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As a boring killjoy D&D rules lawyer, I might point out that this will definitely lead to “them” winning, since you are killed when you attune, and therefore can never deal the 1d8 bludgeoning + 30d12 radiant damage.
Isn't attuning only for magic properties that you have to activate? The post seems to treat it like something it just does, like a silver weapon.
I’m not aware of any nonmagical items that require attunement, so I think that point also stands. If you were to use such an item without attunement and it were magic, you would do the bludgeoning damage and not the radiant damage.
It's non magical, therefore attunement is not required for the effect. Attuning is a process, right? You spend time with the item, maybe fiddle with all the bits, really understand what it does and how it works. If you attempt to undertake that process with this item it will kill you.
Furthermore, that extra damage should really be conditional, you might not always close the demon core on impact. Maybe on an 8 for damage it's such a direct hit that the radiant damage triggers
The effect is not instant, you only die days later. Short term (like a fight) there is no change.
Mmm this is a good interpretation. You get radiation poisoning and only die later. If for whatever reason, this item appeared at my table and we needed to adjudicate this, I would totally accept this reading.
Past a certain point death is a formality in d&d, so I don't think that's true.
I thought death broke attunement, and you had to reattune after being resurrected?
You are right, forgot about that. But someone else mentioned already it's nonmagical so i guess the attunement caveat is just for flavour