Hellflame Cleave
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Hellfire Greataxe which cleaves through an area, covering it with deadly hellfire.
Description
Spew hellish flames and strike your foes.
Hellfire ignores resistance and immunity to 
damage.
Properties
- Cost
Action
- Damage: 2~12
- Details
DEX Save (Spell save DC) (On Save: Targets still take half damage.)
AoE: 3 m / 10 ft (Cone)- Creates Area: Hellfire
Recharge: Short rest
Normal weapon damage
+ 2d6
Condition: Roiling Hellfire
Duration: 1 turn
Spell save DC Dexterity saving throw
6d6 (6~36) - Flames from the heart of Avernus engulf this entity, inflicting 6d6 damage per turn.
Area: Hellfire
Hellfire Duration: 2 turns
AoE: 3 m / 10 ft (Cone)
Deals 6d6 Fire damage per turn that ignores Resistances and Immunities.
Type: Surface
Condition: Roiling Hellfire
6d6 (6~36) - Flames from the heart of Avernus engulf this entity, inflicting 6d6 damage per turn.
How to learn
Notes
- This weapon action does not count as an attack for the purposes of
and requires a full 
Action to use. - Instead, this is actually classified as a cantrip which results in some unexpected interactions.
- It can be
. - A sorcerer can apply Metamagic to it. The applicable options are
, 
, 
, 
, and perhaps most importantly, 
. - It benefits from spell and cantrip specific damage bonuses like
and 
Necklace of Elemental Augmentation. - It activates Eldritch Knight's
. - It can still be cast while
.
- It can be
- The Roiling Hellfire condition is applied by both the weapon action itself and the
Hellfire surface it creates. Even if a target saves against the attack, it will still be inflicted with Roiling Hellfire cause by the surface.
Bugs
- Despite the tooltip saying that Hellfire ignores resistances and immunities, it does not.
- Since this attack does not involve an attack roll, it does not benefit from certain bonus damage sources which check the attack roll type despite listing the additional damage on the tooltip. These include:
