Quill of the Imaginist

Rare Wondrous Item (Quill/Painter’s Supplies), Requires Proficiency with Painter’s Supplies, Requires Attunement

  • This quill produces its own ink and you can change the ink’s colour at will.
  • When used as part of Painter’s Supplies, it gives a +3 bonus on ability checks made with them. 

Mind’s Eye Canvas. This quill allows you to paint on the space around you as if it was an invisible magical canvas, creating harmless illusions and changes in perception. As an action, you can create one of the following effects on a creature, object or surface within 90 feet of you.

  • Colour me Impressed. You change the colour of a single target within range.
    If you succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity (Painter’s Supplies) check after spending at least 1 minute using this action on a single creature, surface or object, you are able to create intricate patterns and colour combinations on the target making them more appealing or impressive giving a +2 bonus to charisma checks while wearing or somehow utilizing the target. 
  • Maestro’s Signature. You write a word or paint a symbol on any object, creature or surface.
  • Artistic License. You create a small static illusory effect anywhere within range. This can include horns on someone’s head, a prolonged nose, a hole in the ground, or anything within reason.
    If you succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity (Painter’s Supplies) check after spending at least 1 minute using this action on a single creature, you can change their appearance as if they were affected by the Disguise Self spell.

Physical interaction with the features will reveal them to be illusions, if a creature uses their action to examine one of these illusions, a successful DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) check will allow them to recognize the illusion and see through it. 

If you use Mind’s Eye Canvas on an unwilling creature or on anything they are currently wielding or wearing, make a Charisma (Painter’s Supplies) check, and the target must make a Wisdom saving throw with DC equal to the rolled amount, becoming immune to Mind’s Eye Canvas for 24 hours on a success. 

The features created by Mind’s Eye Canvas last as long as they are within your line of sight. You can also decide to use a bit of your life-force to sustain the illusions, expending one of your Hit Dice to make the effect last for 12 hours. 

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