The distinction between keywords and plain text is a fairly important part of 2024 5E, not "hair splitting".
There are no examples of a spellcasting stat in 2024 5E that is not Int, Wis, or Cha. More importantly, there is a distinction between the stat you use for spells - your spellcasting stat - and the stat you use for weapons - Strength or Dexterity. If an effect is using the stat used for weapons, it is a weapon attack rather than a spell attack. This distinction is why True Strike does not have any spell attack roll associated with it (and thus cannot be affected by purely spell-based abilities like Innate Sorcery).
True Strike does not require you make an attack roll as part of its casting. It requires you make an attack roll as part of its resolution. There is no attack roll made during the casting of weapon cantrips like Booming/Green Flame Blade or True Strike. Only once they resolve are you granted a weapon attack which requires a weapon attack roll.
True Strike does not require you make an attack roll as part of its casting. It requires you make an attack roll as part of its resolution. There is no attack roll made during the casting of weapon cantrips like Booming/Green Flame Blade or True Strike. Only once they resolve are you granted a weapon attack which requires a weapon attack roll.
So, if I understand you correctly, you're saying that you believe a spell like Fire Bolt — which says "Make a ranged spell attack against the target" — is making an attack as part of the spell's "casting", but a spell like True Strike — which says "you make one weapon attack with the weapon used in the spell's casting" — is making an attack as part of the spell's "resolution"?
Setting aside the fact that this distinction between a spell's "casting" and its "resolution" is not really a thing in the rules, I have two questions then:
How are we meant to know whether a spell that tells us to make an attack (as both of these spells do) is telling us to make that attack as part of its "casting" or part of its "resolution"?
Since Innate Sorcery does not say that it's limited to attacks made as part of a spell's "casting", nor does it say it doesn't apply to attacks made as part of a spell's "resolution", why should it only apply to one and not the other?
The distinction between the spell's casting and resolution is absolutely a thing in the rules. It's why you have to custom edit your D&D Beyond character sheet to accommodate the weapon cantrips but you don't for spells like Firebolt.
In terms of your questions:
You know because it explicitly tells you, as I've outlined.
Innate Sorcery is limited to attack rolls with spells. True Strike merely gives you a weapon attack. It's no different from the fact that you don't use Innate Sorcery with Haste or Shillelagh.
The distinction between the spell's casting and resolution is absolutely a thing in the rules. It's why you have to custom edit your D&D Beyond character sheet to accommodate the weapon cantrips but you don't for spells like Firebolt.
In terms of your questions:
You know because it explicitly tells you, as I've outlined.
Innate Sorcery is limited to attack rolls with spells. True Strike merely gives you a weapon attack. It's no different from the fact that you don't use Innate Sorcery with Haste or Shillelagh.
Can you please point out exactly where in the rules the "casting" and "resolution" of a spell are defined as two separate things, and where exactly in the description of the spells True Strike and Booming Blade the boundary between these two things is defined? You say it "explicitly tells you", so where exactly is that? It seems like you're reading words that I'm not seeing. Are we looking at two different things?
Here's the text of True Strike, which explicitly tells you to make an attack as part of casting the spell:
Guided by a flash of magical insight, you make one attack with the weapon used in the spell’s casting. The attack uses your spellcasting ability for the attack and damage rolls instead of using Strength or Dexterity. If the attack deals damage, it can be Radiant damage or the weapon’s normal damage type (your choice).
A Club or Quarterstaff you are holding is imbued with nature’s power. For the duration, you can use your spellcasting ability instead of Strength for the attack and damage rolls of melee attacks using that weapon, and the weapon’s damage die becomes a d8. If the attack deals damage, it can be Force damage or the weapon’s normal damage type (your choice).
[...] True Strike does not require you make an attack roll as part of its casting [...]
