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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Harzel" data-source="post: 7639635" data-attributes="member: 6857506">Even though I agree with your ultimate conclusion that Distant Spell should not apply to PBAOEs just because of an anomalous stylistic choice in their descriptions, I think your reasoning here is based on a misreading.  I think in context it is fairly clear that that "also" refers to the end of the previous paragraph describing another set of spells (those that affect only the caster) that have a range of self, not to the notion that the term 'range' includes the area.   Here is the whole two paragraphs:I've highlighted the portions of the text that, to me, appear to be a parallel construction (albeit inexactly formed) that is the basis of my point.EDIT: To put it differently (though I don't know whether this will be clearer or not), I think the parsing/associativity is more like "also (have a range of self)" rather than "(also have a range)( of self)".I will admit that if you juxtaposed the first sentence of the first paragraph and the first sentence of the second, the result would point more in the direction of your reading, but I  don't think eliding the intervening sentences is really justified.EDIT: Also, this: <a href="https://www.sageadvice.eu/2018/07/17/how-does-distant-spell-interact-with-spells-with-cone-or-line-ranges/" target="_blank">https://www.sageadvice.eu/2018/07/17/how-does-distant-spell-interact-with-spells-with-cone-or-line-ranges/</a></blockquote>

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