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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Malin Genie" data-source="post: 836446" data-attributes="member: 1058">IIRC there was a long and rather heated debate about this very feat ?here or ?some other boards...The particular application being questioned was sculptedburning hands - the argument being whether you could get a 40ft cone out of it or not.On the 'pro' side - 1d4/level to 5d4 is not much damage, so even in a cone where it catches a lot of enemies it isn't necessarily unbalanced.  Also, the Feat specifically says "40ft cone" with no reference to the original spell statistics.On the 'con' side, if you allow it, you have a 2nd level spell which is comparable to a triple-enlarged BH - a 4th level spell.  Also, the Feat doesn't mention being able to change the Range - for Burning Hands this is 10ft.  If you read the PHB section under Range it states that the Range is the maximum distance from the caster at which the spell can have any effect - so somewhat counter-intuitively if a 5th level caster throws a Fireball to 600ft exactly, the Fireball only spreads backwards, not forwards, as the Area cannot extend past the Range.  Similarly, the 'con' folks argue, you could sculpt a burning hands to a 40ft cone, but only that part of the cone which lies in the (10ft) Range of the spell actually "happens", the rest of the Area is lost (like the other half of the Fireball in the previous example.)</blockquote>