Does Power Word Kill Work on Polymorph?
2: Power Word Kill Would Instantly Kill a Polymorphed Player If the Hp Total of the Creature That It Is Polymorphed into Is At, or Below, 100 Hp. as This Spell...
2: Power Word Kill would instantly kill a polymorphed player if the HP total of the creature that it is polymorphed into is at, or below, 100 hp. As this spell does not deal damage, instead it looks for a true/false condition.
How do you kill someone with polymorph?
The only way to kill a creature through polymorph without chunking through the hit points of its original form is with Power Word Kill, Divine Word, or a similar spell which causes instant death rather than a reduction to 0 hit points.
Can Power Word Kill Kill a Tarrasque?
Power Word Kill doesn't deal damage, but just kills the target if it is under 100 Hit Points. So technically, the creature isn't reduced to 0, it is just killed outright, so when the Tarrasque dies in its cow form, the Tarrasque itself is also dead because dying is dying for monsters, no saves or anything.
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