Originally Posted by Niara
If you're wondering how Cutting words would work "Larian-Style", as in, what they'd do rather htan have to give us proper reactions, it would work likee this:

Cutting Words: Free action, on your turn, target one creature within 60 feet and expend a bardic inspiration die to cause its next attack or saving throw to be reduced by a roll of your bardic die.

Simple, lazy, unsatisfying and the minimum effort way of actualising the ability into the current system. Just watch.

Yep, or something worse. People in here actually believing the reaction system is about to change after 2 years.

Man, the meltdowns and scathing criticism of Larian is going to be EPIC on Thursday.