Booming blade 5e Spell sniper will operate. If the attack hits, the creature takes normal damage and takes an additional 1d8 thunder damage if they willingly move before the start of the player&39;s next turn. Compare the wording for Booming Blade, Shocking Grasp and Primal Savagery. Would allow me to use Booming Blade with the range of a Halberd. Warcaster allows me to cast a spell in place of an OA. so if you wanted to use it with a reach weapon you would require the spell sniper feat. The trade of 1 point of AC for being good at hiding and high initiative is great. Twin Spell says you can affect a second target in range at the time youre casting the first. Spell sniper doubles the range of the spell. So unless you have generous DM it is hard to make this work at least as a reaction. Now, there&x27;s no point using a whip with booming blade anymore, so we are looking at two weapon fighting. First thing that comes to mind is a Warlock with eldritch blast obviously, and VHuman for the first level spell sniper feat. Spell Sniper Booming Blade (WizardWarlockSorcerer) for Whip synergy. Spell sniper ;) Reply reply More replies. With a booming blade, a new hero awaits your arrival in Spell Sniper 5e. The rule on unarmed strikes should read as follows "Instead of using a weapon to make a melee weapon attack, you can use an unarmed strike a punch, kick, head-butt, or similar forceful blow (none of which count as weapons). Or build around forcing a catch-22 where they either waste their turn by not moving OR take damage. The range has also changed from a range of 5-feet to Self (Radius 5-feet). Eldritch blast is a good option, though it&x27;s best if you can get a few invocations for extra damagemore rangepositioning advantage and you need to dip warlock for those. There are spells and cantrips as Primal Salvagery, Thunderclap, Catapult, Ice Knife, Mind Spike, Hypnotic Pattern, Mislead and Steel Wind Strike which can be used in combat and doesn&x27;t require verbal component. As far as I&x27;m aware, a spell focus is usually worth more than 1gp and a melee improvised weapon is a melee weapon, so nothing by RAW actually stops you from using booming blade with a focus anyway. Can be used for Spell Sniper Booming Blade through Warcaster. " Lunging Attack is a Battlemaster maneuver that. Outside of being a flavorful option, Green Flame Blade is out-damaged by Booming Blade and is relatively limited in versatility. By doing this you will force the creature to trigger booming blade or not hitting you if it is melee, which is nice. A Sorcerer can use Subtle Spell, a Cleric, a Warlock (Pact of the Blade), a Ranger, a Paladin, a Wizard. As you can see the range doubling only requires that the spell has an attack roll made due to casting of said spell which both Booming Blade and Green Flame Blade have. Within 5ft, the target can choose between attacking you OR taking dmg, that is a good deal. If your problem is the cost of the requirement limiting which weapons it applies to, literally. The spell specifies 5'. which is a goddamn waste but an option. I started such a character at 1st level and went variant human with Magic Initiate (booming blade, minor illusion, and find familiar owl for advantage). The rules for Booming Blade are found in The Sword Coast Adventurers Guide and Tasha&x27;s Cauldron of Everything. Just a note this works particularly well with the Polearm Master and War Caster feats, so that you can hit a creature with Booming Blade while it&x27;s still 10 feet away from you, almost guaranteeing that they&x27;ll take the extra damage. Sep 21, 2019. Wrath of the Storm Thunderbolt Strike allow you to knock enemies back, then on your turn you can Whip Booming Blade from 10ft and safely retreat or hold your ground to taunt them back. r3d6 5 yr. The range may be doubled, but the trigger on this spell says the caster must. Because the 5&39; is the range of the weapon. I&39;d recommend just going for Spell Sniper here and ignore the other two. People mentioned using spell snipe to extend the range of booming blade but I dont think that works. It most definitely CAN be twinned and it CAN be used in conjunction with Shadow Blade. This is because the feat says "You can keep your enemies at bay with reach weapons". Aug 26, 2023 The Booming Blade spell continues to work with the War Caster feat. (NOTE For some reason, people interested in Booming Blade are also interested. At level 14, Divine strike makes the initial strike 5d8. I also remember reading a tweet by someone (I think Mike Mearls) that Spell Sniper Booming Blade allows you to use it at 10-feet with a reach weapon, so I think this is. It&39;s already somewhat reasonable on a polearm build, and the new rules make it easier to get a whip on a Rogue. What this means is that the vanilla version will not be compatible with any mod that modifies the Warlock or Spell Sniper Spell Lists unless the Spell List Combiner is used. To then get to us, they have to take the additional Booming Blade damage. I was curious though, while the cantrip is great on a cleric, spell sniper seems very underwhelming. range of Booming Blade becomes 10ft, allowing you to cast Booming Blade, using a glaive as a weapon, through War Caster for an Attack of Opportunity enabled by PAM. Pretty