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Was the "and ends their turn" always part of it? This basically puts one enemy prone (if desired) for the entire party to come by, hit and they can't do anything about it. You could get a dozen or so strikes at advantage on the target. Like I said...a level 1 party can take out a level 20 monster with a 1st level spell. How is that balanced?

Yes, that has always been part of this spell in 5th edition.

I think you're vastly overestimating the practical impact of a creature being Prone for a round, especially a high-level enemy that has legendary actions. It's extremely unlikely that a level 1 party would be able to eliminate a CR 20 monster in one round, even if they had advantage on all their attacks against it. And the spell does nothing at all if the target succeeds on the saving throw, which high-level monsters tend to be pretty good at.

I understand if different languages had trouble with this spell because of the "one word" bit. However that can be easily remedied with "one command", and having the creativity to use this spell in unorthodox ways WAS THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE SPELL WAS IT NOT?! Yeah this is going directly in the trash, literally no point to the spell now except for people who follow the rules to the T to a fault

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These designers are awful. They removed the creative aspect of this spell and the logical restrictions in favor of dumbed down multiple choice. Please stop treating us like morons.

 

They're not treating us like morons; they're treating us like we're going to exploit the functionality of an already great level 1 spell, and that's because a lot of players will try to. You've seen the jokes, you've heard the stories.

What do you mean exploit? You mean just using the spell as intended? It was made for you to make up your own command, and a couple of commands were given as example. Literally the whole point was to be creative with it. It's only as "exploitive" in the rules as casting a fire spell on a stick to make a torch. The game should reward creativity not punish it

If you Command a target to flee, the fastest available means to get away from you could be going off of a cliff. After all, a 100 foot drop beats 60 feet of dashing away

Does anything in this description specify it doesn't work on say... beasts? Old Command needed the target creature to understand your language, but this one doesn't

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Does anything in this description specify it doesn't work on say... beasts? Old Command needed the target creature to understand your language, but this one doesn't

This version of the spell works on any creature.

right? its now arguably one of the strongest cc spells in the game

RAW? yes