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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 6544781" data-attributes="member: 6790260">The point was not whether or not it says &quot;whenever,&quot; but what &quot;sources&quot; of damage means. Does one &quot;Attack action&quot; count as one &quot;source&quot; of damage? Does one attack within an Attack action? Do riders on top of attacks count, or not? If you get hit by all four (max) bolts of Eldritch Blast, is that one source of damage or four? Etc.Nobody questions that it's &quot;whenever.&quot; I'm still not at all certain--despite the claims of simplicity--that the correct interpretation is to separate out attacks, but not things that ride on attacks. &quot;Source&quot; could mean the person(/monster/etc.), or the thing the person/monster/etc. does. I favor the former interpretation (in other words, not separating attacks). You get attacked, you take all the damage that comes from that action and use it to determine one DC for one roll. Otherwise, you essentially guarantee that once everyone gets 2 attacks, no Concentration spell can last more than a round of combat--because if three attacks = three rolls, you're essentially rolling one concentration check with double disadvantage, something that cannot occur anywhere else in the game. I'm all for limits on caster power, but that seems a little extreme.Now, to be fair, there aren't a lot of monsters that get the &quot;Extra Attack&quot; feature, to the best of my knowledge. However, I'd like to think enemy casters should be able to hold onto a buff, when fighting a PC Fighter, for longer than one round.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 6544781, member: 6790260"] The point was not whether or not it says "whenever," but what "sources" of damage means. Does one "Attack action" count as one "source" of damage? Does one attack [I]within[/I] an Attack action? Do riders on top of attacks count, or not? If you get hit by all four (max) bolts of Eldritch Blast, is that one source of damage or four? Etc. Nobody questions that it's "whenever." I'm still not at all certain--despite the claims of simplicity--that the correct interpretation is to separate out attacks, but not things that ride on attacks. "Source" could mean the [I]person[/I](/monster/etc.), or the thing the person/monster/etc. does. I favor the former interpretation (in other words, [I]not[/I] separating attacks). You get attacked, you take all the damage that comes from that action and use it to determine one DC for one roll. Otherwise, you essentially guarantee that once everyone gets 2 attacks, no Concentration spell can last more than a round of combat--because if three attacks = three rolls, you're essentially rolling one concentration check with double disadvantage, something that cannot occur anywhere else in the game. I'm all for limits on caster power, but that seems a little extreme. Now, to be fair, there aren't a lot of [I]monsters[/I] that get the "Extra Attack" feature, to the best of my knowledge. However, I'd like to think enemy casters should be able to hold onto a buff, when fighting a PC Fighter, for longer than one round. [/QUOTE]

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