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<blockquote data-quote="jlhorner1974" data-source="post: 743858" data-attributes="member: 8628">Your question actually makes me think about whether Death Ward should stop Quivering Palm...To answer your question though, the Quivering Palm strike only starts the vibrations, which are not fatal in itself, so Death Ward does not prevent this.&nbsp; The death effect occurs when the Monk wills the target to die, so that is when Death Ward needs to be up to prevent death from occurring.Edit: The more I think of it, Quivering Palm really seems to be right in that gray area of whether it should be prevented or not.&nbsp; It is indeed a magical death effect in a general sense (it does not work in anti-magic and it is a save or die effect), but by the same token it does not have a [Death] descriptor and the point made that it was never stated that you cannot raise someone affected by it is very valid.&nbsp; I think it could really go either way.&nbsp; I tend to favor the Magic: the Gathering approach and favor the defender, so I think I would allow Death Ward to work.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jlhorner1974, post: 743858, member: 8628"] Your question actually makes me think about whether Death Ward should stop Quivering Palm... To answer your question though, the Quivering Palm strike only starts the vibrations, which are not fatal in itself, so Death Ward does not prevent this. The death effect occurs when the Monk wills the target to die, so that is when Death Ward needs to be up to prevent death from occurring. Edit: The more I think of it, Quivering Palm really seems to be right in that gray area of whether it should be prevented or not. It is indeed a magical death effect in a general sense (it does not work in anti-magic and it is a save or die effect), but by the same token it does not have a [Death] descriptor and the point made that it was never stated that you cannot raise someone affected by it is very valid. I think it could really go either way. I tend to favor the Magic: the Gathering approach and favor the defender, so I think I would allow Death Ward to work. [/QUOTE]

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