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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 9794383" data-attributes="member: 15700">Quik eI did when I have the number of impacted squares of 15 ft compared to 25 ft radius. They way math works, increasing by 10 ft is not increasing by 66%, but by 3x the impacted area.No, I am not saying that. Please don't put words in my mouth.  I said it's situational so it's hard to say if you impact 4 creatures or 6 creatures or 9 creatures.  I didn't say it's highly situational that it only occurs in long combats surrounded by enemies.  I'll show the math in a second to show that even if it's just a few creatures, it's a far better option.Show the mathThis is just not true at all.Your own anecdotal experience is not a citation.  Please show proof that the typical 5e encounter is less than 3 rounds long, less at higher levels.  Everything I could find from others' experiences is 5-7 rounds.Nope.  Let's look at a typical encounter. Encounters like this are common both in my own experience, and in published adventures. The blue is a standard radius SG.  The red is an augment with one helper.  5th level PCs.  The eldritch knight has 2 attacks per round at 1d8+4 damage (assuming 20 str). Let's assume every hit is successful and every save against SG fails. That EK can either move and attack one hobgoblin for 17 damage.ORThe EK spends a level 1 spell slot to augment SG.  It immediately impacts 2 additional creatures for 13.5 damage each. If the hobgoblins move in to attack, it also impacts more than one a round earlier than they would if we used the blue radius.  They would all have to dash in order to be impacted by SG the same time they would if it were blue (which means they give up their attack action).  Even if they don't move forward, the cleric can move forward and capture more of them in the 25 ft radius than they could with a 15 ft radius.That's just on the first round after casting.  The next round, the EK can do whatever they would no normally, and the SG keeps damaging opponents at the tune of 13.5 damage each.  All of this extra damage at the cost of 17 total points given up by the EK on the first round.Even if you are extremely conservative and say only two extra hobgoblins are impacted by the increased radius, that's an extra 27 points of damage each round, at the cost of an initial 17 points.  Show me the math where this is weaker than just attacking like you claim. Show me the math how casting Tasha's on one monster is better than doing that extra damage to all of them.And then....SG lasts 10 minutes, so you get to keep using it for the next encounter if you keep moving![ATTACH=full]421466[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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