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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6770977" data-attributes="member: 5834">I don't know what editions or D&D based games you've played. Ray and beam spells have been run as some us were doing it for over a decade at least. It's one of those little 5E changes to spell text and resolution you overlook when you've been doing things a certain way for as long as some of us have been doing it. It was both a rule and convention to have beam/ray spells that operate like eldritch blast and scorching ray operate by choosing targets before you cast the spell. The pulsing laser is a new thing.I'll freely admit you were right on this ruling as it pertains to the rules text supported by Crawford's rule decision. At least the discussion highlighted the change from 3E/Pathfinder when it comes to ray/beam spells and the lack of explicit spell text stating the rays/beams fire simultaneously. So the whole "choose targets before you cast" is replaced by the pulsing lasers you can choose after a laser hits as long as they all occur on your turn and no moving between turns. So we can assume there is time between each pulse, just insufficient time to do anything else but pick target, see result, pick new target, rinse, repeat, until all rays or beams are used. Given how quickly a trained person can do this with a gun, I can see it being similar with a spell.</blockquote>