A nonmagical wall of solid stone springs into existence at a point you choose within range. The wall is 6 inches thick and is composed of ten 10-foot- by-10-foot panels. Each panel must be contiguous with at least one other panel. Alternatively, you can create 10-foot-by-20-foot panels that are only 3 inches thick.
If the wall cuts through a creature's space when it appears, the creature is pushed to one side of the wall (your choice). If a creature would be surrounded on all sides by the wall (or the wall and another solid surface), that creature can make a Dexterity saving throw. On a success, it can use its reaction to move up to its speed so that it is no longer enclosed by the wall.
The wall can have any shape you desire, though it can't occupy the same space as a creature or object. The wall doesn't need to be vertical or rest on any firm foundation. It must, however, merge with and be solidly supported by existing stone. Thus, you can use this spell to bridge a chasm or create a ramp.
If you create a span greater than 20 feet in length, you must halve the size of each panel to create supports. You can crudely shape the wall to create crenellations, battlements, and so on.
The wall is an object made of stone that can be damaged and thus breached. Each panel has AC 15 and 30 hit points per inch of thickness. Reducing a panel to 0 hit points destroys it and might cause connected panels to collapse at the GM's discretion.
If you maintain your concentration on this spell for its whole duration, the wall becomes permanent and can't be dispelled. Otherwise, the wall disappears when the spell ends.
* - (a small block of granite)
You can use this spell for combat. Just make a wall out of granite loosely connected to a wall, then there will be 85,838 pounds of solid stone that will fall on your enemies.
Dropped from 30 ft. I believe this would deal about 40d8-50d8 bludgeoning damage. It is powerful.
As long as they physically could navigate out of it, they don’t get to make a save. Even if it means they’d have to walk over lava, through a cloud of daggers, and into the raging barbarian, single file…
Am I the only one that thinks this should be upcastable to get a bigger wall?
No you are not.
Also, you can just keep doing that for, like, a day... cast, take short rest while concentrating, cast again when you're done, concentrate while SRing again, over and over again... 24 castings in 24 hrs., 10 minutes. 240 panels in just over a day. Do that every other day. Or, I suppose, do it 3 out of every 4 days. (Long rest on the 4th day.) In a week, you have 1,440 panels.
Now I want to be a Dao Warlock... and warlock is one of the 2-3 classes I don't even care about playing.
I agree, because stone is a physical object, not pure energy. This spell does create mass out of thin air, so I see why it should be conjuration. Then again, you are manipulating the energy of Elemental Earth. It involves exerting control over elemental forces, similar to wall of fire, wind wall, wall of ice, or wall of water, so i guess thats why they made it evocation.
I found one useful advantage over wall of force. A stone wall is opaque, so this spell would hinder spellcasters, as they won't be able to cast spells through it. With wall of force, creatures can see through it, therefore allowing spellcasters to target creatures and locations on the other side of the wall. This can't happen with wall of stone, because it blocks line of sight.
Time to build The Great Wall of _______________ Toril?
It says 10 panels
Let's say I'm in a campaign right now where 3 large enemies (10ft) are on a 10ft wide 70ft long bridge over a chasm. Based on the wording of the spell, could I draw the wall in a line through the middle of them and choose to push them off the bridge? Or would it be ruled that they don't get pushed off as they can occupy a 5ft sq as if it were a tight space?
rtfm, the spell description says 10
Funny how taking advantage of your successful save requires your reaction. It would be a shame if someone robbed you of it, say with Shocking Grasp or even just baiting an AoO...
I always thought of it using the stone from the ground due to the nonmagical part, and in which case even then it should be transmutation instead of evocation.
I believe they left it Evocation for a reason. In prior editions this left the structure vulnerable to a dispel magic. Not sure if that applies in 5E, but if one of my players built a castle with this, a few well placed dispel magics could ruin their day.
Spell honestly feels like it should be called Wall of Paper, the toughness is pathetic. AC should be 17 per the DMG for Stone, and should be a foot thick.
dispel magic in 5e doesn't care about the school of magic. This could have been Conjuration or Transmutation, and dispel magic would have worked on it all the same.
Second-last line of the spell:
"If you maintain your concentration on this spell for its whole duration, the wall becomes permanent and can't be dispelled."
If they're making a quick and dirty castle in one turn in the middle of combat, dispel is fair game. But if they're preparing a defensive position in advance—and not even that much in advance, a mere ten minutes of warning is sufficient—then the wall is just a wall, no magic to be dispelled.
Mileage at your table may vary, but as the dm I would rule that if concentration is maintained and the spell becomes permanent, it no longer has the exact stats specified by the spell description because it is no longer a magical wall, and instead uses the AC and HP of a normal stone wall of whatever thickness you conjured, as per the DMG. If you want it a foot thick, either double-layer your panels when you conjure it, or cast it twice—both options benefit from the rider that the stone magically merges.
Thinking further about that though, I might give it different stats altogether owing to the fact that it forms a plane of solid stone, not a wall of bricks or blocks. Once it becomes permanent and thus non-magical, that could have serious implications in terms of its physical properties depending on your campaign or dm. Off the top of my head, some realistic problems that may arise are that a solid plane of granite of arbitrary thickness is much more susceptible to literally cracking under pressure than an otherwise identical wall of granite blocks. A wall of blocks distributes force across a wider area because individual blocks can shift without dislodging or breaking, whereas a solid panel of granite can only distribute force by ablation, ie cracking, chipping, and flaking, ie breaking into pieces.
Also, as another commenter pointed out, actual historical castle walls were usually more than a meter thick. If you want to stay safe from siege weapons once this thing becomes permanent, you had better build thick. Six inches ain't gonna stop a catapult or ballista, let alone a trebuchet flinging a 90kg projectile over 300m.
So, I understand that the panels made by the spell can be either 10'x10'x6" or 10'x20'x3", but can they be smaller than those measurements? "The wall can have any shape you desire" and "you can crudely shape the wall to create crenellations, battlements, and so on." suggest yes?