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<blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 6815500" data-attributes="member: 6799649">I agree. Call lightning, meaning 'the spell-granted ability to call bolts of lightning for the spell duration' can be dispelled, even if an individual bolt cannot (because each bolt is instantaneous, even if the spell itself isn't).Where is this going? Well, JC wants eldritch blast to work in the same way: when cast, the caster can shoot a beam at a target within range, and may keep shooting beams until he runs out of beams to shoot, and he can shoot them one at a time, with enough time between each beam to see what it does before shooting the next, all during this 'cast a spell' action.This means that it works like call lightning, except with a duration of '1 action' rather than '1 hour'. It means that the spell effect is to let the caster shoot a limited number force beams during his action. This means that eldritch blast can be dispelled. Individual beams cannot be dispelled, but the casters spell-granted ability to shoot force beams can be dispelled.To do so, the dispeller would have to have a readied dispel with a trigger of something like 'when I see him shoot a beam, I'll dispel the eldritch blast spell on him that allows him to keep shooting beams'.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arial Black, post: 6815500, member: 6799649"] I agree. [i]Call lightning[/i], meaning 'the spell-granted ability to call bolts of lightning for the spell duration' can be dispelled, even if an individual bolt cannot (because each bolt is instantaneous, even if the spell itself isn't). Where is this going? Well, JC wants [i]eldritch blast[/i] to work in the same way: when cast, the caster can shoot a beam at a target within range, and may keep shooting beams until he runs out of beams to shoot, and he can shoot them one at a time, with enough time between each beam to see what it does before shooting the next, all during this 'cast a spell' action. This means that it works like [i]call lightning[/i], except with a duration of '1 action' rather than '1 hour'. It means that the spell effect is to let the caster shoot a limited number force beams during his action. This means that [i]eldritch blast[/i] can be dispelled. Individual beams cannot be dispelled, but the casters spell-granted ability to shoot force beams can be dispelled. To do so, the dispeller would have to have a readied dispel with a trigger of something like 'when I see him shoot a beam, I'll dispel the [i]eldritch blast[/i] spell on him that allows him to keep shooting beams'. [/QUOTE]

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