Living Stake

Value (gold)

4000

Rarity

Rare

Item Type

Wondrous Item

Attunement

No

Source

Vault of Magic

Standard Equipment

No

From Vault of Magic

Wondrous item, rare

Fashioned from mandrake root, this stake longs to taste the heart's blood of vampires. Make a melee attack against a vampire in range, treating the stake as an improvised weapon. On a hit, the stake attaches to a vampire's chest. At the end of the vampire's next turn, roots force their way into the vampire's heart, negating fast healing and preventing gaseous form. If the vampire is reduced to 0 hit points while the stake is attached to it, it is immobilized as if it had been staked. A creature can take its action to remove the stake by succeeding on a DC 17 Strength (Athletics) check. If it is removed from the vampire's chest, the stake is destroyed. The stake has no effect on targets other than vampires.

Text from Vault of Magic (Kobold Press), Open Game Content used under the Open Game License 1.0a. Vault of Magic. Copyright 2021 Open Design LLC; Authors Phillip Larwood, Jeff Lee, and Christopher Lockey. It is not Geminaea material; the price is Geminaea's. See Legal.