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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 7672793" data-attributes="member: 6787650">I agree that the errata is unclear and need to be errata'ed. :-/ It would be better if they had also errata'ed this passage:According to Crawford's interpretation, it seems that this passage should say "If a spell or other effect deals damage to more than one target at the same time, or to the same target more than once, roll the damage once..." But even though the passage doesn't actually say that, you need to interpret it this way for the rules to be coherent. Here's the scenario:I'm a Gold Dragon Sorc. I cast Scorching Ray V, directing five bolts at an Oni and one bolt at a zombie. If I roll 2d6+5 damage separately for each bolt for the Oni and get ( 14 + 12 + 13 + 12 + 10 ) = 61, how much damage does the zombie take? Obviously not 61 since there was only one bolt that hit him. But the zombie was hit at the same time as the Oni. So does he take 10 points or 14 or something in between? The only way to resolve this is to go with Crawford's tweet from January and say, "Oh, the 5E designers intended to minimize the number of damage rolls. Roll 2d6+5 only once. If I get a 14, the Oni takes 70 points of damage and the zombie takes 14."I hope that attempted clarification of the clarification of the clarification helped. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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