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Indeed, let's look: the spell grants you a melee attack and specifies the conditions under which you can use said attack. You're wrong about the laxity of the restrictions: it's precisely because you can't take Actions outside your turn that PHB 192 is written that way. You can only take...

Sorry, friend, there was a misunderstanding—Crawford's reply was buried in the middle of the thread, whereas Jester Canuck's posts were more recent (so, I thought you were referring to his comments).

For the record, OP: if you want a solid ruling (and good arguments for it), you should really head over to http://rpg.stackexchange.com. Instead of being drowned in 6 pages of bickering and competing opinions on seemingly equal footing, you'll find a community that debates intelligently because...

LOL, two things: OP said he's looking for a "solid ruling," so, just addressing the OP. Second, no one is arguing it can't be house-ruled—whatever your GM allows is fine.

But this is also incorrect: War Caster allows you to CAST a spell when an enemy triggers an OA—it doesn't allow you to repeat spell attacks granted by spells already cast. I already addressed this in my first answer: you could cast VT as a response to an OA if you cast it for the first time when...

Well, no offence, but it's more grounded than what you're doing—pulling a ruling out of thin air ;). More importantly, I quoted two very concrete/specific restrictions from the spell's description, which go against your interpretation. These two things are the best we have (in this forum at...

It's not vague on how it applies to OAs: if it doesn't state that you can repeat the attack as a Reaction, you can't. Read the examples in my post—spells that allow repeating their effects tell you which action you can use, and under what conditions. VT clearly says "on you turn" and "using an...

No, VT only allows you to "make the attack again on each of your turns as an action." So, two restrictions: it has to be your turn, and you have to use an action. The only way to use it as reaction with War Caster is if you cast it for the first time (or use up another spell slot) when an...

Thanks, Kithas—I think you're spot on about the 1st part (I had downplayed this aspect because... brain fart). The 2nd part is ok too, though only 1 target, which brings me to Chain Lightning. At L6, SS becomes 4d6 AoE + 6d6 Lightning to 1 target, which is 10d6 (so, about same as CL for that...

I'm having a hard time deciding whether Storm Sphere is a good spell (in general), and specifically, for my Storm Sorcerer (which is unfortunate—I feel there should've been more synergy between these, especially Heart of the Storm). How good is it, compared to others of the same level? I'm not...

I can't believe I necro'ed My apologies--I'd been out of the community for a while (so, didn't realise folks were talking about this as far back as Feb), and this seemed like an appropriate question to ask, given the recent release.

Wild Mage (4E or 2E versions) Preamble: I agree that it's unfair to compare an unfinished edition to fully developed editions. Even if all the info is available to make any new edition the über-encompassing thingamajig, there are real-life resource constraints, deadlines, etc., that make this...