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<blockquote data-quote="Mort" data-source="post: 6357288" data-attributes="member: 762"><p>Much (well a little) has been made of the fact Potent Cantrip (The Invoker's 6th level ability) is to put it mildly - underwhelming. It affects exactly 2 (as far as I can tell) of the Wizard's cantrips - Acid Splash and Poison Spray.</p><p></p><p>But in Hoard of the Dragon Queen - there is an invoker (he's not named as such, but he has Potent cantrips, sculpt spells and lots of evocation spells) who has the ability potent cantrips (yes it has an s attached) that has additional wording to that of the basic rules and the PHB. His ability reads:</p><p></p><p>When ... casts an evocation cantrip and <strong>misses, or </strong> the target succeeds on a saving throw, the target still takes half the cantrip's damage but suffers no other effect.</p><p></p><p>The bolded part is the big (and really only) change from the basic rules or the PHB. This change, however, applies to many more of the cantrips, and further allows the part of "...suffers no other effect" to actually make sense: neither Acid Splash nor Poison Spray (the only 2 cantrips that seem to apply) <strong>have</strong> any other effect.</p><p></p><p>Obviously specific beats general and thus, this guy can just be an exception to the regular rule because the stat block says so, but the wording here just makes so much more sense.</p><p></p><p>I was honestly thinking of tweeting Mearls on this, but figure he has a lot more important things on his mind with GenCon coming up!</p><p></p><p>Thoughts?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mort, post: 6357288, member: 762"] Much (well a little) has been made of the fact Potent Cantrip (The Invoker's 6th level ability) is to put it mildly - underwhelming. It affects exactly 2 (as far as I can tell) of the Wizard's cantrips - Acid Splash and Poison Spray. But in Hoard of the Dragon Queen - there is an invoker (he's not named as such, but he has Potent cantrips, sculpt spells and lots of evocation spells) who has the ability potent cantrips (yes it has an s attached) that has additional wording to that of the basic rules and the PHB. His ability reads: When ... casts an evocation cantrip and [b]misses, or [/b] the target succeeds on a saving throw, the target still takes half the cantrip's damage but suffers no other effect. The bolded part is the big (and really only) change from the basic rules or the PHB. This change, however, applies to many more of the cantrips, and further allows the part of "...suffers no other effect" to actually make sense: neither Acid Splash nor Poison Spray (the only 2 cantrips that seem to apply) [b]have[/b] any other effect. Obviously specific beats general and thus, this guy can just be an exception to the regular rule because the stat block says so, but the wording here just makes so much more sense. I was honestly thinking of tweeting Mearls on this, but figure he has a lot more important things on his mind with GenCon coming up! Thoughts? [/QUOTE]
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