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4e didn’t have perfect mechanical balance :( Frost Cheese was one example. That the char op community started measuring damage in kills per round was another. Etc.

Death spiral is generally less output the more damaged you are. I don’t think following the right half of the bell curve to be useful as you’ll drop down in output significantly enough for it to really spiral you despite it not really going lower at some point. Anything more than 2/3 of your...

Gunpoint works good too.

Kind of like how hotels skip counting the 13th floor? If we don’t call it the 13th or last then it’s not ;) I guarantee doing that stops all the accidents from being on the last car. ;)

In 5e, the attack is both the swing and damage?

IMO ‘Attack roll of the spell’ need not be construed so broadly that it includes summons or so narrowly that it excludes true strike.

There are no hard aggro abilities. There are soft one, like making yourself more threatening (higher offense or control are the most common, having more damaging OA’s, etc.). As an example a once made a swashbuckler rogue with a dip in barbarian so I could get a high damage OA and have the...

2014 5e or 2024 5e?

70% of all problems occur at home.

1. This is not natural laws of physics -----> Caster casts true strike. Wiggles their fingers. A magical force guides their hand and sword toward the enemy 2. I don't believe the rule you are quoting means that spells cannot cause any non-physics breaking effects. I take it to mean that they...

I think you’d still see arguments it was a spell attack. That’s part of why I don’t find that line of reasoning persuasive.

The simplest OP character I know was the 2014 Battlemaster Fighter with Precision Attack manuever, Sharpshooter and Crossbow Expertise and a single hand crossbow. A Bear totem Barbarian in 2014 that reckless attacks with Great Weapon master was also really strong. Any well built wizard was...

Casters should multiclass for shields and armor or other spells. For Divine Smite. Martials often stop progressing much at level 5 or a little after. Most of them can be safely multiclassed any time after that for whatever abilities you desire. Some particularly good abilities are...

Is this for 2024 d&d or 2014?

I’m trying to think of the opposite. If the intent was for it not to function How could it be worded to make that clear? I don’t see any good way as anything in the spell is a spell effect, thus always making the attack a spell effect.

So I agree the spell causes the attack. That doesn’t fully prove that the attack roll for that attack is from the spell. Though perhaps exploring a fictional rendition of what is happening if it were could be helpful. Caster casts true strike. Wiggles their fingers. A magical force guides...

Some context for my question, I was wanting to compare Damage output of various level 2 classes and couldn’t decide which way to treat True Strike on Sorcerers.

Question Max. Is your position that the attack with the weapon is part of the spell but the attack roll with the weapon is not? Or is your position that the attack with the weapon is not part of the spell? I don't know that either holds up to scrutiny, but especially the 2nd - as there's no...

The condition is 'attack rolls of Sorcerer spells you cast.' Trying to shorten it to 'advantage on the attack rolls' is not what it says either. The question is whether the 'one attack with the weapon used in the spell's casting' is an attack roll of a Sorcerer spell you cast or whether it is not.

In the OP: Note: the question isn't whether you would allow it at your table, but whether you think it's allowed by the rules.