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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9778085" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Notably, this version of True Strike is in the 2024 rules, which don’t use the “weapon attack” vs “spell attack” distinction that the 2014 rules had - probably due to the consternation those categories caused in cases like unarmed strikes where an attack that was not made with a weapon would still be considered a “weapon attack” because the only alternative was for it to be a spell attack. The terms “weapon attack” and “spell attack” don’t, to my knowledge, appear in the 2024 rules. There are only attack rolls of spells and attack rolls made with weapons. Even in monster stat blocks, attacks are listed as melee/ranged attack roll +X: instead of melee/ranged weapon/spell attack +X:This spell clearly creates a new ambiguity, because it is objectively an attack roll made with a weapon, but it is made as part of the effect of a spell, so one could easily read it as also being an attack roll of a spell. This is a case where my preferred interpretation of True Strike, Green Flame Blade, and other such spells comes in: the spell’s effect is to allow you to make an attack, which has special effects on a hit. I know this is a controversial interpretation, but it very cleanly resolves this, and many other ambiguities these spells cause.</blockquote>