Living Voodoo Doll (3.5e Feat)

Author: Zhenra-Khal (talk) Date Created: 4/6/2017 Status: Complete, but open to suggestions. Editing: Clarity edits only please

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Living Voodoo Doll [General] The priestess shouted and drove the dagger into her own stomach, gleefully twisting the blade and swishing it around within. Across the room, your Fighter begins coughing up blood.Benefit: You have a unique empathic bond with those you connect to by other means. This has very little effect without the ability to create a connection to someone (Such as a Mythbinder's Spellshaping ability, or more likely, a Witch Doctor's Voodoo Curse), but if you have such an ability, you gain the Blood For Blood ability. Blood For Blood allows you to, once a link has been established, transfer your pain. Specifically, when you are struck by a damaging or harmful effect, you and the creature with which you have a link make opposed Will saving throws. Whichever loses the opposed roll takes the full effect of the attack or ability. This means, for example, you could hit a target with a touch spell from across the room by simply targeting yourself - A willing target, thus no attack roll required - With the touch spell, but they are allowed an opposed Will save to resist, and if you lose the opposed roll, you take the full effect of the spell yourself.

Furthermore, if you have the ability to make a Voodoo Curse specifically (Which already allows you to inflict wounds and effects upon a target without making an opposed save, but the target is still allowed a Will save to resist and you cannot effect them with damage and abilities used by outside sources), then you can use your own body instead of making a voodoo doll. This functions as a normal Voodoo Curse in all aspects, except that you cannot use it with the Big Bad Hoodoo ability, and the Consume Doll ability works without consuming and destroying the doll (Since the "doll" in this case is your own body and eating yourself is a bad idea). In this case, the opposed roll is only used when transferring effects from outside sources, such as causing the target of our Voodoo Curse to take the damage they just caused you with a weapon attack, for example. In all other cases, if the target makes their successful Will or Fortitude save, the effect simply doesn't occur, as normal for the Voodoo Curse. Special: This feat can only be taken at 1st level, as it represents a magical mutation that occurred at birth.

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