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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9380451" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>Right, that’s what this change aims to fix. Now they all function the same way and carry the same action economy and opportunity costs, instead of the “just do more damage” smite being free to do in response to a crit and all the other smites requiring you to spend a bonus action in advance and give up your concentration slot, and hope you hit an attack before the duration runs out or you get hit and fail your con save. It’s a slight nerf to divine smite (costs a bonus action now and can be counterspelled) and a huge buff to all the other smites (no concentration, and can be cast in response to a hit or a crit just like divine smite always could.) So now, they should all be pretty viable, and there’s a meaningful decision to be made when you land a hit or a crit, between maximizing damage with divine smite, or giving up some number of damage dice to apply a secondary effect on hit. Basically like the rogue’s new cunning strike feature, but for smites instead of sneak attacks.</p></blockquote><p></p>