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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7736445" data-attributes="member: 6775031">It's more like the 2E taunt spell than the sleep spell. The magic is supposed to be in the ritual: if you mock someone hard enough, they take meta-physical damage to their confidence (or whatever), in the same way that they get mad at you if you throw a pie at them.At least, that's how I read it. The 5E description of how the psychic damage type works is severely lacking, but the description of vicious mockery says that it is a string of insults laced with subtle enchantments. If it's supposed to work by convincing the target that they're already dead, such that their body shreds itself out of belief, then that's really not coming across in the presentation.</blockquote>