navyik wrote:"so is shevek owing us favors or no? We must be finding more examples of covenant that are putting a limit on what Dagan can expect from Tungo."
Among the many examples of Djinni Covenant Vozz and Ali discover, one seems very familiar...
"Late on the eve of battle, Sultan Amiq NazWe received a mysterious, bearded visitor who offered to trade his "might" in exchange for the use of the Sultan's "might" at a later time. He instructed the Sultan to speak his name aloud when his need arose. While surrounded by enemies, the Sultan spoke the Djinni's name. He became suddenly vested with a lustrous beard that fought as if a weapon itself, and shrugged off his enemy's weapons as if they were toys. The Sultan woke the next day deeply tired. Each time he invoked Covenant by uttering the name of the Djinni, he wielded its power in one battle, then spent the next battle exhausted, until one day, having dipped once too many times in the well - he uttered its name and dropped dead where he stood."
Game Mechanic
Djinni Pact, Devilish, DAGAN Supernatural AbilityPrerequisites: Covenant agreement with DAGAN
The Boon = Upon verbal invocation, the user is bestowed the following the augmentation for the duration of the immediate combat encounter.
A)
Furious Beard. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 6 (1d8 + 2) piercing damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. While poisoned in this way, the target can't regain hit points. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
B)
Damage Resistances: cold; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren't silvered
The Toll = A) The user makes a WIS saving throw at the beginning of the combat encounter immediately following the encounter where The Boon was invoked. A passed save results in the user incurring one level of Exhaustion for the duration of the encounter. A failed save results in the user incurring 1d6 levels of exhaustion for the duration of the encounter.
B) Once a user has invoked a Devilish Djinni Pact a number of times equal to their Wisdom score, a failed save results in the user incurring 2d6 levels of exhaustion for the duration of the encounter.
Exhaustion
Some special abilities and environmental hazards, such as starvation and the long-term effects of freezing or scorching
temperatures, can lead to a special condition called exhaustion. Exhaustion is measured in six levels. An effect can give a creature one or more levels of exhaustion, as specified in the effect’s description.
Level Effect
1 Disadvantage on ability checks
2 Speed halved
3 Disadvantage on attack rolls and saving throws
4 Hit point maximum halved
5 Speed reduced to 0
6 Death
If an already exhausted creature suffers another effect that causes exhaustion, its current level of exhaustion increases
by the amount specified in the effect’s description. A creature suffers the effect of its current level of exhaustion as well as all lower levels. For example, a creature suffering level 2 exhaustion has its speed halved and has disadvantage on ability checks.
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great stuff, GM!
