Question regarding the Ice Spikes ability in the Book of Ava. It reads:
Ice Spikes: Make a Spellcast Roll to summon large ice spikes within very far range. If you use them as a weapon, on a success, deal d6 physical damage using your proficiency.
Is this an AoE spell? If an AoE, what is the area range?
Or perhaps a line of Ice Spikes in a direction?
If there are more than one spikes, how many are there?
If none of the above are true, then the name should perhaps be changed to “Ice Spike”, huh?
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It’s intended to be vague for versitility (perhaps too vague, tho). So you could create spikes in walls to act as handholds, spikes on the floor to impede movement, or target a creature and attack them. It doesn’t have a cost to cast, so you have more freedom in how many you choose to summon at a time, you just need to spend more actions to increase the effect. My ruling would be it can target a single enemy for an attack per action spent, and then for more utility uses it would be an action per use, eg. 1 action to use the spell to create some handholds up to a plateau.
It is intentionally vague, but intent doesn’t necessarily mean well-designed, so I understand your confusion and frustration with the lack of clarity 
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Gotcha. I was looking for too descriptive of a… description… I guess. I like the way you explain it, and how it can be more functional as a tool, as well as a weapon.
Thanks!
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