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Ah, thanks. I believe I have found the thread. I'll update my original post when I get a minute.

I have only just begun taking a close look at the spells in XGtE, and I have been trying to keep track of the changes from Elemental Evil. I think it would be handy to have a thread compiling the differences, so let's wiki this magic! Abi-Dalzim's Horrid Wilting: damage increased from 10d8 to...

Actually, I take that back. I just noticed the d6 damage that has been added since UA. That makes chaos bolt plainly better than magic missile and chromatic orb for WMS at 1st level, assuming at least two enemies and a 30/65/5 miss/hit/crit split. A friendly ruling on crits just makes it that...

I think you have to have clarification, either official or from a DM, about how chaos bolt interacts with critical hits (and spell bombardment) before you can decide if it is worth taking. If the ruling is that any two of the d8s matching generates a new bolt, a crit could, at an extreme...

Wait, if you caught yourself in a thunderwave and had to move ten feet away from yourself . . . where would you go?

Sorry, but you are a little off base here. From your other posts, it sounds like you have extrapolated a rule out of a useful if exaggerated demonstration for language-learners. However, there are fourteen phonotactic constraints (about as close to "rules" as it gets in linguistics) in English...

Those aren't syllables beginning with consonants. The first is a diphthong masquerading as a single vowel. They are really common in English. What we write "go" we pronounce [goʊ], that is, sliding the "o" into an "oo" as in "hook." (The UK pronunciation doesn't put an "o" in there at all[!]...

Oh, both the symbol and the sound are called "schwa." I don't know why. It's the sound that tends to fill up unstressed syllables in English, like the "a" in "about."

According to the OED both long- and short-"i" versions of "minotaur" are present in both the UK and North America. As to the final syllable . . . a lot of American dialects, particularly from Ohio westward, have lost the distinction between open "o" and low back "a." The classic example is that...

Since you bring it up, the misnaming of (faux) Early Modern English as Old English.

Sounds to me like another way of saying that vitriolic sphere scales better with your spellcasting mod. ;) I use a 65% chance to deal full damage on Dex saves based on observations of ability-score trends in the monster manual. If you are up against a random enemy from that book, about which...

4th-level spells: I think you are a little generous to wall of fire. It has a couple of noteworthy shortcomings. For as much damage as it does, you are only rarely going to deal damage to any individual creature more than once in the absence of forced movement. It is also expressly opaque...

Yeah, I pointed at that likely, alternate explanation in the post originally, but it got edited out with the jump to the front page.

Yeah, I pointed at that likely, alternate explanation in the post originally, but it got edited out with the jump to the front page.

An article by Gus Wezerek on FiveThirtyEight looks at race and class combination in D&D, using data from D&D Beyond. Wezerek suggests a reason for the popularity of human fighters: "It lets you focus on creating a good story rather than spending time flipping through rulebooks to look up...

I picked a class out of the air, though, to be honest, I have come to expect Tony to have an assertive opinion on nearly everything.

I picked a class out of the air, though, to be honest, I have come to expect Tony to have an assertive opinion on nearly everything.

This is practically inviting him to start in on his rant about sorcerers. ;) (kidding, kidding)

This is practically inviting him to start in on his rant about sorcerers. ;) (kidding, kidding)