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What if you grab something and then do prismatic spray? Do they take all of the damage or just one roll f damage?

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What if you grab something and then do prismatic spray? Do they take all of the damage or just one roll f damage?

 Spell says what it says it does. 1 ray per target max unless a lucky 8 is rolled

So, if all the light rays originate from the caster's hand, what would happen if the caster walked up to the enemy, put his hand on the enemy's face, and cast this spell?
would it make sense that all light rays will affect this enemy?

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So, if all the light rays originate from the caster's hand, what would happen if the caster walked up to the enemy, put his hand on the enemy's face, and cast this spell?
would it make sense that all light rays will affect this enemy?

Spells only do what they say they do, and this is very clearly intended to be an area of effect spell; your DM is free rule differently if you're burning the spell to only hit a single target, but they're under no obligation to do so.

Just because we take turns doesn't mean the enemy is just standing in place like an idiot letting you do whatever you want to them; they're not just going to let you put your hand on their face while you warm up to casting the spell. At the very least you'd need to Grapple them first, otherwise there's no reason to assume they won't try to dodge (which is what the Dexterity saving throw is for). Even with a grapple I probably wouldn't go beyond imposing disadvantage on the save (because it's only harder to dodge, not impossible).

That said, for a cone spell it would actually be easier to dodge the closer you are to the caster, because they're trying to get with the smallest part of the area.

So realistically you'd be looking at something like having the target be paralyzed first (e.g- an ally uses hold person) then you cast point blank, but even in that scenario as a DM the bargain I would offer is the spell hits no-one else, and the target gets an automatic eight (two beams), because anything more is way too powerful, there are single target spells that do less damage than that.

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I once had the BBEG cast this on a character. The character had low health and was hit by the blue ray and died. A sorcerer was blinded at the time by a blindness/deafness, so he couldn't see that there were eight rays and he thought the spell only dealt cold damage. He was immune to cold damage for some reason or another, and he thought it was hilarious to offer himself up to be hit by the spell. The BBEG cast the spell again and the sorcerer was turned to stone.

 wdym by BBEG?

 "Big Bad Evil Guy" pretty much the main villain of the campaign, hope that helps :)

This is so much weaker than I expected it to be.  Why would a Wizard ever take this and cast it?  You already have better lower level spells that, upcast to 7th, are better than this. 

If every target in the cone was automatically struck by two beams, it might be worth trying.  But with each target having only a 12.5% chance of getting hit by two beams, you are better off upcasting Fireball, Cone of Cone, Lightning Bolt or any number of other spells.

Thats a devastating spell wow

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For anyone wondering, let me explain how I interoperate it. Each creature in the 60 ft cone must make a DEX save, if a creature fails you roll a 8d to determine which ray effects them. 1 beam can effect multiple creatures, so there can be 3 creatures who takes fire damage as an example.

If it's one one creature in that cone who fails, you roll only one effect.

 No actually, you roll anyway. Even if they succeed, they might still suffer an effect, such as half damage from results 1 through 5 and taking half damage only. That said, results 6 and 7 do nothing if they succeed. Either way, you still need to determine which ray goes after a target that succeeded their save - to determine if they take half damage, or completely avoid a petrification ray.

When you eat too many Skittles

i cant see this spell or add it to my spellbook for some reason, by dm doesnt know what to do about it. can someone help?

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Mordenkainen’s Sword is sooo much worse than this, too bad :( I like that guy.

 

 Mordenkainen’s Sword isn’t that much worse, there’s no save and not many enemies have Resistance of Immunity to force damage.

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