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Oh, this one's easy. What is the most
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underrated D&D spell? It's Jim's magic
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missile out of the Acquisitions
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Incorporated supplement. If you're not
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familiar, Jim's magic missile is
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effectively magic missile with a twist
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on it. So, instead of automatically
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hitting and dealing damage, you make
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attack rolls for each of the missiles.
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It scales at the same rate, so you get
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an extra missile per spell level above
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one. You get three missiles by default.
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They each deal 2d4 damage. And that's
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fantastic. Like, that is a ton of
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damage. uh if you can hit reliably, if
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you have advantage, whatever, you're
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going to do considerably more damage
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than you would with magic missile. And
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because it's it's an attack, it will
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apply on hit damage bonuses from things
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like hex or hunter's mark or conjur
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minor elementals. So like all the combos
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that folks are like, "Oh, this is crazy.
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If you do it with with scorching rays,"
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it's like, "No, man. Do it with Jim's
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magic missile. You get one more attack."
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Now, the spell does have one kind of
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important drawback. Uh, if you roll a
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natural one on any of the attack rolls,
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all of the missiles blow up in your face
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and you take all of the damage. That's
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kind of a big deal. That's a lot of
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damage that you could be dealing to
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yourself, but it's very easily
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mitigated. If you have an advantage,
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you've got a 1 in400 chance of rolling a
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natural one on any of those attacks. So,
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like if you pop out from being hidden,
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if you're invisible, anything like that,
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you're fine. Even better, if you're a
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halfling, that's basically impossible.
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Like a halfling rolling a natural one on
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attack with advantage happens 1 in 8,000
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times. You could roll your entire life
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and probably never have that happen. And
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I don't mean like your character's life.
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That's out of the question. I mean, your
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naturalb born person in the real world
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life not going to happen. So, yeah,
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Jim's magic missile, uh, easily the most
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underrated D and D spell in my opinion.
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More people should use it. Sure, it
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costs two gold pieces to cast, but gold
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is worthless in 5e anyway.
