I believe such fire storm interpretation is failing to account that the area you create is singular, not plurial, which creating multiple areas of 2 cubes would be. The area of the storm consists of up to ten 10-foot cube, so between 1-10 cubes having at least one face adjacent to the face of another cube, and thus creating an area of 2 cubes high would be 80% smaller than it can be.
After reading the wording I agree that a case could be made for multiple sets of cubes. Sentence one defines what the spell creates, a storm of flame. Sentence two defines how much storm is created, up to 10 10' cubes arranged as you wish. Sentence three tells you the only modifier for the "as you wish", no cube can be singular. Duration is instantaneous so all cubes come into being at the same time, it's not a fire snake weaving it's way through the fight.
Another one i can think of is the weird interaction resulting from changing fire damage type to another with Awakened Spellbook or Transmuted Spell making fireball still ignites flammable objects or flame blade still sheds bright light for exemple.
Another one i can think of is the weird interaction resulting from changing fire damage type to another with Awakened Spellbook or Transmuted Spell making fireball still ignites flammable objects or flame blade still sheds bright light for exemple.
Another one i can think of is disadvantage capping. If you're restrained and blinded you're as much disadvantaged as if you only were suffering from either one conditions.
Also, how a blinded creature can still orient itself easily and target others with ranged weapon attacks with as much precision this upon significant distance. For example, you can move about where you want and target someone up to 600 feet away with your longbow with as much ease as if you could see. I know disadvantage apply to attack, but the possibility to target and move unhindered under such condition is dumb.
The really dumb part .. take your longbow and shoot a target 600' away from inside a fog cloud. You can't see your target, they can't see you. Advantage and disadvantage cancel. Straight roll. The disadvantage from long range is also canceled. This makes it easier to hit a target 600' away when you can't see it than when you can see each other.
Perhaps this is because it really is easier to see the arrow coming and step out of the way but even with a fog cloud, you only miss the first 20 feet of the trajectory of the arrow - you can see it the rest of the way and it would be pretty difficult to make out the actions of a character at 600' that might lead to them launching an arrow. :)
The benefit of the advantage/disadvantage rules is simplicity ... not realism :)
I've always been annoyed with how much stuff uses the poisoned condition and I noticed by pure RAW most poisons will automatically activate as long as you're poisoned.
Example: Essence of Ether (Inhaled). "A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 8 hours. The poisoned creature is unconscious. The creature wakes up if it takes damage or if another creature takes an action to shake it awake."
Obviously RAI you must be poisoned in this way (fail the save) to be affected but if they wanted to say that, then they should have done what Drow poison says: "If the saving throw fails by 5 or more, the creature is also unconscious while poisoned in this way."
Instead, the poison activates while you are poisoned period. Thankfully the rules of Poisons need you to interact with the poison before getting the effects. This makes poisons extremely effective. If I give someone Assassin's Blood or one too many drinks, I can use most other poisons like the Ether essence or even the Contagion spell without needing the save. Also if they fail the save it doesn't matter since stacked conditions each have their own durations.
ALSO on the point of Contagion, did you know it cures the poisoned condition: "At the end of each of the poisoned target’s turns, the target must make a Constitution saving throw. If the target succeeds on three of these saves, it is no longer poisoned, and the spell ends. If the target fails three of these saves, the target is no longer poisoned." So if you're willing to drop a 5th-level spell and possibly give your friend a seizure for the week, go right ahead. I could see some extremely partial use if you don't have any other way to remove poison (lies) or need to heal an enemy. either they appreciate it enough to not kill you, or they get stun-locked (Slimy Doom) when combat starts.
All of this stems from the fact that all poisoned are equal and most poisons don't specify being poisoned by the poison. If I got something wrong please let me know.
A Contagion removes the poisoned condition it impose itself but if multiple effects impose the same condition on a creature, each instance of the condition has its own duration, so one could still be poisoned from another effects that would have a lasting duration.
Raw, Dimension Door can only go places you can see and have a clear line of empty space to. It doesn't say it overrides the general rules on spellcasting to let it actually go through walls or floors, or even just a closed window.
