D&D 5E Can you twin booming blade

[Salthorae]

You may want to recalibrate your sarcasm detector there, Salthorae

Perhaps... it's hard to keep track sometimes in threads of who is arguing what positions when sarcasm gets tossed in!

 

[Charlaquin]

Green Flame Blade is easy. Can't be twinned by dent of affecting multiple targets.

Nah, the creature damaged by the flames isn’t actually a target of the spell, so it’s still twinnable (of course, I still think the RAW says that what you actually affect two targets with when you twin it is the rider effect: “when you hit the target with a melee attack...” not the melee attack itself. But again it doesn’t matter as the RAI is clearly that you can make a second melee attack when you twin it.)

 

[Salthorae]

Green Flame Blade is easy. Can't be twinned by dent of affecting multiple targets.

Hah. that is another can of textual worms.

Though for this one Crawford agrees that RAI are that GFB can't be twinned.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Hah. that is another can of textual worms.

Though for this one Crawford agrees that RAI are that GFB can't be twinned.

There are a whole lot of spells that could be twinned that aren't intended to be twinnable if you interpret the word "target" in the spell description very literally.

 

[Horwath]

This whole "twin spell" is badly written.

It should have been. You can twin any spell that is not "target self only". Even AoE.

It should say; no target can be affected by the same spell effect more than once.

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

This whole "twin spell" is badly written.

It should have been. You can twin any spell that is not "target self only". Even AoE.

It should say; no target can be affected by the same spell effect more than once.

So effectively doubling the size of an AoE. That's a pretty huge buff to twinning...

 

[Horwath]

So effectively doubling the size of an AoE. That's a pretty huge buff to twinning...

Not by much, you will get all important targets in first AoE, second would mostly be like to hit some mooks.

 

[Dausuul]

Not by much, you will get all important targets in first AoE, second would mostly be like to hit some mooks.

That depends very much on a) the size of the AoE and b) how mixed up your own party is with the enemy. I routinely find myself wishing for just a few more feet of radius on my AoE spells to catch several more targets. And yeah, those targets are mooks, but mooks can kill you; wiping out mooks is the whole point of AoE.

 

[Ricapath]

Booming blade has a range of self as of Tashas so you cant twin it. It is a spell you cast on yourself to allow you to make a magical weapon attack, like you're enchanting your own strike. Also it says that you "make a melee attack" so that while you could argue you could twin the spell, you can't twin the melee attack that you have to make

 

[Xetheral]

Booming blade has a range of self as of Tashas so you cant twin it. It is a spell you cast on yourself to allow you to make a magical weapon attack, like you're enchanting your own strike. Also it says that you "make a melee attack" so that while you could argue you could twin the spell, you can't twin the melee attack that you have to make

More specifically, it has a range of "Self (5-foot radius)" which isn't the same thing as a range of "Self". Crawford has (post-Tasha's) clarified that spells with a range of "Self (5-foot)" do not (necessarily) target the caster--instead the spell effect merely originates in the caster's space.

The relevant tweets can be found here. So Booming Blade still only has one target, the creature attacked, even after its range was changed in Tasha's.