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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Norfleet" data-source="post: 1166544" data-attributes="member: 11581">The wall of force is said to be immobile: As a two-dimensional construct, it can't be compressed. This means any deceleration incurred on contact with a wall of force must be accomplished through compression of the impacting object, not the wall: The response of the object to impacting the wall of force obviously varies: A rubber ball simply bounces off unscathed, as the compression process is harmless to it: A more incompressible, rigid object, such as a vase, would shatter.The interesting degenerative case is what happens when an object collides with a wall of force edgewise: Walls of force are not given a thickness. A messy, gruesome effect would undoubtedly occur should a hapless victim collide with the wall of force edgewise, "impale" himself upon it, and then find himself neatly bisected by the wall of force, much in the manner of previously described monofilament walls, with the noteworthy difference that the wall of force in this configuration is definitely within standard configuration.The relevant section which could potentially shed light on this states "The wall must be continuous and unbroken when formed. If its surface is broken by any object or creature, the spell fails." Unfortunately, this doesn't address this case at all: It merely states that the wall of force cannot be erected in such a configuration as to bisect a creature who was present first: If a creature subsequently collides endwise with the wall of force, the surface of the wall would not be broken. The same cannot be said for the surface of the misunfortunate creature, but that is covered in the spell description: Since walls of force are "immune damage of all kinds", and "cannot move", it logically follows that the hapless creature would be messily bisected, with all attendant consequences: For most creatures, this tends to translate into nearly immediate death, as bisection is typically not considered to be survivable by non-regenerating large multicellular life. Even a regenerating creature like a troll would find this effect immensely inconvenient and undoubtedly quite vexing. Effects on more unusual lifeforms and non-lifeforms would vary: Blobs would suffer as if cut in half, which would result in two smaller blobs, while a gelatinous cube would be transformed into a pair of gelatinous prisms. A bisected skeleton, zombie, or golem might "survive", if something nonliving can ever be considered to be surviving, but would certainly suffer a significant reduction in threat capability and mobility.</blockquote>

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