Raw, Dimension Door can only go places you can see and have a clear line of empty space to. It doesn't say it overrides the general rules on spellcasting to let it actually go through walls or floors, or even just a closed window.
The “it can be [a space] you can visualize or one you can describe” in the spell description is a specific feature to override the general LoS requirement.
Raw, Dimension Door can only go places you can see and have a clear line of empty space to. It doesn't say it overrides the general rules on spellcasting to let it actually go through walls or floors, or even just a closed window.
The “it can be [a space] you can visualize or one you can describe” in the spell description is a specific feature to override the general LoS requirement.
Ah, but it doesn't! I can visualize or describe a location 200ft down an open corridor that is too dark for me to see... that doesn't mean Im granted the ability to cast the spell through a 200 ft wall... or even just a closed glass window. So it overrides the general LoS requirement the same way Chill Touch does... vaguely or not at all... rather than the very clear and explicit way Message does.
Tbh though, it certainly seem RAI that it can go through obstacles. RAW it just lets you like, cross chasms or get to that 15th story balcony on the castle from the courtyard below.
Ah, but it doesn't! I can visualize or describe a location 200ft down an open corridor that is too dark for me to see... that doesn't mean Im granted the ability to cast the spell through a 200 ft wall
You aren't casting "through" anything. You're teleporting
By your logic, regular teleport wouldn't work through total cover either
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Well yeah. RAI is obvious but an explicit exception to the LoS rule is absent for both spells.
Of course they create an exception. It doesn't need to say "this clause provides an exception to rule X on page Y of book Z" to be 'explicit'
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It doesn’t need to cite the page of the general rule it overrides, but to be RAW it does at least need to say it can function through barriers, just like message. Even Teleport is gets around this by specifying it targets the caster rather than the location you teleport to (so no LoS issue).
But Dimension Door doesn’t have such a clause or targeting nuance. It’s ok, we know what it’s meant to do even if it wasn’t worded overly exactly. No one is attacking you by pointing out that fact.
But Dimension Door doesn’t have such a clause or targeting nuance
Literally the first three words of the spell are "you teleport yourself", making you the target
You are 'nuancing' yourself into a pretzel trying to explain how the RAW somehow doesn't work
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It doesn’t say you target yourself. The range tells us the target is the location you teleport to, unlike Teleport.
Im just pointing out what it says RAW. Yes, the rules are a little arcane because WotC didn’t write them clearly, hence the existence of RAW and RAI to begin with.
For Teleport or Misty step, it is defined that way. But Dimension Door targets a point in space instead. It arbitrarily works differently from those other teleportation spells.
I believe such fire storm interpretation is failing to account that the area you create is singular, not plurial, which creating multiple areas of 2 cubes would be. The area of the storm consists of up to ten 10-foot cube, so between 1-10 cubes having at least one face adjacent to the face of another cube, and thus creating an area of 2 cubes high would be 80% smaller than it can be.
After reading the wording I agree that a case could be made for multiple sets of cubes. Sentence one defines what the spell creates, a storm of flame. Sentence two defines how much storm is created, up to 10 10' cubes arranged as you wish. Sentence three tells you the only modifier for the "as you wish", no cube can be singular. Duration is instantaneous so all cubes come into being at the same time, it's not a fire snake weaving it's way through the fight.
Another one i can think of is the weird interaction resulting from changing fire damage type to another with Awakened Spellbook or Transmuted Spell making fireball still ignites flammable objects or flame blade still sheds bright light for exemple.
Ahahaha oh god I completely forgot about this.
Behold my flammable ice bomb!
The really dumb part .. take your longbow and shoot a target 600' away from inside a fog cloud. You can't see your target, they can't see you. Advantage and disadvantage cancel. Straight roll. The disadvantage from long range is also canceled. This makes it easier to hit a target 600' away when you can't see it than when you can see each other.
Perhaps this is because it really is easier to see the arrow coming and step out of the way but even with a fog cloud, you only miss the first 20 feet of the trajectory of the arrow - you can see it the rest of the way and it would be pretty difficult to make out the actions of a character at 600' that might lead to them launching an arrow. :)
The benefit of the advantage/disadvantage rules is simplicity ... not realism :)
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I've always been annoyed with how much stuff uses the poisoned condition and I noticed by pure RAW most poisons will automatically activate as long as you're poisoned.
