Cannibal RingSource Ultimate Equipment pg. 344, Advanced Player's Guide pg. 310
Aura strong transmutation CL 16th
Slot ring; Weight —DescriptionThis simple and unadorned copper ring appears slightly
tarnished, but seemingly wards off the effects of hunger or
other sorts of deprivation; all tests reveal it to be a ring of
sustenance. However, after wearing it for 7 days, its owner
instead comes to suffer from almost constant hunger and
thirst, which, if not sated, ultimately drives him mad enough
to become a cannibal. The wearer must eat and drink a full
day’s worth of food and water each hour to avoid making a
starvation or thirst check. Once the wearer starts to take lethal
damage instead of nonlethal damage due to failed checks, he
begins to experience ever more powerful cravings for the flesh
of intelligent creatures (any living creature with an Intelligence
of 3 or higher).
Once the wearer feasts in such a manner, he recovers all
nonlethal damage sustained from hunger and thirst, though he
continues to suffer lethal damage on failed starvation and thirst
checks. The next time he is in a situation in which he could eat
part of an intelligent being, he must make a DC 15 Will save
or dine on the forbidden meat. If the wearer succumbs to this
urge again, he recovers all lethal damage from failed starvation
and thirst checks, and realizes cannibalism is the key to avoiding
the increased hunger and thirst—on any day he eats at least
one meal of flesh from an intelligent creature, he does not have
to make hourly starvation and thirst checks, and recovers any
accumulated damage from failing these checks. Once its curse
activates, the ring cannot be removed until the curse is broken.ConstructionRequirements ring of sustenance; Cost —
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