Recent content by Zorku

But an 827th reply after more than 2 years of inactivity, not THAT is something that will resolve the issue.

The concern about balancing combat at higher levels becomes less of an issue if you take a combat as warfare approach- it's up to the party to judge what they can handle that way, and you can just throw a messy variety their way. Bounded accuracy doesn't actually make significantly lower CR...

And Eldritch Blast is magic, not :):):):):):):):). Moreover it's often far realm magic so it makes even less sense than usual.

Magic.

Of course you agree. You answered your own question. You're as wrong as ever. There's no magical cloud to dispel, just a spell that is currently being cast. Well, we know that that's not going to get anywhere, so for the sake of at least understanding your views better: If somebody official...

Where the hell is that supposed to go? Ok, fine. Yes, you can dispel that. Because it is a magical effect fancying about in the open world, that has already used up a creature's cast action, that dispel doesn't explicitly say it doesn't effect, and isn't something more like a permanent...

Plus it's, you know, ~magic~. ALL of this stuff breaks the rules of physics. I don't really accept bit like shield happening after a magic missile spell hits though. It's using a reaction. You might say "and he hits you with magic missile for 19 damage" before somebody says they cast it, but it...

Again, that claim is false. The ready action does not rely on spells working in that exact way. Provide a quote that actually says that or stop acting like you've already done so.

Nah. There are plenty of other ways that you could exhaust any material components that would have been consumed. The first thing that comes to mind is that counterspell could speed up the whole process so that the spell exhausts the materials, but the casting is already done and over long...

You started out with some nice language but then you had to go and muddy the water by acting like I'd actually run it like that in every setting. So flaw here comes when you try to extrapolate back from the ready action to normal spells. Your cause and effect relationship doesn't exist anywhere...

With cleave I feel like it's a separate action, but there's a strong chance that's not how the developers meant any of the extra attacks when you use an attack action sorts of abilities and feats. I guess there's not any game vocabulary that does a great job of describing a reasonable unit of...

Alright you've got me on some inconsistency in my positions there. I suppose to fix my claim I'd have to specify that it's single actions before any class features go multiplying them. Extra attacks and the one cantrip are the only things that behave at all like this, right?

The ready action itself doesn't need any of that. You're already fitting full action attacks into it, and full action shoves, full action med kit uses, etc. The exception proves the rule here; there's enough time to do all that other crap but spells are different. Yeah, the spell slot is...

It specifically says that the only difference is that you hold on to the energy for later, and that you're concentrating to keep it that way. Seems to me that, since the book doesn't really tell you much about time scales smaller than action/bonus action/reaction, it would make more sense for...

And that kettle of fish is exactly the situation Ariel insists he has answers for- or maybe not. Do you mean reading a spell or readying a reaction to (a spell/the first attack of a spell/starting to cast a spell/the first verbal component in the spell that sounds like "fish"/whatever other...