lame, I&x27;m playing a character (under old rules) with a whip for one-handed 10ft range and with booming blade acquired via spell sniper feat. If you don't want to spend the sorcery point, Spell Sniper also increases the range to where you need it to be. Key Spells Armor of Agathys, Booming Blade Key Metamagic Twinned Spell End Result. By doing this you will force the creature to trigger booming blade or not hitting you if it is melee, which is nice. Booming BladeGreen-Flame Blade The blade cantrips can&x27;t be used with Spell Sniper as of Tasha&x27;s Cauldron of Everything. If you are a cleric or a paladin, you can cast spells that require material and somatic components as long. To me it is quite simple, spell sniper says that if a spell require an attack roll, the range is doubled. The only target of booming blade is the creature that gets attackedyou don&39;t need a PhD to figure this out. I vaguely recall designers saying on Twitter they didn&x27;t intend for new Tasha rules to ruin the Shadow Blade Booming Blade interaction, even though RAW, in practice, that&x27;s what happened. Welcome to the fifth edition of the D&D Spell Guide This guide is designed to help you learn and cast the spells of the Dungeons and Dragons game. But if that&x27;s the case, its description always says this explicitly As part of the action used to cast this spell, you must make a melee attack with a weapon. Increased reach, from Bugbear trait or polearm, does not affect the range of Booming Blade. When you see the term "gish" used, it's grouping these two cantrips together as if it were one cantripspell. Also picking up some reaction spells is great if you're using most of your actions to attack and green flame blade or booming blade, then you'll save a lot of spell slots so you can counterspell or shield. Anyhow, without the feat Spell Sniper or another feature that increases Booming Blade&39;s range to 10ft (such as a Sorcerer&39;s Distant Spell metamagic option), you can only combine Booming Blade with a quarterstaff if you want the polearm master opportunity attack. Distant Spell says. IF your DM declares for that spell sniper increases the jump on GFB from 5-10 feet and you incorporate that feat into your build GFB may eek out BB due to you being. With this, the blooming weapon is a beguile with a projecting season of 1 activity. Thanks in advance. You could potentially pick up spell sniper as well to use the booming blade at 10 foot range, though some people are of the opinion that it no longer works with booming blade with the Tasha's change to the syntax. Having spell sniper doesn&39;t mean you could use booming blade on an enemy 10ft away with a longsword Also this works with distant spell metamagic You could go bold and play a bugbear with reach weapon, distant spell, and spell sniper for 15 ft range. With as low as your HP pool is, it&x27;s appreciated. The original version does work, however. In general BB (wo movement) falls behind multiple attacks because a fighter&39;s secondthirdfourth attack gets to multiply their ability modifier as well as the d8, while BB is only adding the d8s. That is simply not true. While these spells are marginally stronger, cantrips are perfectly viable as they scale up as a player does. The booming blade incorporates a weapon attack, but its range is 5 feet. Not sure I understand this combo. As if a 9 blade singerfighter had two opponents within 10ft they could potentially do 5x6xd84x2xd86x4 in a single round. SCAG pg 126, Potent Spellcasting. "You brandish the weapon used in the spell&x27;s casting and make a melee attack with it against one creature within 5 feet of you. At level 5, the melee attack does 1d8 more thunder damage to the target, and the target takes. Obviously you can&x27;t use the blade cantrips with it from 10 ft (unless you take the spell sniper feat), but especially once you get extra attack you may or may not want to anyway, and with spell sniper you can booming blade someone from 10 ft so they take extra damage if they come to you. So as many of you may have heard, Booming Blade will be getting errata&39;d in Tasha&39;s to provide a range of "Self" instead of "5 feet. Long answer no, even though it seems bonkers. Total math goes like this Bladesinger 6. I&x27;ve been thinking about playing a high elf swashbuckler so I can sneak attack booming blade and easily walk away, hopefully. Casting time, duration, and components. The Spell Sniper feat grants you a cantrip that requires an attack roll. Allows you to Booming Blade at 10 feet, and they have to move if they want to hit you,which triggers the extra damage. lsx file. Including your Booming Blade. Booming Blade is one of my favorite cantrips. Yes, you can use Spell Sniper to learn green flame blade. Spell sniper war caster booming blade as per usual. Spell Sniper - seems worth it for Eldritch Knights. The rest of the build should work though. Follow edited Nov 13, 2020 at 257. It doesn&x27;t specifically state that you have to make an attack roll, but it does state that you have to make a melee attack with it which in and of itself is an attack roll. Sorry everyone theres no way to cast GFB or Booming Blade on a target more than 5 feet away, rules as written. If you can convince your Dungeon Master to house rule that this feat lets you use Sneak Attack with your ranged spell attacks. The range has also changed from a range of 5-feet to Self (Radius 5-feet). You brandish the weapon used in the spell&x27;s casting and make a melee attack with it against one creature within 5 feet of you. Back before the eratta and the updates in Tashas Cauldron of Everything, both spells used to have a range of 5 feet. If the attack hits, the target is surrounded by magical energy, and it can&x27;t willingly move or it takes 1d8 thunder damage. 