This may be quite obvious, but I want to be certain.
As a Draconic Bloodline sorcerer with Elemental Affinity to fire, do I get to add my Charisma modifier to each ray of scorching ray, or just one of the three?
dnd-5esorcererspells
This may be quite obvious, but I want to be certain.
As a Draconic Bloodline sorcerer with Elemental Affinity to fire, do I get to add my Charisma modifier to each ray of scorching ray, or just one of the three?
Best Answer
Only once
From the PHB errata:
Original Text
The original (pre-2016 errata) text read the following:
Which was ambiguous, since you only cast the spell once, but the spell might deal damage more than once. This was later corrected in the above mentioned errata.
Corrected (post-errata) text
The current print reads as follows.
From this, it's clear that the damage is only applied once, as stated in the errata.
1 This part of the sentence ("of that spell") is seen in the Roll20 version, which is probably the SRD version.