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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nightfly" data-source="post: 9210277" data-attributes="member: 89601">You're the second person to say this, and I don't get it. The rider of Vicious Mockery is kind of the point of the spell -- that's why it does the lowest damage in the game. If the rider weren't really good no one would use it, just like no one ever used the current 5e True Strike. Bards would just throw darts like magic-users did back in 1e. Or to put it another way: if Vicious Mockery did d10 damage, it would be absurdly good and your fellow party members would be angry at you for casting Toll The Dead instead.Obviously fighters won't get four attacks a round and somehow also cast a spell for free with each of the four attacks which scaled in damage. That would be silly. Just the fact that they get these nasty spell-like effects is impressive enough. Again, I'm not complaining about martials getting these goodies -- in fact I like it. I'm just saying it's a big buff, for better or worse.</blockquote>