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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6887302" data-attributes="member: 6701872">My observations and comments, in as orderly a fashion as I can manage:"You can use your attack action using your spell attack to make one attack with each Spear of Obsidian to a range of 20 feet." should be worded more in-line with what language existing spells use, especially because use of the Attack action implies that a multi-class character with Extra Attack actually gets additional attacks and likely a few other interactions the design of the game aims to avoid because they unbalance things.Something like "You can use your action to make a melee spell attack with each Spear of Obsidian, which have a reach of 20 feet." if you intend these attacks to be melee attacks, or "You can use your action to make a ranged spell attack with each Spear of Obsidian at a range of 20 feet." if you intend these attacks to be ranged attacks.As for the damage, as written it is above the recommended damage for a 3rd level spell - so either that should come down significantly, or the level of the spell should be raised (there are guidelines on page 283 of the DMG).Additionally, the spell shouldn't be dealing as much damage as other spells of its same level and also providing defensive benefits.Also, the scaling AC bonus: anything higher than a +2 makes this spell better at defense than most of the AC boosting spells, while it still gets offensive potential.There is also the issue of the reactions to "block" attacks and spells: firstly that isn't a term that is used in the existing rules so it sticks out as undefined, and secondly that what you have done is almost like making a 3rd level spell that does the best damage of any 3rd level spells, gives more long-term AC than shield of faith, and gives you a free counterspell and shield in effect - so it's sort of the power of two 1st level spells, a 3rd level spell, and also a bunch of damage.Of course, all of these thoughts are assuming that you don't intend upon changing the balance of the game dramatically, and aren't meaning to make this spell the uncontested best spell of its level.</blockquote>

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