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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 4167179" data-attributes="member: 114">War devil - what's up with the ongoing damage?I'm getting a little frustrated by entries that talk about 'ongoing damage' when there is no indication what its about.The war devil has thisSo what does this ongoing damage represent? Does it suggest that the war devil is twisting the trident in the wound? But that wouldn't gibe with the Trident getting 'recharged' and able to use on someone else, so it must be something else... but what?How can a DM explain what is happening without some kind of extra descriptive hint here?  When you tell the player he takes 5 ongoing damage, and they say "from what?", what do you say?It would have made more sense to me if it had been 5 ongoing damage (save ends or devil chooses to end it), and (recharge when nobody is suffering ongoing damage from it); That gives the clear sense that the war devil has impaled you with the trident and is giving it a good twisting (and in the meantime might be using his claw), but if he wants to zap someone else with it he has to release you from its tines (or you make your save and wiggle free from the tines and so he is free to use it again).Regards</blockquote>