Recently, i was DMing a duel between players, one player casted wall of fire, then in response the other casted Create water. There argument was that it was magical water, so it put out the wall of fire flames. Please LMK if that actaully works, and if there is anything else that can put out a wall of fire wall of fire! Thank you for reading.
So the Spell Wall of Water has a separate text block relating to interactions with cold damage and effects that freeze sections of the wall and then how to destroy it. Wall of fire dose not have any text like this relating to water, but we can take some things from this. firstly, the cold damage has to be from a spell so non-magical water would not do anything. secondly, the spell states that fire damage passing through is halved. this could be translated to Wall of Fire being submerged in water or hit with a spell such as tidal wave. however, the spell create water, in order to cover the full area will be a light sprinkle. this says it extinguishes exposed flames. wall of fire is a foot thick and 20ft tall. rainfall would, if anything, reduce the damage for the top halve of the wall based on the fire spells through WoW and the description of CoDW.
Create Water is a first level spell. It magically creates non-magical water which puts out flames in the area.
Wall of Fire is a fourth level spell. It lasts for the duration of 1 minute or until the caster's concentration is broken.
A fourth level spell trumps a first level spell.
Thus Create Water will not extinguish a Wall of Fire. At most, if you want to be generous,it would suppress the damage for one round as it absorbs the heat to turn the water to steam.
How to counter a Wall of Fire:
A casting of Dispel Magic at the same level or higher that the Wall was cast at. That's what Dispel Magic is for. A lower cast may work, but there is a roll.
An Antimagic Field will suppress the fire in its range.
Breaking the caster's concentration, usually through damage.
But then that's kinda it. Fire Shield can grant you Resistance, and temporary hitpoints can potentially negate the damage, but we get closer and closer to out of options.
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Recently, i was DMing a duel between players, one player casted wall of fire, then in response the other casted Create water. There argument was that it was magical water, so it put out the wall of fire flames. Please LMK if that actaully works, and if there is anything else that can put out a wall of fire wall of fire! Thank you for reading.
So the Spell Wall of Water has a separate text block relating to interactions with cold damage and effects that freeze sections of the wall and then how to destroy it. Wall of fire dose not have any text like this relating to water, but we can take some things from this. firstly, the cold damage has to be from a spell so non-magical water would not do anything. secondly, the spell states that fire damage passing through is halved. this could be translated to Wall of Fire being submerged in water or hit with a spell such as tidal wave. however, the spell create water, in order to cover the full area will be a light sprinkle. this says it extinguishes exposed flames. wall of fire is a foot thick and 20ft tall. rainfall would, if anything, reduce the damage for the top halve of the wall based on the fire spells through WoW and the description of CoDW.
Here's how I would rule it:
How to counter a Wall of Fire:
But then that's kinda it. Fire Shield can grant you Resistance, and temporary hitpoints can potentially negate the damage, but we get closer and closer to out of options.
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.