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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8800441" data-attributes="member: 6988941">I rarely agree so whole heartedly with Jeremy Crawford, but basically what he is saying is that normally a player could place an effect like this to exactly fit in a single square, cross into two, or cross four, but that (presumably in a very grid combat focused group, a DM may choose to make effects center in squares and conform exactly to grid lines. That's exactly how I've always interpreted these things.I don't know what more there is to say. Grid combat is optional, and hence 5e isn't built around it so thoroughly that there is a rigid rule for how every spell conforms to grid combat unless your table wants to create and enforce such rigidity.Technically the answer is one, two, three, four, or, five squares (three and five are possible by angling the 5 foot square). In the case of 5 I wouldn't allow it because the points are only occupying a tiny portion of four squares, and it doesn't seem reasonable that characters (who, unless they are gelatenous cubes, do not occupy the entire space of a 5ft cube) would be effected by having such a slight invasion of their space.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 8800441, member: 6988941"] I rarely agree so whole heartedly with Jeremy Crawford, but basically what he is saying is that normally a player could place an effect like this to exactly fit in a single square, cross into two, or cross four, but that (presumably in a very grid combat focused group, a DM may choose to make effects center in squares and conform exactly to grid lines. That's exactly how I've always interpreted these things. I don't know what more there is to say. Grid combat is optional, and hence 5e isn't built around it so thoroughly that there is a rigid rule for how every spell conforms to grid combat unless your table wants to create and enforce such rigidity. Technically the answer is one, two, three, four, or, five squares (three and five are possible by angling the 5 foot square). In the case of 5 I wouldn't allow it because the points are only occupying a tiny portion of four squares, and it doesn't seem reasonable that characters (who, unless they are gelatenous cubes, do not occupy the entire space of a 5ft cube) would be effected by having such a slight invasion of their space. [/QUOTE]

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