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Can a swarm of insects throw a magic stone?
Background:
I'm playing a level 2 artificer
I have the Magic Stone cantrip
I have a magic item that summons a swarm of insects (per the 2014 monster manual) under my control. The DM has clarified that ...
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How Does the Spell Sniper Feat Interact with the Magic Stone Cantrip?
I'm curious about the interaction between the Spell Sniper feat and the Magic Stone cantrip.
Relevant Rules and Texts
Spell Sniper (Player's Handbook)
Prerequisite: Ability to cast at least one spell....
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Does Spellstrike Ammunition limit heightening?
Does the level of a piece of Spellstrike Ammunition limit how much a cantrip cast into it can be heightened? For example, if I have a Type 1 piece of ammunition, which has a limit of 1st level spells, ...
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Magic Stone and Agonizing Blast
The new rules have made Agonizing Blast and the likes much more versatile (working with any Warlock cantrip).
Agonizing Blast reads:
Choose one of your known Warlock cantrips that deals damage.
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If a level 6+ College of Valor bard replaces one of their attacks with the Eldritch Blast cantrip, can they move between each beam?
The description of the College of Valor bard's 6th-level feature Extra Attack says (PHB 2024, p. 67):
You can attack twice instead of once whenever you take the Attack
action on you turn.
In addition,...
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How can True Strike let me attack with charisma?
I've seen a few references to how True Strike allows the caster to attack with charisma. It's a really useful cantrip for sorcerers who are running low on spell slots. I've seen things such as
True ...
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Does the Spell Sniper feat work with the True Strike cantrip?
I'm questioning the interaction between True Strike and the feat Spell Sniper. Do the Spell Sniper feat’s features Bypass Cover and Casting in Melee apply when using the True Strike cantrip to attack ...
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Is there an in-universe explanation for why cantrips can't be prepared?
I understand the rule-based explanation for why cantrips can't be prepared like other spells: You can only prepare spells for which you have spell slots of the same level (from that class in the case ...
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The Blade Ward cantrip now reduces the value of an attack roll by a 1d4. What happens if the attack roll is a 20?
Usually, if the attack roll is a 20, then it hits regardless of the AC.
If I now reduce this roll by means of the Blade Ward cantrip, will the roll still hit regardless of the AC, or will it now fail ...
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Does Repelling Blast apply to True Strike?
Repelling Blast says
Choose one of your known Warlock cantrips that requires an attack roll. (...)
True Strike says
Guided by a flash of magical insight, you make one attack with the weapon used in ...
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Does Spell Sniper's doubled range benefit work with Produce Flame?
Let's say you took the Spell Sniper feat, and you had grabbed the Produce Flame cantrip at an earlier level. The description for Spell Sniper says
When you cast a spell that requires you to make an ...
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Are cantrips prepared spells?
The glossary entry of the PHB describes cantrips as
A cantrip is a level 0 spell, which is cast without a spell slot. See also chapter 7.
and chapter 7 (p. 235 PHB) says
Before you can cast a spell,...
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Does Agonizing Blast + Pact of the Tome AND the Sorcerer's Innate Sorcery work together?
If I was to go 2 levels into warlock to obtain Pact of the Tome (I select Sorcerous Burst) and pick this Sorcerous Burst as my Agonizing Blast warlock spell for CHA onto damage. Then could I dip a ...
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Does Potent Spellcasting (Druid) work with Shillelagh?
I play a Druid Character. Does Potent Spellcasting from the Level 7 Feature Elemental Fury also add the wisdom modifier to the Shillelagh Cantrip?
Shillelagh
A Club or Quarterstaff you are holding is ...
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Is the refurbished Poison Spray now better at dealing damage than Fire Bolt?
In 2024, poison spray was upgraded from a range of 10 feet to 30 feet, and from a Con Save to avoid the damage, to a spell attack roll.
I've rarely seen poison spray used in play under the 2014 rules (...
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