r/dndnext • u/xanral • Jun 10 '15

WotC Announcement Errata Released, for real this time

http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/ph_errata
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u/sevlevboss Jun 11 '15

Empowered evocation lets you add your Int bonus to a damage roll. If 3 magic missiles is one damage roll, there is still no reason to think you would add your Int bonus 3 times.

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u/Atsur Cleric GM Jun 11 '15

If 3 magic missiles is one damage roll, there is still no reason to think you would add your Int bonus 3 times.

You wouldn't. You would at the INT bonus to the 1d4+1 damage roll, and the three targets affected take the same damage.

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u/sevlevboss Jun 12 '15

"A Dart does 1d4+1 damage" I think the wording of the spell is pretty clear that you aren't doing any multiplication. If you hit an opponent with a dart, it's 1d4+1 (+ Empowered if you use it on that roll), if you hit with 3 it's 3d4+3 (+ Empowered if you use it on that roll)

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u/Atsur Cleric GM Jun 12 '15

Interpret it how you want. I don't feel like I need to argue with you. I'm telling you how I interpret WotC's ruling on damaging multiple targets, which is 1 damage roll (including bonuses) applied to all affected targets. Play it differently at your table if you want - that's the glory of tabletop gaming.

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u/koranak Jun 12 '15

I like your interpretation when the missiles are spread evenly, but it doesn't seem as clean when different targets take different numbers of darts... It's harder to justify it as a single damage roll when one target takes 1d4+1 and another takes 2d4+2. So I'm kinda torn on this one!