Greater Crystal Shards

Greater Crystal Shards Item 12

Alchemical Bomb Consumable Earth Splash

Price 350 gp

Usage held in 1 hand; Bulk L

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Activate [one-action] Strike

This flask holds a pressurized red-brown gas flecked with bits of sublimated crystal. You gain a +2 item bonus to attack rolls. When the bomb explodes, it deals 3d4 piercing damage and 5 piercing splash damage as the mixture suddenly turns into solid crystals flying at high speeds.

Surfaces in the splash area grow brittle, gleaming red crystals that crumble to dust after 1 minute. The crystals on level surfaces are caltrops. The crystals on vertical surfaces can be used briefly as handholds, granting a +2 item bonus to the next Athletics check to Climb each space. The crystals in each space crumble after the creature leaves, whether Climbing or moving through the caltrops.