I was bummed in Dragonlance when our favorite Death Knight, Lord Soth, finally uses power word kill, points his finger and just says “die”. C’mon!

Like, at least be a little fancy with it and use “perish” or some other posh word.

Should be “power phrase” instead of power word, so it could get super fancy

Personally, I describe the word as basically being every language spoken at once, yet you hear it most clearly in whatever language you understand best, and more to the point, it speaks most clearly to your soul, which (on a failed save) cannot help but to obey and thus perish. Even on a save I try to describe just how creepy and horrifyingly eldritch it is.

Yup, this phrasing is better. Thanks for correction

Honestly, deafening yourself should not protect you from power word kill. It’s supposed to be a version of true speech. You are not saying it to the person. You were saying it to the universe. Whether or not that person can hear you is completely irrelevant to the situation. It’s the universe and all of creation hearing you and answering that call.

I was just posting a silly meme. That being said, that is another thing about Pathfinder that I absolutely hate and why I will literally never play it