Would a Hexblade warlock be able to use the Accursed Specter feature in the ToA setting or would the Soulmonger trap the soul before it can be summoned?
Accursed Specter
Starting at 6th level, you can summon the soul of a person you slay, temporarily binding it to your service. When you slay a humanoid, you can cause its spirit to rise from its corpse as a specter, the statistics for which are in the Monster Manual. When the specter appears, it gains temporary hit points equal to half your warlock level. Roll initiative for the specter which has its own turns. It obeys your verbal commands, and it gains a special bonus to its attack rolls equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of +0). The specter remains in your service until the end of your next long rest, at which point it vanishes to the afterlife. Once you bind a specter with this feature, you can't use the feature again until you finish a long rest.
I assume you couldnt "use" a Soul for Accursed Specter and Soul Cage at the same time. And I wondered If you could use either if you killed the humanoid in Question with Blackrazor.
If the specter is summoned immediately, I'd say you should still get it. The DM could apply some flavor, like the specter might mutter some information about the Soulmonger which is too vague to be of use in finding it but just clear enough that you can sense it being tugged into the Soulmonger when you dismiss it.
I see it as being 'waylaid' on it's path to the afterlife, in much the same way that the Soulmonger has created a trap for those souls. Since the Raven Queen is all about ensuring souls get to their proper 'place', it would make sense that her Hexblades could make use of a soul for just one day to help them out.
I'm with the most of the people in the forum. It's lame to nuke a core ability. I'd call it "way-laying" the soul, before it makes it to the Soul Monger... also there is no willingness required with the Spectral Ability.
1) The Soul Monger is about keeping you from resurrecting (Don't play a Zealot Barbarian in Tomb of Annihilation... it will gimp your lvl 3 ability to be resurrected for free!)
2) It's not cited as one of the abilites that auto fails due to the Soul Monger (p6 of the ToA book)
3) There is already precedence in the game for a souls being trapped before they get to the Soul Monger. (see spoiler for details)
Rite of Stolen Life. p73 of ToA. Has a ritual to for a limited time reanimate a dead companion by shoving someone else's soul into your body to animate it.
I wouldn't gimp your class abilities. I'd play it as the soul is in your service before passing to the trap. Maybe flavor it up a bit in the description. The specter might flicker and it's wispy body might seem like it is being pulled somewhere every so often.
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Would a Hexblade warlock be able to use the Accursed Specter feature in the ToA setting or would the Soulmonger trap the soul before it can be summoned?
Accursed Specter
Starting at 6th level, you can summon the soul of a person you slay, temporarily binding it to your service. When you slay a humanoid, you can cause its spirit to rise from its corpse as a specter, the statistics for which are in the Monster Manual. When the specter appears, it gains temporary hit points equal to half your warlock level. Roll initiative for the specter which has its own turns. It obeys your verbal commands, and it gains a special bonus to its attack rolls equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of +0). The specter remains in your service until the end of your next long rest, at which point it vanishes to the afterlife. Once you bind a specter with this feature, you can't use the feature again until you finish a long rest.
It is up to the DM in the end, but I would say no. Since that Hexblade feature is about the soul, I'd say the Soulmonger prevents it.
I dont know the module and the Soulmonger.
But I wondered the same thing about
- Accursed Specter
- Soul Cage (Spell) and
- Blackrazor (Magic Item)
I assume you couldnt "use" a Soul for Accursed Specter and Soul Cage at the same time. And I wondered If you could use either if you killed the humanoid in Question with Blackrazor.
a good dm does not take away core abilities , at least not for more then a very short time
better to re-flavor what happened when the specter is summoned then to take the ability away
If the specter is summoned immediately, I'd say you should still get it. The DM could apply some flavor, like the specter might mutter some information about the Soulmonger which is too vague to be of use in finding it but just clear enough that you can sense it being tugged into the Soulmonger when you dismiss it.
I see it as being 'waylaid' on it's path to the afterlife, in much the same way that the Soulmonger has created a trap for those souls. Since the Raven Queen is all about ensuring souls get to their proper 'place', it would make sense that her Hexblades could make use of a soul for just one day to help them out.
I'm with the most of the people in the forum. It's lame to nuke a core ability. I'd call it "way-laying" the soul, before it makes it to the Soul Monger... also there is no willingness required with the Spectral Ability.
1) The Soul Monger is about keeping you from resurrecting (Don't play a Zealot Barbarian in Tomb of Annihilation... it will gimp your lvl 3 ability to be resurrected for free!)
2) It's not cited as one of the abilites that auto fails due to the Soul Monger (p6 of the ToA book)
3) There is already precedence in the game for a souls being trapped before they get to the Soul Monger. (see spoiler for details)
Rite of Stolen Life. p73 of ToA. Has a ritual to for a limited time reanimate a dead companion by shoving someone else's soul into your body to animate it.
I wouldn't gimp your class abilities. I'd play it as the soul is in your service before passing to the trap. Maybe flavor it up a bit in the description. The specter might flicker and it's wispy body might seem like it is being pulled somewhere every so often.