D&D 5E Mordenkainen's Sword is Limp and Made of Tinfoil

[hbarsquared]

Any agreement on any of these proposed "fixes?"

One, some, or all?

• add an attack: two attacks per round
• attack all enemies within 5ft
• increase damage (3d12?)
• additional modifiers: +1, +2 to attack, damage?
• additional properties: advantage, overcome resistance, stun?
• lower spell level: 6th, 5th?
• remove concentration
• remove bonus action to attack: takes no action

Anything else?

I like either: keeping concentration and the bonus action, but having two attacks, or simply removing concentration and the bonus action.

What's your houserule/solution?

 

[Stalker0]

It’s basically designed as a spell that can deal DOT and allows a caster to preserve spell slots while they they get to play fighter for a while.

So i go with the KISS strategy, just increase the damage

 

[Gadget]

In my game I give it the properties of a Sword of Sharpness (max damage against objects, chance to sever a limb). Also, on a 20, instantly destroys a force effect ( Force Cage, Wall of Force, Otilukes Resilient Sphere, etc), along with ending the spell.


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[CapnZapp]

Of course if you want to follow KISS, the simplest approach is to simply ignore the spell.

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