The Scourge Mistress' Bane

The Scourge Mistress' Bane is a passive feature that can apply  Bane but will hurt the wielder if they are too healthy.

Description

Chance to inflict upon the target a 1d4 penalty to  Attack Rolls and  Saving Throws. If the attacker still has 50% or more hit points, they take 1d6⁠⁠Piercing themselves.

A Baned creature receives a 1d4 penalty to Attack Rolls and Saving Throws.

Condition: Bane

 Bane

Duration: 2 turns

• Has a -1d4 penalty to  Attack Rolls and  Saving Throws.

How to learn

Granted by the weapons:

• Ritual Axe

Notes

• The  Bane condition applied by this weapon is the same as the  Bane  spell and does not stack.
• Because of the bug listed below, the Battle Master Fighter's  Sweeping Attack applies this debuff to every target within the cone's area of effect, hit or miss.
• Many situations increase the self-damage dealt by this passive feature:
  • The  Savage Attacker feat results in secondary damage being re-rolled higher.
  • A critical hit with this axe doubles the self-damage.
  • Some damage riders such as  Lightning Charges, radiant damage from the  Callous Glow Ring and  Psionic Overload increase the self-damage.
• Effects which reduce incoming piercing damage reduce the self-inflicted damage.
  • However, as the self-damage is classified as magical,  Heavy Armour Master damage reduction does not apply.
• If at 50% health or higher, the wielder suffers self-damage even if the target dies from the axe blow.

Bugs

• While the item description says 'chance,'  Bane is always inflicted on a hit.
• If the wielder of this axe is at 50% health or higher and they use  Non-Lethal Damage to knock out an enemy with it, they will also be knocked out, even if at full HP.