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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9060855" data-attributes="member: 6801228">As Wandering Mystic points out, there is no reason those have to be the same enemy. And if you are dealing with only one enemy, you aren't the only one who might be thrown into the moonbeam.There is no Fire Sorcerer, and there are no fire spells that drain magic from those they hit. In this case you would be ADDING effects to the spell specifically to hurt the caster. This is not like that. The draconic sorcerer who focuses on fire gets resistance to all fire damage, regardless of source, but they otherwise suffer all the effects of the fire spell.The difference between giving the Storm cleric resistance and your proposal is that resistance to a single element is very different than pointing out a specific spell. If you were talking about resistance to radiant damage, we would have a different point. And, frankly, it isn't the damage you are concerned with. You aren't asking them to be immune to their own call lightning, their own wall of fire, their own spike growth, ect. They are equally vulnerable to those effects. What you are concerned with is the shapechanger aspect. And, re-reading the spell.... you may not need to worry about that. It is a tricky definition, but since Shapechanger is a specific monster trait, it may be argued that Moonbeam only works on those creatures, and not anything that has been polymorphed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 9060855, member: 6801228"] As Wandering Mystic points out, there is no reason those have to be the same enemy. And if you are dealing with only one enemy, you aren't the only one who might be thrown into the moonbeam. There is no Fire Sorcerer, and there are no fire spells that drain magic from those they hit. In this case you would be ADDING effects to the spell specifically to hurt the caster. This is not like that. The draconic sorcerer who focuses on fire gets resistance to all fire damage, regardless of source, but they otherwise suffer all the effects of the fire spell. The difference between giving the Storm cleric resistance and your proposal is that resistance to a single element is very different than pointing out a specific spell. If you were talking about resistance to radiant damage, we would have a different point. And, frankly, it isn't the damage you are concerned with. You aren't asking them to be immune to their own call lightning, their own wall of fire, their own spike growth, ect. They are equally vulnerable to those effects. What you are concerned with is the shapechanger aspect. And, re-reading the spell.... you may not need to worry about that. It is a tricky definition, but since Shapechanger is a specific monster trait, it may be argued that Moonbeam only works on those creatures, and not anything that has been polymorphed. [/QUOTE]

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