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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9030489" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>Which is for the most part the better way to do it, as it accounts for situations where you can't in fact see your target but you can still put a spell in its general direction e.g. casting a <em>Fireball</em> (or any other AoE or self-affecting spell, for that matter!) while in <em>Darkness</em>. I say "for the most part" because.....</p><p></p><p>.....while I agree with your latter two sentences, I'd say glass (and other invisible barriers e.g. a <em>Wall of Force</em>) is a different issue. With glass you have a straight line of vision provided there's light enough to see, which I'd interpret as making spells castable on a target behind the glass unless the spell required something physical to cross the distance between caster and target. Thus, a <em>Fireball</em> would wreck early when the glass stopped the little bead of guano while a <em>Hold Person </em>- which doesn't have anything physically go from caster to target - would work normally.</p><p></p><p>The only way around this would be to rule that the setting's physics prevent the transmission of magic through any intervening solid barrier; but that opens up a whole other list of in-setting headaches and inconsistencies.</p><p></p><p>I should ask: are there no spells left in 5e that in fact allow a caster to shoot blind e.g. to cast it behind a closed door just in case there's something there?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9030489, member: 29398"] Which is for the most part the better way to do it, as it accounts for situations where you can't in fact see your target but you can still put a spell in its general direction e.g. casting a [I]Fireball[/I] (or any other AoE or self-affecting spell, for that matter!) while in [I]Darkness[/I]. I say "for the most part" because..... .....while I agree with your latter two sentences, I'd say glass (and other invisible barriers e.g. a [I]Wall of Force[/I]) is a different issue. With glass you have a straight line of vision provided there's light enough to see, which I'd interpret as making spells castable on a target behind the glass unless the spell required something physical to cross the distance between caster and target. Thus, a [I]Fireball[/I] would wreck early when the glass stopped the little bead of guano while a [I]Hold Person [/I]- which doesn't have anything physically go from caster to target - would work normally. The only way around this would be to rule that the setting's physics prevent the transmission of magic through any intervening solid barrier; but that opens up a whole other list of in-setting headaches and inconsistencies. I should ask: are there no spells left in 5e that in fact allow a caster to shoot blind e.g. to cast it behind a closed door just in case there's something there? [/QUOTE]
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