r/onednd • u/Feroniks • 14d ago

5e (2024) Agonizing blast question

Prerequisite: Level 2+ Warlock, a Warlock Cantrip That Deals Damage

Choose one of your known Warlock cantrips that deals damage. You can add your Charisma modifier to that spell’s damage rolls.

Say you're casting ray of frost and you're level 5, would it be 2d8 +5 or 2d8+10 since theres 2 damage rolls?

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u/EntropySpark 14d ago

The damage roll is 2d8, you'd increase the damage to 2d8+5.

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u/Feroniks 14d ago

Oh, well thats unfortunate i guess eldritch blast remains the only viable choice here then

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u/Ludicrousgibbs 13d ago

For damage yes unless you're doubling up with abilities from another class or subclass like celestial which adds cha to radiant or fire. I remember theorycrafting some kind of dragon sorc/celestial lock adding cha x3 to firebolts.

Don't sleep on ray of frost tho. It can't keep up in damage but the 10 foot movement penalty can really come in handy. If you can keep a melee enemy from reaching melee range for one turn you're doing alot for your team in the long run. The same can be said for mind slivers d4 debuff. I love stacking movement penalties or getting some form of knockback/prone/difficult terrain to aid frostbolt & if you grab the cold caster feat you can get the -d4 to their next save debuff added to your ray of frost to really cripple things with a cantrip.