The title basically says it all: I have a homebrew +1 sword which is all set up so far. I want to give it this property: "you can grant yourself a +5 bonus to an attack roll; once you've done this, the next attack roll you make has a -5 penalty". Is there a way I can set that up or is that just something we'd have to remember?
You would have to remember. It seems balanced at face value but has room for abuse.
Does the bonus/penalty reset after every encounter or does the penalty persist? Meaning if you kill your target with the +5, does the -5 last until your first swing in the next fight?
If the penalty lasts until the next fight, what's to stop a PC from taking a -5 swipe at a field mouse so she can get a +5 when she wants it?
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The title basically says it all: I have a homebrew +1 sword which is all set up so far. I want to give it this property: "you can grant yourself a +5 bonus to an attack roll; once you've done this, the next attack roll you make has a -5 penalty". Is there a way I can set that up or is that just something we'd have to remember?
It’s just something you’re going to have to remember.
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You would have to remember. It seems balanced at face value but has room for abuse.
Does the bonus/penalty reset after every encounter or does the penalty persist? Meaning if you kill your target with the +5, does the -5 last until your first swing in the next fight?
If the penalty lasts until the next fight, what's to stop a PC from taking a -5 swipe at a field mouse so she can get a +5 when she wants it?
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale