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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 7164299" data-attributes="member: 16814">But that doesn't mean that one spell 'goes to sleep' and doesn't check it's triggers, only that the most effective result is applied when triggered. If there are two castings of booming blade, for instance, only the most potent effect is applied, but how do the spells tell which is most potent before they are triggered?  How can the suppressed version know that they other is the most potent?  Simply, they cannot.  The effects are in existence at the same time but only the most powerful result is applied.  One spell doesn't sleep and wait for the other to finish.  Instead, both spells MUST trigger and MUST check their damage in order for the most potent to be applied, at which point the end of spell mechanism has already be achieved and both spells end.  Further, you introduce the issue of how do you resolve the damage for the second booming blade?  Do you reroll when it's applied, or take the roll to check against the first application, which causes issues of how did that happen, since it hasn't resolve. If you re-roll, is the first damage application a hard ceiling, or is this a new resolution and the old one was just for that trigger?Both spells are active, both spells trigger at the same time, but only the most potent damage is applied, then both spells end.  One spell cannot determine that the other will be more powerful and go to sleep until the first resolved.  Otherwise, the 'most potent effect' rule has almost no cases where it applies, as you can use the logic of the sleeping spell from almost every case it would.</blockquote>

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