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How do you interpret the green-flame blade and booming blade somatic component?
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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 9216285" data-attributes="member: 20564"><p>I apologize, but I find this entirely wrong in every particular.</p><p></p><p>"Descriptive fluff that changes nothing" - if this was true, then the attack would still go off if the spell was counterspelled, because the attack would not be dependent on the success of the casting. This is untrue - the <strong>rules</strong> are clear that the effects fo the spell happen after the casting. It is no way just descriptive fluff.</p><p></p><p>"Way too pedantic" - others (Sword of Spirit and ECMO3) both were confused about the attack happening during the casting, not as an effect of the casting, with SoS even wondering if using the material component for something else negated the ability to use that hand for the somatic component, which would have major effects of the hands needed to cast this spell.</p><p></p><p>"It doesn't really matter" - The argument that the rules do not matter while debating the rules is inherently wrong. And the rules only support one interpretation.</p><p></p><p>It impacts if the attack happens with counterspells or in an anti-magic area the players don't know about. It impacts Sword of Spirit's discussion about not being able to do somatic and material components with the same hand if the material components are "doing something". It impacts if you are following the rules.</p><p></p><p>Again, none of this has anything to do with the description you give in the narrative, as I've said several times before. I have never been talking about the fluff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue, post: 9216285, member: 20564"] I apologize, but I find this entirely wrong in every particular. "Descriptive fluff that changes nothing" - if this was true, then the attack would still go off if the spell was counterspelled, because the attack would not be dependent on the success of the casting. This is untrue - the [B]rules[/B] are clear that the effects fo the spell happen after the casting. It is no way just descriptive fluff. "Way too pedantic" - others (Sword of Spirit and ECMO3) both were confused about the attack happening during the casting, not as an effect of the casting, with SoS even wondering if using the material component for something else negated the ability to use that hand for the somatic component, which would have major effects of the hands needed to cast this spell. "It doesn't really matter" - The argument that the rules do not matter while debating the rules is inherently wrong. And the rules only support one interpretation. It impacts if the attack happens with counterspells or in an anti-magic area the players don't know about. It impacts Sword of Spirit's discussion about not being able to do somatic and material components with the same hand if the material components are "doing something". It impacts if you are following the rules. Again, none of this has anything to do with the description you give in the narrative, as I've said several times before. I have never been talking about the fluff. [/QUOTE]
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