Cull the Weak

For the passive feature used by Kar'niss, see Cull the Weak (Drider).

Cull the Weak is a toggleable passive feature and Illithid Power. When a character with this passive active brings a creature down to fewer Hit Points than the character's number of evolved Illithid Powers, the creature dies and all nearby creatures take 1~4⁠⁠Psychic damage.

Description

When you bring a creature down to fewer hit points than your number of evolved illithid powers, it dies and all nearby creatures take 1~4⁠⁠Psychic damage.

Properties

Details

Toggleable

Technical details

UID

TAD_CullTheWeak

Property flags: Highlighted, IsToggled, ToggledDefaultOn

Stats functor context: OnDamage

How to learn

Used by creatures:

• Full-illithid, Orpheus

Other ways to learn:

• Unlock from the Illithid Power skill tree with a Mind Flayer Parasite Specimen after obtaining the following:
  •  Concentrated Blast

Notes

• Although the description says "all nearby creatures", the damage actually only applies to enemies.
• As this inevitably kills the creature that triggers it, this passive and Non-Lethal Attacks are mutually exclusive. Enabling either one will disable the other automatically.
• This can be triggered multiple times on a single creature in rapid succession, if the effect that brings it below the hit point threshold has multiple distinct sources of damage (e.g. if the creature is hit by more than one dart from a single casting of  Magic Missile).
• On kill effects like  Elixir of Bloodlust and  The Deathstalker Mantle will not trigger if killed by this power.

Bugs

• Cull the Weak may inadvertantly "kill" a creature that was both damaged and  Banished by  Banishing Smite, causing the creature to return from banishment with 0 hit points and remain unkillable.
• Cull the Weak triggers for each dead enemy creature within range of an ability that lacks restrictions preventing it from targeting dead creatures, such as  Acid Breath and  Frenzied Charge.