Timeline for Are dice re-rolled together or sequentially for Chaos Bolt with the Metamagic option Empowered Spell?
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| Sep 29, 2020 at 21:28 | comment | added | user60913 | You are free to make that interpretation but the fact is I just want an answer that relies on rules rather than a DM's intuition. | |
| Sep 29, 2020 at 21:01 | comment | added | V2Blast | By the way: Welcome to RPG.SE! Take the tour if you haven't already, and check out the help center for more guidance. | |
| Sep 29, 2020 at 20:57 | comment | added | ScaryJim | tbh @Odo it sounds like you've already decided how you want it to work and you're looking for someone to agree with you. I'm not that person. | |
| Sep 29, 2020 at 20:42 | comment | added | V2Blast | @Odo: I fixed the link in your first comment to point to the right SAC question and answer (the one about Empowered Spell, not the one about Elemental Affinity). | |
| Sep 29, 2020 at 18:52 | comment | added | user60913 | When are targets picked for spells with multiple “missiles”? - this question covers that the blasts are sequential | |
| Sep 29, 2020 at 18:51 | comment | added | user60913 | Except that doing that would negate part of the benefit of having split rays. If the first ray kills its target you can target a new foe with the remaining rays. You cannot know if a ray will kill its target until damage has been rolled and dealt. | |
| Sep 29, 2020 at 18:46 | comment | added | ScaryJim | "You create three rays of fire and hurl them at targets within range. You can hurl them at one target or several. Make a ranged spell attack for each ray. On a hit, the target takes 2d6 fire damage." That does not say that the attacks are resolved sequentially. It says you make three attacks. You could roll the three attacks, remember which ones hit, and roll all the damage at the end. | |
| Sep 29, 2020 at 18:38 | comment | added | user60913 | Scorching Ray includes multiple damage rolls that are resolved sequentially. It is impossible to re-roll dice from seperate rays of scorching ray because the damage for an earlier ray is set before you roll damage for a later ray. | |
| Sep 29, 2020 at 18:36 | comment | added | ScaryJim | I don't see anything in that source that contradicts it being one reroll - it just clarifies that where the damage is split between multiple targets all the damage dice are fair game. This makes sense, as "the damage dice" for the spell is the combination of the damage dice rolls for each target. | |
| Sep 28, 2020 at 14:33 | comment | added | user60913 | I think that you might need more support for "re-roll a number of damage dice" means one re-roll. This Sage Advice ruling indicates that the re-rolled dice can be from seperate attack rolls dndbeyond.com/sources/sac/sage-advice-compendium#SA053 | |
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| Sep 28, 2020 at 9:52 | history | answered | ScaryJim | CC BY-SA 4.0 |