laughs in Expelliarmus

omae wa mou shindeiru

Quote from NanocGiantsbane >>

"What was that?"

DM: "Death."

"What kind?"

DM: "Instant."

"There was no sound or anything, he just died!"

DM: "Its terrifying, I know. Terrifying thing to watch happen."

 

 There was technically a sound, since it is power WORD kill, and it also has VERBAL components, which means there IS a sound.

Quote from Ozzie >>

Quote from MyzticManor21 >>

 A Chain Warlock casting it through his familiar can kill someone with an invisible sprite while he's in the next room over.

That's not something a chain warlock can do, though.

 Hormunculus servant.Invisiblity.Boom.

Quote from GoblinGuildheart >>

 Can you guess the words for Power Word Kill?

 AVADA KEDAVRA!

 That ones already been done. Go to power word pain. Cruciatus.

Pretty powerful 

If it was 0 HP it would be worded as downed, so roll a new PC kind of kill.

Pretty sure it means kill as in "roll a new PC"

Quote from DiceFarmer >>

My next McGuffin will be a Wand of Power Word Kill.

 nice

"I'd tell you my Power Word Kill spell, but then I'd have to kill you."

Roll new PC

Cannot, only if the max HP is 100

Roll me a new character

So if you have a magic user that is currently using  a mirror image spell and has 3 mirror images and you cast power word kill and your d20 roll indicates that you targeted a mirror image rather than the actual mage, how does that affect the mage?

As a homebrew DM would the death be painless?

Three best use cases for this spell:

wild shaped druids, polymorphed creatures, and demiliches.

That REALLY neads to have a saving throw

I agree with Antares8001. This spell isn't as useful as it sounds. But I think that maybe if this spell was modified and it did like a bunch of necrotic damage or something if the target has over 100 HP, or if it was a 6th or 7th level spell instead like Antares, said, than I think it would be 10x better. But I still love this spell, it's one of my favorites lol :D

Not really. It's a ninth level spell, and does nothing if the target has more than 100hp. When you reach 9th level spells, most pcs and monsters have more than 100hp.

My druid laughs at this. 

1. He casts a 7th level firestorm (concentration)

Bonus action wild shape into a badger and burrows underground

2.  Chances are, whoever is cating that spell is at disadvantage because of the fire storm all around them.

But after a few rounds I'll emerge from my burrow, then cast MY 9th, True Resurrection on whoever did get hit with PWK,