Level
1st
Casting Time
1 Action
Range/Area
120 ft
Components
V, S
Duration
Instantaneous
School
Evocation
Attack/Save
None
Damage/Effect
Force
You create three glowing darts of magical force. Each dart hits a creature of your choice that you can see within range. A dart deals 1d4 + 1 force damage to its target. The darts all strike simultaneously, and you can direct them to hit one creature or several.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the spell creates one more dart for each slot level above 1st.
So the way I understand it, each missile forces a separate concentration check?
@LolChocobo Jeremy Crawford did make a tweet saying (for some stupid reason) that each missile would require a separate concentration check.
As a DM I 100% disagree on two notions:
I weirdly want this on a Warlock to make a Force Specialist.
Also really fun on armourer
You can only target one creature with this spell. You would need a spell like Scorching Ray to target multiple creatures.
Yes. It also causes 3 separate concentration checks.
One of my players got pretty scary and started using metamagic and twinned and quickened spell with magic missile (If you want full details check out my podcast, D&D Peeps)
Could a monk deflect magic missiles tho ? It’s a range attack
I cast Magic Missile at the darkness!
Probably not. Deflect Missiles specifically says it is for ranged weapon attacks.
I don't think so. The spell specifically says that "... you can direct them to hit one creature or several."
Yes my boi
Jeremy Crawford tweets aren't official rules, merely his opinion, unless it appears in a Sage Advice, it's not official. He's even said so in the past. If each magic missile hit caused a separate Concentration check, it would make MM an incredibly powerful tool against spellcasters, and would insta-kill downed PCs. The spell says damage is simultaneous, and that would mean to me it counts as a single damage source.
Also rolling one D4 for all the bolts is boring, much more enjoyable to roll a fist-full of D4s (and averages out the damage more).
Yes. https://youtu.be/4SAa7PmNCas
late reply, sry for that, but Arcane Firearm only works on artificer spells, anything from wands or other items don't count as "your artificer spell". Unfortunatly.
9th level upcasting, and flavored as being green.
A sorcerer with a liking to this maneuver.
Because no one can deflect the emerald splash
Can it hit an invisible creature -- No... RAW - "Each dart hits a creature of your choice that you can *see* within range. "
It can have multiple targets by itself, even at 1st level. Therefor twinned spell isn't possible… (unfortunately)
sorry for the slow reply, hope your not dead but you can also use counterspell if you dont have shield.
Magic Missile is in no way, shape, or form a "ranged attack." It is a magical effect.
Note, for example, that there is no attack roll.
RAW is fun with this spell, but as soon as a player tries this level of power-gaming, i allow the monsters the same benefits. Just roll each dart separately unless you want to burn all your spell slots on spell shields or counterspells when enemy casters use MM on allies ;)