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It's not an attack roll OF the spell. It's an attack roll outside of the spell by a material component. It was used in the casting, but is not a part of the spell beyond that. If you hit, you can use the spells effect to cause the material component to do radiant damage if you want. Edit...

Does not. The attack is not a sorcerer spell attack. It's a normal attack and not an attack that is part of the spell. The spell says the weapon is used in the casting, and it is. It's specifically the material component. Then you get to make a normal attack with the weapon that served as...

It is also in many spells. It's in too many places to be errors. I count 19 spells with it.

No. It's an attack from the weapon, which is used as the material component IN the spell. If it was from the spell, it would be a melee spell attack, but it isn't.

That quote is from the 5.5e PHB. The distinction is there. Page 247 in the Bigby's Hand spell. And in Chill Touch. And in Chromatic Orb. And... 5.5e does in fact have melee and ranged spell attacks, which is not the case with True Strike.

Spell attacks are still called out, though. "Clenched Fist. The hand strikes a target within 5 feet of it. Make a melee spell attack. On a hit, the target takes Sd8 Force damage." You are not making a melee spell attack with True Strike. You are making an attack, which is like an attack from...

It calls for an attack, not a spell attack.

I would say no. Even though the weapon is part of the spell's casting, the attack is not a sorcerer spell attack like Firebolt would be. It took me a minute of considering to come up with that answer, though. I could totally see a ruling in the other direction, but wouldn't rule that way myself.

I think it was the name. It went from commonly encountered by me to almost never encountered by me when we went from 2e to 3e. And every case I encountered in 3e was from someone who played ad&d.

We kicked the thief out of the party when we got back to civilization and it fell on me as party leader to let him know. That's when the player who was black accused me of racism and I came close to the only time I ever got into a fist fight over a game.

Yeah. I gate by proficiency quite often.

I disagree. Generic fill in the box settings are all WotC is giving us. Every setting has every race and class in it. Magic works the same. And so on. A unique setting like Dark Sun or Birthright doesn't happen anymore, because they need/want to appeal to the widest audience possible, and...

While I agree with your general premise, I don't think the bolded necessarily follows. One example isn't enough to establish a pattern. I think that 3e/3.5e/Pathfinder 1e/Pathfinder 1e Unchained all pumped out products at an incredible pace, and that contributed to shortening its lifespan.

Yeah. Standing is even harder to balance on, so I'm not sure why they would change it to "stand on" and then not include language stating the magic keeps the person on the broom with no ability check.

There is no "screw over" or "nerf" happening here. Nothing in the language written says or implies that you just stick there with no need to balance. Now, if required ability checks to simply stay on while it is moving, that could be seen as a nerf. Here's the thing. If an item grants an...