Timeline for Are the insects from the Insect Plague spell affected by other damaging spells?
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| Sep 8, 2020 at 20:05 | vote | accept | Eddymage | ||
| Sep 7, 2020 at 21:01 | history | edited | V2Blast | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 7, 2020 at 13:47 | comment | added | Thomas Markov | @NautArch You better believe it. | |
| Sep 7, 2020 at 13:46 | comment | added | NotArch | You'd let your players use it for cool, but would you use it against your players? | |
| Sep 7, 2020 at 11:49 | history | edited | Mars Plastic | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 7, 2020 at 11:28 | comment | added | Eddymage | @ThomasMarkov no difference in ruling indeed, just in interpretation and narration. | |
| Sep 7, 2020 at 10:01 | comment | added | Thomas Markov | @Eddymage How is that any different mechanically than my ruling? Seems to be only different in narrative description. | |
| Sep 7, 2020 at 9:55 | comment | added | Eddymage | "They are magic bugs, after all." Yep, but magic creatures can take damage from spells anyway... It is indeed true that in Insect Plague the locusts are not given stats, even if they are still living creatures. I love the interpretation of @NeilSlater: they are actually taking damage and dying, but they are constantly created (summoned? Whatever...) by the magic of the spell. | |
| Sep 7, 2020 at 7:19 | comment | added | Please stop being evil | @NeilSlater Oh, sure. But even if you did manage to instantly kill them continuously as they appear, say via cloudkill or something, the damage would still occur. You could say that it's because they bite and then die, but regardless RAW there are locusts you can kill and damage you take and these are not connected. | |
| Sep 7, 2020 at 7:06 | comment | added | Neil Slater | @Pleasestopbeingevil A more reasonable interpretation of RAW (than taking damage from nothing) may be that whilst the spell is active dead bugs are replenished by the same magic that generated them in the first place. The spell is active and has a duration after all. | |
| Sep 7, 2020 at 6:57 | comment | added | Please stop being evil | It doesn't need to assign stats to the locusts; they have whatever stats locusts have, cause it says they are locusts. It doesn't matter if you do kill them, though (which, of course, you can do since locusts are living creatures): the lack of end condition means, as you correctly state, you'll keep taking damage anyways, even though all the bugs are dead. | |
| Sep 6, 2020 at 21:45 | history | edited | Thomas Markov | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 6, 2020 at 20:58 | history | answered | Thomas Markov | CC BY-SA 4.0 |