It's ok, I've had my morning coffee now! So we can be super clear here for when one of the staff looks at this. In the spell Color Spray there is the text:
Roll 6d10; the total is how many hit points of creatures this spell can effect.
This is the same as the Player's Handbook and is grammatically incorrect and should read:
Roll 6d10; the total is how many hit points of creatures this spell can affect.
Actually, since the colour spray is the one doing the effecting, it technically works as effect. It's referring to the action of the spell, not the repercussions. It's a tricky sub clause in the effect/affect based on personification of the object that is performing the action that forms the grey line between the standard ruling.
Actually, since the colour spray is the one doing the effecting, it technically works as effect. It's referring to the action of the spell, not the repercussions. It's a tricky sub clause in the effect/affect based on personification of the object that is performing the action that forms the grey line between the standard ruling.
Also, just to be pedantic:
"Actually, since the colour spray is the one doing the effecting..."
That should be affecting. The Color Spray affects creatures with an effect.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/color-spray
Effect is used instead of affect. Same mistake is in the Player's Handbook first edition. (Maybe it's fixed in further editions?)
"The aardvark was affected. The effect was eye popping."
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D&D Beyond FoundersYup, you're correct that "affect" should be used rather than "correct" in the first sentence of the spell description.
As you said though, this is a mistake in the source material, so I don't know how this stands in terms of correcting it.
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D&D Beyond FoundersIt's ok, I've had my morning coffee now! So we can be super clear here for when one of the staff looks at this. In the spell Color Spray there is the text:
This is the same as the Player's Handbook and is grammatically incorrect and should read:
I have emphasized the changed word in green.
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Also, color should be spelt "colour" :D
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Actually, since the colour spray is the one doing the effecting, it technically works as effect. It's referring to the action of the spell, not the repercussions. It's a tricky sub clause in the effect/affect based on personification of the object that is performing the action that forms the grey line between the standard ruling.
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The line in question is talking about the creatures it affects. Not the effect of the spell itself.
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