| Text | This ornately crafted longbow seems like an ordinary weapon until held in darkness when its magical energies awaken.
While wielding the bow, you gain darkvision 120 ft. and can even see through magical darkness. You can also cast the darkness spell, but you can't cast the spell again until the next dawn.
When you fire an arrow from the bow of the night under cover of darkness, your target gains no benefit from cover other than total cover. If your target is also in darkness, the bow of the night grants advantage on attack rolls made with it and deals an extra 7 (2d6) necrotic damage on each hit.
When you have an arrow notched, the bow of the night also reduces all brightly lit areas to dim lit, and dimly lit areas to darkness in a 120 feet radius.
Ammunition: You can use a weapon that has the ammunition property to make a ranged attack only if you have ammunition to fire from the weapon. Each time you attack with the weapon, you expend one piece of ammunition. Drawing the ammunition from a quiver, case, or other container is part of the attack (you need a free hand to load a one-handed weapon). At the end of the battle, you can recover half your expended ammunition by taking a minute to search the battlefield.
If you use a weapon that has the ammunition property to make a melee attack, you treat the weapon as an improvised weapon (see "Improvised Weapons").
Range: A weapon that can be used to make a ranged attack has a range shown in parentheses after the ammunition or thrown property. The range lists two numbers. The first is the weapon's normal range in feet, and the second indicates the weapon's maximum range. When attacking a target beyond normal range, you have disadvantage on the attack roll. You can't attack a target beyond the weapon's long range.
Two-Handed: This weapon requires two hands when you attack with it.
Heavy: Small creatures have disadvantage on attack rolls with heavy weapons. A heavy weapon's size and bulk make it too large for a Small creature to use effectively.
Proficiency: martial, longbow
Source: Crown of the Oathbreaker p. 732 (Homebrew) |