Boom Flower

BOOM!

> *"I don't have any components left and we still need to take out that wall! ...wait! There! A Boom Flower! I'll just pick this an-**\*BOOM!\***"* - a wizard who mishandled a boom flower's last words
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**The Boom Flower** is the result of a mad wizard attempting to make a renewable, organic explosive that could rival spells such as Fireball and the like. The result is a plant that grows a singular fruit, that once picked, starts a chain reaction in the fruit itself that will explode in moments after being picked. Thus the cultivation and harvesting of this particular plant, which profitable, is very risky and must be handled delicately.

## History

### Design and Creation

There was once a wizard, who was having issues when adventuring of not having enough components for his spells. Spells such as Fireball, Lightning Bolt and so on were always coming up short when he ran out of the items needed to cast the spell. So as a result of this, he sought to create an organic, renewable solution to this. It would pack a punch into each item, but could be regrown. After many months of work and research, he finally managed to grow the first Boom Flowers, or as he called it, *flos bombus.*

After the success of his creation, he harvested the seeds from the original plant and seeded them across the world of Valen'Dria. As a result, while rare, they are found in the wild. They are often found in places with large amounts of arcane power in the soil, as they feed on this power to grow. This arcane power acts like a fertilizer and allows more fruits to grow, at most the Boom Flower can grow up to five fruits at one time.

## Usage and Harvesting

The Boom Flower is a valuable weapon to make arms merchants, and as such are sought after. It is very dangerous and anyone found growing and harvesting crops are often shut down by the authorities because of how dangerous it is to have several of the plants together. When one plucks the fruit of the flower, the stem that connects the fruit is broken, this damage to the stem releases acidic chemicals that cause a chain reaction that catches the stem on fire and burns down to the fruit. When the fire reaches the fruit, it ignites the chemicals found in the fruit and explodes, causing damage to the local surroundings.

To harvest a Boom Flower, it takes great skill to pluck the fruit from the plant and to snuff the stem fire out before it ignites the fruit. Many arms dealers have tried to cultivate and harvest crops of these plants, but it often ends up with a rather large hole in the ground where the operation was when one is picked wrong and causes a chain reaction that ignites the entire crop. As such, growing and harvesting these plants is illegal in most civilized areas. Those that can harvest these fruits can fetch a high price on the black market, often taking in a 100 gold pieces a fruit. These seeds are worth even more so one can grow their own crop.

## Food

Those that are brave enough can harvest the fruit of the Boom Flower to make Boom Flower Salad. It takes the fruit and dices it and mixes it into a salad, with a dressing of choice and is then served. The fruit gives the salad a fiery flavor that can bring tears to the eye.

## Mechanics

When one wishes to make use of the Boom Flower, one needs to make a dexterity check DC (17) to properly pluck the fruit from the plant, and then needs to roll 1d4 to determine how many rounds until it explodes. Once it is explodes, anyone within a 5 foot radius must make a dexterity save DC (12) or take 3d6 Fire Damage. And anyone within 30 feet after that must make a dexterity DC (12) save or take 2d4 piercing damage as the seeds are sent flying out like shrapnel.