Level Up (A5E) Does Power Word Kill need errata?

[Chaltab]

Target: One creature
With but a word you snuff out the target’s life and it immediately dies. If you cast this on a creature with more than 100 hit points, it takes 50 hit points of damage.

So this may be overly pedantic, but as written the spell kills the target no matter their hit points and deals pointless damage on top of that to creatures with more than 100. Compare to PWS:

You utter a powerful word that stuns a target with 150 hit points or less. At the end of the target’s turn, it makes a Constitution saving throw to end the effect. If the target has more than 150 hit points, it is instead rattled until the end of its next turn.

while no sane narrator would use this interpretation, i figure it's still something worth fixing for consistency's sake.

 

[TheConflicted]

Someone please response other than me, I just found out about this myself and I'm so confused.

 

[Verall]

Someone please response other than me, I just found out about this myself and I'm so confused.

I think you mean conflicted

 

[Morrus]

Yes, it should have the word "instead" at the end.