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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3448714" data-attributes="member: 13966">Power Word: Kill is a bad example.  You speak the word, the target dies.  The only way the cleric could've stopped it that way would be with a Quickened Cure Light Wounds, or a specific counterspell to the PWK (either a dispel magic or similar, or a PWK of his own if he somehow had such).And technically, the cleric shouldn't know it's a Power Word, Kill until it's probably halfway spoken anyway, using a Spellcraft check to identify after he's heard enough to place it.  He shouldn't know it's something a quickened CLW could stop until it was probably or almost too late; given the nature of PWK, I'd probably force him to make an opposed Reflex save to react to the Word in time with a quickened spell word.  And technically (...again), Power Word Kill is one of the only high-level spells that can be thwarted by a very low-level spell, simply because of its unusual success condition; it's far from being the norm.  You don't stop Wail of the Banshee or Meteor Swarm with a 1st or 2nd level spell, or even Dominate Monster (a Protection from Evil could suppress it, but only for about a second before the Dominate caster gets irked and casts a Quickened Dispel Magic to get rid of the pesky Protection spell; even PfE can't really prevent Dominate Monster, it's just a roadbump along the way to that spell's success).</blockquote>