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THIS IS A AN AUTOMATIC CAPTION TEXT from YouTube, so it’s not “perfect”. My advice is to use it just to help people like me that are not english speaking, to understand the Video/Podcast so you made a new ccantrip yes this is something even when I think about the archivist that appears in UA I realized there is no psionic energy you know damage causing contra and now we have one so there is but it’s vicious mockery oh that’s right and very yeah very tied to specific class yes and and so we for a while have been wanting to add to the game a versatile psionic themed cantrip precisely because the only other one we really have in the game is vicious mockery and that is so specific in its flavor yeah you don’t necessarily imagine the you know the person touched by some great old ones yeah to be mocking everybody perfect for bards and so we wanted to create this cantrip which you could easily see someone like the archivist and many of our other classes using and for now in the unearthed Arcana the cantrip is on the sorcerer warlock and wizard spell lists so those three classes at least in play tests have access to it and I’m looking forward to seeing what people think of it we also are exploring something different with this can drip in that it it has a a little sort of self interaction yeah where we made it so that given the theme we’re imagining you’re almost like driving a psychic spike into your targets head very visceral yes no than that and that was how I described it as when when we were working on it and I I said I would like us to go in this direction with it that was the visceral image that I gave that this should be a canned trip where you feel good using it round after round because there are some spellcasters who like to do that right it also is a nice setup for some other spells where you know you could use it one round and then benefit from deduction you just gave to your target saving throw on the next round if you’re a sorcerer you might be able to benefit from it on the same round right because of quicken spell that’s something we’re gonna have to look at in playtesting and also in final game development if people like this cantrip enough for it to move along in our process it might be a little too good it might be just right we’ll find out yeah it feels dangerous so as I’m reading it right now you hit some with this and then their next intelligent saving throw is reduced by 1/2 for their next saving throw of any kind is reduced by one day for right yeah mean stuff for a canter so yeah one d6 and then yeah you’re hurting you’re not a disadvantage not a disadvantage yeah but it’s like evil guidance 1.d4 now if they don’t have a saving throw to make after that it doesn’t matter but again we made the duration of the can trips effect so that the spell caster could then basically harvest that benefit on the next round or in the same round if they’re a sorcerer it is the creepiest can’t trip sense eldritch blast in my opinion because yeah like really smart good this has such built-in utility yeah right and but you are you know you’re not dealing a tremendous amount of damage but you are thinking tactically yeah and that’s why I enjoy about that spell oh yeah yeah just be glad in its initial draft it did 1 d-10 which of course is way too much depth knocking it down right we’ll see it might need to go down to a d4 oh but it will still be juicy if it’s a dpp-4 still be all do is drive that psychic spike into your targets skull you