Death Knell????

[Lawmage]

Is the death knell spell a death effect?

The spell does not specifically say. The reason I ask is because in a session I am running, one of the bad guy's (a half-fiend human cleric) used death knell to kill one of the character's who was down for the count. Given that raise dead cannot restore a character slain by a death effect, you can see why this is important to me and the players.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Is the death knell spell a death effect?

Check the descriptors.

Death Knell
Necromancy [Death, Evil]

-Hyp.

 

[Lawmage]

Well, Duhhhh....

LOL. Actually, I was not quite sure that the Death descriptor would automatically make it a death effect in the same sense that a bodak gaze or a catelopeas would be. The whole save or die type thing since the DK spell just sort of hastens the dying process rather than creating it from scratch....I must just have been over analyzing the problem...