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<blockquote data-quote="Cannyjiggit" data-source="post: 6505781" data-attributes="member: 6780231">To put the other perspective and by the strict letters of the sentence, I agree with your DM and other player. I'm not sure whether they thought about this in detail enough when writing it so can't be sure of the actual intent but the &quot;list&quot; is singular rather than plural and why bother specifying &quot;cantrip from spell list&quot; when it would be simpler to write &quot;any cantrip&quot; if that was the intention.For it to mean any cantrip, the main options when writing it would be:&quot;Any three cantrips&quot;&quot;three cantrips from any class spell lists&quot;compared to&quot;three cantrips from any single class's spell list&quot;&quot;three cantrips from any class's spell list&quot;The magic initiate feat is different because not every spellcasting class list is available to it (paladin for example) so you first choose a class then choose spells from that class's spell list.As I said though, this is really reading and interpreting the rules by the apostrophe which is not the intent of 5e and I doubt they put sufficient thought into that sentence to make it worthy of such scrutiny. So when the time comes, I will be having the same discussion with my DM about how he wishes to rule it as there is one particular cantrip that will make a significant part of the characters personality when I make it so will need to know whether I will be taking all the other cantrips from that class's spell list.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cannyjiggit, post: 6505781, member: 6780231"] To put the other perspective and by the strict letters of the sentence, I agree with your DM and other player. I'm not sure whether they thought about this in detail enough when writing it so can't be sure of the actual intent but the "list" is singular rather than plural and why bother specifying "cantrip from spell list" when it would be simpler to write "any cantrip" if that was the intention. For it to mean any cantrip, the main options when writing it would be: "Any three cantrips" "three cantrips from any class spell lists" compared to "three cantrips from any single class's spell list" "three cantrips from any class's spell list" The magic initiate feat is different because not every spellcasting class list is available to it (paladin for example) so you first choose a class then choose spells from that class's spell list. As I said though, this is really reading and interpreting the rules by the apostrophe which is not the intent of 5e and I doubt they put sufficient thought into that sentence to make it worthy of such scrutiny. So when the time comes, I will be having the same discussion with my DM about how he wishes to rule it as there is one particular cantrip that will make a significant part of the characters personality when I make it so will need to know whether I will be taking all the other cantrips from that class's spell list. [/QUOTE]

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