@BardicWizard true, but to mimics taste like tuna, or like chicken? To further confuse the issue, when I was a kid there was a brand of canned tuna called "Chicken of the Sea" that didn't taste like chicken ...
@NautArch My brother and I once entered into a contest where you send in two 'proofs of purchase' and something else, and you get a football. Yeah, an NFL, regulation, leather football with a chicken of the sea logo on it. It came in the mail like a month later. The promotion was from a local newspaper.
if anything, "Bumblebee" is an even more confusing name for tuna than Chicken of the Sea, which at least acknowledges that the product is from a marine vertebrate
For example, an Arcana cleric takes Firebolt with Arcane Initiate, then multiclasses with Artillerist artificer, and also takes Firebolt as one of the Artificer cantrips. Assuming this character has 5 levels as an Artillerist and 8 levels in Arcana Domain, would casting Firebolt through an Arcane...
There are a number of spells with a range of "Self", and a number of spells with a range of "Self (XYZ)" where XYZ is some modifier. Is the range of Self consistent between these two? Are the targeting rules different in each case? What is the difference between these two ranges?
@MarkWells not quite. The way I’ve tentatively set it up is you can choose a certain number of rays at L1 and then unlock more at certain levels. Also, each eye has a weak ish base effect that is free, and an effect that requires special points to make more powerful.... its a bit complicated and janky
It makes me think of the concept of cantrips from that one Goblin Punch article: they're not spells that you know so much as extra spiritual limbs that you've grafted on
Eye Rays At 1st level, you gain the ability to shoot rays from your various eye stalks. Eye Ray Ability. Your Eye Ray Ability is Intelligence. Eye Ray Save DC: 8 + your intelligence modifier + your proficiency bonus Eye Ray Points. At 1st level, you have 2 eye Ray points. You gain more at higher levels, as shown by the Eye Ray Points column of the beholder class table. The maximum amount of Eye Ray Points you can spend on one Ray at a time is shown in the Max Points column of the beholder class table.
That’s not the only abilities just the first level eye rays and it has a lot more customization as everything is a cantrip that can be made better with points
It would most likely be a ranged attacker
Also at higher levels there would probably be like multi eye rays per turn or something
What I’m trying to do is balance all the free ones with cantrips and stuff but it’s hard for like the petrifaction ray
There are a number of spells with a range of "Self", and a number of spells with a range of "Self (XYZ)" where XYZ is some modifier. Is the range of Self consistent between these two? Are the targeting rules different in each case? What is the difference between these two ranges?
