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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8106459" data-attributes="member: 93670">You sure about that? This is the only relevant errata &amp; changing it so a 2 paladin/18 sorc or whatever can use all of their spell slots for divine smite if they wanted does not bode well for that strict RAW interpretation.[ATTACH=full]127355[/ATTACH]You only need to look at warlock for numerous examples of both plain wording &amp; RAW that are completely not how it is but should have been caught with even cursory sanity checking.&nbsp; For example:[spoiler=&quot;no errata&quot;][ATTACH=full]127356[/ATTACH][/spoiler][spoiler=&quot;errata&quot;][ATTACH=full]127359[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]127358[/ATTACH][/spoiler]&nbsp;One of 5e's &quot;features&quot; that is supposed to be a strong point is not spending much effort on RAW in favor of forcing the GM to finish the system on the fly.&nbsp; Maybe a5e can do a better job of not forcing the gm to finish the system to avoid massively broken stuff than 5e&nbsp; I've never seen wotc weigh in on if paladin is supposed to be able to multi-divineSmite in one turn or not &amp; their lax approach to sanity checking combined with reluctance to errata even the most obvious screwups in favor of forcing the gm to do it being touted as&nbsp; good thing works against the idea that the RAW was something intentional that should be left as is rather than declared a spell.[USER=5889]@Stalker0[/USER] it's a good second chance if they miss sure, but smites are a lot more limited than sneak attacks, giving up things like GWM probably hurts more than they gain because it doesn't scale when they gain a second attack at level 5</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 8106459, member: 93670"] You sure about that? This is the only relevant errata & changing it so a 2 paladin/18 sorc or whatever can use all of their spell slots for divine smite if they wanted does not bode well for that strict RAW interpretation. [ATTACH type="full"]127355[/ATTACH] You only need to look at warlock for numerous examples of both plain wording & RAW that are completely not how it is but should have been caught with even cursory sanity checking. For example: [spoiler="no errata"] [ATTACH type="full"]127356[/ATTACH] [/spoiler] [spoiler="errata"] [ATTACH type="full"]127359[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]127358[/ATTACH] [/spoiler] One of 5e's "features" that is supposed to be a strong point is not spending much effort on RAW in favor of forcing the GM to finish the system on the fly. Maybe a5e can do a better job of not forcing the gm to finish the system to avoid massively broken stuff than 5e I've never seen wotc weigh in on if paladin is supposed to be able to multi-divineSmite in one turn or not & their lax approach to sanity checking combined with reluctance to errata even the most obvious screwups in favor of forcing the gm to do it being touted as good thing works against the idea that the RAW was something intentional that should be left as is rather than declared a spell. [USER=5889]@Stalker0[/USER] it's a good second chance if they miss sure, but smites are a lot more limited than sneak attacks, giving up things like GWM probably hurts more than they gain because it doesn't scale when they gain a second attack at level 5 [/QUOTE]

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