Bladcstar
Baravar Cloakshadow's higher than the modified chance of success, the
XP Value: 1,500 GP Value: 10,000
Monster Mythology
His dagger +4 drips paralyzing venom that
immobilizes victims for 1d8 rounds.
of Blackflame
XP Value: 22,000 GP Value: 175,000
The Five Shires
This normal-appearing dagger has powers quite
different from a sword of black/lame. It is a dag-
ger +2 that can extinguish all flames it touches,
affecting a 10-foot, spherical area per round.
Flames caused by a continuing process, such as a
lava flow, will reignite ld6+5 rounds after the
dagger's touch. This automatic power occurs
whenever an unsheathed dagger of blackflame
comes into contact with flames.
The dagger's flame-quenching power allows
safe passage through flames. Note that blast
effects, intense heat, and hazards such as falling
timbers can still harm creatures using the protec-
tion of such a weapon to pass through a burning
building. Once every turn any absorbed
flames can be released as a spurt of flames
extending in a line up to 40 feet long from the
dagger's tip, by the wielder's use of a command
word. All absorbed fire will be released at once;
none can be saved for later. If the release of fire is
unleashed as part of a physical attack, all flames
will strike the target (add to physical damage)
and will not spurt beyond it. The DM should esti-
mate the fiery damage absorbed (and released) as
1d6 per round of normal fire, 10-foot radius
absorption, and 2d6 per round of magical fire
absorption.
Blade of Banishing
XP Value: 4,600 GP Value: 22,500
DRAGON Magazine 169
This dagger twists any magical barriers, protec-
tions, and illusions that it touches. Whenever it
grazes a being or an area under an illusion, pro-
tective magic, or magical barrier, there is a per-
centage chance that the dagger will destroy the
magic. The weapon has a base 60% chance of
success, plus a random bonus of 1 d20%, minus
10% per level of the magic contacted (a shield
spell is a 1 st-level spell and gives a modifier of
-10%). Percentile dice are rolled. If the roll is
less than or equal to the modified chance of suc-
cess, the dagger destroys the magic. If the roll is
dagger has no effect (note that spells of 8th level
or greater can never be affected).
Consider all magical item effects to have the
level of the item's creator, if known; otherwise,
use one level greater than the level of any equiva-
lent spell. The DM may choose to consider all
unknown defensive magic to be 7th or 8th level,
and all artifacts to be 12th level or greater. To act,
the dagger need not be drawn or wielded. Its
destructive nature is constant, regardless of the
caster's wishes, and need not be activated or
invoked. If thrown or thrust through a barrier that
it does not bring down, the blade (and wielder, if
in contact with it) suffers the magic's full normal
effects. If the blade destroys the barrier, no dam-
age is done to the wielder.
Bladestar
XP Value: 2,700 GP Value: 27,000
Treasures of GREYHAWX
Also known as the haunted dagger, this small
blade is ornate, with several jewels (rubies and
sapphires) encrusted in its hilt. The metal of the
blade is black steel, inscribed with various runes.
If a detect magic spell is cast on the dagger, it
reveals a powerful dweomer; detect evil reveals
that the dagger is strongly evil. Any attempts to
use an identify spell on the dagger will fail due to
the presence of the haunt.
The night that the dagger is taken, the haunt
possessing the blade attacks and attempts to take
over the person who carries it. If the owner
engages the haunt in combat and reduces it to 0
hit points, it dissipates, only to return one week
later, at which time it continues the pattern of tak-
ing over others until it finds one of compatible
alignment (any nongood alignment).
The haunt's alignment can be determined
through use of a know alignment spell. If cast
successfully, the party learns not only the align-
ment of the haunt, but also which alignments can
survive the haunt's attentions. The haunt is
chaotic evil, thus its host can be of any nongood
alignment. Possessed characters of any good
alignment attempt suicide.
The haunt's task can be found by using a
spe'ak with dead spell. The spell needs to be cast
at the haunt either just after it takes form (after
dark), or while it is in the body of a suitable
host. If the spell is successfully cast, Aliar
Daraan reveals that he was killed only two days
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