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There's kind of an odd quirk in the
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descriptions of D and D spells in fifth
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edition. Specifically, a lot of spells
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specify that they have to target a
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creature. Folks called this out on one
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of my videos previously discussing
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mimics. And the ability to use spells to
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identify mimics simply by targeting a
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chest. If it's not a creature, the spell
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simply fails. If it is a creature, then
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the spell goes forward. You have found
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your mimic. Congratulations. And that
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should give us a good reason to look at
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other spells and see just how far this
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weirdness goes cuz it is on basically
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every spell that's not intentionally
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designed to destroy objects. For
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example, fireball says that objects
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catch fire. Shatter specifies that it
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does damage to objects, things like
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that. But even all the way up to ninth
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level spells, meteor swarm only affects
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creatures like strictly read rules as
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written. Meteor swarm only affects
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creatures. So you can walk into like a
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town square, turn everyone in the area
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to mist with 40d6 damage, and leave all
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of their belongings perfectly completely
