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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 6514579" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!  Re: Power Word - Kill  I think the 100hp is a *smidge* low... IMC it's going to be 120hp. That said, I never look at spells from the perspective of what horrendously powerful creatures said spell level would "likely be used against". I always look at spells from the power level of "how effective would this be against a Commoner? A Sargent of the Watch? Or the Kings Champion?". Now, admittedly, my campaigns are generally "low-level oriented" in terms of levels of NPC's. A commoner will NEVER have more than about 10hp. Period. The Sgt. of the Watch may be the equivilent of a 3rd level fighter...so, call it, 20hp. The Kings Champion...probably looking at 8th to 11th level or so (if he was higher level than that, he'd probably have his own keep/castle). For him, call it 50hp to 70hp. Bottom line...PW:K will easily kill *any* of them. In short, the powers that a mid to high level PC (let alone an entire adventuring company) can bring to bare is awesome. You know those Expendables movies? The last one, the 3rd I think, had them fighting more or less an *army* of soldiers, with helicopters, hundreds of soldiers, and some tanks. Against...what...six or seven "PC's"? Guess who won. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Now, would you use PW:K against one of the soldiers? Nope. Against the BBEG? Again, nope. Against the BBEG's prized henchman? Sure thing!I think the main reason for the 100hp limit is really simple: when fighting epic monsters like Demon Lord's, Dragons, etc., it keep's the spell from changing it's name to "Power Word: Win".^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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