Slay

Slay is the basic attack available to the Slayer. It is a powerful unarmed slashing attack with special effects against  Bleeding or  Prone targets. Any Opportunity Attacks made by the Slayer are performed with this attack as well.

Description

Rake your malevolent claws across the body of your target.

If the target is  Bleeding, they are afflicted with  Contagion Poisoned at Stage 1.

If the target is  Prone, the attack will be a Critical Hit.

If the target is bleeding and prone, the attack will be a critical hit and the target will possibly become  Stricken With Flesh Rot.

Properties

Cost

 Action

Damage: 4~24 + modifiers

4d6 + Strength modifier⁠Slashing

Details

 Melee Unarmed Attack Roll

 Melee: 1.5 m (5 ft)

At higher levels

At level 10, the damage increases to 6d6 + Strength modifier⁠Slashing.

Technical details

UID

Target_Slam_Slayer

Spell flags

DisableBlood, IsAttack, IsHarmful, IsMelee

Condition: Contagion Poisoned

 Contagion Poisoned

Duration: 3 turns

• Has  Disadvantage on  Attack Rolls and Checks.
• Each turn, it must succeed on a  Saving Throw, or the poison will advance in stage. On 3 successes, it recovers. On 3 failures, it contracts the disease corresponding to the variant of the spell Contagion that was cast.

Condition: Stricken With Flesh Rot

 Stricken With Flesh Rot

Duration: Until long rest

 STR Save (Spell save DC)

• Rotting in their own vat of stinking Skin, the affected entity has  Disadvantage on Charisma Checks and Vulnerability to all damage.

How to learn

Used by creatures: Slayer

Notes

• There is a saving throw against the stronger  Stricken With Flesh Rot effect, but not against  Contagion Poisoned.

Bugs

• The spell save DC of the Slayer's actions uses the spellcasting ability of the last class you took a first level in, but with the Slayer's ability scores. This results in a very low DC due to the Slayer's low mental ability scores. In particular, Fighters, Rogues, Wizards, Clerics, Druids, Monks, and Rangers have a +0 spellcasting modifier from Intelligence or Wisdom in Slayer form, while Barbarians, Bards, Paladins, Sorcerers, and Warlocks have a -1 spellcasting modifier from Charisma while in Slayer form.

• If the target is neither bleeding nor prone, the saving throw against  Stricken With Flesh Rot still occurs, but without consequence.
  • If the target fails, it wastes a  Legendary Resistance charge, if available.
  • Due to a bug in reaction processing, Stricken with Flesh Rot is applied even when the target is neither bleeding nor prone, if the target fails this saving throw because of a  Bend Luck,  Cosmic Omen of Woe: Saving Throw,  Cutting Words, or  Portent reaction.