That an attack roll is made as part of True Strike is already explained in the 2024 SAC:
However, an attack made as part of True Strike works with Sneak Attack so long as it fills the normal requirements for that feature. For example, if you have the Sneak Attack feature and cast True Strike with a Finesse weapon, you can deal Sneak Attack damage to the target of the attack if you have Advantage onthe attack roll and hit.
[...] There is no attack roll made during the casting of weapon cantrips like Booming/Green Flame Blade or True Strike. [...]
The 2014 SAC doesn't support that interpretation:
Introduced in the Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide , the green-flame blade and booming blade spells pose a number of questions, because they each do something unusual: require you to make a melee attack with a weapon as part of the spell’s casting.
The distinction between keywords and plain text is a fairly important part of 2024 5E, not "hair splitting".
There are no examples of a spellcasting stat in 2024 5E that is not Int, Wis, or Cha. More importantly, there is a distinction between the stat you use for spells - your spellcasting stat - and the stat you use for weapons - Strength or Dexterity. If an effect is using the stat used for weapons, it is a weapon attack rather than a spell attack. This distinction is why True Strike does not have any spell attack roll associated with it (and thus cannot be affected by purely spell-based abilities like Innate Sorcery).
True Strike does not require you make an attack roll as part of its casting. It requires you make an attack roll as part of its resolution. There is no attack roll made during the casting of weapon cantrips like Booming/Green Flame Blade or True Strike. Only once they resolve are you granted a weapon attack which requires a weapon attack roll.
so by this thinking Firebolt isn't giving you an attack roll as part of its casting, but its also giving you an attack roll as part of its resolution. Sorry this is splitting hairs, for me its a clear cut True Strike makes an attack as part of its casting => meaning innate sorcery works on it
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The distinction between keywords and plain text is a fairly important part of 2024 5E, not "hair splitting".
There are no examples of a spellcasting stat in 2024 5E that is not Int, Wis, or Cha. More importantly, there is a distinction between the stat you use for spells - your spellcasting stat - and the stat you use for weapons - Strength or Dexterity. If an effect is using the stat used for weapons, it is a weapon attack rather than a spell attack. This distinction is why True Strike does not have any spell attack roll associated with it (and thus cannot be affected by purely spell-based abilities like Innate Sorcery).
True Strike does not require you make an attack roll as part of its casting. It requires you make an attack roll as part of its resolution. There is no attack roll made during the casting of weapon cantrips like Booming/Green Flame Blade or True Strike. Only once they resolve are you granted a weapon attack which requires a weapon attack roll.
So, if I understand you correctly, you're saying that you believe a spell like Fire Bolt — which says "Make a ranged spell attack against the target" — is making an attack as part of the spell's "casting", but a spell like True Strike — which says "you make one weapon attack with the weapon used in the spell's casting" — is making an attack as part of the spell's "resolution"?
Setting aside the fact that this distinction between a spell's "casting" and its "resolution" is not really a thing in the rules, I have two questions then:
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The distinction between the spell's casting and resolution is absolutely a thing in the rules. It's why you have to custom edit your D&D Beyond character sheet to accommodate the weapon cantrips but you don't for spells like Firebolt.
In terms of your questions:
Can you please point out exactly where in the rules the "casting" and "resolution" of a spell are defined as two separate things, and where exactly in the description of the spells True Strike and Booming Blade the boundary between these two things is defined? You say it "explicitly tells you", so where exactly is that? It seems like you're reading words that I'm not seeing. Are we looking at two different things?
Here's the text of True Strike, which explicitly tells you to make an attack as part of casting the spell:
Here's the text of Shillelagh, which does not:
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That an attack roll is made as part of True Strike is already explained in the 2024 SAC:
The 2014 SAC doesn't support that interpretation:
so by this thinking Firebolt isn't giving you an attack roll as part of its casting, but its also giving you an attack roll as part of its resolution.
Sorry this is splitting hairs, for me its a clear cut True Strike makes an attack as part of its casting => meaning innate sorcery works on it