doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
I mean, someone explain how Shocking Grasp and Eldritch Blast are not meaningfully different.
Preferably someone who thinks fighters and rogues are meaningfully different from eachother, and especially if there is anyone who thinks those two cantrips are basically the same, but doesn't think that a polearm fighter and a two-dagger fighter are basically the same.
Like I said, some spells and cantrips are similar. Some cantrips are just kinda boring and underwhelming, like Word of Radiance and Sword Burst, both of which should do literally just something at all other than damage.
But there are plenty of cantrips that are very meaningfully different. They simply create different moments in the fiction. This is why I keep coming back to the difference between what they look like on a character sheet vs what they actually allow the character to do, because it's the only thing that makes sense to me as an explanation, and no one provides an actual explanation. Sorry, but car analogies aren't actually all that explanatory. It just reiterates that you think they're the same. It doesn't explain why, at all.
Preferably someone who thinks fighters and rogues are meaningfully different from eachother, and especially if there is anyone who thinks those two cantrips are basically the same, but doesn't think that a polearm fighter and a two-dagger fighter are basically the same.
Like I said, some spells and cantrips are similar. Some cantrips are just kinda boring and underwhelming, like Word of Radiance and Sword Burst, both of which should do literally just something at all other than damage.
But there are plenty of cantrips that are very meaningfully different. They simply create different moments in the fiction. This is why I keep coming back to the difference between what they look like on a character sheet vs what they actually allow the character to do, because it's the only thing that makes sense to me as an explanation, and no one provides an actual explanation. Sorry, but car analogies aren't actually all that explanatory. It just reiterates that you think they're the same. It doesn't explain why, at all.