Very slight nerfs to the cantrips, but only in the sense of preventing certain edge cases that I guess WoTC got tired of being asked about – basically just bringing the spells from this book in line with other books in terms of format, which is good. It was clearly intended to be used for ranged spell attacks, and these cantrips were clearly meant to be melee. Spell Sniper was always an extreme edge case, and frankly was monkeying around with rules lawyering a bit too much. And even then, since improvised weapons are frequently just treated as equivalent to listed weapons (bar stool leg = club, broken glass shiv = dagger, etc), they would still qualify even then. The only weapons the gold value invalidates are Darts, which aren’t melee weapons to begin with, and certain improvised weapons at DM discretion. If someone casts Shadow Blade, even though the weapon it conjures is not on the weapon table, if it WERE on that table it obviously would be worth much more than 1 silver piece, and thus it should qualify. If a Warlock takes a longsword as their pact weapon, it’s still ostensibly “worth” the same 15gp as any other longsword, even though it can’t be sold. The “conjured weapons” complaint seems silly – a conjured version of any weapon that meets the gold requirement is still that kind of weapon, even if you couldn’t realistically sell that PARTICULAR weapon for money.
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