make it harder for players to play the new updated version of D&D or even 5e on Roll20. Of course, this has rather frightening implications, if run this way, for anybody who has made an enemy of a druid, especially if the druid knows places he frequents. Ctrl + L is so nice if you work with lightning as a DM. You can call lightning anywhere beneath the cloud you control, and if you cast it under a stormy sky, you control the entire stormcloud overhead. It also covers a much larger area, so you can call lightning down anywhere you can see. Yes, it's much higher up and harder to dispel than normal (due to being out of range). Given that casting it beneath a stormy sky is obviously meant to be a power-up and explicitly states it gives you control over the existing storm instead of making a cloud per the description of the spell, I suspect that every aspect of implication given to controlling the entire storm is intended. Probably to avoid that problem.Technically still could call lightning down on things beneath the cloud as long as you can still see them. That's been errata'd too! Now the lightning bolts must strike "under the cloud", not "within range". The more I think about it, the more I suspect it is, in fact, just giving you options for how high it is: the center is right over your head. Animate Dead 1 Aura of Vitality 2 Beacon of Hope 3 Bestow Curse 4 Blinding Smite 5 Blink 6 Call Lightning 7 Catnap 8 Clairvoyance 9 Conjure Animals 10. On way to interpret "centered on a point you can see within range directly above you" is as allowing it to be any distance from touching the top of your head to 120 feet in the air, but the point must be directly over your head.Īnother way that confuses because it means "directly" is not literal and thus needs some measure of interpretation is that you can put it anywhere within 120 feet as long as it somehow counts as "directly" overhead even if its not a vertical line upwards. I am fine with that reading because it will almost never come up and I do not care about edge cases like that.I think you're either talking past my point/question, or saying the same thing, and I am not sure which. This reading does mean that you could theoretically cast it in one place, travel for 9 minutes, then start calling down lightning far from the storm cloud. This might mean it's more than 120' from the cloud, but it's unlikely to be the case in 99.9999999% of examples.
Just a straight line up to 120' feet from the caster.
The range of the spell is 120', and I read it as the range from the caster, not the cloud. The storm cloud, which you would dispel with dispel magic, appears as a 10' tall 60' radius cylinder centred above you.
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