jgsugden
Legend
http://www.sageadvice.eu/2017/03/29...ite-states-it-adds-1d8-to-melee-weapon-damage
Crawford says it adds 2d8 total to damage when you smite.
Crawford says it adds 2d8 total to damage when you smite.
Improved Divine Smite
FrogReaver
As long as i get to be the frog
I disagreed with Crawford at first mostly because I couldn't fathom the ability adding 2d8 on a divine smit. But if reading that last line independently and not assuming it was an oversight in wording I now find it hard to read the text any other way.
Gladius Legis
Legend
Basically, that second sentence would've been an unnecessary and confusing attempt at "clarification" if all the feature was supposed to do was add 1d8 to all attacks with melee weapons.
Unfortunately, that second sentence was also more confusing than it had to be with Crawford's official ruling. If "this damage" had instead said "1d8" it would've been clear that it was a two-part feature.
Unfortunately, that second sentence was also more confusing than it had to be with Crawford's official ruling. If "this damage" had instead said "1d8" it would've been clear that it was a two-part feature.
Gladius Legis
Legend
Yes.
Blue
Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal
It adds +1d8 to all of your melee attacks. It also increases your smite bonus damage by +1d8.
http://www.sageadvice.eu/2017/03/29...apon-damage-does-that-mean-it-adds-2d8-total/
http://www.sageadvice.eu/2017/03/29...apon-damage-does-that-mean-it-adds-2d8-total/
Gladius Legis
Legend
FYI, everyone, Crawford reversed that initial ruling recently. So it's "back" to being just +1d8 on all hits, no buff to the Smite itself.
Which to be fair is likely the way it should've been ruled all along, and is the way I had ruled it until that first tweet of his. Still, I really wish he was, uh, consistent.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/6lfniz/crawford_changed_the_ruling_on_improved_divine/
https://twitter.com/JeremyECrawford/status/880854156906340352
https://twitter.com/JeremyECrawford/status/880852301140811777
Which to be fair is likely the way it should've been ruled all along, and is the way I had ruled it until that first tweet of his. Still, I really wish he was, uh, consistent.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/6lfniz/crawford_changed_the_ruling_on_improved_divine/
https://twitter.com/JeremyECrawford/status/880854156906340352
https://twitter.com/JeremyECrawford/status/880852301140811777
cbwjm
Seb-wejem
I like this way better, a straight +1d8 rather than +2d8 if smiting. It's how I was going to run it if our paladin made it to level 11.
Gladius Legis
Legend
Yeah. Also don't need to give the camp who wants to nerf the Paladin or nerf Divine Smite any more ammo than they've already imagined up ...
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Croesus
Adventurer
"Imagined" is a bit condescending, don't you think? Folks should be able to respectfully disagree with one another.
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