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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jens" data-source="post: 1041759" data-attributes="member: 605">I only have the SRD. It says:Now, that sounds simple to me. It sounds like the PHB has some more text that makes things complicated, but let's see what the SRD text implies. I especially note the last sentence since it invalidates a lot of what has been written above.A line (which is one-dimensional) may touch an object without passing through it. This has a couple of implications:- It is possible to cast a line-spell so that it doesn't affect any squares at all. Just cast it *exactly* along the lines separating the squares. Then it touches a lot of squares but doesn't pass through any at all. Alternatively, the line spell may be cast at a 'just about but not exactly' right angle, giving a row/column of affected squares.- If a line-spell is cast at an angle *exactly* 45 degrees, it will touch (and thereby affect) only about half as many squares as it would had it been cast at an angle of 'just about but not exactly' 45 degrees.Now, some may say that this makes the number for affected squares vary wildly, but they would be wrong. It would be *possible* to place the line in such a way that it would affect very few squares, but unless that is what is desired, the number of affected squares will be fairly constant.Btw, how do you make those neat drawings/diagrams?Of the diagrams above, only (all of) Tabarnak Smokeblower's (with the red squares unaffected) and Caliban's #5 and #7 are correct, the rest are not because they allow squares to be affected without being passed through.Note: Aiming a spell in such a way that it touches a square without passing through is difficult. Out of a continuum of direction, it has to be cast in one specific direction. It's like picking a rational number from the set of real numbers, if you know what I mean (and if you don't nevermind <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)</blockquote>

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