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<blockquote data-quote="Jhaelen" data-source="post: 4577127" data-attributes="member: 46713">Good question! I asked myself the same question when I used a Marzanna (from Frostburn) in an ecounter. She has CL 8, so for her the radius is 11'. Back then I decided that it would allow her to capture a PC without a save - but for no other reason than because it made a better encounter that way! (it didn't really do much anyway, it just prolonged the fight by a single round, because it prevented the entrapped psion from blasting her to smithereens in round 1 to escape using dimension door).If you care for mathematical correctness:11' translate into 1.2 squares. That's not sufficient to safely enclose a square diagonally.12' translate into 1.4 squares. That's _almost_ sufficient: you need sqrt(2) = 1.41...13' translate into 1.6 squares. That's definitely sufficient, even if you count a diagonal square as 1.5.If you don't want to bother with fractions of squares, another way to look at it would be to interpret the hemisphere as having a radius of 10' plus 5' per 5 levels over level 7. A lot of spells have effects that are written in a similar way.That's certainly true. It's relatively difficult to pull off.Thanks for the image! It looks exactly like the little sketch I made (on scrap paper) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jhaelen, post: 4577127, member: 46713"] Good question! I asked myself the same question when I used a Marzanna (from Frostburn) in an ecounter. She has CL 8, so for her the radius is 11'. Back then I decided that it would allow her to capture a PC without a save - but for no other reason than because it made a better encounter that way! (it didn't really do much anyway, it just prolonged the fight by a single round, because it prevented the entrapped psion from blasting her to smithereens in round 1 to escape using dimension door). If you care for mathematical correctness: 11' translate into 1.2 squares. That's not sufficient to safely enclose a square diagonally. 12' translate into 1.4 squares. That's _almost_ sufficient: you need sqrt(2) = 1.41... 13' translate into 1.6 squares. That's definitely sufficient, even if you count a diagonal square as 1.5. If you don't want to bother with fractions of squares, another way to look at it would be to interpret the hemisphere as having a radius of 10' plus 5' per 5 levels over level 7. A lot of spells have effects that are written in a similar way. That's certainly true. It's relatively difficult to pull off. Thanks for the image! It looks exactly like the little sketch I made (on scrap paper) :) [/QUOTE]

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