Axe of the Fray
Today's rare magic item comes in the form of a handaxe particularly prone to violent outbursts, the Axe of the Fray. In most situations, this axe acts as a run of the mill +1 magic weapon. However, creatures carrying it will have to keep their eye on it; it can have a mind of its own, and all it can think about is violence. At certain initiative counts, if the weapon is not being held or carried, it will magically fling itself at a creature that hasn't yet attacked and make a weapon attack! We hope particularly bloodthirsty and/or forgetful players enjoy this violence prone axe; just make sure to keep your axes on a leash, or a particularly gruesome axeident may occur!
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Axe of the Fray
Weapon (handaxe), rare
This handaxe is well worn, possessing a number of notches along the wooden handle, and has an aura of malice about it. When wielded in combat, the axe almost seems to guide the hand to make more brutal strikes, as if thirsting for violence.
You have +1 to attack and damage rolls with this magical handaxe. If the Axe of the Fray is not held in a creature’s hand or worn on their person at initiative count 20, 15, 10, 5, or 0 while a creature within 60 feet of it is in combat, it hurls itself at the closest creature that it has not yet attacked this round and that is not incapacitated. It makes a thrown weapon attack against that creature with a +1 to hit, dealing 1d6+1 magical slashing damage on a hit, than falling to the ground to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of that creature. Attack rolls made in this way can’t have advantage or disadvantage.
