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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gerion of Mercadia" data-source="post: 3429578" data-attributes="member: 50527">You specify that I fall 100 feet - ok, got you there.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> If I fall 100 feet, but the ground is still 600 more feet down - have I taken damage yet?IIRC It's not the fall that deals the damage, its the impact at the end.  Falling itself is kinda fun, the fine art of skydiving.  Having an abrupt landing at the end is a bone breaking proposition, and is usually more memorable than the proceeding skydive. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> Is a Wand that casts "fireball" considered a weapon by the King's bodyguards when you try and bring it into the throne room?  Oops, I'm confusing the word "weapon" with the term weapon.  Unarmed strikes and natural weapons are specific subcategories of the general term weapon... or is my logical trapsense detecting a pitfall, specifically that "weapon" isn't a glosssary term?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> Weapon Focus: Ray - legal or illegal?Weapon Specialization: Ray - legal or illegal? (presuming I took the 4 levels of fighter after I became a spellcaster of course)Is a Ray a weapon and a spell?Are the terms mutually exclusive or not?The "Disruptive energy" comes out of the weapon IF AND ONLY IF the weapon strikes the target.  It is therefore damage which comes from the use of a weapon, in the quantity of 1d8+4 +2d6 slashing damage.  If it were some OTHER kind of damage, the damage would have been specified, since a spell effect, natural ability, or a magic item might grant me immunity somehow - after all, that's the definition of damage, unless WotC made a mistake of course, and they NEVER do that, do they?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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