![]() ![]() From what I can tell, that fixes the range issues they seem to have been concerned about (like Distant Spell) without introducing weird new headaches. One of the real stumpers for me is why they made the range Self (5-foot radius) instead of Touch, followed by rewording the spell to target a weapon, like Holy Weapon does. ![]() Rexir's theory holds no water if you made the spell's range greater than your reach with the weapon, the attack would fizzle like all attacks against out of range targets do. In fact, I can't find direct tweets of any old combinations the new wording bans that JC doesn't allow at his table. We may never know the real impetus behind the change, but neither of those were it, apparently. Nope to both of you - it wasn't for shadow blade and it wasn't for improvised weapons. The range of 5 feet, instead of Self (5 feet), potentially implied that when paired with Spell Sniper, the weapon attack could possibly extend outside of the weapon's normal reach. I'd say the the phrase "a melee weapon" potentially allowed natural melee weapons and improvised melee weapons to be used with BB/GFB as the wording was broad. The iron golem cares not for this cheesy combo. So that's 14d8-ish damage in a single turn, at the cost of only a single spell slot (to activate shadow blade), that's pretty OP, why would anyone ever not do that? Shadow Blade was the most obvious reason to add the limitation, because otherwise you can add 6d8+Casting bonus fire damage on top of 5d8 (more likely 4d8) psychic damage for a single attack, and on a Bladesinger they can still attack with the shadow blade a second time. However Jeremy Crawford has said that the change to booming blade was not intentional when it comes to shadow blade. ![]()
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