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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aegeri" data-source="post: 5284321" data-attributes="member: 78116">It's not, the height is just the maximum number of squares it can occupy. Otherwise it is not following how a wall would work, because an eight square wall would occupy 8x4=32 contiguous squares. Far more than the power specifies.You could use the wall to block a 2x2 corridor very easily though, as it could fill 20 feet up worth of squares.The height is just telling you how high it can go, not that the wall is also four squares high.No, for purposes of movement for creatures bigger than medium sized, only one "square" counts for movement. For example if a large creature moves through a zone it doesn't take damage for each square it occupies in the zone - only once for entering/moving/exiting or whatever. When the dragon moves into the wall he does just that, but it doesn't count as moving adjacent as he was already adjacent anyway. When he moves through the other side though he will be "adjacent" to the wall again, but by that point it's now firmly irrelevant.Take the old bloodpulse as an example. A large creature occupies four squares. It moves 1 square, effectively leaving "4 squares": Does it take 1d6+int damage or 4d6+4xInt damage?Edit: Also if you examine the OPs example again, the wall is only 5 feet high and the dragon is large, making him 10 feet high. He can see over the wall without obstruction and I've just realized that the entire example doesn't even work because of that anyway as frogged pointed out earlier in the thread. The Wizard would need to make it a minimum 4 long wall with double height.Edit: For a clearer example of how it should be worded, see Wall of Fire:In illusory walls case, what they forgot to do was be specific with the wording of "up to". But it doesn't change how the way walls work anyway - because it can't occupy more than 8 squares anyway. An eight square illusory wall would occupy 32 squares. That's definitely not correct.</blockquote>

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