics below in its individual forms regardless of their external appearances, and it is an undead construct and a planar subtype influenced by the otherworldly patron (celestial, fey, fiend, et cetera) instead of that form’s normal type. Additionally, it gains the ability to understand one language of your choice that you speak.

It has darkvision and blindsight to 60 feet.

The construct is always true neutral, regardless of its otherworldly subtype or the creature whose form it takes.

As an action, you can command your construct to switch from the mount form to the familiar form or back again.

When in mount form, both in combat and out, you have an instinctive bond with it that allows you to act as a seamless unit. While mounted thereupon, you can make any spell you cast that targets only you also target your mount. When you are not mounted upon it, it counts as an independent mount, it can make its own attacks as denoted below, and those attacks count as magical for purposes of overcoming damage resistances and immunities.

Your construct can’t attack in familiar form, but it can take other actions as normal.

While your construct is within 1 mile of you, you can communicate with it telepathically.

Additionally, you can use an action to see through your contructs’s eyes and hear what it hears until the start of your next turn, retaining the benefits of any special senses that the familiar has (e.g., darkvision or blindsight). During this time, you are deaf and blind with regard to your own senses.

Because it is an undead construct, essentially a construct crafted out of zombified flesh, it is immune to poison or the poisoned condition. It is also immune to fear effects or the frightened condition. It cannot be healed by cure wounds spells or healing potions, but it can be repaired by repair spells or “patched up” with necromantic spells that reverse decay, such as gentle repose. It does not require food, drink, air, or sleep. Mending restores 10 hp plus the caster’s spellcasting modifier.

It is vulnerable to radiant damage.

When the construct drops to 0 hit points, it disappears, leaving behind no physical form. You can also dismiss your construct at any time as an action, causing it to disappear. In either case, casting this spell again summons the same construct, restored to its hit point maximum.

If it changes to mount form from familiar form when wounded, the hit points lost from its familiar form are also subtracted from its maximum in mount form; the wound carries over. If it switches from mount form to familiar form when injured, it also carries the wound over, subtracting those lost hit points from the familiar form’s maximum, and if this reduces the eldritch homunculus to 0 hit points it will disappear as if slain.

You can’t have more than one construct bonded by this spell at a time. As an action, you can release the construct from its bond at any time, causing it to disappear.

Greater Eldritch Homunculus (familiar form)

Tiny undead construct, planar subtype depending on otherworldly patron, neutral

Armor Class 12 (Natural Armor)

Hit Points 1 (1d4-1)

Speed 5 ft., fly 40 ft.

STR 2 (-4)

DEX 15 (+2)

CON 8 (-1)

INT 2 (-4)

WIS 12 (+1)

CHA 4 (-3)

Senses: Blindsight 60 Ft., Darkvision 60 Ft., passive Perception 11

Greater Eldritch Homunculus (mount form)

Large undead construct, planar subtype depending on otherworldly patron, neutral

Armor Class 13 (Natural Armor)

Hit Points 52 (8d10 + 8)

Speed 60 ft., swim 60 ft., fly 80 ft.

STR 17 (+3)

DEX 13 (+1)

CON 13 (+1)

INT 4 (-3)

WIS 10 (+0)

CHA 4 (-3)

Senses: Blindsight 60 Ft., Darkvision 60 Ft., passive Perception 14

Skills: Perception +4, Stealth +5

Underwater Camouflage. The homunculus has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made while underwater.

Actions:

Tentacles. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) magical bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it is grappled (escape DC 16). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and the homunculus can't use its tentacles on another target. (If the mount form’s chosen appearance does not typically have tentacles, it will instantly sprout them or retract them as need be for the purposes of this action.)

Ink Cloud (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). A 20- foot-radius cloud of ink extends all around the homunculus. The area is heavily obscured for 1 minute, although a significant wind or current can disperse the ink. After releasing the ink, the homunculus can use the Dash action as a bonus action.

