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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7868271" data-attributes="member: 6779196">And I have stared at least four times that Crawford’s answers are clearly the intended function and are how I would run it at the table. I am merely arguing that the correct interpretation is not what a technical reading of the rules as written suggest.Effectively, what I’m saying is that BB and GFB are poorly written.I have never suggested that there is a restriction on how many attacks the sorcerer can make, nor that there is any separation between the Cast a Spell action and the attack required by Booming Blade. Quite the contrary, the very crux of my argument is that the attack is part of the action used to cast the spell, as opposed to being part of the effect of the spell.There is no such thing as a “melee action.” The Booming Blade spell instructs you to make an attack with a melee weapon against a creature within the spell’s range, or it fails. If you successfully perform this attack, and the necessary verbal and material components, then the spell targets the creature you attacked and places a condition of “On a hit, the target suffers the attack's normal effects, and it becomes sheathed in booming energy until the start of your next turn. If the target willingly moves be- fore then, it immediately takes 1d8 thunder damage, and the spell ends“ on the target. Twinning the spell lets you target a second creature with that effect. It does not, by a technical reading, cause you to make a second attack, any more than Twinning the Raise Dead causes you to expend a second 500 gp diamond.The melee attack is, quite explicitly, part of the action used to cast the spell, not part of the effect of the spell.Now, we know that this was not the developer’s intent. But if the developer’s intent was for the attack to be part of the effect of the spell, it should have been worded “make a melee weapon attack” just like every other spell that causes you to make an attack as part of its effect is. The fact that it is worded “ As part of the action used to cast this spell, you must make a melee attack with a weapon against one creature within the spell's range, otherwise the spell fails,” unlike every other spell that causes you to make an attack as part of its effects, suggests an intended function that is different from every other such spell.Correct. And what not twinning Booming Blade does to one target is, “On a hit, the target suffers the attack's normal effects, and it becomes sheathed in booming energy until the start of your next turn. If the target willingly moves be- fore then, it immediately takes 1d8 thunder damage, and the spell ends.”</blockquote>

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