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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6367567" data-attributes="member: 1465">Simplicity was already botched when they decided to have swift spells at all, but there have been too many people in the recent past wanting some healing spells that can be cast without taking your whole turn, that WotC was almost forced to have swift spells in 5e.As for RAI, it's hard for me to guess it... My thought is that the RAI of swift spells is to allow an attack (mostly to Clerics and Druids) in the same round, either with a weapon or with a weapon-like spell i.e. cantrips.As for the RAI of action surge, I think it's to allow any extra combat action, including an Eldritch Knight spell, but IMHO they weren't thinking at all about the interaction with swift spells, and possibly they weren't even thinking about two "full" spells in the same round (this would have certainly raised some browse, although it's limited to once per short rest). IMHO it was an oversight, possibly because they just assumed somewhere there was a rule limiting spells per round (maybe there was in previous editions?).</blockquote>