So I have a weird insight with the wall of water spell. A 20’ diameter circle wall that is 20’ across has a length a little over 60’ and a volume of 1256^3’ .
A 30’ by 10’ by 1’ wall is a volume of 300’
This seems odd to me can anyone guess why the 30’ wall wouldn’t reasonably be 20’ tall when all it seems to cause is difficult terrain and in theory disadvantage from ranged attacks that aren’t “underwater” weapons?
I actually wonder if they meant to make it more like Wall of Sand where the 30' X 10' wall is 10' thick, but some intern copy/pasted Wall of Fire instead. Probably not a mistake that egregious, but I'd allow the straight wall to be 5' thick which comes out close enough volume-wise for me.
Most of the other walls provide approximately the same area in their various forms. Only wall of water and wall of thorns seem significantly different between their straight and round forms.
Hemisphere capable walls such as wall of ice are a bit bigger, but if you use the spherical form, much larger than the panel version.
This is what I’m saying I can’t think of any reason why one would have more utility then another one. Especially for one that’s just a small amount of difficult terrain.
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So I have a weird insight with the wall of water spell. A 20’ diameter circle wall that is 20’ across has a length a little over 60’ and a volume of 1256^3’ .
A 30’ by 10’ by 1’ wall is a volume of 300’
This seems odd to me can anyone guess why the 30’ wall wouldn’t reasonably be 20’ tall when all it seems to cause is difficult terrain and in theory disadvantage from ranged attacks that aren’t “underwater” weapons?
Probably because the makers of the rules aren't very good at maths. *shrug*
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I actually wonder if they meant to make it more like Wall of Sand where the 30' X 10' wall is 10' thick, but some intern copy/pasted Wall of Fire instead. Probably not a mistake that egregious, but I'd allow the straight wall to be 5' thick which comes out close enough volume-wise for me.
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Most of the other walls provide approximately the same area in their various forms. Only wall of water and wall of thorns seem significantly different between their straight and round forms.
Hemisphere capable walls such as wall of ice are a bit bigger, but if you use the spherical form, much larger than the panel version.
This is what I’m saying I can’t think of any reason why one would have more utility then another one. Especially for one that’s just a small amount of difficult terrain.