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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6481941" data-attributes="member: 2067">The thing is that what happens is both. When the area is moved onto the creature, the creature then has entered the area. That the area is the one doing the moving doesn't matter -- you can enter a thing while remaining sedentary if it comes to envelop you. A critter that swallows you whole as it moves into your space is certainly something you &quot;entered.&quot; If a gelatinous cube falls on your head from orbit, you&nbsp; have definitely &quot;entered&quot; it, even though you're not moving. &nbsp;&quot;The creature needs to be the one moving&quot; is reasonable, but the alternate interpretation isn't unreasonable, either (and isn't even necessarily overpowered...it's pretty situational). It actually even makes more logical sense than the alternative. If the spell is summoning a beam of damaging radiant energy, it doesn't suddenly not do damage just because you're moving it around. It's still a beam of damaging radiant energy, after all. If it was a pillar of fire, it wouldn't stop burning just because the initiative order said it wasn't time for it to burn yet. It could've also been fixed with a slight re-wording of the spell (something like, &quot;you can cause the moonbeam to wink out and appear again at a new location within range&quot;), but the beam explicitly is moved over the area, staying &quot;on&quot; the whole time. There's a lot of assumptions and suppositions that go into any one of the possible interpretations.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 6481941, member: 2067"] The thing is that what happens is both. When the area is moved onto the creature, the creature then has entered the area. That the area is the one doing the moving doesn't matter -- you can enter a thing while remaining sedentary if it comes to envelop you. A critter that swallows you whole as it moves into your space is certainly something you "entered." If a gelatinous cube falls on your head from orbit, you have definitely "entered" it, even though you're not moving. "The creature needs to be the one moving" is reasonable, but the alternate interpretation isn't unreasonable, either (and isn't even necessarily overpowered...it's pretty situational). It actually even makes [I]more logical sense[/I] than the alternative. If the spell is summoning a beam of damaging radiant energy, it doesn't suddenly not do damage just because you're moving it around. It's still a beam of damaging radiant energy, after all. If it was a pillar of fire, it wouldn't stop burning just because the initiative order said it wasn't time for it to burn yet. It could've also been fixed with a slight re-wording of the spell (something like, "you can cause the moonbeam to wink out and appear again at a new location within range"), but the beam explicitly is moved over the area, staying "on" the whole time. There's a lot of assumptions and suppositions that go into any one of the possible interpretations. [/QUOTE]

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