Warrior's Regret

[Wheldrake]

The SoM spell "Warrior's Regret" seems to have two problems:
1) the damage doesn't appear to have a specified type. Seems to me mental damage would be most appropriate.
2) It doesn't appear to take into account any damage to others done outside of the victim's turn, say, from AoOs or other damaging reactions. This would be a major issue with creatures that have multiple reactions, like a hydra.

I can't help feeling that the spell should also include reaction made since your last turn in the number of attacks the victim "regrets". Am I overthinking it?

[Baarogue]

1)The spell has the mental trait. I think it follows that the damage is mental unless it stated otherwise
2)The failure effect prolongs the duration if the target damages anyone outside of its turn with the requirement it spend an entire round w/o intentionally damaging others. That could put a crimp on the target's style for a while if they use AoO

It's a level 2 spell that damages the target for every creature it damages during its turn. Needle of Vengeance is a focus spell which requires a target to be named taboo but triggers on every hostile action against that target. I think Warrior's Regret is alright as-is, though I doubt I'd regularly use it on one of my own characters. Its strength is against targets who use area effect attacks, so if I knew we might be facing something like that I would consider it

[shroudb]

While the mental trait doesn't translate to mental damage at all (no such rule), the heightened effect states that

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The amount of mental damage the target takes for each creature it damaged that turn increases by 1d8, and the maximum damage the target can take per turn increases by 4d8.

So we can safely assume that in this case they simply forgot to write in the main description the type of damage.

[breithauptclan]

First, I would note that untyped damage does actually exist. For some strange reason its existence is not mentioned in the damage type rules.

But the note that shroudb pointed out does make it very obvious that the spell needs some errata. It needs to be fully changed to either deal untyped damage or mental damage.

I would go with mental damage. That fits more in line with the spell description.