mellored
Legend
It's not that. It's because it's a spell. You can't trade a shadowblade for anything.
"If you drop the weapon or throw it, it dissipates at the end of the turn"
D&D 5E (2024) Abusing True Strike 2024
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"If you drop the weapon or throw it, it dissipates at the end of the turn"
Kurotowa
Legend
On the one hand, I can see it as being strictly accurate. If the restriction doesn't mean that, it doesn't mean anything. On the other hand, I agree it's stupid because it means you can't use weapon cantrips with any weapons created by spells or class features, or with natural weapons from species traits. And that sucks and seems counter to fun.
Honestly, I don't know what the point of the cost restriction is supposed to be. And that makes it hard for me to judge when it's being applied appropriately or not.
Kurotowa
Legend
Exactly! As worded, the strict RAW seem needlessly narrow and punishingly restrictive. And since I don't understand the intent I can't advocate for a RAI implementation instead. So I'm in favor of just kind of ignoring the whole thing, unless someone seems to be abusing a loophole because of it.
Zardnaar
Legend
I think it was because of the shadow blade spell being stacked with booming blade/gfb cantrips. Maybe Spirit Shroud as well.
You could stack a few to many dice of damage on melee spellcasters. And how they could also work with things adding spell modifier to cantrip damage.
5.5 pushes the worst abuses back to level 11-13 range.
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