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-{{ up to date | 2023-08-22 }} <!-- Date format is YEAR-MONTH-DAY, like 2023-08-07. -->
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-[[File:Cutting Worlds Icon.png|frameless|right]]
+| image = Cutting Words.webp
-[[Category:Class Actions]][[Category:Reactions]]
+| summary = '''Cutting Words''' is a Reaction available to the [[College of Lore]] Bards. This ability allows these Bards to distract and confuse their foes, potentially causing attacks to miss, or ability checks or saving throws to fail.
-'''Cutting Words''' is a [[Reaction (Combat)|Reaction]] available to [[College of Lore]] [[Bard]]s. This ability allows these Bards to distract and confuse their foes, potentially causing attacks to miss, or ability checks or saving throws to fail.
+| description = Use your wit to distract a creature and sap its confidence. It receives a {{InfoBlob|{{DieIcon|d6|Physical}}-1d6}} penalty to {{Attack Roll}}, {{Ability Check}}, or {{Saving Throw}}.
+| cost = reaction, bardin
-== Description ==
+| range m = 18
-Use your wit to distract a creature and sap its confidence. It receives a {{DieIcon|d6|Physical}}1d6 penalty to [[Attack Roll]], [[Ability Check]], or [[Saving Throw]]. <!-- This is the actual in-game text -->
+| range ft = 60
+| higher levels = * At [[Bard]] Level 5, the '''Cutting Words''' penalty increases to {{InfoBlob|{{DieIcon|d8|Physical}}-1d8}}
-== Properties ==
+* At [[Bard]] Level 10, the '''Cutting Words''' penalty increases to {{InfoBlob|{{DieIcon|d10|Physical}}-1d10}}
-{{InfoBlob|{{action|reaction}} + {{SmallIcon|Bardic Inspiration Resource Icon.png}} '''Bardic Inspiration''' Charge}}
+| additional =
+| class learns at level 3 = College of Lore
-* Targeted creature receives a {{DieIcon|d6|Physical}}1d6 penalty to the triggering [[Attack Roll]], [[Ability Check]], or [[Saving Throw|Saving Throw.]]
+| notes = * Unlike in D&D 5th Edition Rules, Cutting Words cannot be applied to damage rolls. However, it can be applied to Saving Throws (which is normally available only to Eloquence Bards).
-* {{Range|m=18|ft=60}}
+* In most cases using this action will cause the caster to make a verbal quip or insult the target, drawing on the same pool of dialogue options as {{SAI|Vicious Mockery}}. [[List of Vicious Mockery insults|These remarks]] are fully voice acted, including for characters who don't normally have access to the action.
+| bugs = '''Cutting Words''' may target friendly characters whose failed rolls prompted the effect, as opposed to the enemy character who rolled a save
-== At Higher Levels ==
+}}
+{{BardNavbox}}
-* At [[Bard]] Level 5, the '''Cutting Words''' penalty increases to {{DieIcon|d8|Physical}}1d8
-* At [[Bard]] Level 10, the '''Cutting Words''' penalty increases to {{DieIcon|d10|Physical}}1d10
-== Notes and Trivia ==
-* Unlike in D&D 5th Edition Rules, Cutting Words cannot be applied to damage rolls. However, it can be applied to Saving Throws (which is normally available only to Eloquence Bards).