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How does the Heightened Spell metamagic work on the Immolation spell?
I've been looking for an answer on how the sorcerer's Heightened Spell Metamagic option would affect the immolation spell. Would it apply to all the Dex saves of the spell? Or would it only apply to ...
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How do spell components work in regards to the UA Psionic Soul Sorcerer's Psychic Sorcery ability?
The UA Psionic Soul Sorcerer has the following Psionic Talent option:
Psychic Sorcery. When you cast a spell, you can use your mind to form it, rather than relying on words, gestures, and materials. ...
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Can I use Empowered Spell on spells cast with a Wand of Magic Missile? [duplicate]
The Sorcerer's metamagic features has the following general rules:
At 3rd level, you gain the ability to twist your spells to suit your
needs...You can use only one Metamagic option on a spell when ...
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Can the sorcerer's Twinned Spell metamagic and the Enchantment wizard's Split Enchantment feature be used at the same time?
The Twinned Spell option for the sorcerer's Metamagic feature says (PHB, p. 102):
When you cast a spell that targets only one creature and doesn’t have a range of self, you can spend a number of ...
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How does readying a spell interact with the Sorcerer's Metamagic feature?
The Ready action states (emphasis mine):
[...] When you ready a spell, you cast it as normal but hold its energy, which you release with your reaction when the trigger occurs. [...]
Thus, when you ...
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Can a sorcerer use the Quickened Spell metamagic option on a spell cast from a magic wand?
The sorcerer in my group has a wand of lightning bolts:
While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast the lightning bolt spell (save DC 15) from it. For 1 ...
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Would any issues arise from letting Sorcerers select different Metamagic options after a long rest?
I am running a Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition campaign for my family, and they will shortly be reaching 3rd level. My (8-year-old) son is playing a Sorcerer, and so will gain access to Metamagic ...
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Does the sorcerer's Extended Spell metamagic option extend the duration of a spell exponentially or linearly? [duplicate]
When it mentions that you can spend 1 sorcery point to double its duration, up to a maximum of 24 hours, does it mean that every time you spend a sorcery point you add the original duration again? Or ...
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Can the Crown of Madness spell be twinned?
I'm looking to build a sorcerer focused on the Twinned Spell metamagic and which spells I can use with it (e.g. Haste!).
Looking around, I came across these tweets from Jeremy Crawford stating that ...
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Dispel Magic VS a spell which has been Twinned Spell
I'm curious about what would happen, in combat, if a sorcerer twin spells a haste on the fighters of the party and an enemy then casts a 4th level dispel magic.
Would dispelling the Magical Effect of ...
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What happens if I use the Twinned Spell metamagic on Simulacrum?
If I cast the Simulacrum spell, and then use the Twinned Spell metamagic to cast it again, targeting myself and the first simulacrum, is the first simulacrum destroyed? What happens?
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How does the Quickened Spell metamagic interact with the Haste Spell?
Action + Bonus Action + Special Haste Action?
If an action + movement is taken, and a quickened spell is taken as a bonus action, and the quicken spell is Haste. This grants an action under these ...
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What's the least resource-intensive way for a wizard/sorcerer to cast a Persistent Time Stop spell?
This question made me curious: How does a wizard/sorcerer (with or without prestige class (related to Wizard/sorcerer)) can cast Persistent Time Stop?
To my knowledge (assuming non-epic and no ...
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Using Twinned Spell and Quickened Spell [duplicate]
I am certain this must have been asked at some point - but most of the questions I have found pertaining to metamagic are quite specific.
My question is;
can I utilise the MM Twinned Spell, followed ...
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Can a Sorcerer use the Silence spell and the Subtle Spell Metamagic to silently cast the Knock spell?
The knock spell has a verbal spell component and states:
[...] When you cast the spell, a loud knock, audible from as far away as 300 feet, emanates from the target object [...]
I'm wondering if ...