14-16 - 1d8strdex 2d8 thunder (booming blade) 2d8 thunder (divine strike) 3d8 thunder if target moves. Components V, M (A melee weapon worth at least 1sp. Can shadow blade still produce a weapon that can be used with these cantrips. On a hit, the target suffers the weapon attack's normal effects and then becomes sheathed in booming energy until the start of your next turn. because else, I cannot do a melee weapon attack. Rules-as-Written (RAW). A Tempest Cleric&x27;s time is likely better spent throwing spells and cantrips. The effect of booming blade is exactly its spell description. War Magic isn&x27;t necessarily the strength of the build, even in tabletop dnd it&x27;s only useful with specific cantrips that aren&x27;t in bg3 (booming blade and green flame blade) and generally stops being optimal when the third extra attack is unlocked at level 11. So I&x27;ve been looking into making a very ranged magical sniper character that focuses on mobility and single target damage. If you want to go pure rogue and get it you need to invest in two feats, Weapon Master using your Vuman feat for the whip, and then spell sniper for the spells. Spells like word of radiance and thunderclap (and formerly booming blade, before TCOE came out) can hit eight 5-foot squares. Booming Blade was changed a while back to prevent taking spell sniper for polearm attacks with it so now it affects a target within a 5' sphere centered around the caster, so distant spell would have no effect. I just took a look at Green-flame blade and it has a range of Self, without the (5 feet) classification. Build around using it to keep things still, not the expectation that you&x27;re going to get free damage. The 5th edition is ripe with spellcasting classes, each with its unique spell list. In D&D 5e, typically "5 ft away" is considered adjacent to you. Whip 1d4, one-handed, reach. It&x27;s a fun cantrip if you know how to dance around the rules to set it off. Self cannot be doubled. Nov 23, 2019 When we use the word "sniper" we generally mean soldiers with rifles and crossbows, not clubs and knives. Seemingly, even if I user spell sniper for booming blade, attacking with a long sword, will still require me to have a target within 5 ft. Spell sniper doubles the range of the spell. When you cast a spell that requires you to make an attack roll, the spell&x27;s range is doubled. GFB is a good way for characters withsingle target damage (like rogues) to. At level 14, Divine strike makes the initial strike 5d8. cast it via spell sniper and make &x27;no movement&x27; result in them wasting their whole turn Reply. When you cast a spell that requires you to make an attack roll, the spell&x27;s range is doubled. PICCOLOTORIYAMA 4 yr. Actually with the wording of Spell Sniper it DOES apply to Booming Blade and Green Flame blade. The changes to Booming Blade, Green Flame Blade, and other spells made in Tashas Cauldron warranted some clarity from D&Ds lead rules designer. The short version of the question is &39;Does it work&39;. Your ranged spell attacks ignore half cover and three-quarters cover. Key Spells Armor of Agathys, Booming Blade Key Metamagic Twinned Spell End Result. 170), it seems to be potentially useful - but when I started looking for spells that could be used with it, the choices seem really limited. The Spell Sniper spell doubles the range of any spell that requires an attack roll. Outside of being a flavorful option, Green Flame Blade is out-damaged by Booming Blade and is relatively limited in versatility. Steel Wind Strike. You&x27;d need to take spell sniper for it to work at 10ft. JeremyECrawford Booming Blade and Green-Flame Blade can&x27;t be used with whip at 10 feet reach RAI Jacob Matthews (NADRIGOL). Nov 23, 2019 When we use the word "sniper" we generally mean soldiers with rifles and crossbows, not clubs and knives. robotwrangler 6 yr. 5) to a second creature. At level 4, grab the Spell Sniper feat for Booming Blade with double range (10 feet). JeremyECrawford Booming Blade and Green-Flame Blade can&x27;t be used with whip at 10 feet reach RAI Jacob Matthews (NADRIGOL). Sorry everyone theres no way to cast GFB or Booming Blade on a target more than 5 feet away, rules as written. I&39;d recommend just going for Spell Sniper here and ignore the other two. Booming blade has a better damage type but is single target and relies on enemy movement for additional damage. PAM allows me to make an OA when an enemy enters my reach. Pull off the Eldritch Sniper from 630 feet instead of 600. So I ask my DM if they were willing to let me consume a couple silver. The spells listed below revolve around ranged-only. to 10ft. Can You Use Booming Blade and Spell Sniper. Follow edited Nov 13, 2020 at 257. I