Does blade barrier damage objects?

[Kieperr]

What a Wall of Force blocks is specific to spells, breath weapons, and creatures. Nothing more, nothing less. It is not solid.

Actually it is.

PHB pg 299:
"The caster can form the wall into a flat vertical plane whose area is up to one 10-foot square per level. The wall must be continuous and unbroken when formed. If its surface is broken by any object or creature, the spell fails."

If it is not solid, as you suggest, then it could be formed around creatures or objects. The spell states the opposite. The wall is a continuous, unbroken plane when formed. It does not change afterwards. Since it is a solid wall it provides total cover against attacks. The only thing that actually passes through the wall are gaze attacks, as stipulated by the spell itself.

 

[KarinsDad]

Actually it is.

PHB pg 299:
"The caster can form the wall into a flat vertical plane whose area is up to one 10-foot square per level. The wall must be continuous and unbroken when formed. If its surface is broken by any object or creature, the spell fails."

If it is not solid, as you suggest, then it could be formed around creatures or objects. The spell states the opposite. The wall is a continuous, unbroken plane when formed. It does not change afterwards. Since it is a solid wall it provides total cover against attacks. The only thing that actually passes through the wall are gaze attacks, as stipulated by the spell itself.

Continuous and solid have two totally different meanings.

Also, I am not truly suggesting that it is not solid (read the rest of the thread), that was merely a way to get my point across. I am suggesting that effects should have their default properties unless explicitly stated otherwise. Fire should burn unattended objects by default and moving blades of solid force should damage unattended objects by default.

 

[Infiniti2000]

I could see an adjudication that the ship gets stopped (and takes ramming damage) because it cannot pass between the blades. However, the problem with this adjudication is that a Gargantuan sized creature should also only be stopped. But, a Gargantuan sized creature will take damage and will move through the blades.

That's not a problem because remember we can't reasonable treat the ship as a creature. That's because we can't treat an arrow like a creature.

But, then we need to what, make an attack roll to see if the ship passes through? The ramming damage is good because that's a defined event (wall of force has a defined effect vs. ships for example).

 

[KarinsDad]

But, then we need to what, make an attack roll to see if the ship passes through? The ramming damage is good because that's a defined event (wall of force has a defined effect vs. ships for example).

I do not really see a need for an attack roll, just like you would not have an attack roll for a Wall of Force placed in front of a moving ship.

I would just rule that a ship usually never passes through. I would rule that although a few blades would hit an object moving through the barrier, that a ship is too large to pass through and since the blades cannot be affected by physical actions, the ship will never pass through unless some massive force is pushing it through. In that case, it will take damage and probably be destroyed.