If a caster uses a higher level slot for the Enhance Ability spell, can they specify different effects for different targets?
Example: target 1 gets Bear's Endurance, and target 2 gets Bull's Strength.
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If a caster uses a higher level slot for the Enhance Ability spell, can they specify different effects for different targets?
Example: target 1 gets Bear's Endurance, and target 2 gets Bull's Strength.
Best Answer
I think "yes." But I don't think it's very cut-and-dry, so let me explain my thinking.
First, let's look at the "higher level clause" of Enhance Ability:
Okay, we can target more creatures. So let's go back to the first lines of the spell description:
So to my mind the higher-slot clause starts modifying the earlier spell description starting on word three. Now you're allowed to {touch a creature, choose an effect, target gains...} more than once.
For contrast, imagine if the authors had chosen to phrase the description this way: "choose an effect, touch the target and it gains that effect." If so written I think the multiple targets would all gain the previously-chosen effect. But in our world the target is chosen first and--to my thinking--that "reboots" the whole spell.