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Wordstrike (Su): At 3rd level, the sound striker bard can spend 1 round of bardic performance as a standard action to direct a burst of sonically charged words at a creature or object. This performance deals 1d4 points of damage plus the bard's level to an object, or half this damage to a living creature.
how does this effect affect a zombie?
What about an incorporeal undead?
how does this effect affect a zombie?
Not at all. It's neither an object, nor a living creature.
What about an incorporeal undead?
Ditto.
Wow, that ability is pretty unclear. Zombies are creatures, so clearly you can use this ability on them. But it only gives descriptions of effects it would have on living creatures and objects. By omission that is definitely implying that it has no effect on non-living creatures, despite them being a valid target for the ability.
As VRMH said I guess it does nothing to non-living creatures, but you can still use it on them if you want to waste an action (or determine whether they are alive or not)
Looks extremely clear to me. You can wordstrike a zombie; it just wouldn't do anything, same as if you cast dominate monster on it.
That's less of an interpretation and more of an alteration. : )
If I had to guess, I would guess that 'living creature' was a mistake and it was just supposed to be creatures (the writer thinking of living as opposed to an object, not opposed to an undead).
As written though, it does not do anything to undead.