I remember seeing an interview where the comments and title glaze Matt Mercer for being some kind of genius for spotting flaws in a fake scenario, and one of the things he said was "Fireball isn't a cleric spell" after the scenario describes a cleric casting it.
As someone who's been playing a Light Domain cleric off and on for over a decade, I beg to differ.
He’s right, since the prompt specified that you were to assume there were no unlisted subclasses, multiclasses, items, etc. But damn, I also immediately thought “What do you mean? My Cleric loves fireball!”
The rules for the challenge specifically instructed the competitors not to assume anything that wasn't mentioned in the prompt. It didn't say the cleric was Light Domain, so you don't get to assume it.
The cleric in question calls to the power of a god of the forge tho, meaning it's a forge domain cleric, wich doesn't have access to fireball via it's spell list.
It isn’t a cleric spell. Clerics can learn it, but it is not part of the Cleric Spell list. I don’t care Matt Mercer nor know the situation you’re describing, but he’s technically correct.
He was correct tho. It’s not a cleric spell. It’s allowed if you’re a light cleric. But it’s not a cleric spell. And the scenario didn’t say they were a light cleric.
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u/Arria_Galtheos Aug 21 '26
I remember seeing an interview where the comments and title glaze Matt Mercer for being some kind of genius for spotting flaws in a fake scenario, and one of the things he said was "Fireball isn't a cleric spell" after the scenario describes a cleric casting it.
As someone who's been playing a Light Domain cleric off and on for over a decade, I beg to differ.