Bandit’s Boon

More #swordtember magic sword time! Today, meet Bandit’s Boon, a short sword that suppresses magic. Enjoy!

Bandit’s Boon

Weapon (shortsword), legendary

There once was a bandit king called Bennett the Greedy. Bennett ruled vast tracts of Walskalsing Wood, where his word was law and honest men feared to tread. The King’s Road traveled straight through the Wood, however, so merchants risked the journey.  

Spider Sydell was Bennett’s lieutenant, and Spider led the raids on the King’s Road. Spider had a magic sword, a short blade silvery and ominous, that was said to prevent all other magic from being used near it.

A 10-foot-radius invisible sphere of antimagic surrounds the sword. This area is divorced from the magical energy that suffuses the multiverse. Within the sphere, spells can’t be cast, summoned creatures disappear, and even magic items become mundane. The sphere moves with the sword, centered on the sword.

Spells and other magical effects, except those created by an artifact or a deity, are suppressed in the sphere and can’t protrude into it. A slot expended to cast a suppressed spell is consumed. While an effect is suppressed, it doesn’t function, but the time it spends suppressed counts against its duration.

art by Colin Foss, used under license