Thurbane
2020-07-13, 04:38 PM
I thought this might go outside of the scope of the Simple RAW thread, but I have questions about using the Teeth of Dahlver-Nar (ToM p.77); specifically about the Influence of the associated Vestige.
When the tooth is in your mouth, you show the sign of the associated vestige, just as you would if you had actually bound it. In addition, you are automatically under its influence, as though you were a binder who had failed a binding check. If you choose to ignore the vestige’s influence, you take the normal penalty for doing so. The penalty lasts until the tooth is removed, but you can still use its power. As normal, the penalties of ignoring the influences of multiple vestiges stack.
If you are conscious and free-willed, and you encounter a situation in which you cannot or will not refrain from a prohibited action or perform a required one, you take a –1 penalty on attack rolls, saving throws, and checks until that vestige leaves you.
Is my reading correct that if you go against the Influence of the Vestige associated with the Tooth or Teeth you have in your mouth, you get a cumulative penalty that never goes away until you rip the tooth out of your mouth and re-insert it - which entails a new 24 hour attunement process, and the loss of a new (natural) tooth each time until you get them Regenerated?
If all of this is correct, then the much vaunted Tooth of Savnok is not all its cracked up to be, at least in my opinion (especially once you factor in that without additional magics etc., you cannot sleep in heavy armor)...
Cheers - T
When the tooth is in your mouth, you show the sign of the associated vestige, just as you would if you had actually bound it. In addition, you are automatically under its influence, as though you were a binder who had failed a binding check. If you choose to ignore the vestige’s influence, you take the normal penalty for doing so. The penalty lasts until the tooth is removed, but you can still use its power. As normal, the penalties of ignoring the influences of multiple vestiges stack.
If you are conscious and free-willed, and you encounter a situation in which you cannot or will not refrain from a prohibited action or perform a required one, you take a –1 penalty on attack rolls, saving throws, and checks until that vestige leaves you.
Is my reading correct that if you go against the Influence of the Vestige associated with the Tooth or Teeth you have in your mouth, you get a cumulative penalty that never goes away until you rip the tooth out of your mouth and re-insert it - which entails a new 24 hour attunement process, and the loss of a new (natural) tooth each time until you get them Regenerated?
If all of this is correct, then the much vaunted Tooth of Savnok is not all its cracked up to be, at least in my opinion (especially once you factor in that without additional magics etc., you cannot sleep in heavy armor)...
Cheers - T