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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 7699664" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I don't consider the ship laser being in use until, y'know, it actually fires. Before that, it's just a floodlight, and nobody's scared of a floodlight. (I mean, maybe it could give you temporary light-blindness if it's right in your face and suddenly turns on, but that's not the same thing at all.)And the thing I was talking about was, again, that the laser is already on--Moonbeam has *already* done damage to other targets--and then it moves, up to 60 feet, which is six times the spell's diameter (5' radius = 10' diameter). This means the beam could, very easily, "sweep over" an enemy, without doing anything to them at all, because they never "passed into" its area of effect, nor "started their turn" in it, even though they were inside its area at some point. Or, again to use the ID UFO-laser, the beam is already on and hurting people, passes over a location doing no damage to anything within, then comes to a stop and can begin hurting things again.See, I agree with you--the problem is that the person I replied to was interpreting it as "once per round." The relevant bit being: "It also makes it so that you can't be pushed back and forth across it on the same round, taking damage each time. So, you only take the damage 1/round, but you also can't jump in and out to avoid the damage on your turn." This interpretation requires contradictory readings.</blockquote>