started such a character at 1st level and went variant human with Magic Initiate (booming blade, minor illusion, and find familiar owl for advantage). Battle Magic allows a weapon attack as a bonus action after a bard spell, so Booming Blade can be used. Rules-as-Written (RAW). As another user posted you don&x27;t make an opportunity attack with warcaster, you cast a spell instead of making an opportunity attack, so there is no interaction between. Booming blade specifically says it is a spell with a range of 5 feet and when you cast it, you make a melee weapon attack against a target within the spell's range. I&x27;m imagining a Warlock with Eldritch Blast, Spell Sniper (Feat), Sorcerer Adept (Distant Spell; Feat), and at least Eldritch Spear (Invocation. The spell requires an attack roll, would its range thus be 10ft, allowing the whip Dungarth (Dungarth) November 8, 2015 Spell Sniper does work green-flame blade. also IMO the best way to use booming blade is on a dex-based tempest cleric who gets it via spell sniper and casts it via whip, since then you can use a shield with it. That&x27;s yes and yes, so it should work. 4 for my Artificer (Artillerist). I&x27;ve been thinking about playing a high elf swashbuckler so I can sneak attack booming blade and easily walk away, hopefully. Booming blade doesn&39;t, by RAW, work with whips. rUnearthedArcana Enhanced Green Flame Blade Eldritch knight&x27;s spell inspired by Scorching Rays - Spare the Undead Necromancer&x27;s Undead Fortitude as a. Even if you have spell sniper (or distant spell) and a reach weapon you can still only use Booming Blade at 5ft, in the spells description it says "You brandish the weapon used in the spells casting and make a melee attack with it against one creature within 5 feet of you". away from me, so I get an opportunity attack. You can now BB as a reaction when enemies attempt to enter your reach. You have to take Spell Sniper for it to work, but that&x27;s not the end of the world for the survivability it would give. Jul 3, 2022 Similar to Booming Blade, when you cast this spell, you create a magical weapon in your hand. There are cantrips in the Sword Coast Adventure guide called Booming Blade, and Green Flame Blade. You brandish the weapon used in the spell&x27;s casting and make a melee attack with it against one creature within 5 feet of you. Spell Sniper gives BB a 10&x27; reach. Lightning Lure gives the target a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC, which is likely to be on the lower side for an EK, and Strength is often a fairly high ability score on many enemies. Your ranged spell attacks ignore half cover and three-quarters cover. The feat would double the range of booming blade to 10 feet, allowing it to be used with a glaive, halberd, or other reach weapon. 3rd Level Spell Thunder Step and Lightning Bolt. This would give me the ability to use a whip, tossing out thunder damage with Booming Blade from just behind the melee types, and also use reaction spells (Which may include even more booming blade). Booming Blade Source Tasha&39;s Cauldron of Everything Evocation cantrip Casting Time 1 action Range Self (5-foot radius) Components S, M (a melee weapon worth at least 1 sp) Duration 1 round You brandish the weapon used in the spells casting and make a melee attack with it against one creature within 5 feet of you. Shadow blade; Improvised weapons; Weapons that are part of armor (ie thunder gauntlets) Twin spell metamagic; Distant spell metamagic; Spell sniper feat; And they never worked with Spellcasting focus (I mean seriously, even if you can cast the spell without a weapon, now you have no weapon to make the required attack with so it has no effect). Spell range is only self 5 feet. With this, the blooming weapon is a beguile with a projecting season of 1 activity. Level 11, 16 Dex, 20 Int. range of Booming Blade becomes 10ft, allowing you to cast Booming Blade, using a glaive as a weapon, through War Caster for an Attack of Opportunity enabled by PAM. Recommended Spells Eldritch Blast, Booming Blade & Hex. If they move towards you they take an op attack and booming blade. Post tempest cleric makes me sad that the Spell sniper Booming blade from reach Tempest cleric is no longer an options. Spell Sniper Booming Blade range up to 10&39; Base no-Reach BugBear(Long-Limbed) OA Occurs 10&39;--->15&39; 15&39;--->10&39; Should Always have this as Unarmed Strikes can be used by everyone even while wielding 2 handed weapon. Sure the d4 is less damage, but it&x27;s a lot more fun to use booming blade from 10 feet away. And even then only if you got Warcaster and Polearm master so you could Booming Blade enemies that approach you with a reaction. Rogue with Spell Sniper for Booming Blade and use a whip. The Archfey's best combat trick is Greater Invisibility, at 7th level. Combine with spell sniper, and a reach weapon and you can Booming Blade a melee attackers 10-ft away and they must move in order to attack you. If the spell range isn&x27;t a big deal, I would instead pick up Magic Initiate, which would open the door to a number of other melee spells such as. It moves one square away still within my reach and takes the booming blade damage, ending the spell. So I believe if you are wielding a Glave, you