Timeline for When a spell asks for targets, can I choose the same target multiple times?
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| Feb 19, 2020 at 6:08 | vote | accept | virchau13 | ||
| Feb 18, 2020 at 0:44 | comment | added | doppelgreener | @Dallium Comments on this site are for requesting clarification and suggesting actionable improvements. Do you have anything specific & actionable you'd suggest? (Which Ryan may choose to act on or may not.) When we merely disagree, it's best to downvote and move on, upvote a competing answer we do agree with, or provide our own answer; we tend to see comments that boil down to “I disagree” (without anything actionable) not go far or boil over into heated arguments. Comments up to this point are likely to be removed soon. | |
| Feb 18, 2020 at 0:27 | comment | added | Ryan C. Thompson | @Dallium I don't think it's unreasonable to argue backwards from the logic that making an infinite number of attacks in a single turn is not an intended mechanic. And I agree that there is no valid English reading that allows multiple attacks against the same creature with either Whirlwind Attack or steel wind strike. Again, that is the main point of my answer. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 23:47 | comment | added | Dallium | You used Whirlwind Attack to support your assertion that "Any other intrepretation leads to absurd result." My point is that ability doesnt support your position, because you can't get absurd results out of Whirlwind Attack, no matter what game rule assumptions we make. The English precludes it. Even if you could, your entire last section is an excercise in Arguing the Consequent, a textbook logical fallacy. You can't claim something is true just because the don't like the consequences if it isn't. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 20:03 | comment | added | Ryan C. Thompson | @Dallium That's the point. The same logic applies to steel wind strike, in which you "make a melee spell attack against each target." | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 18:59 | comment | added | Dallium | Your example of Whirlwind Attack is an obvious strawman. There is no possible correct reading of the ability that would grant multiple attacks on the same target. Whirlwind attack specifies that the ranger may "make a melee attack against any number of creatures." Even if that sentence in any way suggested that you could target the same creature more than once (and if anyone thinks it does, they fail basic English comprehension), you couldn't attack it more than once, because you can only make "a" melee attack. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 16:55 | history | edited | Ryan C. Thompson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 17, 2020 at 5:57 | history | answered | Ryan C. Thompson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |