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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ryan92084" data-source="post: 6789654" data-attributes="member: 6802559">Your first part is off the mark as it was a theoretical spell based off how I see the interaction of GFB with a non descript mundane weapon.  Your second part seems more in line with what I was talking about but I will rephrase in an attempt to make my position more clear and then move on.I see this as a simple direct substitution situation.  You take the phrase [normal effects] out and replace it with the properties of the weapon being used.  So for your standard scimitar it would be [1d6 nonmagical slashing damage] and for a +2 flametongue scimitar of blinding it would be [1d6+2 magical slashing +1d6 fire damage +blind].  This direct substitution is important for my argument against your point about the errata.  It could be argued (not that you personally are) that the damage type shouldn't be included in [normal effects] of an attack but I would disagree. I would no sooner remove the non magical slashing damage type from the effect as I would the fire from the flametongue portion. Now, about the errata.  Firstly as is already being discussed "delivered" may not be meant to be taken as you are doing.  However, even it does we come back to my point about the direct substitution.  If my method is correct then using a standard scimitar the spell description would then read:"...On a hit, the target suffers the attack's [1d6 nonmagical slashing damage], and green fire leaps..."while the +2blinding flametongue would obviously be:"...On a hit, the target suffers the attack's [1d6+2 magical slashing +1d6 fire damage +blind ]and green fire leaps..."Then it becomes a case of specific, the spell description, versus the general, errata/JC tweet, and therein lies the crux of my argument.</blockquote>

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