can Warcaster PAM Opportunity Attack with BB at 10ft out when an enemy approaches you. , or if the extra range only applies to weapons that have the reach property such as whips, glaives, etc. 17-20 - 1d8strdex 3d8 thunder (booming blade) 2d8 thunder (divine strike) 4d8 thunder if target moves. Event hen, if you are using a non-quarterstaff Polearm Master weapon, you&x27;ll also need the Spell Sniper feat to extend the range of the Booming Blade cantrip to 10&x27; instead of 5&x27;. This does not apply to spells with a range of self. This is a discrete range increment that can and does benefit from Spell Sniper. Spell sniper cantrip requires an attack roll but doesn&x27;t care what spell list it comes from, while high elf cantrip must be a wizard cantrip but does not require an attack roll. Spell Sniper applies to spells that need an attack roll and has a range, but Shadow Blade doesnt fit this criterion. To elaborate, Distant Spell Metamagic costs 1 sorcery point, and doubles the range of a spell cast. So if you use one of those cantrips you only get the one attack (granted by the spell) and cannot use the Polearm Master attack. It's a great spell combo. Booming Blade Misty Step works so well. One of the most interesting spells for min-maxers everywhere is the Booming Blade cantrip. The weapon attack is part of the spell. Booming Blade makes an attack as part of the spell. Ultimately I felt like I wasted my potential in the character for a gimmick that got old quick. said he wouldn't change the shadow blade booming blade interaction in his games. In the right hands, this cantrip can be quite potent, offering players the chance to deal extra damage in melee combat. The PAM bonus attack would probably never be used by a cleric anyway since there are so many better options for a bonus action then a d4 attack. I&39;ve got a question about how PAM and Warcaster interact. LoreGlamor bards are the first that come to mind when thinking about who could really benefit from. The spell doesn&x27;t require a weapon attack, it is a weapon attack (a rider affect). The blade cantrips don&x27;t work with reach, and the whip has a poor damage dice to go along with it. You gotta add on Spell Sniper so that Booming Blade has the 10ft range to be used with a halberdglaive unless the EK is going staff and shield. Attack 1 shadow blade Attack 2 booming blade with a regular shortsword Attack 3 (TWF, bonus action) shadow blade. Booming Blade and Spell Sniper. Booming Blade on a reach weapon is broken. It is better than our attack action at levels 1-4, and 11-20. Actually the spell sniper feat also double the range any the spell that requires an attack roll, so it becomes 10ft. Magic Initiate (Sorcerer, Wizard, or Warlock), for BB, 1 other cantrip, and a level 1 spell Artificer Initiate, for BB and 1 Artificer spell (which you can cast more than once a day, so that&x27;s an improvement over MI) Spell Sniper, for BB and to double the range on spells (no longer works RAW with BB, but I think the DM will probably allow it). Casting time, duration, and components. Simple Shadow Blade 5e Spell Text. Show All; Hide All - Top - End - 4. Spell Sniper grants one cantrip which requires an attack roll (BB), and doubles your attack ranges. Mage Hand Great spell that allows for cool tactics and exploration shenanigans. Yes, spell sniper increases the range of booming blade and green flame blade to 10ft instead of 5ft, but you still need to use a weapon with the reach property (or I guess play as a bugbear) to make use of that increased range. I&x27;m also playing this on a zeal cleric, so I get to push enemies around and play billiards with them. A melee spell attack is just telling you that you're making an attack (to hit versus forcing a spell save) using a spell (as opposed to a weapon) in melee (as opposed to at range). Sentinel reduces the speed of enemies hit by an OA to 0. Booming blade has a better damage type but is single target and relies on enemy movement for additional damage. It is still entirely unclear to me what the target of the Booming Blade spell is. It most definitely CAN be twinned and it CAN be used in conjunction with Shadow Blade. That is just my ruling, however, the rules in the book are clear - "When you cast a spell that requires you to make an attack roll," applies to both melee and. Keep in mind that only the range of the spell will be doubled from 5 feet to 10 feet. When opponents are close enough for melee combat, it is more difficult. Booming Blade, per Tasha&39;s Cauldron of Everything (page 106), has changed the wording slightly of the flavor and the way one makes an attack. Many overlook cantrips as 'weak spells' and put focus on the higher levels spells like Fireball or Lightning Bolt. Booming Blade 1d431d8 (10) and 2d8(9) if they move. To me it is quite simple, spell sniper says that if a spell require an attack roll, the range is doubled. The spell sniper feat and distant spell metamagic do not set the range of the spell--they just double whatever the range is. Similar to Booming Blade, when you cast this spell, you create a magical weapon in your hand. Id be interested in seeing that sage advice. Doing 2d641 (improved pact weapon gives 1, even hire if you are using supult pact weapon). booming