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, effects like  Heavy Armour Master do not help, but  Blade Ward and Magical Plate do.
• 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,' the chance to inflict  Bane on hit is 100%.
• If at 50% health or higher and an enemy is knocked out by  Non-Lethal Damage with this axe, the wielder is also knocked out, even at full HP.