Reverse-engineering the dagger, 'heartripper' comes to a flat additional price of 9,000 gp.
I plan on making heartripper claws (spiked gauntlet described as having bladed claws instead of knuckle spikes; mechanically identical) and have come across a few points to ponder:
What action is used to consume the heart? If you choose not to, how long can you carry the heart around with you? Can you carry multiple hearts for later use? Is this completely horrifying?
Speaking a command word is a standard action, so you can't do it at the same time as extracting the heart. Eating it, on the other hand, is not so clear. That might be a standard action as well (the same as drinking a potion or using any other general consumable)?
It looks like the heart consumption is part of the coup de grac . But given it has effects if the heart by dm discretion held the powers given there is an effect consuming it would likely be a standard action.
What I'd like to know is, does this render the Coup de Grace instantly fatal?
There aren't any rules for dying when your hart is removed as far as I'm aware.
That just makes it more awesome. :P
Imagine being paralysed (hold person) and then seeing your heart removed before your eyes. Yet somehow, you do not die. You are released, and from that day forth the silent hollow in your chest reminds you that you are no longer truly alive nor undead, but something unknown, lingering on the border between.
Maybe you should become immune to bleed attacks and effects that specifically target the heart after surviving that. :D
So, has anyone here played Dragon's Dogma?
Yes... yes I have :)
I agree completely. I think it's still underpriced if it only works on sentient beings.
This one, however, is intended for but a single target. ;)
No mass-producing hearts for shenanigans. This weapon exists for a single purpose: Revenge.