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# /Users/evilchili/dnd/deadsands/www/content/region/blooming-wastes.md

title: The Blooming Wastes
author: evilchili
tags: region, homebrew
date: 2022-07-20 17:54:47.286869
template: region
show_dm_content: True
description: <a href='/images/overland_blooming_wastes.png'><img class='region_map' alt="Detail of an overland map of the Sahwat Desert" src='/images/overland_blooming_wastes.png'></a> Leads to <a href='/regions/calamity-ridge/'>Calamity Ridge</a>, <a href='/regions/dust-river-canyon/'>Dust River Canyon</a>, and Tano's Edge.
region:
    name: The Blooming Wastes
    size: 20
    terrain: difficult
    dm_notes:  |
      A mostly flat expanse of hard-packed earth blanked by redfoot, a hardy, sandy-brown moss covered in sharp thorns. At night glowing clusters of moon blossoms emerge from the earth and open their petals, bathing the entire wasteland in a pale, silvery light.
    skills:
      travel:
          DC: 10
          Notes:
      forage:
          DC: 10
          Notes: redfoot, moon blossom (night only)
      track:
          DC: 13
          Notes: shelter, water
      evade:
          DC: 2
          Notes:
      survey:
          DC: 13
          Notes:
    cr: 4
    encounters:
      d1-d4:
          Difficulty: Easy
      d5:
          Difficulty: Dangerous
      d6:
          Difficulty: Deadly
      d7-d20:
          Difficulty: No Encounter
    regional_effects:
        - When a spell attack misses, it hits a random creature within 5 feet instead
        - On a spell attack critical hit or miss, roll on the Wild Magic Table
        - 1d4 piercing damage for every 30ft of movement during the Dash action
    weather:
      d1-d5:
        Description: Clear Skies
        Effect: No Effect
      d6:
        Description: Scorching Temperatures
        Effect: 2x water consumption
      d7:
        Description: Hot Metal Storm
        Effect: Heat Metal spell effects for half-day
      d8:
        Description: Bubble Rain
        Effect: Bubbles rain upwards, obscuring vision; disadvantage on perception checks
    forage_table:
      d1-d3:
        Name: Redfoot
        Description: A hardy, sandy-brown moss covered in sharp thorns.
        Rarity: Rare
        Value: 1 GP
      d4:
        Name: Moon Blossom
        Description: Noctural. Emerges from the earth at dusk, blooms when the moon rises, retracts underground at dawn. 
        Rarity: Weird
        Value: 5 GP
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The Blooming Wastes stretch out before you: a mostly flat expanse of hard,  cracked earth blanketed by some kind of sandy brown scrub. Small mesas dot the horizon, suggesting the possibility of shelter. As you approach you see that the scrub is covered in thick black thorns sharp enough to pierce boot leather; you will need to tread carefully. 
