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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Noctem" data-source="post: 6815576" data-attributes="member: 6801315">As for the spell Call Lightning, this is the 5e wiki entry:Casting Time: 1 actionRange: 120 feetComponents: V, SDuration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes A storm cloud appears in the shape of a cylinder that is 10 feet tall with a 60-foot radius, centered on a point you can see 100 feet directly above you. The spell fails if you can’t see a point of air where the cloud could appear (for example in a room that can’t accommodate the cloud).When you cast the spell, choose a point you can see within range. A bolt of lightning flashes down from the cloud to that point. Each creature within 5 feet of that point must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 3d10 lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one.If you are outdoors in stormy conditions when you cast this spell, the spell gives you control over the existing storm instead of creating a new one. Under such conditions, the spell’s damage is increased by 1d10. At higher levels the damage increases by 1d10 for each slot level above 3rd.~~So not sure why people are saying an hour duration.  Either the entry is wrong or there's confusion somewhere.  The spell duration is marked as "concentration up to x amount of time".  It can be dispelled if it has lingering effects.  The lingering effects that can be targeted by dispel magic in this particular case isn't the spell caster (it never is, dispel magic targets effects and not people), it's the cloud created by the spell.  However, the clause at the bottom which states if the spell is cast during stormy weather you gain control of the storm itself, now THAT is an interesting question.  Recommend we ask on twitter how dispel magic and call lightning functions when cast during stormy weather.  Can it even be dispelled at that point if you could get within range of the natural storm clouds?</blockquote>

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