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#1 Batla76 Sep 12, 2014 13:36:12	Does anyone else find it insanely overpowered to give a Lvl 7ish player a legendary weapon like Hazirawn in Hoard of the Dragon Queen   Example: Lvl 7 Frenzy/rage Barbarian with a 16str would be dishing out 12d6 + 28(rage,str,weapon bonus) per round while raging, with advantage!    Weapon 2d6 Attuned +2d6 3 attacks    64 average dmg per round with a high probability of not missing?
#2 MonsterEnvy Sep 12, 2014 23:03:01	It's a cool weapon. But it's also evil. There could be a pretty major downside when we find about how Intelligent weapons.
#3 Atheosis Sep 12, 2014 23:09:45	I would say yes if the DM running the game just hands it over without thinking things through and potentially punishing the players for using an evil artifact.  Veteran DMs will generally know better, but the fact that they don't give any notes on how to use the item is rather lame.  I could see it becoming an issue in such games.
#4 Kentus Sep 13, 2014 3:21:34	As long as there is no further explanaition in RoT, I'll simply use some of the rules of the playtest, like Test of Wills, and the fact, that attuning to an item means to open yourself to it. Not a good choice, if you're opposed to its alignment in some way.   +1 and 1d6 necrotic damage without attunment: Not gamebreaking.   All the cool stuff when attuning: Hazirawn is intelligent and in charge of its powers. So maybe even an evil character might use time and energy to increase the sympathy the swords feels about him/her.   The simple way to avoid getting players to attune themself to the item is: Let Hazirawn suggest attuning it by itself. When Hazirawn tell them a bit about the power in waiting for them and the players makes a Wisdom (Insight) roll DC 10 to get the feeling, that it might not be the best idea to do, what an evil swords tells you to do, most players will get cautios. If not, then let Hazirawn unattune itself, when the wielder is performin good natured deeds or even do creepy stuff while said character is sleeping. A weapon which always points at your throat when waking up, regardless of how you stow it away, will most likely do the job. Especially if the point comes closer each day.   It's a powerful weapon, but even with all its powers it's for the moment the strongest weapon in a campaign (until RoT, I think), but there were other powerful items in the playtest and comes quite close to Hazirawn. The only thing I'd be worried about is the fact, that no other magic item in HotDQ is nearly as powerful, which means, that the wielder might go ahead for some time. But like I said: Either granting only some access or using the evil alignment to its fullest should do the job.