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<blockquote data-quote="Basic Expert" data-source="post: 9836695" data-attributes="member: 7054049"><p>Per the teleportation keyword description: "If the destination space of your teleportation is occupied by another creature or blocked by a solid obstacle, you instead appear in the nearest unoccupied</p><p>space of your choice."</p><p></p><p>By a strict interpretation of the rules, you cannot teleport Cloud of Daggers onto a target after its initial conjuration.</p><p></p><p>Therefore, if you use the text of the teleportation effect to justify overriding the standard "line of effect" limitation of spells, allowing you to teleport it to an unseen location, you must also accept the above restriction.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, my hypothesis is that the Cloud of Daggers teleportation text is a clumsy attempt to prevent players from moving the cloud through huge swathes of enemies each turn. Rather than touching multiple squares, it simply disappears from one square and appears in another. That seems to be in keeping with the concept and power level of the spell. Unfortunately, the spell's text doesn't address line of sight issues or the above teleportation restriction leading to the current ambiguity. This is how I would run it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Basic Expert, post: 9836695, member: 7054049"] Per the teleportation keyword description: "If the destination space of your teleportation is occupied by another creature or blocked by a solid obstacle, you instead appear in the nearest unoccupied space of your choice." By a strict interpretation of the rules, you cannot teleport Cloud of Daggers onto a target after its initial conjuration. Therefore, if you use the text of the teleportation effect to justify overriding the standard "line of effect" limitation of spells, allowing you to teleport it to an unseen location, you must also accept the above restriction. On the other hand, my hypothesis is that the Cloud of Daggers teleportation text is a clumsy attempt to prevent players from moving the cloud through huge swathes of enemies each turn. Rather than touching multiple squares, it simply disappears from one square and appears in another. That seems to be in keeping with the concept and power level of the spell. Unfortunately, the spell's text doesn't address line of sight issues or the above teleportation restriction leading to the current ambiguity. This is how I would run it. [/QUOTE]
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