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Specific overrides general. If it was just a quasi-real horse it wouldn't need to state that "for the duration, you or a creature you...

It's explicitly not a horse. It's a quasi-real creature that by default resembles a horse and uses the statistics of a horse. Those...

Maybe I'm prejudiced, or maybe I just wrote my response poorly. It's a phantom creature, and only quasi-real. While it may use the...

It sounds like you are saying that you have an existing notion of what the spell is supposed to do, and you are interpreting the wording...

It's not my job as a DM to make rulings so that anything my players try to do works. I have to make rulings that are consistent and as...

Other than the spell, which specifically states

I believe what Oofta means by specified is that the creature that may ride the phanton steed is selected by the caster. i.e. specified.

That's one interpretation. Another is that it's a spell that while for simplicity sake it uses the stats of a horse, it is not a horse...

I agree: even though I did not count xp budgets beforehand most of the time, if I checked after a fight after a hard or medium...

And water is wet. Not necessarily. If you don't hit a lot anyway, instead of trying to hit AC, casting a spell that forces a save or...

Maybe...at least you don't have to intimidate the dungeon to reveal their secrets... If knowledge is not for your... Agreed.

Sorry. Yes. Somehow only counted one attack per fighter. So one more hit every 2 rounds on average. If the cleric goes before both...

Having two seems like a lot to me. And given that most combat lasts 3 rounds, that means you gain one extra hit at the cost of one hit -...

2 rounds. Of course. 4 attacks per round. I somehow missed that there are 2 fighters with 2 attacks each. Average +2.5 on a d20. And you...

Exactly that. Comparing spells with concentration against spells without is quite a fallacy in 5e. Usually it is not either or, but...