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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6435496" data-attributes="member: 6669384">Prevents the "straight unblocked lines from being drawn"?  Funny, my pen works on the battle mat no matter what spells the PCs are using.  Okay, bad humor, but the point is valid.The way through an AMF is free and unblocked, at least as far as the AMF is concerned.  You can see through it, you could shoot an arrow or throw a rock through it.  It's open space.  The field itself doesn't block spells, or even line of sight, it simply suppresses the spell's effect within its area.  The rules are actually pretty clear on what happens when an AoE spell includes an AntiMagic zone:  The spell functions normally in all areas not suppressed by the AM zone.  Now if you want to play with this idea, consider the situation where a caster has an Anti Magic Field up, and there's an obstacle in the field as well.  The Lightning Bolt cast through the AMF never encounters the obstacle, since it's in a spell-suppression area.  Does it then resume on the other side of the AMF, or is its Line of Effect blocked by the obstacle it never encountered?How's that for a rules headache?Now obviously my reading of the spell and Anti Magic rules is subject to dispute.  Like I said, check with your DM before trying it.  But, taken as written, AMF doesn't block Line of Effect, it just removes some area from what an Area of Effect spell covers.(For those in love with physics:  "Quantum Tunneling" occurs when a particle enters an area where the laws of physics don't allow for its existence.  What follows is that the particle ceases to exist in that area, "tunneling" to the far side and then reappearing.  The transit time has been measured as faster than the speed of light, and some argue that it's instantaneous.  Researchers have been able to cause Electrons to "tunnel" for over a hundred feet.This physics example is particularly appropriate when considering Lightning Bolt, since it's a stream of free running charged subatomic particles. (Electrons) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ).And, by the way, it's *always* a bad idea to try and mix physics and magic in the same argument.  And that includes the example I just gave. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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