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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lumenbeing" data-source="post: 7906711" data-attributes="member: 6779684">That’s a pretty weak answer. “Magic” can only suspend disbelief so far. There is nothing in the spell description that says it gives the caster faster arms. Making the successful weapon attack is a REQUIREMENT of the spell, not an effect of the spell. That’s what the word “must” does here. it creates an special requirement.Another implicit requirement of the spell is that there be a target. If there is only one target, Twinned Spell doesn’t “magically“ conjure another one for you to attack. Likewise it doesn’t magically endow the caster with an ability (eg. Second attack) she doesn’t already have.  Twinning BB should only be possible if the caster has an offhand weapon with which he could make a second weapon attack or otherwise has an ability granting him two attacks with the same weapon. If you are twinning the WHOLE SPELL as so many of you are vehemently arguing should be the case, then you are also twinning the requirement to make a successful weapon attack. And then, the whole spell should fail if EITHER attack misses.The big fans of this exploit are happy to ignore common sense and logic. They are happy to imagine that requirements can simultaneously be effects and the paradox inherent therein. They are willing to imagine ghost arms and any other thing not actually written, while ignoring the word “must” that is actually part of the spell description. The logic these exploiters are proposing is this: “Twinned spell has a given list of requirements. If those are met, any other requirements imposed by the specific spell can be ignored”Now a word on Jeremy Crawford’s tweets. JC was not the lead designer of SCAG, nor was he the lead editor. Very unlikely that he personally wrote Booming Blade. I don’t grant him the authority to retcon the RAI in this case. Whomever wrote the spell employed some creative writing to make an exceptional spell that works a a little differently from the normal spell casting mechanics. They didn’t think it all the way through in regards to twinned spell. The editors didn’t either. But JC would have us believe that everything they do is infallible and deliberate. His tweets are, as often as not, cryptic non answers, until he realizes he has painted himself in a corner and must finally give a yes or no. Skeptics: “I smell a fart”JC: “Nope. No one farted. There was no collusion” Exploit fans: ”Well thank God that’s settled!”</blockquote>

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