The document describes the Daggerspell Society, a group that focuses on enhancing dagger combat abilities through magic. It introduces the Daggerspell spell, which allows two daggers to deal maximum damage and grants damage reduction and freedom from opportunity attacks while dodging. Higher level spell slots provide additional benefits like ignoring or reducing damage from dexterity saves. The document then discusses different types of daggers commonly found in the Forgotten Realms setting that members of the Daggerspell Society may use.
The document describes the Daggerspell Society, a group that focuses on enhancing dagger combat abilities through magic. It introduces the Daggerspell spell, which allows two daggers to deal maximum damage and grants damage reduction and freedom from opportunity attacks while dodging. Higher level spell slots provide additional benefits like ignoring or reducing damage from dexterity saves. The document then discusses different types of daggers commonly found in the Forgotten Realms setting that members of the Daggerspell Society may use.
The document describes the Daggerspell Society, a group that focuses on enhancing dagger combat abilities through magic. It introduces the Daggerspell spell, which allows two daggers to deal maximum damage and grants damage reduction and freedom from opportunity attacks while dodging. Higher level spell slots provide additional benefits like ignoring or reducing damage from dexterity saves. The document then discusses different types of daggers commonly found in the Forgotten Realms setting that members of the Daggerspell Society may use.
The document describes the Daggerspell Society, a group that focuses on enhancing dagger combat abilities through magic. It introduces the Daggerspell spell, which allows two daggers to deal maximum damage and grants damage reduction and freedom from opportunity attacks while dodging. Higher level spell slots provide additional benefits like ignoring or reducing damage from dexterity saves. The document then discusses different types of daggers commonly found in the Forgotten Realms setting that members of the Daggerspell Society may use.
D Daggerspell 2nd-level abjuration Casting Time: 1 bonus action New Spell
Range: self Components: V,S Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute With this spell, you magically enhance your ability to fight with a pair of daggers. Any attack you make with a dagger deals maximum damage on a successful hit. When you use the dodge action, you have DR 5 and your movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks. When you cast this spell you must be holding a dagger in each hand that you are attuned to, otherwise the spell fails. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell with a 5th level spell slot, while you are dodging and subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail. When you use a 7th level spell slot, your daggers deal twice their maximum damage. When you use a 9th level spell slot, you can use a reaction while dodging to negate the effects of one attack against you.
Along the Sword Coast, the baselard is the most common form of dagger available. It is derived from the multipurpose hunting knives commonly used by knights and other individuals belonging to, or in the service of, wealthier households. Most common folk possess and use athames; a slightly smaller knife designed primarily to skin small game. Some members of the Daggerspell Society hold the athame in higher regard because of its ease of use in arcane ritual, but it is by far an inferior dagger compared to the baselard. The selection of what kind of daggers to use is an intensely personal one for every daggerspell adherent, and the reasons for choosing one type of dagger over another varies as much as the kinds of daggers found across Faerun. Below you’ll find a small sampling of the other examples of daggers one might find in the Forgotten Realms. Katar. This unusual knife from Zakhara is notable for its H- shaped hilt that results in the blade being situated along the user’s knuckles. The resulting punch-style of attacks this engenders is favored almost exclusively by the druids of Chult that have imported the dagger from southern lands. Kirpan. More status symbol than weapon, the kirpan is notable for its curved tip. Favored in Mulhorand, it was once reserved only for the Imaskari. Now the freed men and women of Mulhorand carry the daggers stripped from the wealth of their oppressors. Stiletto. Unlike many other daggers, the stiletto has a very narrow cross-section and delivers piercing instead of slashing damage. This dagger is typically of Amnish or Sembian vintage. Yoroiodoshi. Few examples of this dagger are found outside Kara-tur, but some adherents are drawn to the exotic status this dagger holds. It is sharpened only on one side and sized to excel at piercing ringmails.
