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<blockquote data-quote="Enevhar Aldarion" data-source="post: 7499129" data-attributes="member: 6818233"><p>My group still applies older edition logic to things like this and lightning bolt, 5E be damned if it claims that bolts do not bounce, etc. A fireball in a room too small in volume to contain it? It will flow out whatever openings there are in the room til the full volume is satisfied. A 100-foot lightning bolt spell hits a wall at 40 feet? It will redirect in another direction until the full length is fulfilled. The same for the lightning attack in the OP. It travels 20 feet and you are aiming downward at a target's legs who is within 5 feet of you? It will still travel that remaining 15 feet. It may or may not bounce, but it will at the minimum travel along the ground for the remaining distance. The one addition I would make for lightning attacks like these is what is the ground made of that the target is standing on. It is possible it could absorb it, rather than reflecting it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Enevhar Aldarion, post: 7499129, member: 6818233"] My group still applies older edition logic to things like this and lightning bolt, 5E be damned if it claims that bolts do not bounce, etc. A fireball in a room too small in volume to contain it? It will flow out whatever openings there are in the room til the full volume is satisfied. A 100-foot lightning bolt spell hits a wall at 40 feet? It will redirect in another direction until the full length is fulfilled. The same for the lightning attack in the OP. It travels 20 feet and you are aiming downward at a target's legs who is within 5 feet of you? It will still travel that remaining 15 feet. It may or may not bounce, but it will at the minimum travel along the ground for the remaining distance. The one addition I would make for lightning attacks like these is what is the ground made of that the target is standing on. It is possible it could absorb it, rather than reflecting it. [/QUOTE]
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