Joke Weapon #7: Bottle of Glitter

[ForgettableNPC]

Making these seemed like such a good idea when I started with the Healing Shiv.

I feel like I'm just grasping at straws now (Note to self: Make a weapon in the future that somehow involves straws).

Full list of Joke Weapons so far found here: ForgettableNPC's List of Joke Weapons

Name: Bottle of Glitter

Weapon Type: Simple Projectile
Damage: (0-1) 1d2 - 1 Bludgeon

Critical Roll: (5%/0-1) 20 / x1

Attack Mod: DEX+
Damage Mod: STR+

Durability: 10
Material: Glass
Hardness: 5

Enchantments:

-1: This weapon is less well-made than normal, giving a -1 Penalty to Attack and Damage Rolls.

Returning: This missile will return to you.

Glitter Spray: Upon impact, this bottle will shatter and Glitterdust will be cast on spot of impact. (Caster Level 1, affects both allies AND enemies)


Description: You swiped this bottle filled with magical glitter when you were at that Magic Preschool of Wizardry & Sorcery, it seems that someone made a little mistake while handling the bottle and you decided that as a seasoned adventurer, you should keep artifacts of potential danger out of reach of innocent children...or that's what you're justifying your actions with. Somehow, the amalgamation of untrained magicks caused this bottle of glitter to magically refill itself when its contents are emptied and repair itself and teleport back into your hand should it shatter. You may not be able to use this bottle for carrying water, questionably-colored potions, fish, firefly, bugs, magical blue flames, fish people eggs, a princess of a race of plant people, delicious soup, innocent fairies who are forced to give up their lives to leave you standing and in relatively good health should you become fatally injured, or even use it as tennis racket against the King of Evil or his phantom counterpart, but you can at least throw this bottle into the enemies' faces. Maybe you can hurt them by getting some glitter in their eyes, that'll show them.

[Saekee]

ahh like glitterdust spell

how about one that works like those snowcastle things--where you shake it and it seems like it is snowing?

Application would be merely holding it in off hand (an Orb); the effect mesmerizes monsters with intelligence below 6. Especially effective on Orcs.

[ForgettableNPC]

ahh like glitterdust spell

how about one that works like those snowcastle things--where you shake it and it seems like it is snowing?

Application would be merely holding it in off hand (an Orb); the effect mesmerizes monsters with intelligence below 6. Especially effective on Orcs.

See, the idea of Joke Weapons is to make weapons that are pretty much ineffective and has almost no combat advantages whatsoever.

If you ever went through Gianthold, you'd know how often those Hobgoblin throw Glitterdust in your faces, blinding your screen with frickin' glitter.

[Saekee]

how about have it also use the Hypnotic pattern effect, just for the effect? Hate when players use that spell.

[Missing_Minds]

*scratches head* Doesn't something like this already exist in game?

... House K, Ruined Halls. Doesn't the boss throw some sparkle dust or some such?

[HatsuharuZ]

Hah! I see what you did there....

Legend of Zelda references, right? :P

[ForgettableNPC]

*scratches head* Doesn't something like this already exist in game?

... House K, Ruined Halls. Doesn't the boss throw some sparkle dust or some such?

Well, we do have Bottled Tornadoes, Vials of Seafog, Jolly Roger Bomb, Gloaming Draught, Bottled Fireballs, and etc, but we don't have Bottled Glitterdust.

Yeah, monsters tend to cast it on you and it just whites out your entire screen if you get caught in it, saving throw or no saving throw until you step out of the area, like Obscuring Mist.

Hah! I see what you did there....

Legend of Zelda references, right? :P

I have no idea what you're talking about, as I try to say nonchalantly.

[HatsuharuZ]

I have no idea what you're talking about, as I try to say nonchalantly.

Is your next joke weapon going to be a small wooden shield that takes damage when struck with a fire attack? Or a maybe a pair of boots that slow your movement speed significantly, but make you immune to knockdown and cause you to sink underwater?

[ForgettableNPC]

Is your next joke weapon going to be a small wooden shield that takes damage when struck with a fire attack? Or a maybe a pair of boots that slow your movement speed significantly, but make you immune to knockdown and cause you to sink underwater?

Pretty sure we already have boots that prevent knockdowns or boots that reduces our movement speed (Or prevent being Hasted, same thing, kind of).

Why don't I make a sword that loses durability after each swing so that you have to constantly repair it while I'm at it?



...Wait, that's actually a viable Joke Weapon.

[ForgettableNPC]

how about have it also use the Hypnotic pattern effect, just for the effect? Hate when players use that spell.

I think the Glitterdust Effect will make it impossible to see the Hypnotic Pattern effect since your entire screen will just be whited out.