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<blockquote data-quote="Leatherhead" data-source="post: 8078069" data-attributes="member: 53176">Spells need a lot of that general language cleanup.First of all: Using a hostile spell on someone is an act of aggression, I don't care if that spell uses a saving throw or an attack roll or if it just auto-hits.Second of all, targeting needs to be standardized and given a sanity check. I know you aren't asking for specific spells to change, but the Fireball/Lightning Bolt dichotomy is the perfect example of this. Fireball targets an area, and also explicitly as a feature of the spell, all creatures in that area (but not objects, which it also effects). Lightning bolt, on the other hand, only targets the caster of the spell, which causes really weird rules interactions.Thirdly. Put the names of the classes that can cast it in the spell description somewhere. Yeah I am going to agree with the somewhat popular opinion&nbsp; here. I can't tell you the number of times I have looked a spell in the book and said &quot;That's a cool spell, I wonder who gets it?&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Leatherhead, post: 8078069, member: 53176"] Spells need a lot of that general language cleanup. First of all: Using a hostile spell on someone is an act of aggression, I don't care if that spell uses a saving throw or an attack roll or if it just auto-hits. Second of all, targeting needs to be standardized and given a sanity check. I know you aren't asking for specific spells to change, but the Fireball/Lightning Bolt dichotomy is the perfect example of this. Fireball targets an area, and also explicitly as a feature of the spell, all creatures in that area (but not objects, which it also effects). Lightning bolt, on the other hand, only targets the caster of the spell, which causes really weird rules interactions. Thirdly. Put the names of the classes that can cast it in the spell description somewhere. Yeah I am going to agree with the somewhat popular opinion here. I can't tell you the number of times I have looked a spell in the book and said "That's a cool spell, I wonder who gets it?" [/QUOTE]

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