Giant Skunk Line or Cone

[Kennethray]

Hi,

I have a player that was summoning a skunk that did a spray in a line. Now he is using a Giant Skunk. It says 15-foot cone, but then says creatures in the line... So should the giant skunk be a cone or a line? I think the text for the line is just pulled over from the regular skunk but want to make sure. (Skunk and Giant Skunk are in Beastiary 3.

Kenneth

[Castilliano]

Cone, for the reasons you've mentioned, but also power level and because that's where the size is explicit, not implicit.

[breithauptclan]

Yeah. Go with the shape that it defines when defining the attack. Re-defining the shape when talking about the save against the effect is probably a bug in all cases.

A better way to do it would be 'All creatures in the area must attempt...' or 'All affected creatures must attempt...'. Some way of wording it that doesn't define the area shape or distance again.