The spell says "you create a wall of fire on a solid surface.... you can make the wall up to 60 foot...."
I am mostly concerned about those 2 parts of it, as it sounds like you are conjuring a physical wall that is on fire on one side. If that is the case a creature could not simply walk through or shoot through the wall correct? What are the stats to break through the wall if so? What's it made out of? If I surround a creature with the wall and they cant fly or burrow, are they just stuck inside an unbreakable cage until they potentially die from fire damage? Being a physical wall (object) also makes it make sense as to why it only deals damage *on one side*.
Wall of Force specifically says you cannot pass through the wall physically (so that is clear), and Wall of Frost gives the specific information about breaking through it. As wall of fire does not... can anyone clarify, it seems odd that a lower level (level 4) spell is as good of a prison as a level 5 one, while also doing damage, or a better prison than a level 6 spell, while still doing similar damage of a different type.
I am fully aware you can fly out of the wall of fire, or burrow under it etc, and that many things are immune to fire or resistant, so the damage isn't per se game breaking, but the prison aspect of it being completely unbreakable by any direction, sounds... broken (ha!).
It is a wall of fire only. Nothing physical about it besides the fire so absolutely creatures can walk through it. They take the damage if they do it - but they can.
A creature takes the same damage when it enters the wall for the first time on a turn or ends its turn there.
The “solid surface” means that you have to create the wall of fire on the floor, or sticking out horizontally from a wall, you cannot conjure it floating in midair or on water or anything like that. You can absolutely move through a wall of fire, it just sucks a lot. The heat is only on one side of the wall “because magic.”
The spell says "you create a wall of fire on a solid surface.... you can make the wall up to 60 foot...."
I am mostly concerned about those 2 parts of it, as it sounds like you are conjuring a physical wall that is on fire on one side. If that is the case a creature could not simply walk through or shoot through the wall correct? What are the stats to break through the wall if so? What's it made out of? If I surround a creature with the wall and they cant fly or burrow, are they just stuck inside an unbreakable cage until they potentially die from fire damage? Being a physical wall (object) also makes it make sense as to why it only deals damage *on one side*.
Wall of Force specifically says you cannot pass through the wall physically (so that is clear), and Wall of Frost gives the specific information about breaking through it. As wall of fire does not... can anyone clarify, it seems odd that a lower level (level 4) spell is as good of a prison as a level 5 one, while also doing damage, or a better prison than a level 6 spell, while still doing similar damage of a different type.
I am fully aware you can fly out of the wall of fire, or burrow under it etc, and that many things are immune to fire or resistant, so the damage isn't per se game breaking, but the prison aspect of it being completely unbreakable by any direction, sounds... broken (ha!).
It is a wall of fire only. Nothing physical about it besides the fire so absolutely creatures can walk through it. They take the damage if they do it - but they can.
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The “solid surface” means that you have to create the wall of fire on the floor, or sticking out horizontally from a wall, you cannot conjure it floating in midair or on water or anything like that. You can absolutely move through a wall of fire, it just sucks a lot. The heat is only on one side of the wall “because magic.”
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Oh boy, I remember THAT flame thread...
I actually have never seen it. But nothing says that these walls must be “vertical” and nothing says that the “solid surface” has to be horizontal.
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For your viewing horror:
https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/dungeons-dragons-discussion/rules-game-mechanics/65136-can-you-place-wall-of-fire-horizontally
And that was the crux of that thread. People wanted to conjure a wall of fire on the ground.
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What about this?
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Anyway, back on topic. Yes, you can walk through a wall of fire.
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