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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7951215" data-attributes="member: 20564"><p>But it IS often more powerful to heal or damage 10 than to heal 5 and damage 5 separately.</p><p></p><p>Let's look at the whole picture. Let's look at Action Economy, and at Concentration as a resource</p><p></p><p><u><span style="font-size: 18px">Action economy</span></u></p><p>Compare these spells (the second I'm making up, riffing on Green Flame Blade).</p><p></p><p>True Strike: Spend you action casting so your first melee attack next round gets advantage.</p><p>"True Blade": Make a melee attack with advantage.</p><p></p><p>Both give you advantage on the melee strike. One though combines the actions. Otherwise it's a single slot, etc.</p><p></p><p><strong>Result: It is more powerful to combine multiple things into one spell so you are only spending one action casting.</strong></p><p></p><p><u><span style="font-size: 18px">Concentration</span></u></p><p>Concentration spells often are more powerful because they require concentration. Compare Blindness/Deafness to Hold Person. Both 2nd level, 1 minute, save at end of every round. But one will cause advantage/disadvantage, while the other will stop all actions, give advantage, and give auto crits. The ONLY difference between them is Concentration.</p><p></p><p><strong>Result: Combining two spell effects that both require Concentration to be balance, yet only "paying" Concentration once, is a big increase in power.</strong></p><p></p><p>As you can see, there can be great power boost in doing many things in one spell.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue, post: 7951215, member: 20564"] But it IS often more powerful to heal or damage 10 than to heal 5 and damage 5 separately. Let's look at the whole picture. Let's look at Action Economy, and at Concentration as a resource [U][SIZE=5]Action economy[/SIZE][/U] Compare these spells (the second I'm making up, riffing on Green Flame Blade). True Strike: Spend you action casting so your first melee attack next round gets advantage. "True Blade": Make a melee attack with advantage. Both give you advantage on the melee strike. One though combines the actions. Otherwise it's a single slot, etc. [B]Result: It is more powerful to combine multiple things into one spell so you are only spending one action casting.[/B] [U][SIZE=5]Concentration[/SIZE][/U] Concentration spells often are more powerful because they require concentration. Compare Blindness/Deafness to Hold Person. Both 2nd level, 1 minute, save at end of every round. But one will cause advantage/disadvantage, while the other will stop all actions, give advantage, and give auto crits. The ONLY difference between them is Concentration. [B]Result: Combining two spell effects that both require Concentration to be balance, yet only "paying" Concentration once, is a big increase in power.[/B] As you can see, there can be great power boost in doing many things in one spell. [/QUOTE]
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