Tempered Soul Usage Log
A running record of every time a member of Deez Nuts spends Tempered Soul. The feat was granted to the whole party when they signed the Compact in Session 50, so the log begins there.
Why we track this: Tempered Soul is meant to be narrated, not just rolled. Per the DM's rule (S50): each use, the player tells the table what they are feeling, what they are using it to empower, and how they envision that power coming about. Logging all three — with a verbatim quote — keeps a record of how each character calls on it.
How to log a use
For every spend, add a row to that character's table below:
- Session it happened in.
- Empowered — the exact roll or effect (an attack, a save, a save DC raised, a check, a harvest roll).
- Feeling & how they described it — the emotion, memory, or instinct, quoted verbatim.
- Outcome — did the d4 change the result?
Prelude — the return strikes (Session 50)
Before the feat was formally granted, each soul returning from the Hells imbued one action with more power than they had ever managed — the DM had each player roll a d4, add it, and describe what they felt. These six simultaneous strikes killed Arauthator (89 damage, all at once). They are the feat's origin and are logged here for the record.
| Character |
Empowered |
Feeling & how described (quote) |
Outcome
|
| Keyleth |
Longbow shot (the first strike; Hunter's Mark re-cast) — 16 + d4(2) = 18 |
Infernal rage: "Well, some infernal rage I felt, I believe. Anger. And, pixies were all fired up. They're more swarm and bug-like. And so I channeled a lot of that, the rage into it, and drew back my bow, and… let loose." |
Hit — and time itself slowed after her arrow, letting the others strike as one
|
| Xanphina |
Returning Trident throw — 17 + d4 |
Rage at the whole ordeal: "Obviously, rage. Rage at… how long and hard I already have been fighting him. And having gone literally to hell and back. And still being here fighting him… I felt it as I threw my trident, and I just put all of it into the throw." |
Hit
|
| Baelgrum |
Guiding Bolt (his first act with the party — "Dragonfight! I think I like you people already.") |
Cold rage / revenge: "Anger. A need for revenge… [a dragon] actually burned my brother to death in a grain store as he was trying to protect our village. So… the past 3 years has been sort of a revenge tour on dragons and cultists. It's cold rage." |
Hit
|
| Karma |
Blight — d4(1) added to the Constitution save DC (first-ever save-DC use) |
Total conviction: "Pure confidence. I have never felt so confident that this will strike true in my entire life." |
Dragon failed; Blight burned deep
|
| Shade |
Chromatic Orb (4th level) — 24 to hit + d4 |
Power: "I'm feeling super fucking smart. And… powerful. And so I'm just, like, putting all my power into it." |
Hit
|
| Gootcha |
Silence — 20-ft sphere over the dragon, d4 rolled into the effect |
The Raven Queen: "I am feeling annoyed. And I am also feeling the Raven Queen through me. Tell[ing] me to silence him. And end him." |
The kill landed in eerie, total silence
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Usage by character
Baelgrum
| # |
Session |
Empowered |
Feeling & how described (quote) |
Outcome
|
| 1 |
S50 |
Attack — last charge of his Orb of Dragon's Breath (fire) vs. the Hydra |
Revulsion → protectiveness: "I'm feeling revulsion seeing this monstrosity on my friggin' boat. And I am channeling this energy to protect my new friends." |
+3 → hit (24); 23 damage, Hydra down to two heads
|
| 2 |
S50 |
Save DC — raised the Wisdom save DC of his 4th-level Spirit Guardians vs. the Dragon Turtle to 19 |
Confidence + protectiveness + awe: "I'm feeling… Confidence? … want to sort of protect these [good] people. I'm also feeling bewilderment at all the shit I've seen in… the one day I've been with this group. It's a [mixed] bag, for sure." |
Turtle rolled a natural 1, failed the DC 19; 19 radiant + speed halved
|
| 3 |
S51 |
Wisdom save (DC 15) — volunteering to open Halvard's bolted chest of 3,000 red coins |
Duty to strangers: "Disbelief at… how my abilities are turning out today… while I was not involved in this particular escapade to start this, I am feeling like it is necessary for us to try and help these people out." |
12 + d4(4) = 16 — the d4 was the whole margin; avoided the curse's failed-save rider (it can command him to move or cast)
|
| 4 |
S51 |
Spell attack — touching the hostile dockmaster Bargus with Remove Curse (had already hit; spent it anyway; second spend without a long rest between, allowed at the table) |
Responsibility / setting things right: "We're pretty far into this at this point. I'm feeling a sense of responsibility to try and help this guy out. Considering we were… in a roundabout way, the cause of this. So yeah, responsibility, trying to set things right." |
28 → 31; the curse "washes through him very powerfully" — Bargus uniquely kept his memories of the coins calling to him
|
Keyleth
| # |
Session |
Empowered |
Feeling & how described (quote) |
Outcome
|
| 1 |
S50 |
Attack — longbow reaction shot (Captain Larusta's command) vs. the Hydra |
