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The Baron's Lance

Weapon (lance), very rare (requires attunement)

A heavy, silvered lance crested with the ancestral emblem of Houses Javeroth and Leitwig. Once a renowned wedding gift, it has become known through a young baron's untimely demise.

While mounted, the lance gains a +3 bonus to attack rolls made with it and it deals an additional 1d12 piercing damage to creatures with a size of Large or bigger. The lance has 8 charges, and it regains 2d4 + 2 expended charges daily at dawn. You can use the charge in the following ways while holding it:

Javeroth's Joust (1 Charge). When making a melee attack against a target you have moved at least 20 feet straight toward it, the attack scores a critical hit on a 17 or higher.

Leitwig Legacy (1 charge). When making a melee attack, your reach is increased by 5 feet.

Fervor of the Hunt (3 Charges). You immerse yourself in the thrill of the hunt for 1 minute. You become immune to being frightened. Additionally, as a bonus action, you move up to your speed toward a hostile creature.

Cursed Item. The lance is cursed, and becoming attuned to it extends the curse to you. You can't end your attunement to it until you are targeted by a remove curse spell or similar magic. Whenever you roll a 1 on an attack roll with this weapon, you drop the lance, and it lodges itself into a surface or Huge or bigger creature. As an action, you make a DC 17 Strength check to free it.

Lore

Bound through political marriage, the families Javeroth and Leitwig sealed their alliance with a magical weapon, a lance. When the artifact was finally bestowed upon a descendent of the marriage, a young baron, the lance was found to be cursed. Only true love would have protected the wielder from the artifact’s aura of bad luck, but that didn’t do the young baron any good. His recklessness got the better of him, sooner than the lance could slip from his fingers and lodge itself into the beast that he was killed by. A mysterious colossus known as the Carapacian Trapper still holds the magical lance lodged deep within its shell. Now… how to get it out?