It was powerful but non-specific. That’s an anxiety everyone can have, so while the intended target just immediately got destroyed, everyone else has to make a save to avoid becoming affected themselves.
That’s how I took it. It’s so powerful it insta-killls, then by default everyone within earshot thinks about what was said and needs to save else they also take the depressive damage
i don’t get it…why does the DM ask for wis saves at the end?
It was powerful but non-specific. That’s an anxiety everyone can have, so while the intended target just immediately got destroyed, everyone else has to make a save to avoid becoming affected themselves.
My guess was it was so effective that everybody in earshot of the insult is getting blasted.
That’s how I took it. It’s so powerful it insta-killls, then by default everyone within earshot thinks about what was said and needs to save else they also take the depressive damage
Collateral damage
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