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Can a Bard (College OfCollege of Swords) bard use the Slashing Flourish option to apply a Spell Smite spell to all creatures in range?

The rulesdescription of the Wrathful Smite spell says (PHB, p. 289):

Wrathful Smite
The The next time you hit with a melee weapon attack during this spell's duration, your attack deals an extra 1d6 psychic damage. Additionally, if the target is a creature, it must make a Wisdom saving throw or be frightened of you until the spell ends. As an action, the creature can make a Wisdom check against your spell save DC to steel its resolve and end this spell.

The College of Swords bard's Slashing Flourish option says:

Slashing Flourish
You You can expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to cause the weapon to deal extra damage to the target you hit and to any other creature of your choice that you can see within 5 feet of you. The damage equals the number you roll on the Bardic Inspiration die.

So here is our Bard surrounded by enemies.:

With a bonus action, he casts Wrathful Smite and then he attacks the Ogre. He rolls 17 andHis attack hits the Ogre, so he grabs the Bardic Inspiration die to roll for Slashing Flourish andSlashing Flourish; he rolls an 8. So on the Bardic Inspiration die, so all creatures gettake 8 extra weapon damage of 8.

Does the sword hit all of them? I(I assume yes.)
Who gets psychic damage?
Who makes Wisdom Saving rollssaving throws?
Who is frightened?

Sidenote: The fighter subclass Battle Master fighter subclass has a Sweeping Attack maneuver, but it'sits wording does not support the above interpretation of the rules. So no AE Wrathful Smite for the Battle Master.

Can a Bard (College Of Swords) use Slashing Flourish to apply a Spell Smite to all creatures in range?

The rules:

Wrathful Smite
The next time you hit with a melee weapon attack during this spell's duration, your attack deals an extra 1d6 psychic damage. Additionally, if the target is a creature, it must make a Wisdom saving throw or be frightened of you until the spell ends. As an action, the creature can make a Wisdom check against your spell save DC to steel its resolve and end this spell.

Slashing Flourish
You can expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to cause the weapon to deal extra damage to the target you hit and to any other creature of your choice that you can see within 5 feet of you. The damage equals the number you roll on the Bardic Inspiration die.

So here is our Bard surrounded by enemies. With a bonus action he casts Wrathful Smite and then he attacks the Ogre. He rolls 17 and hits the Ogre so he grabs the Bardic Inspiration die to roll for Slashing Flourish and he rolls an 8. So all creatures get extra weapon damage of 8.

Does the sword hit all of them? I assume yes.
Who gets psychic damage?
Who makes Wisdom Saving rolls?
Who is frightened?

Sidenote: The fighter subclass Battle Master has a Sweeping Attack maneuver, but it's wording does not support the above interpretation of the rules. So no AE Wrathful Smite for the Battle Master.

Can a College of Swords bard use the Slashing Flourish option to apply a Smite spell to all creatures in range?

The description of the Wrathful Smite spell says (PHB, p. 289):

The next time you hit with a melee weapon attack during this spell's duration, your attack deals an extra 1d6 psychic damage. Additionally, if the target is a creature, it must make a Wisdom saving throw or be frightened of you until the spell ends. As an action, the creature can make a Wisdom check against your spell save DC to steel its resolve and end this spell.

The College of Swords bard's Slashing Flourish option says:

You can expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to cause the weapon to deal extra damage to the target you hit and to any other creature of your choice that you can see within 5 feet of you. The damage equals the number you roll on the Bardic Inspiration die.

So here is our Bard surrounded by enemies:

With a bonus action, he casts Wrathful Smite and then he attacks the Ogre. His attack hits the Ogre, so he grabs the Bardic Inspiration die to roll for Slashing Flourish; he rolls an 8 on the Bardic Inspiration die, so all creatures take 8 extra weapon damage.

Does the sword hit all of them? (I assume yes.)
Who gets psychic damage?
Who makes Wisdom saving throws?
Who is frightened?

Sidenote: The Battle Master fighter subclass has a Sweeping Attack maneuver, but its wording does not support the above interpretation of the rules. So no AE Wrathful Smite for the Battle Master.