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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storyteller Hero" data-source="post: 7044298" data-attributes="member: 6813635">Ice Storm is a 4th level spell that produces a rain of icy hail to cause burgeoning and cold damage. It leaves behind difficult terrain for a round after it is cast.Since icy hail is a solid object, it brings up an issue of classification.Ice Storm is an Evocation school spell. Evocation does create elemental effects but it does so primarily by the manipulation of energy.If the ice were simply summoned, then that would make Ice Storm belong to the school of Conjuration.After some thought and heated argument with others, I've come up with the following explanation (RAI).Ice Storm increases the ambient moisture in the atmosphere by causing a partial shift in a local region towards the elemental plane of Water, using dimensional energy manipulation. A partial "merger" of the planes in a contained area, by injecting disruptive energy to interfere with the forces that separate the planes.Ice Storm then gathers the moisture using kinetic energy, and manipulates heat for an endothermic/exothermic reaction to transform the water into ice.Most of the water in the ice arrived as the result of temporary reality shifting, so much of it will realign back to the elemental plane of water when finished, leaving behind some residue, perhaps enough to gather for a waterskin or two but not enough to obstruct movement.What do you think of this (RAI) explanation of how Ice Storm works?EDIT: A point of thought has been brought up about energy being converted to matter, with spells like Wall of Stone being brought up as examples. If, so then perhaps it's the nature of the starting material that should be used to explain the school used for the magic.</blockquote>

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