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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack Simth" data-source="post: 4099457" data-attributes="member: 29252">It's not part of the SRD, but it is OGL (and a lot of places that host the SRD also host the OGL portions of UA).  You'd want to read the section in UA on that for the full details.First guess is that it's a small sample as part of a review (specifically permitted in the general case copyright law; the book reviewer in the newspaper needs pay no royalties to JK Rowling when quoting a line of text from Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix when reviewing it) - second guess is an advertising sampler deal with the publisher, seeing as how they've got a link to a place where you can buy the book(s) it's in for each and every thing where they list detailed text.Fair enough.Short Answer:There's much better things to do with your standard action in the middle of battle than apply direct damage.  The stuff you'll be hitting at that point is unlikely to go away in less than four hits of 20d6 direct damage (you can actually get 32d6 total damage to one creature with a 9th level spell at caster level 17 - see Meteor Swarm - but it still pales in comparison to Wail of the Banshee's one-spell kill on 17+ creatures in a 40 foot radius spread).</blockquote>