Something interesting came up in today's session. The PC Arcane Trickster cast Booming Blade on a DM-controlled Abjurer Wizard. I wondered if the wizard, on his subsequent turn, had cast Globe of Invulnerability, would he be free to move without the secondary effect of booming blade cantrip affecting him? The booming blade occurred prior to the globe being cast, but the secondary damage of the cantrip would have happened within the area of the globe. It ended up not mattering, but it made me wonder.
Booming Blade would have happened as normal. Globe of Invulnerability is just a barrier, it doesn't make anybody in it a rakshasa.
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If the booming blades hit before the globe went up I would rule that it would affect the person inside as they can still cast things on themselves inside and have spells on them before casting the globe. It doesn't stop the spell from still being on them or turns that spell off like say a anti magic field. But that would be my call on the words as written.
If you somehow managed to cast Booming Blade from outside the 10-foot radius sphere at someone who is at the center of it, then the spell would have no effect. The melee attack wouldn't even happen as normal, because the melee attack is part of the spell. However, that's basically impossible to do, because Booming Blade's 5 foot range is not actually a range but instead set in the spell itself, which means it can't be affected by things that affect range.
Also, that isn't the question. The Abjurer Wizard has already been hit and affected by the spell, and it now plans to cast Globe of Invulnerability to cancel the ongoing effect of the spell. That wouldn't work, because the Globe of Invulnerability is just a magic barrier, not a magic negator.
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Also, that isn't the question. The Abjurer Wizard has already been hit and affected by the spell, and it now plans to cast Globe of Invulnerability to cancel the ongoing effect of the spell. That wouldn't work, because the Globe of Invulnerability is just a magic barrier, not a magic negator.
This is the answer that makes the most sense to me. I believe Antimagic Field would be the spell to use if you wanted to do what I was originally imagining.
I always mistake this one for resilient sphere, which works slightly differently. That one always is irrelevant because you can't cast it and move on the same turn, unless you move first (which would trigger the blade before the sphere is cast).
Globe of invulnerability is interesting since it's "spell outside the radius"; I believe it would be prevented in a couple of cases I can think of:
You cast the spell from more than 10 feet away. Only way I can think of to do this is take both Spell Sniper and the Distant Spell metamagic, so you increase the range to 20 feet. You would also need to have a melee reach of at 15+ feet (Bugbear with a glaive as a Sorcerer somehow?).
If the target was moved without triggering the secondary damage. They'd need to be hit with booming blade, then pushed more than 10 feet. Because booming blade was cast outside the radius of the globe of invulnerability, it somehow prevents the secondary damage.
Both of these feel pretty dirty to argue though; personally I'd rule that as booming energy encases the target, it's always inside the globe and takes effect.
I always mistake this one for resilient sphere, which works slightly differently. That one always is irrelevant because you can't cast it and move on the same turn, unless you move first (which would trigger the blade before the sphere is cast).
Globe of invulnerability is interesting since it's "spell outside the radius"; I believe it would be prevented in a couple of cases I can think of:
You cast the spell from more than 10 feet away. Only way I can think of to do this is take both Spell Sniper and the Distant Spell metamagic, so you increase the range to 20 feet. You would also need to have a melee reach of at 15+ feet (Bugbear with a glaive as a Sorcerer somehow?).
If the target was moved without triggering the secondary damage. They'd need to be hit with booming blade, then pushed more than 10 feet. Because booming blade was cast outside the radius of the globe of invulnerability, it somehow prevents the secondary damage.
Both of these feel pretty dirty to argue though; personally I'd rule that as booming energy encases the target, it's always inside the globe and takes effect.
Neither of those arguments work. If Booming Blade has been cast before Globe of Invulnerability, it has already taken effect, and there's nothing that the barrier can do. Putting on a bulletproof vest after you've been shot isn't going to help you any. "Cast" is confusing because it can be both present and past tense, but the tense of the spells that Globe of Invulnerability protects against is made clear elsewhere.
Any spell of 5th level or lower cast from outside the barrier can't affect creatures or objects within it, even if the spell is cast using a higher level spell slot.
Without that "is," it would be pretty ambiguous, but because the "is" isn't a "was" we know that it's only referring to spells cast after the globe was created.
