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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cheiromancer" data-source="post: 5840755" data-attributes="member: 141">Familicide is *way* overpowered. And I'm not entirely clear on how it works. I think "directly related" means "either an ancestor or a descendent". So if the Ancient Black Dragon (ABD) was the target, her parents, grandparents, etc. would all be killed, as would any children, grandchildren, etc.. Any ancestors or descendents of the people killed in step one are then killed in step two. But the spell then stops.Which means that if the Sire of All Black Dragons were alive, it would be targeted in step one; if SABD were killed, all other black dragons would also be killed. Since that didn't happen, either there is no SABD, or he resisted the spell (due to divinity, or whatever). The same would be true for the Mother of All Black Dragons, who I suppose would be Tiamat. I think if someone were a childless orphan then familicide wouldn't kill anyone. Does that sound right? Even if the target had umpteen brothers and sisters, the spell needs to kill the parents before it can kill the parents' other children. Otherwise familicide would kill the target's species, assuming that any two members of the same species have a common ancestor.</blockquote>