Death Curse

• • Was activated 20 days ago.

  • Anyone who has previously been brought back from the dead begins to waste away.

  • Their hit point max is reduced by 20, and decreases by 1 every midnight. Once at 0 hit points, they die.

  • The soul of anyone who dies is trapped in the Soulmonger. An atropal eats the souls. Once it has enough, it will become an evil god.

  • Liches can't trap souls in their phylacteries.

  • The spells revivify, raise dead, resurrection, and true resurrection do not work.

  • The Soulmonger does not affect pre-existing ghosts and spirits. Speak with dead and other spells like it still work normally.

  • When a soul is trapped in the Soulmonger, roll a d20 each day. On a roll of 1, the soul is destroyed.

  • Spells like commune and divination can determine if a soul ha been destroyed yet.

  • The DM decides when the atropal has enough souls to become a guide. It could be months or years.

Meatgrinder Mode: If you want, you can say that the Soulmonger make it so that you only pass a death save on a roll of 15+ instead of 10+.

If a Character Dies: They can't be raised. They need to use a new character.