blade, walk away with no opportunity attack, and force the opponent to take the extra booming blade damage to get to you. A Spell Sniper does work green-flame blade. The other way is to go Half-High Elf and pick Nature Cleric for Shillelagh-Booming Blade combo. This fifth edition of the classic board game brings the award-winning rules and fighting styles from the latest editions of D&D and other RPGs to life on your computer screen. This overrides the general rule which sets the range at 120 feet. Combine with spells that force someone to move, such as Dissonant Whispers. Those are never good in the long run. Booming blade is its own spell that costs an action. Thunder whip was too cool for school. You get Spellcasting at level 3 which clears you for Spell Sniper&x27;s prereq, and Booming Blade works well since your class is focused on making one (1) attack and piling on Sneak Attack dice. Booming Blade makes an attack as part of the spell. The feat would double the range of booming blade to 10 feet, allowing it to be used with a glaive, halberd, or other reach weapon. It&x27;s a fun loophole to the new rule that BB can only be cast with physical weapons, but if you abuse it your DM and fellow players might get reasonably pissed. So only viable for a human fighter arcane knight for a polearms master for all the feat requirements. The PHB errata also does not clear up this issue. As you can see the range doubling only requires that the spell has an attack roll made due to casting of said spell which both Booming. When a poor sucker is trying to get away from the fighter the fighter will cast booming blade, targeting the creature getting away, and hitting for 2d84 damage. Booming Blade and Spell Sniper. No joy when reading the fine print Its a very specific subclass. At level 4, grab the Spell Sniper feat for Booming Blade with double range (10 feet). range of Booming Blade becomes 10ft, allowing you to cast Booming Blade, using a glaive as a weapon, through War Caster for an Attack of Opportunity enabled by PAM. This is mostly useful for Eldritch Knights and Arcane Tricksters, as the other builds cannot use their spellcasting ability (with the strange exception of Battlemasters, as the text of the spell describes it as a magic weapon) for the. You are going to need spell sniper too is you want to combine war caster, polearm master and booming blade. Ride a pteranodon (you need to be small) for flyby attack, and pick up mobile to avoid AOs. Maybe move adjacent and use mobile to get away. Ride a pteranodon (you need to be small) for flyby attack, and pick up mobile to avoid AOs. Show All; Hide All. The other two are Acid Splash and Poison Spray (save spells). The ability to maximize that thunder damage on a short rest is extremely helpful, esp since your basic attack also does thunder damage, and you maximize all of it at once. The technical answer is yes, but individual DMs answers may vary. flank pain icd 10 code, mom job description humor
The Spell Sniper spell doubles the range of any spell that requires an attack roll. . Spell sniper booming blade
You&39;d need to take spell sniper for it to work at 10ft. It targets the caster by allowing them to make a weapon attack and add Xd8 damage to that attack. Booming Blade is a strategically powerful cantrip that deals thunder damage at close range. Which has a range of "Melee" whatever melee happens to be for you. He's my elven indiana jones (archaeologist background) and uses Melf's minute meteors as his bonus action, then action whipping enemies and running away. The spell requires an attack roll, would its range thus be 10ft, allowing the whip Dungarth (Dungarth) November 8, 2015 Spell Sniper does work green-flame blade. The radical change comes a bit earlier in the spell's description. It is a cantrip (level 0) spell, with a casting time of 1 action and a range of 5 feet. Sean-Jardine I just played an Arcane Trickster until level 11. BUT, read the first bullet of the Spell Sniper feat When you cast a spell that requires you to make an attack roll, the spell&39;s range is doubled. Spell Sniper doubles the range of Booming Blade from 5ft. IMHO, Booming Blade is really worth it only if you also have the War Caster and Spell Sniper feats, if you are using a melee reach weapon BB no longer works with Spell Sniper. Booming Blade Evocation cantrip Casting Time 1 action Range Self (5-foot radius) Components S, M (a melee weapon worth at least 1 sp) Duration 1 round You brandish the weapon used in the spells. (NOTE For some reason, people interested in Booming Blade are also interested. Here are the builds i am considering tempest cleric 20 Thematic, and the divine Strike synergises well with the whip. If the attack hits, the creature takes normal damage and takes an additional 1d8 thunder damage if they willingly move before the start of the player&39;s next turn. Booming Blade (and the other SCAG cantrips, which are the focus of this thread) have a range of 5 feet. Spell Sniper Options. One was fighter 2WM sorcerer x strength based booming blade spam, the other was a draconic dex based whip using spell sniper booming blade spam. As for the Spell Sniper feat, well GFBs spell description itself, rather than the Range entry of its block, specifies that the target must