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<blockquote data-quote="Colder" data-source="post: 7001791" data-attributes="member: 6807965">Sure.&nbsp; Basically, the Clear Path to Target rule says that you need an unobstructed line from you to the target.&nbsp; It can't be behind total cover.&nbsp; This is to stop spells like Conjure Animals from conjuring a bear from the otherside of a window, or to stop Hold Person from working on a person on the other side of a wall of force.Only spells that explicitly say they work on targets with total cover get around this rule.&nbsp; But the only spell that actually does this is Sacred Flame.In the podcast, The Craw said that &quot;target&quot; isn't really a key word in 5e, and that anything a spell affects is its target: creatures, objects, locations, anything.That means that teleportation spells target a location as the destination, and since none of those spells say they can teleport you through cover, they are still subject to the Clear Path to Target rule, meaning that they can't do what they need to do if you hold all spells to the same goal post.&nbsp; It's dumb.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Colder, post: 7001791, member: 6807965"] Sure. Basically, the Clear Path to Target rule says that you need an unobstructed line from you to the target. It can't be behind total cover. This is to stop spells like Conjure Animals from conjuring a bear from the otherside of a window, or to stop Hold Person from working on a person on the other side of a wall of force. Only spells that explicitly say they work on targets with total cover get around this rule. But the only spell that actually does this is Sacred Flame. In the podcast, The Craw said that "target" isn't really a key word in 5e, and that anything a spell affects is its target: creatures, objects, locations, anything. That means that teleportation spells target a location as the destination, and since none of those spells say they can teleport you through cover, they are still subject to the Clear Path to Target rule, meaning that they can't do what they need to do if you hold all spells to the same goal post. It's dumb. [/QUOTE]

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