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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeff Wilder" data-source="post: 2231160" data-attributes="member: 5122">Except not.Blade barrier specifies the conditions under which someone in the same square as the barrier may take damage:  "If you evoke the barrier so that it appears where creatures are."  In later rounds, you are not evoking the barrier such that it appears where creatures are; they therefore do not take damage.Flaming sphere specifies the conditions under which someone in the same square as the sphere may take damage: "If it enters a space with a creature."  In later rounds, unless moved, the sphere is not entering a creature's space; therefore it does not take damage.Black tentacles has no such limiting language.  It says, instead, "Every creature within the area of the spell must make a grapple check."  It doesn't say "only when the spell is cast."  It doesn't say "when the tentacles appear."  The only test it offers is: "Is this a creature within the area of the spell?"  If the answer is "yes," the creature is subject to being grappled.If blade barrier instead read that a Reflex save to avoid damage were required if the barrier occupied the same space as a creature, would you be arguing that after one Reflex save the creature never had to make another, even if it continued to occupy the same space as the barrier?  If flaming sphere instead read that a Reflex save were required when the sphere occupies the same space as a creature, would you be arguing that after one Reflex save the creature never had to make another, even if it continued to occupy the same space as the sphere?I highly doubt it.Yet that is what black tentacles says: "If you're in the area of the spell, you need to make a grapple check."Blade barrier and flaming sphere (and many other spells) require elements in addition to being within their "area."  Black tentacles simply does not.</blockquote>

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