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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Videssian" data-source="post: 1499729" data-attributes="member: 1990">Aww, thanks!.. <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=":)" />Being the DM in question, my take on it is based on the following excerpt from the spell description: ".. these masses must be anchored by two or more solid and diametrically opposed points - floor and cieling, opposite walls, or the like.."What I see here from the examples are that the anchoring surfaces are large flat solid surfaces.  I think if you can move through a space, that space isn't solid enough for the purposes of this spell.  In your typical forest where you can see enemies coming from a substantial distance away (and in the relevant case, I think something like 100' away), there's trees, but small thin ones and somewhat spread out.  As well, all of the forest spaces could be moved through by PCs, and I imposed no movement penalties.  In other words, sparse woods.. so I think it's reasonable here that there simply wasn't adequate anchoring points..  which has actually been to their favor since for this exact reason in a previous encounter, I thought about having their opponent(s) use Web but decided against it for this very reason.. <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=":)" />Web is great indoors.. but outside, in many circumstances, it just doesn't work well.  Cases where it would would include a narrow ravine (anchored on both sides, if the ravine walls are adequately high).   One could make a case I know for any two particular thin trees to be the anchor points, since those trees are opposite each other (by definition).. but while the web would be there, there wouldn't be enough anchorage to provide a real barrier.. hence, for practical purposes, the Web isn't really there.. That's my take on it..ttyl,Videssian</blockquote>

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