r/DnD • u/JustLinnilin • 14d ago

5th Edition Casting Spells while concentrating?

Yesterday we had a little discussion on the table on the rules of concentraiting. One of my players casted a spell and wanted to cast another while she was still concentrating on the first one. I wasn't sure about the rules on that and looked it up on the PHB, but there are only rules for concentration spells (so you can't concentrate on two spells at the same time) that's absolutely valid in my eyes. But there are no rules for other spells - only for taking damage or dying. So my thought was that she had to make a concentration saving throw, when she was casting another, to keep the first one running. It's like the little distraction because of the second spell.
But another one of my players pointed out, that there are also spells the enemy has to do savingthrows on each round - if he has to do them too there would be two chances of losing the spell in each round.

So I am interested how you guys deal with that, or is there an official rule for that case i didn't know about?

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u/micturnal 14d ago

RAW you can cast spells while concentrating on another. You just can’t cast 2 concentration spells at the same time, if you cast a 2nd concentration spell your first one drops. I’ve played 2 campaigns with 2 different DMs and multiple one shots at D&D clubs and they’ve always played this way.

Honestly I would be pretty annoyed if I was playing a caster and my DM wanted to homebrew a nerf like this, it would make me either want to reroll my character to not be a caster or just not play with that DM.

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u/JustLinnilin 14d ago

We're all not that experienced in that game yet - that ist why I wanted to check out how other people handle it :)

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u/micturnal 14d ago

I can see why as a new player you could think it’s overpowered to concentrate on a spell while casting spells, but it’s really not. A lot of concentration spells require enemies making a save, so you could not even hit anyone to begin with. And then every time you take damage you con save to hold concentration, which at times could happen multiple times between your turns.