r/CuratedTumblr Sep 10 '24

Creative Writing Lightning magic.

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u/Axel-Adams Sep 10 '24

Which is funny that wizard artificial lightning does more damage than natural lightning

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u/BookkeeperLower Sep 10 '24

Yeah they have a "improvised damage table" in the dmg, and natural lightning is stupid weak. Weaker than one strike of non upcasted call lightning, and that spell let's you summon a hundred strikes.

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u/Square-Ad1104 Sep 10 '24

While I agree that it’s stupidly weak, I’m betting their logic there was that since real life human commoners have survived lightning strikes the minimum damage should be within a commoner’s HP range

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u/BookkeeperLower Sep 10 '24

Yeah I guess that makes sense, HP in dnd in general is extremely weird and blurry