Keeping cloudkill from rolling away.

[Quasqueton]

The description for the cloudkill spell say it moves away from the caster at 10 feet per round. Can the caster choose to have the spell sit in one place, and not move?

The description also says, "the vapors are heavier than air, they sink to the lowest level of the land. . .". If cast uphill from the caster, does it roll backwards, toward the caster? If the caster can't choose to have the cloud stay still, in one place, can casting it in a depression (so that any direction is uphill) keep it in one place?

Quasqueton

 

[jgsugden]

The description for the cloudkill spell say it moves away from the caster at 10 feet per round. Can the caster choose to have the spell sit in one place, and not move?

The description also says, "the vapors are heavier than air, they sink to the lowest level of the land. . .". If cast uphill from the caster, does it roll backwards, toward the caster? If the caster can't choose to have the cloud stay still, in one place, can casting it in a depression (so that any direction is uphill) keep it in one place?

Quasqueton

My reading is that it moves away from the caster if it is on level land. If not, it goes downhill. So, a depression could contain the spell.

My questions arise when the spell is faced with partial barricades like a closed door. Does it seep under the door to move away from the caster?

 

[Gnimish88]

The description for the cloudkill spell say it moves away from the caster at 10 feet per round. Can the caster choose to have the spell sit in one place, and not move?

The description also says, "the vapors are heavier than air, they sink to the lowest level of the land. . .". If cast uphill from the caster, does it roll backwards, toward the caster? If the caster can't choose to have the cloud stay still, in one place, can casting it in a depression (so that any direction is uphill) keep it in one place?

Quasqueton

You know, it is questions like that that keep one lying awake at night...

I would probably say it would split and go around a small hill, a larger hill...
Got to love those spell descriptions that are not well thought out.

 

[James McMurray]

The description for the cloudkill spell say it moves away from the caster at 10 feet per round. Can the caster choose to have the spell sit in one place, and not move?

Nope.

The description also says, "the vapors are heavier than air, they sink to the lowest level of the land. . .". If cast uphill from the caster, does it roll backwards, toward the caster?

Yep.

If the caster can't choose to have the cloud stay still, in one place, can casting it in a depression (so that any direction is uphill) keep it in one place?

Yep.