So i'm looking at the druid spell Ice Knife. "You create a shard of ice and fling it at one creature within range. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 piercing damage. Hit or miss, the shard then explodes. The target and each creature within 5 feet of it must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 2d6 cold damage." So does the AOE go off upon the shard hitting a solid object (the target / a wall)? Or will this spell just explode where the enemy is suppose to be, even if i missed them?
It always explodes centred on the target creature, even if the attack roll missed. The target parried or dodged the main strike, but then it explodes right next to them anyway and they have to deal with that.
Only exception might be if some invisible obstacle was between caster and target - then the spell would be blocked and the DM might decide to have the AOE effect applied at the point of impact.
So i'm looking at the druid spell Ice Knife. "You create a shard of ice and fling it at one creature within range. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 piercing damage. Hit or miss, the shard then explodes. The target and each creature within 5 feet of it must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 2d6 cold damage." So does the AOE go off upon the shard hitting a solid object (the target / a wall)? Or will this spell just explode where the enemy is suppose to be, even if i missed them?
It always explodes centred on the target creature, even if the attack roll missed. The target parried or dodged the main strike, but then it explodes right next to them anyway and they have to deal with that.
Only exception might be if some invisible obstacle was between caster and target - then the spell would be blocked and the DM might decide to have the AOE effect applied at the point of impact.
According to the spell description, the AOE is centered on the target creature.