In both forms:

Languages: Understands One Language Of Its Master But Can't Speak

Damage Immunities: Poison

Damage Vulnerabilities: Radiant

Condition Immunities: Poisoned, Frightened

Echolocation. The construct can't use its blindsight while deafened.

Breathless. The homunculus does not need to breathe.  

Keen Hearing. The construct has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing.

Telepathic Bond. While the eldritch homunculus is within a mile of its master, the two can communicate telepathically, and it can for one turn relay its sensory information to its master.

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3.5 Geeks: Dungeon Masters be like...

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3.5 Geeks: Homebrew: Mordenkainen's Magnificent Masonry of Mauling.

melee weapon (improvised), uncommon or rare

Category: Items Damage: 1d6 Damage Type: Bludgeoning Modifiers: Weapon Attacks (+1 or +2), Weapon Damage (+1 or +2) Properties: Range, Thrown, Finesse (see description) Range: 20/60

This brick is rumored to be one used in the construction of Mordenkainen’s very first Magnificent Mansion after his visit to a Githzerai adamantine citadel. According to legend, when the prototype Mansion collapsed in extradimensional space during an early experiment in developing the spell, it scattered bricks like this one across the multiverse, somehow weaponizing them in the process. It is said that Mordenkainen himself was surprised and amused when he learned of their offensive properties.

You have a +1 or +2 bonus to Attack and Damage Rolls made with this weapon, depending on the item’s rarity.

This brick is an improvised weapon; if you have proficiency with improvised weapons you can add your proficiency bonus to Attack rolls made with this object.

The brick’s enchantment is such that it is considered to be a weapon with the Finesse property when it is thrown, and thus qualifies for the Sneak Attack feature on ranged attacks. It is not considered Finesse when used for melee attacks.

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3.5 Geeks: Wrath of The Valkyries

legendary wondrous item (+3), requires attunement

firearm, ranged, two-handed, ammunition (explosive), reload

Range 120/480, Reload 6, Misfire 3. 3d8+3 piercing (magical) + 1d8 thunder.

The Wrath of The Valkyries is a multi-barreled grenade launcher. Its enchanted mithral construction reduces weight and recoil, but it still packs quite a wallop.

The wielder can make a ranged attack at a specific creature (+3 to hit), adding their Dexterity bonus to attack and to damage. If you roll a natural 3 or lower on your attack roll, the attack misses and the weapon cannot be fired again until you make a DC 11 Tinker Tools check (8+3 for the misfire score) as an action.

Alternatively, the wielder can target a space and any creature within 10 feet of the space must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking half damage on a successful save. The wielder does not add their Dexterity bonus to this area attack.

The wielder can also discharge all 6 grenades at once for an area attack that affects creatures within 30 feet for 12d8 piercing and 4d8 thunder, again with a Dexterity save for half damage. Firing all 6 grenades at once does significantly lower damage than firing each one individually. This special attack cannot be targeted at a specific creature, and can only be made once every short or long rest. Again, the wielder does not add their Dexterity bonus to the area attack.

Once all 6 grenades are fired, reloading takes a full action, even with a feature like a Gunslinger’s Lightning Reload. 

As a bonus action, the wielder can convert The Wrath of The Valkyries into a jetpack on the wielder’s back. 

As an additional, separate bonus action, the wearer can activate the jetpack, giving them the ability to use Dash, Dodge, or Disengage as a bonus action, doubling their movement speed, and giving them a Jump distance equal to their movement distance (including Dash, if this is used). This effect lasts 10 minutes once activated, but ends early if the wearer goes unconscious, or ends the effect early (requiring no action), or uses another bonus action to redeploy the jetpack into its grenade launcher form. Once the effect ends, even if it ends early, the pack’s jets must be recharged by a long rest before it can be used again in this way.

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3.5 Geeks: Thunderheart Corset

rare wondrous item, requires attunement 

This corset has metallic conductive properties and high-voltage electrocoupling that allows it to divert electrical damage away from the wearer to be repurposed offensively as a concussive burst. 

