Note there is no "safe zone" and you need to be outside the whole time. So good luck keeping your concentration in a freezing blizzard windstorm.

This would be a Brass Dragon’s favorite spell.Not only is one showed as art for the spell in the 2024 Handbook but also, they love conversation with people.I like to think that if you stumbled upon one on a stormy day, he would use this spell just to be able to say”The weather is nice today”using an eighth level spell slot just for small talk.

I'm convinced this spell is constantly being cast around my area.

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Note there is no "safe zone" and you need to be outside the whole time. So good luck keeping your concentration in a freezing blizzard windstorm.

 Just cast it from inside a Tiny Hut. Spells of 4th level and higher can be cast through it now. 

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Note there is no "safe zone" and you need to be outside the whole time. So good luck keeping your concentration in a freezing blizzard windstorm.

 Just cast it from inside a Tiny Hut. Spells of 4th level and higher can be cast through it now. 

 That's actually pretty genius!

They really should make this available for Storm Sorcerer.

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They really should make this available for Storm Sorcerer.

It's a neat idea, but the Sorcerer subclasses only get special spell lists up through spell level 5 and I think it would be a Big Deal™ to have one of them have a level 8 spell in there.

I'm with Destroyer on this one, thematics trump mechanics in my RPGs. I don't know what the point of having a weather-based character is if they don't have any hope for access to the spell called Control Weather. In perspective, a bard can play this spell on a legendary harp, and they're a jack of all trades class. 

Why can you theoretically summon a heat wave blizzard with this

Magic man, temperature shock is a thing when you go from very hot or cold. Good luck to plants surviving this. 

very cool

Ugh.

"..the weather gradually returns to normal."

Please define "gradually" lol.

I was really hoping they would fix that for 2024. Loosey Goosey is Bad. Mm'kay.

A mechanic is given for how long it takes for the weather to change. A mechanic should be given for the reversion as well. If it's the same mechanic, SAY SO!

Such as:

"the weather gradually returns to normal at the same rate."

Four words. That's all it takes.

Four words to make it not ambiguous.

Or, if you don't want it to be the same rate, say "in another 1d4 x 10 minutes".

I don't care which. Pick one and fix the spell. :-)

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Ugh.

"..the weather gradually returns to normal."

Please define "gradually" lol.

I was really hoping they would fix that for 2024. Loosey Goosey is Bad. Mm'kay.

A mechanic is given for how long it takes for the weather to change. A mechanic should be given for the reversion as well. If it's the same mechanic, SAY SO!

Such as:

"the weather gradually returns to normal at the same rate."

Four words. That's all it takes.

Four words to make it not ambiguous.

Or, if you don't want it to be the same rate, say "in another 1d4 x 10 minutes".

I don't care which. Pick one and fix the spell. :-)

 I mean, I automatically assumed it was the same 1d4 x 10 min rate.

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Why can you theoretically summon a heat wave blizzard with this

 

 It would be odd and unlikely the DM would have that happen. You are not summoning the weather you are changing it over 10-40 minute intervals. So if it was a "Heat wave" and "Clear" You would have to roll to change the weather 5 times. just to go from Stage 1 to Stage 5 on precipitation. If you did not adjust the heat at the same time...then your DM would likely go light clouds, overcast, rain, torrential rain. Who knows, maybe your DM likes the idea if having the spell pull super cool moisture from the upper atmosphere and letting it make it to the ground before it melts...I would hope they could build an in-story reason this worked out. Us old players had "Summon Weather" (Advanced D&D 2e) that restricted your creating the type of weather "By this spell, the caster calls forth weather appropriate to the climate and season of the area..." So no White out storm conditions during summer in the desert here either. :-(

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Ugh.

"..the weather gradually returns to normal."

Please define "gradually" lol.

I was really hoping they would fix that for 2024. Loosey Goosey is Bad. Mm'kay.

A mechanic is given for how long it takes for the weather to change. A mechanic should be given for the reversion as well. If it's the same mechanic, SAY SO!

Such as:

"the weather gradually returns to normal at the same rate."

Four words. That's all it takes.

Four words to make it not ambiguous.

Or, if you don't want it to be the same rate, say "in another 1d4 x 10 minutes".

I don't care which. Pick one and fix the spell. :-)

Honestly, I don't think it would make sense that the return rate would be the same as the change. It is good to have the DM be in control of how quickly it goes back to "normal". If your character casts the spell and goes from calm to storm it took 40-160 minutes minimum to change, based on your dice rolls and If you kept changing the stages uninterrupted. If the DM decides the storm winds are not supported "naturally" in the area they can simply have everything return to calm in say 10 minutes...like someone turned off a fan. However, if you went from warm to unbearable heat, stage 3 down to 1, it might take you 20 minutes, two stages rolled a 1 on the d4 each time, to make it crazy hot. Your DM might decide that because there are no clouds or wind you BAKED the ground for 8 hours so it takes LONGER than 20 minutes to cool back down.