What is the green flame blade cantrip?

What is the green flame blade cantrip?

Green-Flame Blade is a phenomenal multi-target damage cantrip with significant damage potential (max of 6d8 fire + weapon damage over two enemies). It’s great for clearing tightly packed groups of low-level enemies who will drop quickly to 3d8 damage.

Why is green flame blade good?

Strike an enemy with a weapon and splash green fire onto another foe within melee range. Green-Flame Blade is a fantastic way to deal damage to multiple enemies, as well as beef up your damage as your character progresses since it’s one of the few cantrips that scales its damage at higher levels.

Does green flame blade give off light?

As a table rule I would say that the green flame gives off a glow to light up 5-10 feet around you.

Can you use green flame blade with booming blade?

Booming Blade or Green Flame Blade usually require using the Cast a Spell action in order to use. The Bladesinger feature lets you cast Booming blade/green flame blade or another cantrip and make one weapon attack in addition to the cantrip.

Can you twin green flame blade?

Green flame Blade can’t be twinned For a spell to be twinnable it needs to only target one creature. As clarified in the PHB errata: To be eligible, a spell must be incapable of targeting more than one creature at the spell’s current level.

Does green flame blade crit?

This damage is not affected by the critical hit. The same goes for Green Flame Blade, which deals fire damage equal to your spellcasting modifier to a secondary target. Critical Hits do not affect the secondary target damage. The splash damage does not crit : sageadvice.eu/.

How does a green flame work?

Borax or Boric Acid Green Fire Borax and boric acid are two boron salts. Find borax in the store as a laundry detergent booster or household cleaner. Stores sell boric acid as a roach killer or as a disinfectant. Adding either chemical to a fire yields a vivid green flame.

Can green flame blade be twinned?

Can you combine green flame blade with shadow blade?

Shadow Blade Spell Since this spell creates “a sword of solidified gloom” without reference to the weapons table, the shadow blade has no value. As such, it does not satisfy the material component of the blade cantrips. For confirmation, see Crawford’s tweet above. Green-Flame Blade no longer works with Shadow Blade.

Is green flame blade magical?

@clancey70 @JeremyECrawford The extra damage from Green-Flame Blade is magical. The weapon damage depends on the weapon, not the cantrip.

Can green flame blade hit the same target?

On a hit, the target suffers the weapon attack’s normal effects, and you can cause green fire to leap from the target to a different creature of your choice that you can see within 5 feet of it.

Do crits double booming blade?

Is the 2ndary damage caused by Booming Blade doubled on a critical as well or only the initial damage? It will double the weapon dice and thunder damage of the initial hit. Damage from moving will be normal. Crits basically only double the very next roll after the crit.

What does a green flame mean?

A green flame, for instance, indicates the presence of copper. As copper heats up, it absorbs energy that’s manifested in the form of a green flame. A pink flame, on the other hand, indicates the presence of lithium chloride. And burning strontium chloride will create a red flame.

Can I Twin booming blade?

Yes, Booming Blade can be twinned, because a range of Self is not the same thing as a range of Self (5-foot radius) When a spell has a range of “Self”, it definitionally targets the caster themselves, and no one else.

Does green flame blade make a weapon magic?

It’s delivered as part of a spell, but has its “usual effects” and is a prerequisite for the spell to work. The booming blade spell isn’t intended to make the required weapon attack magical. So the weapon attack you make as part of the spell is not magical on its own.

Does polearm master work with green flame blade?

The bonus action attack from Polearm Master is triggered by taking the Attack action. Casting Green Flame Blade is the Cast a Spell action so it unfortunately does not trigger that second attack.

Can you twin cast green flame blade?

Does green flame blade require two targets?

If there’s no valid second target within 5ft of the primary target, you can still cast the spell; the secondary effect just won’t happen. If there is a valid target, you can’t choose not to invoke the secondary effect.