Need help with death throes

[GodsMercenary8]

Ok. So here's the deal. My friend is making a fantasy/superpower campaign and he said we could make anything we wanted. So I decided to make one of my favorites. I have everything ready except one thing. Her trump card. This trump card is similar to a death throe but it's not quite a death throe. It's actually an item. A pendant actually that basically stores a 3600 point Demon Prince. Not quite that powerful but crazy strong nonetheless. This Demon Prince can only manifest through the use of a specific phrase. The act of summoning him however, completely destroys the character. So my question is as follows. How do I make a limitation of "kills the character" and how much would that limitation be worth? And if you guys would help me out a bit more, I would like to know how you guys would make this pendant. You can of course just make up some random creature you would like to use as a guide.

[Christopher]

Side Effect: Character Dies (Extrem Side Effect; Side Effect alwas occurs; -2)

 

About the value: Usually the maximum value.

However a abundance of Reviving magic in the setting (and especially in the group) or the Presence of a Resurrection Regeneration can lower that value quite a bit.

[Lucius]

What's this abyssal abomination going to DO if it gets to manifest?

 

If a shaggy monstrous form suddenly looms over the shattered body covering it in inky shadow as all recoil from the sulfurous stench as it laughs "I'm free! After seven accursed centuries I am FREE!" and then says "I'm out of here guys, I got a lower plane to catch" and goes away, only pausing to snatch up the character's cadaver as a snack, perhaps it shouldn't cost anything.

 

Lucius Alexander

 

The palindromedary says in that case, "I'm FREEE!" refers also to the cost (or lack of cost) in Character Points.

[GhostDancer]

Ahhhhhh, but if our intrepid foe(s) interrupt the Demon Prince, such as...

"I'm free! After seven accursed centuries I am FREE!"

"I stab him with my +5 Holy Avenger sword before he can do anything!"

Oh, and proposed name for the Demon Prince...The Dread Gazebo.

 

[Alverant]

You may also want to add 1 charge that doesn't recover if the item is destroyed when activated. Or even just a 1 charge if it isn't.

[Lawnmower Boy]

Christopher has kind of gotten to the heart of this. "Death throw" powers might be good narrative, but they make for bad roleplaying. Even if players don't find a way to munchkinise them, there's always the "time to roll up another character" thing.

[Lucius]

Christopher raises a good point - is the character's death necessarily then PERMANENT?

 

The original poster didn't ask if it was a good idea (it's probably not) they asked for help with it. But without knowing such things as what this Hellish creature is supposed to DO, or whether the summoner's death is final, it's hard to know how to help.

 

Lucius Alexander

 

The palindromedary still likes the idea of an impressively monstrous being appearing, casually swallowing the corpse, then sauntering off through a momentarily existing extradimensional portal, never to be heard from again. Elegantly simple and costs no points.