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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jens" data-source="post: 235419" data-attributes="member: 605">Somehow I feel misreprented here (your quote missed your own comment in between), but nevermind. Btw, I think it's better to use average damage than maximum.Where do you see that "the standard damage die used to benchmark a spell is a d6"? I see no such thing for arcane spells on DMG page 95-6.Which ("too many") advantages does this spell have compared to a Fireball? (Ranged) attack roll + Fort save is worse than Reflex save imb. Shorter range too, and fewer targets too.Since when is a greater area a weakness? Which would be more  powerful/popular, the standard fireball or one only affecting one creature??I'd say the two together are certainly no better than auto-hit and reflex save. How many monsters have evasion? Or good reflex saves?Or, we have a spell affecting *much* fewer targets with a no-safer delivery method and an equivalent save, and a slightly higher damage die. That's a 3rd level spell imb.Ack. I get annoyed when re-reading my post, tougher than I prefer. But I feel you misrepresented what I wrote, so... No hard feelings? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Edit: Maybe it would be fair to say that I think the Acid Bolt spell I suggested above is accaptable. (+got a couple more 2nd level damage spells if you want.)</blockquote>

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