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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pickles JG" data-source="post: 6482046" data-attributes="member: 61501">Moonbeam is a good spell that does marginalise Call Lightning (which as I recall was slightly stronger in the last playtest).Call Lightning is better is stormy conditions or if you expect more than one encounter in rapid succession. A druid can swap in the one he thinks will be most useful or take both though if he needs to. My player's druid uses Moonbeam quite effectively, especially the time I stacked 4 spiders in a small corridor cleverly using their wall crawling to get lots of attacks.He has blocked corridors with it, thorn whipped things into it & had other PCs Thunderwave critters through it. Occasionally he can put it somewhere where a creature has to get an AO to move out of it (though this is better with Flaming Sphere as it turns that ropey spell on).   It works nicely with Healing Word to get people on their feet as the action to move it is not casting a spell.The sweeping death beam interpretation fails miserably at the sniff test - the spell is a good level 2 spell with the other interpretation, making it a sweeping death ray obviously makes it far too good.</blockquote>