I can't argue with that. I'm going to add your recommendation to the spell description.
To be more specific, an attack roll or something labelled an attack, but yes, I do agree about the RAW. Based on our conversation, I'm certain that if we each tried this, then our DM reminded us that a familiar can't attack, then we pointed them to the sage advice and pointed out that burning enemies with dragon breath is technically not an attack according to the rules, we would get two entirely different responses.
I did use summoning in 5e, but I've largely stopped after that it was clarified that you don't get to choose what you summon, your DM picks (you do get to pick one aspect apparently)
Or you could cast Conjure Animals and select 8 beasts of challenge rating 1/4 or lower, then your DM rolls a die, flips through the MM, "Lizard. You get 8 Lizards."
Edit: I should point out that the DM is supposed to PICK what you get, not randomly roll, but I've now had 2 different DM's pull out the dice, because that's how they feel it should be. "DM picks" of course does not mean they can't pick randomly, so you can't really argue.
I thought I made it clear in my description that it "works against your enemies", but perhaps it needs further clarification.
I think you have to have clarification, either official or from a DM, about how chaos bolt interacts with critical hits (and spell bombardment) before you can decide if it is worth taking. If the ruling is that any two of the d8s matching generates a new bolt, a crit could, at an extreme, produce six additional attacks.
23a) You're right about Unicorn Spirit. It doesn't add to the healing of the spell, the aura itself heals. If there was only some way to heal with both your action and bonus action, we'd be talking about some serious healing but, eh, spell limitations. Maybe if you had that Elixir cantrip from UA.
23b) Why not? You can tell a demon to cast Fear and walk over to where you are on the same round, so why can't you tell a demon to tell you its true name and blast someone with a Fear?
24) The Sage Advice FAQ straight-up says that an attack only consists of an attack roll. Meaning, Magic Missile is not an attack despite the fact the spell says that it hits the target.
0.) By the way, Treantmonk, I get the impression that you don't use summoning spells all that much in your 5E D&D games. I think you should. Bounded accuracy makes those things killer. I was sort of skeptical about spells like Conjure Animals, too, but summoning a pack of Dimetrodons and giving them all 30 hit points + temp hit points? Nasty. Summoning a Korred and telling the Korred to summon another Earth Elemental/Xorn/Galeb Duhr? Nasty. Summoning a Cuoatl and having it bounce-shapechange into a Hobgoblin Devastator/Variant Human Illusionist? Nasty.
-1.) It probably won't affect your rating of the spell, but Wrath of Nature only hands out difficult terrain to your enemies, not to your friends. That is significantly more valuable. Also, you can use Awaken on a bunch of trees in downtime so that you can make sure that the tree auto-damage triggers.
Something that would help is if the colors weren't in a random order. Is purple better or worse than green? I have to stop and think about it every damn time, which I wouldn't if you'd used standard spectrum order. It's like if you rated the abilities with letter grades, X worst, F bad, E situational, A ordinary, C good, B best.Frankly, I could almost give up color coding altogether, as any feedback I get is universally negative on it, but it helps me organize my own thoughts on things.
Yes, these guides have something like a standard (or two, I guess). Where we finally get to learn by heart which is best and which is worst, without having to go back to the color key all the time.Something that would help is if the colors weren't in a random order. Is purple better or worse than green? I have to stop and think about it every damn time, which I wouldn't if you'd used standard spectrum order. It's like if you rated the abilities with letter grades, X worst, F bad, E situational, A ordinary, C good, B best.
Skipping yellow, fine, I understand why, but subbing in purple is a brown choice.
Yes, these guides have something like a standard (or two, I guess). Where we finally get to learn by heart which is best and which is worst, without having to go back to the color key all the time.
I realize you wanted to use different categories, since your rationales are different.
That doesn't mean you couldn't have reused the same colors. [emoji4]
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Something that would help is if the colors weren't in a random order. Is purple better or worse than green? I have to stop and think about it every damn time, which I wouldn't if you'd used standard spectrum order. It's like if you rated the abilities with letter grades, X worst, F bad, E situational, A ordinary, C good, B best.
Skipping yellow, fine, I understand why, but subbing in purple is a brown choice.