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''"The hand imbibes it, and the victor dies."''<br> | ''"The hand imbibes it, and the victor dies."''<br> | ||
-- Lucan, ''Pharsalia''<br> | -- Lucan, ''Pharsalia''<br> | ||
'''Description:''' Your death means death to your attacker, as the | |||
mandrake's scream kills the dog that hunts it. As a player, you | |||
must explain the mechanism that enables your posthumous | |||
revenge — a death scream, phoenix fire, corrosive blood, | |||
deadly flowing venom, etc. — and define, by extension, how | |||
someone might avoid it. An attacker taking extraordinary | |||
precautions may be able to circumvent your postmortem | |||
''coup de grace'', but those precautions might encumber him | |||
enough that his blow never lands. | |||
It's worth noting that creatures who have already died | |||
(vampires, zombies, skeletal warriors, etc.), or ones that | |||
exist on the spiritual plane (ghosts, elementals, demons and | |||
angels, etc.) are totally immune to this power. Unless | |||
several creatures share a direct hand in your demise, this | |||
Advantage slays only your killer, not his associates, your | |||
allies or innocent bystanders. | |||
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Revision as of 19:22, 10 April 2019
"What though the Moor the basilisk has slain"
"And pinned him lifeless to the sandy plain,"
"Up through the spear the subtle venom flies,"
"The hand imbibes it, and the victor dies."
-- Lucan, Pharsalia
Description: Your death means death to your attacker, as the mandrake's scream kills the dog that hunts it. As a player, you must explain the mechanism that enables your posthumous revenge — a death scream, phoenix fire, corrosive blood, deadly flowing venom, etc. — and define, by extension, how someone might avoid it. An attacker taking extraordinary precautions may be able to circumvent your postmortem coup de grace, but those precautions might encumber him enough that his blow never lands.
It's worth noting that creatures who have already died (vampires, zombies, skeletal warriors, etc.), or ones that exist on the spiritual plane (ghosts, elementals, demons and angels, etc.) are totally immune to this power. Unless several creatures share a direct hand in your demise, this Advantage slays only your killer, not his associates, your allies or innocent bystanders.