For our purposes, we’re focused on the third bullet point: The War Caster feat is a great option for any gish. Booming Blade can no longer be twinned.Green-Flame Blade can no longer be twinned.Here’s how it works:īy the plain language, you see “doesn’t have a range of self” and reason that adding “self” to the range of the blade cantrips locks them out from twinning. Twinned Spell is a type of metamagic that can be used by a sorcerer (or anyone who took TCE’s new Metamagic Adept feat).

The player now has the option of making Green-Flame Blade’s fire leap to a second target (it’s no longer mandatory). The material component of both spells now requires a melee weapon worth at least one silver piece. The wording was changed from “as part of the action to cast this spell, you must make a melee attack with a weapon against one creature within the spell’s range” to “you brandish the weapon used in the spell’s casting and make a melee attack with it against one creature within 5 feet of you.” The range was changed from “5 feet” to “Self (5-foot radius)”. There’s been a lot of speculation about how these changes interact with other gish kit options, and whether they change the way the spells work.

A before-and-after comparison of the original vs.

Shadow blade 5e