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Jim’s Magic Missile is a great #dnd spell
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Apr 9, 2025
Jim’s Magic Missile is slept on, but it’s really great for optimization purposes. #dnd #dnd5e #2024dnd #ttrpg #characteroptimization #dungeonsanddragons #acquisitionsincorporated
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a couple years ago Wizards of the Coast
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published a supplement called
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Acquisitions Incorporated as a tie-in
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with the Acquisitions Incorporated
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actual play series that they've been
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putting on at Penny Arcade Expo
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conventions dating back almost to the
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beginning of 5e now the book didn't
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receive a ton of attention because it
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was you know a tie-in with a relatively
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minor actual play but the book had some
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really fun content in it in among those
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things uh was a spell called Jim's magic
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missile now it's named for Jim Dark
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Magic one of the characters in the
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actual play and it works honestly more
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similarly to Scorching Ray than it does
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to magic missile so you're probably
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accustomed to magic missile
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automatically hitting but the and the
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person who plays Jim Dark Magic learned
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how to play on fourth edition where
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magic missile was originally an attack
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roll uh so Jim's magic missile instead
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of automatically hitting like magic
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missile lets you make multiple
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attacks this is you know basically
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scorching rave at force damage and it's
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a level one spell but it has some fun
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complications on a natural 20 the damage
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dice increased instead of just doubling
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the damage and on a natural one all of
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the missiles blew up in your face so it
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had this really fun riskreward mechanic
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where as you upcast the spell and got
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additional missiles you were more and
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more likely to roll a natural one and
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hurt yourself but you're also more and
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more likely to roll a critical hit now
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that on its own perfectly fine and you
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can optimize around that by getting
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advantage by playing a halfling um other
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things like that but anything that adds
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damage on an attack role such as conjure
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minor elementals in the 2024 rules or
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the uh monsters of the multiverse bug
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bear their surprise attack trait those
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things can add a ton of damage behind
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Jim's magic missile so as long as you're
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willing to pay the uh two gold piece
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royalty component every time you cast
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the spell it's pretty good
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