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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 8251592" data-attributes="member: 2629">Again, DM discretion, but this is magical lightning, with no mention of any auditory element at all. They explicitly make thunder and lightning separate and distinct in 5E rules. They go to the point of making that auditory notes for fireball - and for thunder spells - but leave it out of all lightning spells. Generally speaking, if the rules do not say it exists, it doesn't exist. This approach only goes so far ... but it is a pretty significant coincidental oversight to leave it out of all these lightning spells and make it so common elsewhere.I get that your image of a lightning bolt spell is a literal lightning bolt from the sky.  The spell behaves differently than real lightning bolts (which are much longer than 100 feet, and arc in different directions rather than being a line).</blockquote>