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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 8252844" data-attributes="member: 2525">The WightsI am saying you don't need to hit them all, you can easily hit two with little movement.I assumed you didn't present a scenario where a target was specifically immune to lightning bolt to demonstrate targeting, because that would be a pretty disingenuous choice for such a random sample.The wizard should be able to hit two of the wights in front and whatever the guy is in the back with a bolt without moving too much. That's my point. The bolt does not need to travel along a specific gridline. It travels in any desired direction, and as long as part of the 5 foot wide bolt is hitting part of that target's square that target is hit by it. So sure, you cannot hit all those wights without a faster move or, more likely, a mity step. But they can hit three targets in that scenario with their normal move and likely some move to spare to withdraw after they fire their bolt.Here, I edited your photo with a crude example of how the bolt can go diagonal. Wizard moved 20 feet, will fire and hit three, and then move 10 feet back down to the party.[ATTACH=full]135886[/ATTACH]Though I will note the wizard could have just moved 30 to line up all the wights and hit them all. But then they're stuck out there to the left and could get swarmed if they don't have something like misty step.</blockquote>