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Calmar 04-07-07, 07:23 PM	As far as I know, bloodstone is chalcedony and the material of Damaran trade bars. However, yesterday I heard some wierd romors about bloodstone being an extremely dangerous mineral, increasing your chance to receive a critical hit and the damage you take when standing on terrain with big proportions of bloodstone (got no explanation how it is supposed to do that...). What's going on?:confused: :)
selunatic2397 04-07-07, 07:30 PM	News to me...where or who did you hear it from?:confused:
Lord Karsus 04-07-07, 08:36 PM	-So Sayth Volo: Bloodstone: Bloodstone is a dark greenish gray variety of semiprecious quartz gemstone flecked with red crystal impurities that resemble drops of blood. Ninety percent of the bloodstones in the Realms come from the Vaasa/Damara area (the Bloodstone Lands), and most of those come from a single mine that is manned by human, dwarf, and gnome miners. Bloodstones are the chief export of this region, and as a result, they are readily found throughout the Inner Sea lands. The output of this mine is so plentiful that the stones are used, uncut, as currency along the Sword Coast, in the Moonsea North, and among mercenaries all over the Realms. When worn as gemstones (typically by farmers and foresters who have little wealth to spare on such things), these semiprecious stones are usually cabochon cut with beveled edges into smooth ovals. The magical uses of bloodstone are many. It has long been known that a single bloodstone and a leafy spring of the herb heliotrope can serve as alternative material components for the invisibility spell without altering the magic in any way, but fewer priests and wizards by far know that the gemstone can serve as an alternative material component in most divination and storm-related magics. A bloodstone laid on an open wound acts as a bloodstaunch, closing the wound, banishing any disease or blood poisoning, and stopping bleeding instantly. It cannot heal damage that has already occurred and dissolves in conferring this boon. Bloodstone healing only works on a particular being once per month (lunar cycle).
Borris 04-08-07, 03:41 AM	Calmar, what you're thinking of is Blood Rock, originally from the D&D Minatures game and the Miniatures Handbook. In DDM, Blood Rock is a tile of terrain covered with blood. It causes a creature standing in it to deliver a critical on a melee attack roll of 19 or 20, rather than just 20. It has nothing to do with the semi-precious gem from the Galena mountains. The first time Blood Rock is also used in the roleplaying game was in the Fantastic Location: Fields of Ruin adventure. In one of that adventure's maps, there's a river of blood, treated as Blood Rock when the map is used for DDM. In the roleplaying game, creatures standing in the river of blood have their melee critical threat range doubled, and that stacks with bonuses such as keen or Improved Critical. However, a creature reduced -1 hp or lower while in contact with the river must immediately make a DC 15 Will save or be instantly dropped to -10 hp. This count as a death effect, do death ward and the like will protect you from this effect.
Calmar 04-08-07, 07:14 AM	Thanks alot. :)