Timeline for Do Smite spells work on Tiamat?
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| Apr 21, 2023 at 16:08 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | I agree that it makes sense that magic immunity doesn't let her ignore AC buffs like Shield of Faith (or the Shield reaction spell), and Divine Smite works because it's not a spell. (And perhaps would work even if it was a spell that just added damage on an attack.) But Branding / Blinding / Banishing Smite have other effects that Tiamat surely can ignore via her limited magic immunity. It doesn't make sense to me that she would take the 2d6 radiant damage but not be branded (glowing and can't benefit from invisibility). There isn't even a saving throw for it (unlike Blinding Smite). | |
| Apr 21, 2023 at 16:02 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | My point was that your original statement, "The spell "Smite" adds radiant damage to the weapon" isn't true in D&D 5e. There isn't only one smite spell, so the definite article "the" doesn't make sense. (and none with that as their exact name.) And many of the smite spells have a damage type other than radiant. So it wasn't at all clear what you were answering about until your edit, smite spells vs. Divine Smite. (I don't find it obvious, though; the spell's magic is pretty directly damaging the target of your attack, and even applying a spell effect such as banished or blinded to them.) | |
| Apr 21, 2023 at 15:30 | comment | added | rookie coder | @PeterCordes If ever, there are even more smite spells. It was just an example to report the wording "extra damage", not for the in game mechanics (attacker vs. weapon). And the OP explicitly referred to smite spells, so I don't get your point. | |
| Apr 21, 2023 at 15:22 | history | edited | rookie coder | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 21, 2023 at 15:07 | comment | added | Kirt | Hi rookie! I have removed your link to 'dndwiki"; we do not link to 'pirate' content here for a number of reasons, including that it is sometimes inaccurate (the site you linked did not include Tiamat's Innate Spellcasting, for example). It seems like you were making the point that she does not have antimagic field, which you can't really prove without listing the entire stat block, but I edited in the closest thing from her official stats in _RoT_and emphasized that it is not antimagic. Feel free to re-edit after reading the meta. | |
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| S Apr 21, 2023 at 14:59 | history | edited | Kirt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 21, 2023 at 12:55 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | There's no 5e spell called "Smite". The spells with smite in their name which do radiant damage are Branding Smite (2nd) and Blinding Smite (3rd). They buff the caster; you don't cast them on a weapon, you cast them on yourself, and your next hit with any weapon attack gets the benefit (if you're still concentrating on the spell). So if you have multiple weapons, e.g. a mace and a crossbow, you don't have to pick one when you cast. (The thing people usually mean when they say just "smite" isn't a spell at all, it's the Divine Smite ability. That clearly works on Tiamat.) | |
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| S Apr 21, 2023 at 9:58 | history | answered | rookie coder | CC BY-SA 4.0 |