DrSpunj
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Howdy!
Last week our Halfling Wiz3 cast a Sleep spell. She centered the spell behind the goblin up front, who was actually standing just behind an open doorway.
We use Karinsdad's house rule of "target a hex and the center hex is a bonus, count the radius from there" for our games, so the 15' radius burst for sleep includes the target hex and then 3 hexes out in every direction.
Here's a graphical representation of the room, with goblin in the doorway, and two other goblins she's also trying to nail with the Sleep spell. The X is the hex she wants to target the Sleep spell in. It's not to scale so please realize if she had cast the Sleep spell on the goblin in front it would not have affected either goblin in back.
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Our question was whether a Small-sized creature (the goblin) would block Line of Effect (according to the Aiming a Spell rules in the PHB, pgs 148-150) to the hex beyond it? Does the presence of the doorway even matter?
I wasn't sure so I made her roll a Spellcraft check (DC 15+spell level) for precise spellcasting (another one of our house rules that usually is only applied for your highest spell level, since she's Wiz3 that would be 2nd level spells) and we moved on. But a couple of us (more interested in the rules) took some time over the last few days to read the "Aiming a spell" section and talking about it. We can't really come to a firm conclusion.
Any help (especially with rules references) is appreciated. Also, would your answer be different if the goblins were Medium-sized creatures? Large?
Just curious.
Thanks,
DrSpunj
Last week our Halfling Wiz3 cast a Sleep spell. She centered the spell behind the goblin up front, who was actually standing just behind an open doorway.
We use Karinsdad's house rule of "target a hex and the center hex is a bonus, count the radius from there" for our games, so the 15' radius burst for sleep includes the target hex and then 3 hexes out in every direction.
Here's a graphical representation of the room, with goblin in the doorway, and two other goblins she's also trying to nail with the Sleep spell. The X is the hex she wants to target the Sleep spell in. It's not to scale so please realize if she had cast the Sleep spell on the goblin in front it would not have affected either goblin in back.
____
|......|
|..G...|
|....XG..........W
|..G...|
|......|
Our question was whether a Small-sized creature (the goblin) would block Line of Effect (according to the Aiming a Spell rules in the PHB, pgs 148-150) to the hex beyond it? Does the presence of the doorway even matter?
I wasn't sure so I made her roll a Spellcraft check (DC 15+spell level) for precise spellcasting (another one of our house rules that usually is only applied for your highest spell level, since she's Wiz3 that would be 2nd level spells) and we moved on. But a couple of us (more interested in the rules) took some time over the last few days to read the "Aiming a spell" section and talking about it. We can't really come to a firm conclusion.
Any help (especially with rules references) is appreciated. Also, would your answer be different if the goblins were Medium-sized creatures? Large?
Just curious.
Thanks,
DrSpunj
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