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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 6859674" data-attributes="member: 11146">I had the same conundrum when deciding how to adjudicate Kamael's movement taking him out of range of earthen grasp.  Earthen grasp has a range of 30'.  When Kamael moved to M6, that put him well outside of the spell's 30' range.  PHB 202, "Range," provides, "The target of a spell must be within the spell's range."  When Kamael relocated to M6, Kuo-toa 7 was no longer in range of either the target or the earthen hand.  The spell description for earthen hand provides, "As an action, you can cause the hand to reach for a different creature or to move to a different unoccupied space within range. The hand releases a restrained target if you do either."  Holistically, when taken together, I read the PHB entry on Range and the spell description to mean that the caster has to expend an Action to move the earthen hand.  If he doesn't do so, and then moves out of range while leaving the hand hanging behind (so to speak), the spell ends.We've got some options.  We could roll with what I posted in the IC, which is that the caster needs to expend an Action to move the earthen hand before he himself moves out of range.  Or we could say that the spell winks out of existence if the caster moves out of range of the earthen hand (this is what I went with).  Or we could say that the hand lets go of its current target and moves spontaneously to be within range of the caster...kind of like a dog following a master.  I admit I considered the latter, but opted not to do so for the reason that having the hand move spontaneously is far too open to DM interpretation (where should I have the hand go when the player neglected to mention either the hand's movement or the expenditure of an Action to move the hand), and seems to me to be giving the player a freebie Action that he wouldn't normally be entitled to.That said, I'm open to input.  How did you imagine it ought to go?</blockquote>

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