Level
6th
Casting Time
1 Action
Range/Area
Self
(10 ft )
Components
V, S, M *
Duration
Concentration
1 Minute
School
Abjuration
Attack/Save
None
Damage/Effect
Negation (...)
An immobile, faintly shimmering barrier springs into existence in a 10-foot radius around you and remains for the duration.
Any spell of 5th level or lower cast from outside the barrier can't affect creatures or objects within it, even if the spell is cast using a higher level spell slot. Such a spell can target creatures and objects within the barrier, but the spell has no effect on them. Similarly, the area within the barrier is excluded from the areas affected by such spells.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 7th level or higher, the barrier blocks spells of one level higher for each slot level above 6th.
* - (a glass or crystal bead that shatters when the spell ends)
The spell says, "Similarly, the area within the barrier is excluded from the areas affected by such spells."
So no, it definitely would protect you from an existing Cloudkill, for example.
This raises another question for me, since the globe mentions "any spell of 5th level or lower cast from outside the barrier", and if the cloudkill was already existing, then it was cast before the globe existed. Would that not mean the globe has no affect on it? Since cloudkill wasn't cast outside of the barrier, as there was no barrier at the time it was cast.
If we argue for your point, then the globe hedges out the cloudkill and affects any spell that had been previously cast, so long as the caster was outside of the area the globe now occupies. What if then, the original caster was inside the area the globe is now in, would that spell be able to affect things inside the globe? For example, caster A casts flaming sphere and then moves away, and on the following round, caster B moves to the space caster A was in and casts globe of invulnerability. Can that flaming sphere affect creatures within the globe?
I'm not trying to argue against you, just raising a point. I feel it makes sense the globe has an affect on previously cast spells, like cloudkill, as in my mind you could use the globe to protect your party from an oncoming cloudkill even if it had already been cast. I just wonder if that was the intention.
I think you're reading too far into it. Any spell cast before the globe existed was inherently cast "outside of the globe," because you couldn't possibly cast any spell inside a non-existent globe.
I think in your case, if you're adjacent to a flaming sphere when you cast the globe, the flaming sphere would be inside your globe, but could not hurt you. That one is more ambiguous than the cloudkill example, and you could argue the other way on this one, but my interpretation is RAW.
The cloudkill example was exactly the intention of this spell. It's not a very good 6th-level spell if it doesn't protect you from existing area spells. I feel very confident that this is RAI.
Does the globe move with the caster?
That's insane! And it works because the point of origin is inside the globe, huh? I guess it's up to the DM's interpretation. Although I would argue that you could conceivably counterspell the globe casting itself.
appears so.
edit: I am blind. it is immobile.
I may just be tired, but you may be able to drop a fireball on yourself in a convoluted set of interactions.
Stand in the center. Cast fireball targeting a location outside the barrier, but in radius of fireball. You are BBQ.
Is this the intended results? Almost definitely not. How does it work?
This spell checks for where a spell is cast and when it is cast. I know, obvious, but there is a point. That being where is fireball cast? In the center of the explosion? On the caster? On the caster. How does it interact with the cast location in the spell? In horrible, horrible ways.
Both the target and area protection are linked to the cast location check and in our example would pass the test. With the test passed the fireball is free expand back into the bubble.
How can we try to close this loophole. Maybe change the check from "cast" to "originating". It would make some spell casting more complicated as spells are broken down to steps. Fireball fir instance would be charge, target, Boom. Charge and target are both originating in the bubble, but the boom section is outside the bubble and would be blocked.
Should DMs and players use the RaW interpretation or RaI? That is up to the play group. Some might like the more forgiving interpretation, others might value the tactical choices they might have to make.
Overall this has been a fun look at a spell.
* - (a glass or crystal bead that shatters when the spell ends)
Hmm... this caption is interesting. It doesn't mention about the cost of the glass / crystal bead... which means I can use a spell focus instead of that material component.
Let's say a caster targets an area inside the Globe with a Fireball. Does the Fireball:
Correct, as per Components. You only need to provide the specific component if there is a cost assigned.
Edit: Actually, my above statement is incorrect. This point is clarified in Sage Advice under Components. A spellcasting focus can be used in place of a material component only if that component has no cost noted in the spell’s description and if that component isn’t consumed.
How would you guys handle summons?
Example animate objects: Can 10 tiny animated objects fly into the globe? Because they are in some xase the spell trying to penetrate the barrier but indirectly because they are first magical objects.
My DM seems to think that according to RAW, this spell only affects the caster, and that party members inside the globe do not benefit from this spell's protection.
I'm fairly certain he's wrong about that, but of course it's never been disputed before (as far as I can find).
Who's in the right here?
Your DM is absolutely, 100% wrong. It says so in the text of the spell and is pretty direct. (emphasis mine).
So unless an enemy steps inside the globe and then casts a spell, PC's inside it are going to be protected by the globe.
If Bigby's Hand is cast, can it move inside the Globe of Invulnerablity?
Bigby's Hand is cast from outside the barrier, so effectively would not not be a spell trying to penetrate the barrier?
So, the sphere is centered on the caster, but it's an "immobile [...] barrier"
Does it move with the caster, or does it stay exactly where it first appeared where when the spell was cast?
I didnt really think about the fact that you cant counterspell spells from the caster (5th and below) once this is active, that and any other spells similar. like silvery barbs.
Unfortunately this is only for spells , not magic effects;
For example. if a storm giant used a lightning effect similar to lightning bolt, but it doesnt use a spell slot. Then the globe wouldnt work against it.