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Message: <blockquote data-quote="plisnithus8" data-source="post: 8588644" data-attributes="member: 6870553">Instant, instantly, instantaneous, and immediately either mean the same thing or they don’t. The most common definition of instantly is immediately. An instant,  instantaneously, and instantly are not always exactly the same. Where are you getting. The phrase “an instant”?It seems you are saying others are shooting down your interpretation as you go point by point trying to disapprove theirs.I don’t understand how you can say teleport has a time gap, but a boom does not. If you say a spell happens with no gap, then it is clear that the boom happens after the teleport. If a spell does have a gap, then wouldn’t boom-to-damage too? In that case, if you say the boom damage happens before reappearance, you are selectively choosing timing the time gaps.The 5e rules don’t define the chemical composition of air or the speed of sound (they also don’t define the color purple or say that humans are born with kidneys).It would seem reasonable to carry over things not mentioned in the rules from the real world to assist understanding the truly magical things in a fantasy world, but that doesn’t have to happen.The rules also don’t mention a gap in time for teleportation. If you want to make your game have one, you can, but that doesn’t add one to RAW. Saying that the description mentions teleport and disappear in different places doesn’t prove that they are different things with a gap between them.Thunderstep doesn’t mention a gap in time; it does mention a gap in distance. Bridging distance is the underlying definition of what teleport means. The spell’s description mentions that. There are instances in other genres that teleportation might have a time gap, but there is nothing in the this spell’s description that mentions a possibility of that.Thunderstep’s description does mention “teleport” without defining it in the description, but there is already a spell called Teleport that does clue us in that the process happens “instantly,” a synonym for “immediately,” the word used for the boom that happens after.If the spell meant for the caster to be able to negate their own damage from the spell, it would have mentioned that. A spell does what it says it does.Aside from the debate, my guess is that the spell’s writer used the word “disappear” as a synonym for teleport. They didn’t consider the caster not teleporting out of damage range so described the boom in relation to the disappearance location.</blockquote>

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