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Message: <blockquote data-quote="famousringo" data-source="post: 6954215" data-attributes="member: 6792445">You're taking a pretty liberal reading of that ability there.Even if you take for granted that they actually mean "touch or self" when they only say "touch" (and I wouldn't), there's a difference between the range of a spell and the area of the spell. Giving Detect Magic a 30' range doesn't let you see magic in a 60' radius, it lets a target within 30' sense magic in a 30' radius.In the same way, Distant Spell allows you to cast a Fireball with an epicentre 300 feet away, not a Fireball with a 40 foot radius.Edit: But it is weird how one dimension of Gust of Wind's area is described as a subset of the spell's range, and I do agree with your general point that being an effective sorcerer requires more system mastery than other casters.</blockquote>