(No clear inspiration named) fear/anger: "I can't think of an inspiration right now. Other than fear, I'm very upset about the dead people up front, angry, as usual… I'm gonna go ahead and add that on there and get it used." |
Hit; 12 damage + 4 Hunter's Mark — helped take out one of the last two heads
|
| 2 |
S50 |
Harvesting roll — Dragon Turtle carcass (d4 = 1) |
Vengeful & righteous: "as I start harvesting the corpse… I find myself relishing it more than I probably would have in the past. Feeling vengeful and righteous." |
Result deferred
|
| 3 |
S51 |
Wisdom save — retconned at session end onto the psychic pulse from the first coin-melt at the Half Moon Street forge |
Ancestral guidance: "Channel the wisdom of my elders, and looking to them for guidance. Feeling pretty confident in that role." (DM: "you added that to harden your heart and your mind… protecting your mind.") |
Shielded her mind from the infernal pulse
|
Shade
| # |
Session |
Empowered |
Feeling & how described (quote) |
Outcome
|
| 1 |
S50 |
Attack — Chromatic Orb (fire) vs. the Hydra |
Pure confidence: "what I'm feeling is just, like, pure confidence." |
Hit (32); 40 fire damage — killed the Hydra
|
| 2 |
S50 |
Attack — 3rd-level Chromatic Orb (acid) vs. the Dragon Turtle, rolled "just in case I miss" |
Bloodlust + confidence + anger: "the feelings that I have right now are, like, bloodlust and confidence… all my new power has been wonderful. And I'm really mad, because I also got some of his steam." |
Hit (24); 30 acid damage
|
| 3 |
S51 |
Wisdom save (DC 20) — the infernal pulse of 2,400 coins melting inside the Host Tower vault |
Confidence, and pyromania: "I too am feeling confident that we can do this. And I like fire." |
Took 2 psychic (halved from 4); steeled "through confidence, resolve, and just an absolute love of fire"
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Gootcha
| # |
Session |
Empowered |
Feeling & how described (quote) |
Outcome
|
| 1 |
S50 |
Long-rest Constitution save / Survival check (DC 18) |
Longing for rest: "My intention is that I need rest, and I'm looking forward to sweet dreams." |
Not individually resolved on-screen
|
| 2 |
S50 |
Hex — d4 (rolled 1) applied to the Dragon Turtle's Dexterity saves while hexed (DM ruling: disadvantage −1) |
Memory of the slain dragon: "As I'm hexing him, I am thinking of a memory of the dragon… that we just killed." |
The turtle failed every Dexterity save for the rest of the fight — javelin of lightning, Erupting Earth, and the wolves all landed full
|
| 3 |
S51 |
Sleight of Hand — mid-attempt reroll pickpocketing a Kurth bridge guard (with Baelgrum's Guidance) |
Her old self: "I'm feeling like I am out of practice… I'm feeling my past and how good I used to be at this. Feeling like I got this." |
Success — 20 gold (18 of them red coins, the discovery that cracked the whole mystery) plus a gold ring with a blue gemstone
|
Xanphina
| # |
Session |
Empowered |
Feeling & how described (quote) |
Outcome
|
| 1 |
S50 |
Long-rest Constitution save / Survival check (DC 18) |
— no emotion narrated (purely mechanical): "I'm gonna use mine, too." |
Not individually resolved
|
| 2 |
S50 |
Harvesting roll — Dragon Turtle carcass (d4 = 2) |
Rage: "I'm viewing my harvesting with rage, because I'm still raging, so that's what I feel." |
12 total (result deferred)
|
| 3 |
S51 |
Strength (Athletics) — tearing the dockmaster's bolted-down coin box off his desk (had already passed with 21; spent it anyway) |
Accomplishment: "I'm feeling… a small amount, a feeling like accomplishment that we are making progress in helping to right this wrong that we have done to this town." |
The bolts sheared and flew across the room — the box came free like it was nailed down with paper
|
Karma
| # |
Session |
Empowered |
Feeling & how described (quote) |
Outcome
|
| 1 |
S50 |
Long-rest Constitution save / Survival check (DC 18) |
— no emotion narrated (purely mechanical): "Might as well use mine." |
Not individually resolved
|
| 2 |
S50 |
Harvesting roll — Dragon Turtle carcass (herbalism kit) |
Curiosity: "Pure curiosity and interest. I want to know what we're going to be able to make from this." |
26 ("close")
|
| 3 |
S51 |
Wisdom save (DC 20) — the infernal pulse of the vault melt she herself triggered with Flaming Sphere |
Hardened resolve: "I'm going to feel… just hardened resolve and confidence flow through me. Maybe it was misplaced confidence, but it was confidence nonetheless." |
Took 2 psychic (halved from 4)
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Declined or deferred uses
Also part of the record — moments a character weighed the surge and held it:
- Gootcha (S50, Ice Spider Queen): a hopeless roll — "even 4 points isn't gonna get me anywhere."
- Keyleth (S50, Dragon Turtle): offered mid-fight, chose the Hellhound Whistle's Erupting Earth instead and saved the surge for the harvest.
- Gootcha (S51, stables heist): offered a retcon on the stealth or lockpicking check — "Actually, you know what, I'm gonna save it, because we might need to stealth our way into another place." (First deliberate hoarding of the surge.)
- Baelgrum (S51, the vault): passed the DC 20 clean — "I guess it doesn't matter. I was gonna say Tempered Soul."
Tally
Feat uses only (the S50 return strikes are logged in the Prelude above and not counted here).