be within 5 feet of the caster. According to Jeremy Crawford (see this tweet) Spell Sniper does work with green-flame blade. Booming Blade " As part of the action used to cast this spell, you must make a melee attack with a weapon against one creature within the spell&x27;s range, otherwise the spell fails. Bugbear Eldritch Knight would be horrifying. Finally, use your Haste. Booming Blade is a strategically powerful cantrip that deals thunder damage at close range. To add a bit different point of view, you could also grab Spell Sniper feat, and with it, pick Booming Blade. This was a character who wielded a whip and used spell sniper to do booming blade at reach distance. casting and make a melee attack with it against one creature within 5 feet of you. Mobile Increases your speed by 10 feet and lets you avoid opportunity attacks from creatures youve attacked during your turn, which works great with hit-and-run tactics using. Am I right to assume, she can cast Booming Blade as a Reaction to anyone entering her 10ft range and either forcing the enemy to eat the bonus damage or stop. You don't get much use out of Spell Sniper, so Magic or Artificer Initiate for Absorb Elements. With this, the blooming weapon is a beguile with a projecting season of 1 activity. Overall I&x27;d likely take Ray of Frost since my Eldtrich Cannon. 36 votes, 40 comments. Spell Sniper Get Booming Blade, range is now 10' War Caster Spell can be used as AoO It all works together to be a hell of a lot of area control. So having spell sniper on green-flame blade would allow you to use the spell with a reach weapon (like a whip or halberd). When you look at the spell, the distance you can cast that spell is clearly marked as range, which is what spell sniper is referring to. One of the most interesting spells for min-maxers everywhere is the Booming Blade cantrip. With booming blade you can force the target to take the extra damage, or else suffer a penalty - If you have Warcaster Booming blade gives you. Spell sniperThorn whip technically works with War Caster too, or. The changes to Booming Blade, Green Flame Blade, and other spells made in Tashas Cauldron warranted some clarity from D&Ds lead rules designer. This also means that Reach effects do not apply to Booming Blade or Green-flame Blade, such as with some polearms or a bugbear&x27;s increased reach of 10 feet. and other gear. One of the most interesting spells for min-maxers everywhere is the Booming Blade cantrip. Booming blade is a cantrip (a spell). " Lunging Attack is a Battlemaster maneuver that. Spell Snipers text doesnt say anything about not working with spells with a range of self. As part of the action used to cast this spell, you must make a melee attack with a weapon. The spell does not affect everyone in a 5&39; Sphere. Also, I forgot to mention that Booming Blade would need Spell Sniper or Metamagic to be applied outside of the 5 ft range. The booming blade has an attack roll involved in it as long as you have a weapon capable of making a melee attack. Re Actually fixing Booming BladeGreen-Flame Blade. For version selection, the only difference is the SpellLists. Additionally, the material component requirement led folks to wonder if Shadow Blade still worked with these spells. The typical bladesinger AttackExtra Attack (booming blade) is not really worth it for you. Booming Blade can&x27;t work with Reach weapons now even with Spell Sniper, due to the first line of the spell itself. Cast longstrider on your beast. Booming Blade and Spell Sniper. You can cause green ire to leap from the target to a different creature of your choice that you can see within 5 feet of it. They can no longer benefit from spell sniper range increase. Booming Blade, per Tasha's Cauldron of Everything (page 106), has changed the wording slightly of the flavor and the way one makes an attack. The blade part is not necessarily tied to the type of weapon, just the value of it. SCAG Errata Booming Blade & GFB. Being able to choose 2 cantrips and a 1st-level spell from the full caster classes is a surprisingly beneficial ability. On a hit, the target suffers the expected effects of the weapons attack. This would allow you to attack from 10 while casting Booming Blade. It&x27;s a blender of death. You&x27;d want Booming Blade more than Greenflame Blade for this, though. Spell Sniper sniper says it doubles the range of the spell, not the effect of that spell. Spell sniper does not affect the distance of the jump. Spell Sniper sniper says it doubles the range of the spell, not the effect of that spell. Can be used for Spell Sniper Booming Blade through Warcaster. This fifth edition of the classic board game brings the award-winning rules and fighting styles from the latest editions of D&D and other RPGs to life on your computer screen. Level 6 Spell Sniper. Ride a pteranodon (you need to be small) for flyby attack, and pick up mobile to avoid AOs. In the same way you wouldn&39;t argue that the d6 damage of. As another user posted you don&x27;t make an opportunity attack with warcaster, you cast a spell instead of making an opportunity attack, so there is no interaction between. The also did change the range but that was a separate change. Spell Sniper. Meanwhile Green Flame Blade has never been usable with War Caster. Although two slightly different versions of the spell exist, the version from TCoE is exclusively used and considered. 