You make a straight wall up to 100 feet long, 20 feet high, and 5 feet thick, or a ringed wall up to 60 feet in diameter, 20 feet high, and 5 feet thick.
Question: Is the diameter of the ring the inner or outer diameter?
I'd been ruling that the wall's thickness is added to the diameter, so the total ends up being about 70 feet across. Something like this for Blade Barrier:
But honestly, I believe the description of this spell (and others where a thickness is specified) can be interpreted both ways.
You make a straight wall up to 100 feet long, 20 feet high, and 5 feet thick, or a ringed wall up to 60 feet in diameter, 20 feet high, and 5 feet thick.
Question: Is the diameter of the ring the inner or outer diameter?
I'd been ruling that the wall's thickness is added to the diameter, so the total ends up being about 70 feet across. Something like this for Blade Barrier:
But honestly, I believe the description of this spell (and others where a thickness is specified) can be interpreted both ways.
EDIT: for clarity.
I agree it can be interpreted either way.
However, I think that it should be read as specifying the inner diameter.
If you have several different wall spells, each specifying a thirty-foot radius, but varying thicknesses of wall, most people would expect the clear space within to be identical.
However, I think that it should be read as specifying the inner diameter.
If you have several different wall spells, each specifying a thirty-foot radius, but varying thicknesses of wall, most people would expect the clear space within to be identical.
I think other people would feel the maximum area of effect would be the outer diameter. Like with all other spells.
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You make a straight wall up to 100 feet long, 20 feet high, and 5 feet thick, or a ringed
wall up to 60 feet in diameter, 20 feet high, and 5 feet thick.
Question: Is the diameter of the ring the inner or outer diameter?
I'd go with inner.
Csatadi the thread Circular Wall Diameters, ID or OD? - Rules & Game Mechanics is about the same question, in case you'd like to read different takes on it.
I'd been ruling that the wall's thickness is added to the diameter, so the total ends up being about 70 feet across. Something like this for Blade Barrier:
But honestly, I believe the description of this spell (and others where a thickness is specified) can be interpreted both ways.
EDIT: for clarity.
Thanks
And keep in mind the "up to" It doesn't always have to be maximum size.
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
Outer is my understanding.
I agree it can be interpreted either way.
However, I think that it should be read as specifying the inner diameter.
If you have several different wall spells, each specifying a thirty-foot radius, but varying thicknesses of wall, most people would expect the clear space within to be identical.
I think other people would feel the maximum area of effect would be the outer diameter. Like with all other spells.
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale