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<blockquote data-quote="Gladius Legis" data-source="post: 7117022" data-attributes="member: 68748">The part &quot;If you also use your Divine Smite with an attack, you add this damage to the extra damage of your Divine Smite.&quot;A LOT of people had interpreted this as the 1d8 damage also adding to the extra damage of your Divine Smite, in addition to the constant 1d8s on your melee weapon attacks. The &quot;this damage&quot; part is what made it confusing, however, and led just as many people to believe that it simply just reiterated that the constant 1d8 stacked with Divine Smite and that was it.FYI, I was in the latter camp before Crawford's tweet, but I can easily see how the other ruling makes sense. After all, why would they need to reiterate the constant +1d8 on melee weapon attacks part stacking with your Divine Smite? Without that second Divine Smite-related clause, that would've seemed self-explanatory enough.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gladius Legis, post: 7117022, member: 68748"] The part "If you [I]also[/I] use your Divine Smite with an attack, you add [I]this damage[/I] to the extra damage of your Divine Smite." A LOT of people had interpreted this as the 1d8 damage [I]also[/I] adding to the extra damage of your Divine Smite, in addition to the constant 1d8s on your melee weapon attacks. The "this damage" part is what made it confusing, however, and led just as many people to believe that it simply just reiterated that the constant 1d8 stacked with Divine Smite and that was it. FYI, I was in the latter camp before Crawford's tweet, but I can easily see how the other ruling makes sense. After all, why would they need to reiterate the constant +1d8 on melee weapon attacks part stacking with your Divine Smite? Without that second Divine Smite-related clause, that would've seemed self-explanatory enough. [/QUOTE]

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