5) and 1-8 5 INT to the second target equaling 6-13 (av 9. They have now been changed to have a range of self (5 feet), making it illegible for. Level 4 Warlock, Feat Elven Accuracy (Charisma), Cantrips Booming Blade, Spells Misty Step, Level 5 Warlock, Eldritch Invocations Thirsting. (Assuming 4 targets). This is cool, feat hungry but cool. Thorn Whip is a melee spell attack with a 30-foot range. ex Spell Sniper Booming blade will let you use booming blade w a reach weapon, which is nice if you&39;re comboing it w PAM. lsx file. Apr 29, 2022 The range of Booming Blade is extended to 10ft. We have 5 cantrips at level 6, and get up to 7 at level 16. I&x27;ve literally never heard this argument put forward, even from my exploit-lovers. They are very different in specifics. Originally Posted by DamonTor. In general, tempest clerics want booming blade. Take a 2nd cantirp that doesn&39;t rely on the casting score, Friends, Message, Mage Hand, etc. Booming Blade A spell from Sword Coast Adventure&x27;s Guide. Rules-as-Written (RAW). The Spell Sniper feat doubles the range of a spell that has an attack role. Booming Blade&x27;s Range language is similar to that of spells like Thunderwave or Cone of Cold, all of which create an area of effect. You have learned techniques to enhance your attacks with certain kinds of spells, gaining the following benefits When you cast a spell that requires you to make. If you have a reach weapon and your enemy provokes an opportunity attack, you cannot use the War Caster feat to cast green-flame blade or booming blade. So Lore Bard is a good option too, again getting Spell Sniper at 4 and getting Find Steed at 6 with Magical Secrets (and Find Greater Steed at 10). (By the way, reach weaponsbooming blade are another way to possibly get the movement rider to go off more often). So since Booming Blade has TWO damage rolls if the enemy keeps moving, they take the proficiency damage AGAIN. , or if the extra range only applies to. A note about D&D spells with a range of "Self (XYZ)" the parentheticalwhich says "5-foot radius," "15-foot cone," or something elsemeans you are the spell&39;s point of origin, but you aren&39;t necessarily its target. At 5th level, the melee attack deals an extra 1d8 thunder damage to the target, and the damage the target takes for moving increases to 2d8. On a hit, an unarmed strike deals bludgeoning damage equal to 1 your Strength modifier. At first I thought it would be fun to combine reach weapons with Booming Blade until I realized that BB has a reach of 5 feet and the enemy must be within that range. Cleric and Paladin Spellcasting Focus. This is cool, feat hungry but cool. Booming Blade is only better than GFB if you can find a reason to get the enemy to move. Thorn Whip deals 1d6 (3. Spell Sniper says When you cast a spell that requires you to make an attack roll, the spell&x27;s range is doubled. Booming blade has a range of 5ft. Jul 26, 2023 Booming Blade 5e. The ability to maximize that thunder damage on a short rest is extremely helpful, esp since your basic attack also does thunder damage, and you maximize all of it at once. Each spell description begins with a block of information, including the spell&x27;s name, level, school of magic, casting time, range, components, and duration. On my other bladesinger I decided to go with a whip and spell sniper so I can use booming bladegreen flame blade at 10 feet. On the other hand, to use Booming Blade one takes the Cast a Spell action and then does a melee weapon attack (not an Attack action) within this action. Vhuman Tempest cleric with Magic Initiate wizard (booming blade, find familiar), 16 St, 14 Con, 16 wis, picking up Warcaster at 4 is going to be my go to build. The trade of 1 point of AC for being good at hiding and high initiative is great. In the same way you wouldn't argue that the d6 damage of the spell is a damage 'range' and would be doubled, you also. Sadly Eldritch Knight has many anti-synergies here, especially the lvl 7 feature. Damaging a target requires an attack roll (as opposed to a saving throw or an automatic hit) so Spell Sniper applies. Eldritch blast is a good option, though it&39;s best if you can get a few invocations for extra damagemore rangepositioning advantage and you need to dip warlock for those. Booming Blade 5e. View User Profile. Since the familiar will remain invisible, the target will have no idea what caused the damage. Spell sniper is the typical combo for booming blade, allowing you to use it with a whip and run a dex build. Fire bolt. Spell Sniper. Event hen, if you are using a non-quarterstaff Polearm Master weapon, you&x27;ll also need the Spell Sniper feat to extend the range of the Booming Blade cantrip to 10&x27; instead of 5&x27;. View Profile View Forum Posts. You can double the range of booming blade with Spell Sniper. The same goes for polearm master. OP, lots of Cleric levels sounds good but I think that going heavier into Paladin could assist you here. Apr 29, 2022 The range of Booming Blade is extended to 10ft. Shadow Blade Ask if your DM allows Shadow BladeBooming Blade. . kohls jobs near me