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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arceliar" data-source="post: 7164107" data-attributes="member: 6894334">Fair enough. I think reasonable people would probably RAI that they don't stack and move on with life. I'm still concerned with figuring out what RAW says, even if nobody actually uses that interpretation, and I hadn't noticed this possible ambiguity in the rules until I read the Booming Blade thread.Just to clarify (for anyone who is interested), when I say "duration", I mean Duration, as defined on PHB 203. In summary, it states that spells can be instantaneous or persist for some amount of time (which may be until dispelled or destroyed), and that the latter case may also require concentration. It does not specify durations of the form "1 round or until triggered", nor do such spells (Booming Blade, Death Ward, etc.) list such a constraint on the "Duration:" field of their spell descriptions--Booming Blade simply says "1 round", and I take it at its word. Instead, these spells list special circumstances under which something happens "and the spell ends". Since that's not included in the definition of Duration, and it falls under the part of the text which is used for the spell's effect, then when interpreting it RAW I'm inclined to conclude that the early ending aspects of such spells are part of their effects. Ending the effect does end the spell's duration, just the same as dispelling it would, but that's not the same as defining the spells duration with those ending conditions, due to the lack of such a rule (so far as I can tell) in 5e.</blockquote>

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