D&D 5E Do magic missiles automatically hit

[Wrathamon]

I saw this thread and thought how could this possibly gotten to 2 pages?



I agree with Paraxis that it just deals damage. It should just say Each dart damages a creature of your choice that you can see within range.

 

[diaglo]

They have automatically hit since the very beginning.

They're weak, but assured hits. No save, no to-hit. No mercy...

no. in the beginning you rolled to hit. OD&D(1974)

 

[thalmin]

no. in the beginning you rolled to hit. OD&D(1974)

You mean in the only true D&D game.

 

[diaglo]

You mean in the only true D&D game.

of course.
it did 1d6+1 damage

not 1d4+1 like the later 1edADnD.

 

[Warbringer]

yeah what a terrible DM you are playing with. As A DM your job is to keep the players alive not kill them. When a player dies, nobody benefits. game is over, people stop playing, fun is gone.

Yeah ... dead players really sucks the wind out of a game...

 

[Tormyr]

Nope. I did leave a word out though.

Should have read: I sincerely hope that was the third time those wizard's had done that.

Wizards get two first level slots at first level, but can recover one slot after a short rest. If they'd cast three magic missile three times, they'd be reduced to cantrips for the rest day. That would make them easier to deal with.

These were wizard students. They had 1 first level slot before cantrips. Our DM had warned us that someone was going to die that night. He then proceeded to kill all but 1 of the rest of the characters through repeated use of Fireball in a confined space. That character I rolled up with the Shield spell? I also gave him the Lucky feat.

 

[Wrathamon]

no. in the beginning you rolled to hit. OD&D(1974)

so why did people get pissed when they made you roll to hit again with 4e Going back to its roots!

 

[OnlineDM]

no. in the beginning you rolled to hit. OD&D(1974)

This was also the case with the original 4th Edition version of Magic Missile (I believe they switched to the auto-hit version with Essentials).

Edit: Ninja'ed.

 

[Iosue]

so why did people get pissed when they made you roll to hit again with 4e Going back to its roots!

The same reason people get mad when you say "disinterested" to mean "not interested in", even though that was original meaning. Change before one's time isn't change; it's history.

 

[fanboy2000]

These were wizard students. They had 1 first level slot before cantrips. Our DM had warned us that someone was going to die that night. He then proceeded to kill all but 1 of the rest of the characters through repeated use of Fireball in a confined space. That character I rolled up with the Shield spell? I also gave him the Lucky feat.

I really like this idea of how wizard students learn. I don't know what reasoning was given for giving Wizard students a 1st level slot before they have access to cantrips. But I can see how, before you internalize a simple spell (or three) you have to learn how to cast slightly more powerful spell once. Learn magic missile first, then you can internalize Ray of Frost.

It's like teaching C before you learn Python.