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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 9794137" data-attributes="member: 6879661">The question is not whether it is possible to see 1000 feet. It’s whether there is terrain on the approach to the tower that the dragon can use to gain total cover. As I said the dragon gets hit by the first Tasha’s Laughter and then on its next turn takes cover behind a building or trees, or hills, or clouds or any of the multiple obstacle between the approach and the tower that would block the casters view.The terrain doesn’t need to block the dragon for the entire approach it just needs to hide it outside of its turn when it moves. It’s not possible to ready circle casting to do it when the dragon moves out of cover because that isn’t how the activation works.As for the debate on area. Apologies if I was blunt. You absolutely can decide as DM, that the small number of spells that treat range as area of effect - like animal shapes - do use the area of effect rules of circle casting. That’s why we have DMs and not computers running our games. It’s an optional subsystem. There are perhaps 2 or 3 spells from 2024 that it affects. No DM can be compelled to allow an optional combination in their game. You can absolutely set boundaries.</blockquote>