Ice knife has 2 distinct damage elements

[Former user]

Ice knife does an initial amount of damage on successful Ranged Spell attack. Then it does an independent area effect damage that scales. If I enter this as two effects it offers two uses on casting which would consume 2 slots to apply both. If the first has an Applies Effect element pointing at the second only the applied effect is displayed in chat. If it is entered as one effect then the ranged attack damage gets subsumed into the area effect damage.

How do I get both effects to output separately while using only 1 slot?

[Kim Mantas]

Yes, there doesn’t seem to be a good way to do this at the moment, it’s not a bug though. You’ll have to resolve it manually. You can select tokens instead of targeting them (make sure no tokens are targeted) when applying a save to just roll the saves but not apply any damage. Then you can target the ones that failed and apply the cold damage to them.

Such effects don’t fit very nicely into obsidian’s current framework so adding a way to model this would be a fair bit of work given my cursory estimation.

[Kim Mantas]

This should now be possible in 4.0.0. by separating out the effects in Ice Knife. When any spell is cast, it creates a duration bubble at the bottom of the screen when the caster is selected. Clicking that will allow you to reroll any of the effects of the spell without consuming a slot.