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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 5154962" data-attributes="member: 71571">If you want to get super pedantic, obstacles (as described in the DMG in skill challenges and such) include things like a king who won't allow his guards to open the large gate you need to get to the Temple of Ultimate Power... or your lack of food as you cross the Desert of Despair.Does that mean you can use phasing to walk through those things?  Can you use phasing to walk through the Kobold Tribe of Kla'tchaka's lack of desire to stop warring against the Gnomish Wizarders of Wizarding and other Magery?More rediculously, does the wiseman's riddle that you must solve to discern the Words of Power that activate the Blade of Twelve Ages carry with it tangible form that renders it into blocking terrain?Obstacles is a -contextual- term, not an explicit game term.You can't take the term too literally in that regard, nor is occupied a similiarly 'precise' term.  It means what it means.  Is there something there that prevents you from normally being there?  Yes?  That's what occupied means.</blockquote>