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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 507365" data-attributes="member: 5834">ReOn Page 4 of the Monsters FAQ on the Wizards website, the Sage is asked if Phantasmal Killer will kill a troll. The Sage replied "that regneration does not protect against death effects or other special effects that cause death such as massive damage, drowning, starvation, or having one's constitution score lessened to zero."His answer might be construed as meaning he views Phantasmal Killer as a death effect. Nowhere does he state that the spell falls into the second category of "other special effects that cause death". Nowhere does he indicate that death caused by fear is not a death effect, but a "special effect that causes death". Disintegrate is not a save or die in the same way as any normal death spell or even Phantasmal Killer. Disintegrate kills by turning you to a pile of dust. If you are an extremely large creature, one could even rule that disintegrate only destroys one of your limbs or a part of your body. If one is an ooze, you could rule that only a portion of the ooze is destroyed.You can disintegrate a sword or wall just as easily as you could a living thing. You cannot however cast Phantasmal Killer or any of the Death spells on a non-living object including undead.In practice, disintegrate brings about death, but technically it is not a death spell because it can be used in many other ways. It does not solely deal out death. Phantasmal Killer on the other hand does nothing but cause the death of a living target.</blockquote>

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