Basically what the title says. What would you do if the target that attacks you is invisible or in a place where you cannot see them?
A refresher on what the sword does:
You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon.
Curse. This sword is cursed and possessed by a vengeful spirit. Becoming attuned to it extends the curse to you. As long as you remain cursed, you are unwilling to part with the sword, keeping it on your person at all times. While attuned to this weapon, you have disadvantage on attack rolls made with weapons other than this one.
In addition, while the sword is on your person, you must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw whenever you take damage in combat. On a failed save, you must attack the creature that damaged you until you drop to 0 hit points or it does, or until you can't reach the creature to make a melee attack against it.
My own thoughts are that you wouldn't go for an attack as you can't reach/see an invisible target. Nor could you reach the target if they are several hundred feet away.
I think the issue at hand with an invisible enemy is, well... how do you know if it's within reach or not if you can't see it?
It's probably a matter of DM rulings on both counts, really, depending on how much of a problem they want the curse to be. It could be an interesting scenario if an NPC with a Sword of Vengeance ends up chasing someone across town and you have to chase after them in turn, just as one example.
You can still know the location of an invisible creature, unless it's also hidden.
Pretty much this. As far as I understand the RAW on invisibility, you basically know what 5' square an invisible creature is, you just have disadvantage to attack them (they don't fill the entire 5' square and can be bobbing and weaving, which you can't see, so disadvantage). Unless they are also hidden, which means now you are guessing where they are. May seem illogical, but if you take damage from them, and they stay invisible, you kind of know where the attack came from. But DM's can rule this differently, like my DM does, but that would be house rules at that point.
Basically what the title says. What would you do if the target that attacks you is invisible or in a place where you cannot see them?
A refresher on what the sword does:
You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon.
Curse. This sword is cursed and possessed by a vengeful spirit. Becoming attuned to it extends the curse to you. As long as you remain cursed, you are unwilling to part with the sword, keeping it on your person at all times. While attuned to this weapon, you have disadvantage on attack rolls made with weapons other than this one.
In addition, while the sword is on your person, you must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw whenever you take damage in combat. On a failed save, you must attack the creature that damaged you until you drop to 0 hit points or it does, or until you can't reach the creature to make a melee attack against it.
My own thoughts are that you wouldn't go for an attack as you can't reach/see an invisible target. Nor could you reach the target if they are several hundred feet away.
There are two ways you can handle this.
The "standard" behavior for all effects in the game is that anything a PC must know in order to obey the effect that's happening is leaked to them by the effect. For example, Opportunity Attacks "leak" knowledge about hostility, because you can only make OAs against hostiles. Similarly, the curse on this sword must, in order to be obeyed, leak information about where the vengeance target is, so you can have the curse leak that information (and it's not just distance - in order to obey the compulsory attack mechanic, you must know where it is).
You homebrew the curse to obey the actual mechanics of the game, so that it doesn't leak anything because it doesn't need to. For example, you might re-word the curse so you only have to attack the vengeance target if you think you know where it is.
You always know where a creature is unless it is hidden.
"If you are hidden — both unseen and unheard — when you make an attack, you give away your location when the attack hits or misses."
If a creature is hidden it gives away its location - the character knows where the creature is. The character continues to know where the creature is until it either takes the hide action or the DM decides that it becomes unseen and unheard and is thus automatically hidden.
As long as a character with this cursed sword knows where the creature is, it has to try to attack it. The character has disadvantage on the attack since the target is invisible (assuming the character can't see the target but the invisible target can see the character). If the invisible target takes the hide action then its location is no longer known.
"On a failed save, you must attack the creature that damaged you until you drop to 0 hit points or it does, or until you can't reach the creature to make a melee attack against it."
What does can't reach the creature mean? As DM, I would rule that this means that the creature's location is known and it is possible for the character with the cursed weapon to attack that location (either already within reach or by moving). As such, if the invisible creature's location became unknown by it taking the hide action then I would rule that the character could no longer reach the creature and the effect of the curse would end on that target.
What does can't reach the creature mean? As DM, I would rule that this means that the creature's location is known and it is possible for the character with the cursed weapon to attack that location (either already within reach or by moving). As such, if the invisible creature's location became unknown by it taking the hide action then I would rule that the character could no longer reach the creature and the effect of the curse would end on that target.
I'd also rule it that way.
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Basically what the title says. What would you do if the target that attacks you is invisible or in a place where you cannot see them?
A refresher on what the sword does:
You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon.
Curse. This sword is cursed and possessed by a vengeful spirit. Becoming attuned to it extends the curse to you. As long as you remain cursed, you are unwilling to part with the sword, keeping it on your person at all times. While attuned to this weapon, you have disadvantage on attack rolls made with weapons other than this one.
In addition, while the sword is on your person, you must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw whenever you take damage in combat. On a failed save, you must attack the creature that damaged you until you drop to 0 hit points or it does, or until you can't reach the creature to make a melee attack against it.
My own thoughts are that you wouldn't go for an attack as you can't reach/see an invisible target. Nor could you reach the target if they are several hundred feet away.
"until you can't reach the creature' means the curse does not activate if someone is beyond your speed in distance.
Invisible is irrelevant. People attack invisible creatures all the time.
I think the issue at hand with an invisible enemy is, well... how do you know if it's within reach or not if you can't see it?
It's probably a matter of DM rulings on both counts, really, depending on how much of a problem they want the curse to be. It could be an interesting scenario if an NPC with a Sword of Vengeance ends up chasing someone across town and you have to chase after them in turn, just as one example.
You can still know the location of an invisible creature, unless it's also hidden.
Pretty much this. As far as I understand the RAW on invisibility, you basically know what 5' square an invisible creature is, you just have disadvantage to attack them (they don't fill the entire 5' square and can be bobbing and weaving, which you can't see, so disadvantage). Unless they are also hidden, which means now you are guessing where they are. May seem illogical, but if you take damage from them, and they stay invisible, you kind of know where the attack came from. But DM's can rule this differently, like my DM does, but that would be house rules at that point.
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There are two ways you can handle this.
You always know where a creature is unless it is hidden.
"If you are hidden — both unseen and unheard — when you make an attack, you give away your location when the attack hits or misses."
If a creature is hidden it gives away its location - the character knows where the creature is. The character continues to know where the creature is until it either takes the hide action or the DM decides that it becomes unseen and unheard and is thus automatically hidden.
As long as a character with this cursed sword knows where the creature is, it has to try to attack it. The character has disadvantage on the attack since the target is invisible (assuming the character can't see the target but the invisible target can see the character). If the invisible target takes the hide action then its location is no longer known.
"On a failed save, you must attack the creature that damaged you until you drop to 0 hit points or it does, or until you can't reach the creature to make a melee attack against it."
What does can't reach the creature mean? As DM, I would rule that this means that the creature's location is known and it is possible for the character with the cursed weapon to attack that location (either already within reach or by moving). As such, if the invisible creature's location became unknown by it taking the hide action then I would rule that the character could no longer reach the creature and the effect of the curse would end on that target.
I'd also rule it that way.