Item: Phoenix Fighting Fan
This fan is useful for elegant dances as well as for slicing unsuspecting foes with the blades along its outer edge. If used in performances, it might be disguised as a frilly accessory, or it might be an obvious, though elegant, weapon.
This elegant +3 greater striking flaming silver fighting fan features sharp silver feathers instead of traditional paper leaves in its design.
Activate 3 command, envision, Interact
Frequency once per day.
Effect You call upon the fan's extradimensional powers to trap a creature in Hao Jin's repository, a small demiplane that holds the countless relics Hao Jin collected over her lifetime (though a trapped creature cannot interact with any of these relics). The fighting fan casts Quandary on a creature within 30 feet. The fan automatically Sustains the Spell as long as you Strike a creature with it each round. The DC 34 Survival or DC 34 Perception DC to escape the demiplane is 34. The spell ends once the creature escapes, you fail to Strike a creature with the fan during a round, or after 1 minute, whichever comes first.
Activate 10 minutes (envision, Interact)
Effect The fan casts 8th-rank Raise Dead, consuming the phoenix fighting fan in the process.
Trait Effects
Agile: The multiple attack penalty you take with this weapon on the second attack on your turn is –4 instead of –5, and –8 instead of –10 on the third and subsequent attacks in the turn.
Artifact: Items with this trait are artifacts. These magic items can't be crafted by normal means, and they can't be damaged by normal means. Artifacts are always rare or unique.
Backstabber: When you hit an off-guard creature, this weapon deals 1 precision damage in addition to its normal damage. The precision damage increases to 2 if the weapon is a _+3 weapon_.
Deadly: On a critical hit, the weapon adds a weapon damage die of the listed size. Roll this after doubling the weapon’s damage. This increases to two dice if the weapon has a _greater striking rune_ and three dice if the weapon has a _major striking rune_. For instance, a rapier with a _greater striking rune_ deals 2d8 extra piercing damage on a critical hit. An ability that changes the size of the weapon’s normal damage dice doesn’t change the size of its deadly die.
Finesse: You can use your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier on attack rolls using this melee weapon. You still calculate damage using Strength.
Magical: Something with the magical trait is imbued with magical energies not tied to a specific tradition of magic. Some items or effects are closely tied to a particular tradition of magic. In these cases, the item has the arcane, divine, occult, or primal trait instead of the magical trait. Any of these traits indicate that the item is magical.
Monk: Abilities with this trait are from the monk class. A weapon with this trait is primarily used by monks.
Critical Specialisation Effects
Certain effects can grant you benefits when you make a Strike with certain weapons and get a critical success. This is called a critical specialisation effect. The exact effect depends on which weapon group your weapon belongs to, as listed below. You can always decide not to add the critical specialisation effect of your weapon.
Knife: The target takes 1d6 persistent bleed damage. You gain an item bonus to this bleed damage equal to the weapon's item bonus to attack rolls.
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|---|---|---|---|
| Storm Herald | 12 | Uncommon | 1d4 |
| Spirit Fan | 7 | Rare | 1d4 |
| Fighting Fan | - | Uncommon | 1d4 |
| Retribution | 21 | Unique | 1d4 |
| Eclipse | 8 | Unique | 1d4 |
| Shadow's Heart | 18 | Rare | 1d6 |
| Deathseeker | 8 | Common | 1d4 |
| Guiding Star | 7 | Common | 1d4 |
| Spellguard Blade | 7 | Common | 1d4 |
| Bloodletting Kukri | 6 | Uncommon | 1d6 |
| Monarch | 6 | Unique | 1d4 |
| Sai | - | Uncommon | 1d4 |
| Starknife | - | Common | 1d4 |
| War Razor | - | Common | 1d4 |
| Orb Shard | 20 | Rare | 1d6 |
| Four-Ways Dogslicer | 12 | Uncommon | 1d6 |
| Skeletal Claw | 9 | Uncommon | 1d4 |
| Bayonet | - | Common | 1d4 |
| Claw Blade | - | Uncommon | 1d4 |
| Filcher's Fork | - | Uncommon | 1d4 |