Also, even if Globe of Invulnerability was cast before Booming Blade, neither Spell Sniper nor Distant Spell would help Booming Blade, since the spell's range is Self. Whether you could do it with Bugbear and a Reach weapon is more contestable, because of how Long-Limbed and Reach are worded.
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If you somehow managed to cast Booming Blade from outside the 10-foot radius sphere at someone who is at the center of it, then the spell would have no effect. The melee attack wouldn't even happen as normal, because the melee attack is part of the spell. However, that's basically impossible to do, because Booming Blade's 5 foot range is not actually a range but instead set in the spell itself, which means it can't be affected by things that affect range.
Also, that isn't the question. The Abjurer Wizard has already been hit and affected by the spell, and it now plans to cast Globe of Invulnerability to cancel the ongoing effect of the spell. That wouldn't work, because the Globe of Invulnerability is just a magic barrier, not a magic negator.
Booming Blade melee attack affect the caster being Self, the attack itself to me would still occur.
If the abjurer was already in a Globe of Invulnerability, it wouldn't be affected by Booming Bladeafter being hit and moving because it would have no effect it.
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Something interesting came up in today's session. The PC Arcane Trickster cast Booming Blade on a DM-controlled Abjurer Wizard. I wondered if the wizard, on his subsequent turn, had cast Globe of Invulnerability, would he be free to move without the secondary effect of booming blade cantrip affecting him? The booming blade occurred prior to the globe being cast, but the secondary damage of the cantrip would have happened within the area of the globe. It ended up not mattering, but it made me wonder.
"Not all those who wander are lost"
Booming Blade would have happened as normal. Globe of Invulnerability is just a barrier, it doesn't make anybody in it a rakshasa.
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To me Booming Blade would have no effect on a creature inside a Globe of Invulnerability and the melee attack would thus be normal.
If the booming blades hit before the globe went up I would rule that it would affect the person inside as they can still cast things on themselves inside and have spells on them before casting the globe. It doesn't stop the spell from still being on them or turns that spell off like say a anti magic field. But that would be my call on the words as written.
If you somehow managed to cast Booming Blade from outside the 10-foot radius sphere at someone who is at the center of it, then the spell would have no effect. The melee attack wouldn't even happen as normal, because the melee attack is part of the spell. However, that's basically impossible to do, because Booming Blade's 5 foot range is not actually a range but instead set in the spell itself, which means it can't be affected by things that affect range.
Also, that isn't the question. The Abjurer Wizard has already been hit and affected by the spell, and it now plans to cast Globe of Invulnerability to cancel the ongoing effect of the spell. That wouldn't work, because the Globe of Invulnerability is just a magic barrier, not a magic negator.
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
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This is the answer that makes the most sense to me. I believe Antimagic Field would be the spell to use if you wanted to do what I was originally imagining.
"Not all those who wander are lost"
I always mistake this one for resilient sphere, which works slightly differently. That one always is irrelevant because you can't cast it and move on the same turn, unless you move first (which would trigger the blade before the sphere is cast).
Globe of invulnerability is interesting since it's "spell outside the radius"; I believe it would be prevented in a couple of cases I can think of:
Both of these feel pretty dirty to argue though; personally I'd rule that as booming energy encases the target, it's always inside the globe and takes effect.
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Neither of those arguments work. If Booming Blade has been cast before Globe of Invulnerability, it has already taken effect, and there's nothing that the barrier can do. Putting on a bulletproof vest after you've been shot isn't going to help you any. "Cast" is confusing because it can be both present and past tense, but the tense of the spells that Globe of Invulnerability protects against is made clear elsewhere.
Without that "is," it would be pretty ambiguous, but because the "is" isn't a "was" we know that it's only referring to spells cast after the globe was created.
Also, even if Globe of Invulnerability was cast before Booming Blade, neither Spell Sniper nor Distant Spell would help Booming Blade, since the spell's range is Self. Whether you could do it with Bugbear and a Reach weapon is more contestable, because of how Long-Limbed and Reach are worded.
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Booming Blade melee attack affect the caster being Self, the attack itself to me would still occur.
If the abjurer was already in a Globe of Invulnerability, it wouldn't be affected by Booming Blade after being hit and moving because it would have no effect it.