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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janos Antero" data-source="post: 804883" data-attributes="member: 4480">Hyp agreed with that, if you move at all, even a 5' step, within the plane of a blade barrier you take damage.If you don't move at all, and took damage the first round in a blade barrier, if you stand stock still successive rounds, you don't take damage after the first round.  Any other type of movement is going to cause you to eat whirrling blades of death.Good single person in radius blade barrier analogy:Best way to picture a Blade Barrier is actually like a giant ring, both the outside and the inside rings are razor sharp, and the hole within the center is pretty tiny, just barely big enough to fit someone.  When the ring of blades is first summoned it automatically puts the center safezone of itself in an area not covered by potential targets of the spell.  If you make your save, you jump out of it before it hits you.  If you fail your save, you jump into the eye of the blade barrier, but still took damage from that movement.  If you move any direction within the radius the inside sharp edge, or the outside sharp edge of the blade barrier slices and dices.  If you stay still inside that "eye" you're safe, now.  If you're outside the barrier and try to get to the eye, or get to the other side, you take damage for passing through it.  But once you've taken damage in the radius, if you stop moving again, you've gotten into that "eye", you take no further damage.That's a good analogy/example for picturing when damage is taken that helps my players picture it on occasion.</blockquote>

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