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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 7164788" data-attributes="member: 2011">This is a very good explanation and one that I would gladly say indicates what happens. The only sticky part is the: for the moving out of the square effect, do you roll damage twice taking the more potent damage, or do you only roll damage once (as the Bless example appears to imply)?Basically, the real crux of the issue is that your interpretation allows some of the effects to happen for both castings of the spell, but not others. For example, the Booming Blade damage is only done once. The spell ends portion of that exact same effect (the visible booming energy sheathe) that you listed ends twice. You are picking and choosing which portions of the effect happen from just one of the spells and which happens to both spells. Unless you rule that all effects happen every time, it's just that the most potent works and the others do not. For example, you roll twice for Bless and take the larger of the two rolls. That explanation would resolve the conflict, it's just that the Bless example appears to imply that this is not what happens. It implies a roll once scenario (and that's a mechanically important difference).Another interpretation is that one spell is just "turned off" while the other spell effect is there (or alternatively, the intersecting effects of one spell are turned off for example in the case of two intersecting Walls of Fire). The duration of the second spell keeps going, but everything else about the spell is effectively turned off. When the first spell ends, the second spell turns back on.The (theoretical) downside of this type of interpretation is that one could have two Death Wards up, two Invisibility spells up (from different casters), etc. Some players or DMs might view that as a problem, others might view it as "so what?". I personally don't view that as an issue and just consider it creative spell casting on the part of the PCs at the expense of an additional spell slot. No different than a party of 5 PCs where 2 PCs cast Bless and 1 PC has 2 Bless spells up so that if the concentration of 1 caster is lost, that PC still has Bless up.All in all, though, you have convinced me that this is an interpretation issue.</blockquote>

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