Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="thebestjessins" data-source="post: 7518372" data-attributes="member: 6975719"><p>It says Booming Blade is a range 5ft spell that you have to deliver with a melee weapon attack. Does that count as ranged? Ha, not sure, but it's funny if so. I figure if the DM is going to give me whatever basic weapon I want to start the game with I might as well choose the rapier. I went with the background of being noble so it would make a small amount of sense for being trained and affording one. I was reading someone else was trying to figure out how to use shield mastery to knock down opponents to force them to stand up and trigger the BB but turns out the rules don't consider standing up as movement even though it burns 5ft of movement. Like BB is a weird one to trigger the extra damage because an enemy that is right next to you and doing melee he's not going to move away from you ever. It also sort of works as a way for force them from ever moving away because if the DM knows it will damage the enemy and it does melee anyways then it's pretty much locked onto you. So it does work as a weird battlefield control effect that forces them to focus on you primarily. But green flame is also hard to trigger because you have to be in a crowd for it to work, it only moves to other enemies 5ft from the first enemy but won't travel like say chain lightning so it's so conditional and the enemies have to be really dense around the first enemy. And I try not to purposely get that surrounded, seems super dangerous.</p></blockquote><p></p>

Verification