Example: Essence of Ether (Inhaled). "A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 8 hours. The poisoned creature is unconscious. The creature wakes up if it takes damage or if another creature takes an action to shake it awake."
Obviously RAI you must be poisoned in this way (fail the save) to be affected but if they wanted to say that, then they should have done what Drow poison says: "If the saving throw fails by 5 or more, the creature is also unconscious while poisoned in this way."
Instead, the poison activates while you are poisoned period. Thankfully the rules of Poisons need you to interact with the poison before getting the effects. This makes poisons extremely effective. If I give someone Assassin's Blood or one too many drinks, I can use most other poisons like the Ether essence or even the Contagion spell without needing the save. Also if they fail the save it doesn't matter since stacked conditions each have their own durations.
ALSO on the point of Contagion, did you know it cures the poisoned condition: "At the end of each of the poisoned target’s turns, the target must make a Constitution saving throw. If the target succeeds on three of these saves, it is no longer poisoned, and the spell ends. If the target fails three of these saves, the target is no longer poisoned." So if you're willing to drop a 5th-level spell and possibly give your friend a seizure for the week, go right ahead. I could see some extremely partial use if you don't have any other way to remove poison (lies) or need to heal an enemy. either they appreciate it enough to not kill you, or they get stun-locked (Slimy Doom) when combat starts.
All of this stems from the fact that all poisoned are equal and most poisons don't specify being poisoned by the poison. If I got something wrong please let me know.
A Contagion removes the poisoned condition it impose itself but if multiple effects impose the same condition on a creature, each instance of the condition has its own duration, so one could still be poisoned from another effects that would have a lasting duration.
Raw, Dimension Door can only go places you can see and have a clear line of empty space to. It doesn't say it overrides the general rules on spellcasting to let it actually go through walls or floors, or even just a closed window.
The “it can be [a space] you can visualize or one you can describe” in the spell description is a specific feature to override the general LoS requirement.
Ah, but it doesn't! I can visualize or describe a location 200ft down an open corridor that is too dark for me to see... that doesn't mean Im granted the ability to cast the spell through a 200 ft wall... or even just a closed glass window. So it overrides the general LoS requirement the same way Chill Touch does... vaguely or not at all... rather than the very clear and explicit way Message does.
Tbh though, it certainly seem RAI that it can go through obstacles. RAW it just lets you like, cross chasms or get to that 15th story balcony on the castle from the courtyard below.
You aren't casting "through" anything. You're teleporting
By your logic, regular teleport wouldn't work through total cover either
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Well yeah. RAI is obvious but an explicit exception to the LoS rule is absent for both spells.
we all know how it is meant to work, but RAW they don’t. It’s why it’d be goofy for a DM to stick to RAW on this.
Of course they create an exception. It doesn't need to say "this clause provides an exception to rule X on page Y of book Z" to be 'explicit'
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It doesn’t need to cite the page of the general rule it overrides, but to be RAW it does at least need to say it can function through barriers, just like message. Even Teleport is gets around this by specifying it targets the caster rather than the location you teleport to (so no LoS issue).
But Dimension Door doesn’t have such a clause or targeting nuance. It’s ok, we know what it’s meant to do even if it wasn’t worded overly exactly. No one is attacking you by pointing out that fact.
Literally the first three words of the spell are "you teleport yourself", making you the target
You are 'nuancing' yourself into a pretzel trying to explain how the RAW somehow doesn't work
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Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
It doesn’t say you target yourself. The range tells us the target is the location you teleport to, unlike Teleport.
Im just pointing out what it says RAW. Yes, the rules are a little arcane because WotC didn’t write them clearly, hence the existence of RAW and RAI to begin with.
The target chosen to be affected by a Dimension Door is the caster since you teleport youself.
For Teleport or Misty step, it is defined that way. But Dimension Door targets a point in space instead. It arbitrarily works differently from those other teleportation spells.