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AncientSwordRage

Looking at the rogue subclasses, scout looks ~~abuseable~~ fun

12:34 AM

Thief is probably my favorite because of Use Object as a bonus action

Wand of Magic Missiles? Use it twice per turn.

@Axoren The space dwelling Starlord is a better rogue archetype.

I think I found a mistake in the Sage Advice Compendium.

@ThomasMarkov Specifically?

See my new question

You're making me work, Thomas.

Q: Is there any way for the Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer’s Elemental Affinity to improve Eldritch Blast, or is the Sage Advice Compendium just wrong?

12:44 AM

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The Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer’s elemental affinity ability says: Starting at 6th level, when you cast a spell that deals damage of the type associated with your draconic ancestry, you can add your Charisma modifier to one damage roll of that spell. The cantrip eldritch blast deals force damag...

Thanks, lol

Haha

@ThomasMarkov I almost +1'ed for that title

It looks like a good question, but I don’t have time to research right now

@ThomasMarkov Are you interested in any way or every way? I can think of two

12:47 AM

@Medix2 please don’t tell me this is a list question. I’ll never be able to face NautArch.

@Medix2 everything you got buddy

Isn't there an arcane tradition or an invocation that changes spell damage types?

The easy examples are literally anything that adds fire damage, or most of the other types for that matter

Awakened spellbook, but that doesn't work for cantrips.

Oh wait... then the spell wouldn't... curse my own answers

I think I would argue it can never be correct

@ThomasMarkov Yeah. I don't think it's a good example because of the damage type.

@Medix2 What adds a fire damage roll to cantrips?

12:54 AM

That's probably the fastest Downvote I've gotten on the site.

-2 almost instantly.

I can make that -3 if you really need me to. Just link me to the answer, and I'll hop on it.

@Axoren I think the second one was a missclick. It's showing +2/-1 here.

@Axoren I +1’d you, it was some good insight.

@GcL I'm sure something adds [insert type here], probably quite a few features

I +1'd you because I literally was hitting "Submit answer" with the same answer.......

12:56 AM

@Medix2 I can't think of anything that adds a roll for elemental damage to cantrips.

I gotta go find where I argued it could never benefit from such a feature...

I think there's a monk elemental way that adds elemental damage, but I don't know if that would add it to cantrips.

@ThomasMarkov by the way the question is dangerous because it's easy to answer guessing designer intentions here

If I homebrewed a feature to allow you to change damage types on cantrips, would that be best as a feat or something else (class ability, etc)? I can’t really see what else it could be though...

so instead of providing it in answers or comments, let me add: they might have also wanted to make a more general statement than just for Elemental Affinity, using it as an example.

So anything that ever is published that lets you add something to one damage roll of a spell is kinda covered there.

12:59 AM

Yeah this I think is why I'd argue eldritch blast can never qualify because Elemental Affinity requires you to know that a spell will deal X damage type when you cast it. But I've gotta go now

@BardicWizard It gets talked about for reskinning the blast to fit some thematic element of a character. Mostly, is this fair to do? Since they're usually going from force to something that has a lot more instances of resistance, it's almost always a slight mechanical disadvantage.

For Eldritch Blast, it has been discussed here already.

@GcL thanks

@Someone_Evil by the way, why aren't links to questions parsed to the question name in comments, like they are in question/answers? :( (tagging you because you seem to be the most likely mod to know that hahaha)

Different parser. Comments also don't accept html tags like <del>to do a strike through.

1:06 AM

-2 as in rep lost, not -2 votes. I only notice them because I start getting +8s instead of +10s.

@HellSaint Yeah, I tried to craft the question to avoid sounding like “why did JC say this”.

Annoys my OCD moreso than my pride.

@ThomasMarkov either way the answer is: The sage advice is not wrong. It might be vacuously true, but it is still true.

"If Elemental affinity applies to Eldritch Blast then only one beam is improved" is always a true statement, no matter if elemental affinity can ever apply to eldritch blast.

Also, thanks for the edit @HellSaint Sorry about beating you on that.

Given that you had a proper link to the source, I feel like you were gonna be more ready to make our point than I was.

@Axoren haha yeah :P I got late because I was linking stuff haha

By the way the two related questions I linked under Thomas' question may improve your answer by backing it up that currently there is no way to change the damage type of eldritch blast.

1:11 AM

All of you are neglecting possibility of Wizards coming out with Force Dragons

Although there may be some obscure way of adding fire damage, which we will find out in the next few days with a random answer from someone who spent the last 3 days researching it

@HellSaint No way yet

@Axoren Currently :P

@ThomasMarkov Actually I kinda am because it feels unlikely they are going to change a core sorcerer subclass like that, even if to add a new option.

On the other hand, a Wizard new subclass which allows to change the damage type or a new Eldritch Invocation that allows the warlock to choose any damage type for their EB or something like that doesn't seem too far fetched

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NEAT, MY MOoT GOT STUCK IN THE THUNDER STORM WE ARE HAVING :(

Wizard Subclass: Furballmancer. All spells deal hair damage instead of their original damage type. Nothing resists or is immune to hair damage. [picture of elf with split ends]

@HellSaint Why you gotta call me out like that XD

1:17 AM

@Medix2 I should have written someone (@Medix2)

Hey, can somebody in elemental plane of math help me out a bit? I could use a hand

...Not literally!

nitsua60

Quick sanity check: info you'd need for a D&D5e one-shot happening in two days: rough theme/outline, date/time, platform/medium, character options (incl. sources), equipment options.... Anything else?

(We've all played together before, so houserules/&c. are not a concern.)

Starting level?

nitsua60

(Got it, forgot to list it here.)