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Yes. Resolve the first attack, then then second, either on the original target or a new one if it's dead or if you prefer.

No, the rules don't say that a blast can be anything but square. Insisting it can be otherwise is what is ignoring the rules and making stuff up. Page 272. Square blasts. There's no other examples. Now we know how to do blasts, according to the rules. Thanks, Wizards, for the helpful diagrams...

In a 3 square by 3 square figure, how can you have more squares on the diagonal than across? The diamond figure consists of the 3x3 square with additional squares added to the exterior. Where do the rules say to do this? What is the maximum number of minions that can be killed by a 10 x 10 blast?

Where do the rules say you cannot light the battle mat on fire? Because they do not, does this mean this is "legal" in Dungeons and Dragons? The very notion of a "blast" does not exist without the rulebooks. The D&D books are additive, bringing into existence the rules from a null state. They...

Where do the rules say a blast can be anything but square? Don't tell me they don't say it can't; it's not the WotC authors' responsibility to account for every possible misinterpretation. Rather, they provide a straightforward definition, two similar features in the rules specifically and...

No, you don't. But that's not what I have been arguing against. I have been addressing the idea of counting diagonals as a valid means to "rotate" a square area, which it isn't. It results in much larger coverage. D&D 4E does not appear to be built to handle portions of squares or accurate...

Concussion shot, frost trap, freezing trap, scatter shot? Oops, wrong game.

Then we are forced by pure logic to necessarily conclude that a diamond figure constituting 13 squares is not a rotated form of a square constituting 9 squares. Thank-you. :)

Of course not. So if someone claims they are "turning" a spell area on a board consisting of squares, is it acceptable that the result is significantly larger than the original?

Dear Zimri: Take 9 shreddies, and put them together in a 3 by 3 square, with edges touching. Now move your shreddies, so that they all only touch at the corners, and form 3 diagonal lines of 3. Do you see those gaps? Those shreddie sized gaps? Put four more shreddies in them. Now, do you have...

As these are fantasy games, I think our characters are often extensions of ourselves and express either what we would like to be in some way, or an ideal person we'd like to know, either as a friend or mate. Men can RP women tastefully or horribly, and vice versa. When it comes to sexuality...

The universe isn't composed of discrete 5' cubes, even though it may often seem that way. Creating a ramp or stairs seems reasonable, per the DM's discretion.

This. You know, in all this, I didn't even catch that. "I'm going to arbitrarily move my blast area one square farther away and add four more squares. But I ROTATED it!".

Rule Zero is that nothing is required. But anything to the contrary isn't mentioned, described, suggested or indicated in the rules. Additionally, it contradicts both how bursts and walls work (bursts are necessarily constrained to grid squares, and walls specifically deny diagonal hops), the...

Yes, that's what I said. Counting from the center is for bursts. Blasts are measured on the sides, or width and height. I was responding in that section to the comment that bursts use a different method of measurement, and so necessarily conform their shape to the battlegrid. A burst of 5...

I'm honestly sorry but I'm not quite sure what you're saying. All of those shapes seem like appealing options for houserules, not I don't know how that bears on bursts vs blasts.

Nuts are hexagonal. This thread is definitely squares.

You can allow or disallow anything you like. Rule Zero™. Have a low-magic or rare-magic campaign if you like. Disallow the item ritual and buying items, and have them depend on finding things in dungeons. But remember, the game is supposed to be *fun* for them. Getting items that improve their...

I saw a CSR ruling that suggests by default, you'd need multiple magic weapons, but for simplicity the DM may allow a weapon that fires & returns quick enough, or bounces around like Xena's chakram.

If a figure is X squares by X squares, then there is dimension U with parallel lines of squares that can be numbered 1, 2, and 3; and there is dimension V with parallel lines of squares that can be assigned A, B, and C. . . 3 . . . . 2 . X . . 1 . X ? X . . X ? X ? X A . X ? X . . B . X . . ...