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<blockquote data-quote="Paraxis" data-source="post: 6392225" data-attributes="member: 13009">I was in the middle of making the following post, when I started thinking about it and looking for examples, when I realized in this edition it is wrong.&nbsp; It is better to say they automatically damage.&nbsp; Since there is no attack roll, they don't trigger things that say &quot;on a hit&quot;.In 5e Magic Missiles do automatically &quot;hit&quot;, this doesn't do much as there is very little other effects that could trigger on a spell hit that is not built into the spell.Two of the interesting ones I found were the rogue assassin subclass ability &quot;assassinate&quot; that turns any hit on a surprised creature into a critical hit and attacking an unconscious creature while within five feet of it that also turns any hit into a critical hit.&nbsp; So normally a magic missile spell can not critically hit because there is no attack roll, these two exceptions allow the spell to.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Paraxis, post: 6392225, member: 13009"] I was in the middle of making the following post, when I started thinking about it and looking for examples, when I realized in this edition it is wrong. [I]It is better to say they automatically damage. Since there is no attack roll, they don't trigger things that say "on a hit". [/I] In 5e Magic Missiles do automatically "hit", this doesn't do much as there is very little other effects that could trigger on a spell hit that is not built into the spell. Two of the interesting ones I found were the rogue assassin subclass ability "assassinate" that turns any hit on a surprised creature into a critical hit and attacking an unconscious creature while within five feet of it that also turns any hit into a critical hit. So normally a magic missile spell can not critically hit because there is no attack roll, these two exceptions allow the spell to. [/QUOTE]

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