Aura of Hate

Aura of Hate is a class action of Oathbreaker paladins. It gives bonus damage to the paladin and any nearby weapon-using fiends or undead.

Description

You and any nearby fiends and undead gain additional damage to melee weapon attacks equal to your Charisma Modifier.

Properties

Details

 Range: Self

 AoE: 3 m (10 ft) Radius

Technical details

UID

Shout_AuraOf_Hate

Condition: Aura of Hate (aura)

 Aura of Hate

Duration: Permanent

• This creature and all fiends and undead within 3 m (10 ft) gain this creature's charisma modifier as a bonus to their melee weapon damage.

How to learn

Classes:

• Class level 7: Oathbreaker

Notes

• The effect applies to weapon attacks made by all nearby fiends and undead, including enemies.
• For allies, this mainly only affects the Paladin triggering the aura, as no undead summons in the game have melee weapons. However,  Planar Ally: Cambion,  Planar Binding, and  Control Undead, while all somewhat situational, can be used to gain allies affected by the buff.
• Despite being a categorised as undead for the purposes of some effects and spells,  Astarion is listed as a humanoid within Baldur's Gate 3, and as such his attacks are unaffected by this buff.
• Despite the fact that he is transformed into a fiend upon refusing to slay  Karlach,  Wyll's attacks are unaffected by this buff.

Bugs

• The tooltip always displays the damage type of the paladin's weapon, even though each creature gains bonus damage of the same type as their own weapon.