Talk:Emit Spores (5e Spell)

what formatting issues is the wikify speaking of? what preload must i follow to properly format this page? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Suh-angular (talk • contribs) . Please sign your posts.

Spells on this wiki follow a standardized format.

When he put the notice up, SirSprinkles provided a link to the 5e Spells page. If you click that link, you'll see that "Create new spell" button. The intended way to submit a homebrew on this wiki is to type "Emit Spores (5e Spell)" in that text box, then click the button. That process takes you to a "preload" that includes most of the information for that standardized format I mentioned a moment ago. It seems like you probably followed that process, but deleted the template brackets "{{" or otherwise broke the template a bit.

(You can see the formatting issues have since been fixed for this page by other contributors, though.) - Guy 18:32, 13 August 2018 (MDT)

Why I like this cantrip

Despite it being "just sword burst," this spell is importantly on the druid spell list. Druids do not normally get the most damaging cantrips unless they're focused on melee or poison (shillelagh, poison spray) in which case they have the most damaging cantrips around.
Sword burst and its ilk to me always felt weirdly powerful for a 5e cantrip; before them the strongest official "AoE" was poor acid splash (1d6 to only two targets). But here in the context of a druid dealing poison damage after a Con save (like 2014 poison spray), the d6 to all creatures within 5 feet feels perfectly fitting. The power creep present in the 2024 PHB (just look at acid splash and poison spray) would suggest emit spores is the tiniest bit underpowered now, but by the standards of 2014 this would have been the perfect way to introduce an AoE cantrip. - Guy 15:52, 1 November 2024 (MDT)