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<blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 7170963" data-attributes="member: 6799649"><p>Sure, but if your friend is a 9th level warlock then all his slots are 5th level and warlocks don't get higher level slots. It would have to be a multi-class warlock where the other class gives you 6th level slots. Pretty niche.</p><p></p><p>If the spells are equally potent, then the first spell will take priority over the second. This is because when the first spell is cast then there is no second spell yet so the rule does not apply. When the second spell is cast, if it is more potent then it will take over, if is less potent then it won't. But if the second spell is equally potent then both spells are theoretically equal, but since they cannot combine by rule, and the first spell's effects are already applying, then for the second spell to have any effect it would have to either combine (which is against the rule) or end the first spell, which it has no power to do. Therefore, the original spell's effects apply while the durations combine, but if the first spell ends while still within the second spell's duration then the second spell will instantly begin to have its normal effect.</p><p></p><p>This applies to <em>booming blade</em> normally. The 'trigger' is part of the 'spell effect' and so the trigger of only one spell can apply, by rule.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arial Black, post: 7170963, member: 6799649"] Sure, but if your friend is a 9th level warlock then all his slots are 5th level and warlocks don't get higher level slots. It would have to be a multi-class warlock where the other class gives you 6th level slots. Pretty niche. If the spells are equally potent, then the first spell will take priority over the second. This is because when the first spell is cast then there is no second spell yet so the rule does not apply. When the second spell is cast, if it is more potent then it will take over, if is less potent then it won't. But if the second spell is equally potent then both spells are theoretically equal, but since they cannot combine by rule, and the first spell's effects are already applying, then for the second spell to have any effect it would have to either combine (which is against the rule) or end the first spell, which it has no power to do. Therefore, the original spell's effects apply while the durations combine, but if the first spell ends while still within the second spell's duration then the second spell will instantly begin to have its normal effect. This applies to [i]booming blade[/i] normally. The 'trigger' is part of the 'spell effect' and so the trigger of only one spell can apply, by rule. [/QUOTE]
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