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<blockquote data-quote="Hawk Diesel" data-source="post: 8432980" data-attributes="member: 59848">Dude, you do what you want at your table. But I don't feel like the spirit of the spells limits their usage in this way. It's a teleportation spell with a limited range and limited capacity. You can focus on strict game elements if you like, but I prefer my games to be more story-driven and allow for broader usage of abilities. If I wanted to play D&amp;D like a video game, I'd just play Baldur's Gate 3 (fantastic game btw, highly recommend). If you need a very specific wording for every single spell an ability, then you end up with the 500 page tomes of spells like in AD&amp;D or the 20 billion different spells from 3e.Also, for those of you hung up on the spell being a reaction versus of bonus action, I thought combat was the only time rounds and action economy come into play. Outside of the combat, things get less well-defined, so it seems perfectly reasonable to use a spell as a &quot;reaction&quot; when you aren't actually using rounds and initiative to determine order of actions and action economy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hawk Diesel, post: 8432980, member: 59848"] Dude, you do what you want at your table. But I don't feel like the [I]spirit [/I]of the spells limits their usage in this way. It's a teleportation spell with a limited range and limited capacity. You can focus on strict game elements if you like, but I prefer my games to be more story-driven and allow for broader usage of abilities. If I wanted to play D&D like a video game, I'd just play Baldur's Gate 3 (fantastic game btw, highly recommend). If you need a very specific wording for every single spell an ability, then you end up with the 500 page tomes of spells like in AD&D or the 20 billion different spells from 3e. Also, for those of you hung up on the spell being a reaction versus of bonus action, I thought combat was the only time rounds and action economy come into play. Outside of the combat, things get less well-defined, so it seems perfectly reasonable to use a spell as a "reaction" when you aren't actually using rounds and initiative to determine order of actions and action economy. [/QUOTE]

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