I am planning an encounter with a Bodak that will probably be too tough for the party. I want it to be very very difficult, but I want to give them an edge in the form of items that leverage the Bodak's vulnerability to sunlight. Aside from a daylight spell, what spells and items can achieve this? Thanks!
Sunblade?
Sunblade is a 50,000gp weapon. A bit much for a low level party.
If it's sunny outside but the encounter is inside, some means of opening up the battlefield to the outside would work.
Really though the danger of a bodak is its death gaze and many resisitances. If the party can get death ward and appropriate means of bypassing resistances (cold iron weapons and/or cold damage) a much lower level party could handle one. If they don't have at least death ward, a sunlight effect (which daylight isn't) may not make enough of a difference.
Instead of trying to make a customized low level sunblade, how about we use a preexisting property- Glorious
It is a +2 property...which means it is on a minimum of a +3 weapon (so 18,000 price tag). Now, that might sound like a bit much...but the weapon property does 2 things mainly- give sunlight and dazzle on a hit. Given that there is a feat that does the second part already (spear dancer)... not that amazing.
There is the bit about blinding on a crit...but weapon choice of a x2 weapon can solve that.
If we are really worried about the price...you could make it fragile. Make it break and make it lose its magical power if they roll a 1. That means they have to make a choice- just use it like a fancy torch, or use its nice ability at the risk of losing the thing entirely.
