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Weapons Out Of Ice Research Paper

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May killers are metaphorically cold blooded, but some literally are. These assassins, called ice blood disciples, train for years to master the arts of ice and winter. They learn to create blades and arrows form ice, and to lower their own body temperatures until they are hardly alive. Few can match them is precision and stealth.

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you can create weapons out of ice for you to use. As a bonus action you can create any weapon you are proficient with that doesn't have the two-handed, versatile, or heavy properties, or 5 pieces of ammunition. You must have the normal weight of this weapon in snow, ice, or water within 5 feet of you to do this.

A weapon created this way lasts for up to 1 minutes or …show more content…

You can gain the effect of the fabricate spell, but can only use ice, water, or snow as the source materials and anything you create must be made of ice and snow. Alternatively, you can use this feature to make an area of up to 10 continuous 5 foot square areas icy, you must have access to enough ice, snow, water to cover the area. This iciness last for 1 hour, and a creature that enters the area or ends its turn there must also succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or fall prone. You can use this feature once per short or long rest.

At 13th level, you become a creature of cold, as icy as death. You are immune to cold damage, you do not need to breath, and you do not emit any body heat.

Additionally, you may choose to be considered a construct for the purposes of spell or spell like effects. For example you can choose to be considered a construct for the purposes of an antilife shell, and could therefore still enter that area.

At 17th level, when you deal sneak attack damage you may choose to deal that damage as cold damage. Once per long rest, when you deal sneak attack damage, you may cover your weapon in icy spikes, causing the damage dice of your sneak attack to increase to

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