If the wearer takes lightning damage, the damage is automatically halved as if the wearer is resistant to that damage type. The remaining half of the damage is stored within the corset temporarily as a charge. 

If the wearer chooses, they can expend that charge on a subsequent successful weapon attack or unarmed strike as thunder damage added to the attack’s damage. This damage does not multiply on a critical hit.

E.g., the wearer is struck by nearby Call Lightning and, on a failed Dexterity saving throw, receives 30 hit points of lightning damage. The wearer takes 15 HP damage, and the remaining 15 is stored within the corset. On their turn, the wearer then strikes the caster with an arrow from a longbow, and adds 15 thunder damage to the result of the weapon damage die, using up the energy stored in the corset. 

The corset can accept multiple charges, but each charge must be expended separately, not all on the same attack. 

All charges in the corset dissipate unused if the wearer falls unconscious, or takes a short or a long rest. 

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3.5 Geeks: Homebrew Cantrip: Webline

0th-Level Transmutation

Casting Time: 1 action or 1 reaction

Range: 120 Feet

Components: S (a gesture with a single hand resembling the ASL for “I love you.”)

Duration: Instantaneous

You create a strand of strong, gossamer thread that springs from your hand and adheres to one creature of your choice that you can see within range. The target then can be pulled in a straight line towards you up to 30 feet. If the target is unwilling, they must succeed on a Strength saving throw versus your spellcaster DC or be pulled involuntarily. 

This spell can be used as a reaction when a target is fleeing or falling. 

Alternatively, if the webline is cast at a fixed object, such as a tall building, the caster can be pulled towards it up to 30 feet, as though with a grappling gun. This can also be done as a reaction if the caster is falling. 

The webline dissolves after 1 hour. 

The webline is flammable. Any webline exposed to flame will burn away in one round, dealing 1d4 fire damage to any creature that starts its turn in contact with the webline.

At Higher Levels: The maximum distance the target (or caster) can be pulled increases by 10 feet every five levels. (40 feet at Level 5, 50 feet at Level 10, 60 at Level 15, and so on.)

Spell Lists: Druid, Warlock, Wizard

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3.5 Geeks: Gunslinger Feat: Mystic Trick Shots

Prerequisite: Gunslinger Martial Archetype, Violent Shot

A latent sorcerous ability allows you to learn additional Trick Shots that charge your ammunition with specific mystical energies, essentially magical variants to the existing Violent Shot. With these Trick Shots, your ammunition counts as magical for the purposes of overcoming resistances and immunities to non-magical damage, and deals an additional damage die per Grit Point spent if the attack succeeds, the damage type corresponding with the Trick Shot used. As with Violent Shot, each of these adds +2 to the misfire score of the weapon for each Grit Point expended. 

Taking this feat enables you to learn one of these Trick Shots immediately so long as you have Violent Shot as a prerequisite. You may learn the rest of these Trick Shots one at a time as you level up, just as you would pick the ones described in the Gunslinger Archetype. As with other Trick Shots, you may discard and replace previously learned Trick Shots as you learn these ones, but you must always have Violent Shot in your repertoire in order to utilize these ones.

Holy Shot: Your shot does additional radiant damage. You get one further additional damage die when scoring an attack on Undead.

Unholy Shot: Your shot does additional necrotic damage.

Energy Shot: Your shot does additional damage of the energy type of your choice, selected when the shot is called: acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder.

Toxic Shot: Your shot does additional poison damage.

(With gratitude and apologies to Matthew Mercer of Critical Role and Dungeon Master’s Guild.)

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3.5 Geeks Turns 7!

Happy 7th anniversary to us as 3.5 Geeks! We made this long without dieing. We managed to boldly go and go beyond plus ultra! Let’s see how this new year treats us! Thank you for all your care and support. We are 3.5 Geeks! We love you all from the bottom of out hearts!

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