Wall of Fire Horizontally?

[Greenfield]

Okay, sorry about the aggressive tone. It wasn't meant as bait, but could certainly have been said better.

 

[Alexander123]

I would not allow a wall of fire to be cast horizontally because fire rises upwards.

Otherwise I allow wall spells to be cast horizontally.

 

[airwalkrr]

I've seen wall of fire cast in the air before (about 30 feet in the air IIRC) and no one seemed to have an issue with it.

 

[Ranes]

I've seen wall of fire cast in the air before (about 30 feet in the air IIRC) and no one seemed to have an issue with it.

Well, if everyone around the table is happy with that then all is well. But I wonder how many players would be happy if one of the DM's NPCs was this 'creative' first?

 

[frankthedm]

'Wall' does indeed imply vertical. That's what the word means: 'a continuous vertical structure'. Throw out the meaning if you want but I think that's a dangerous precedent.

As far as the spell rules go, the effect section specifically states it is 20ft high, not 20ft across.

Exactly.

 

[jasper]

I...
I have seen these same spells played (as well as heard of games I was not actually in) as cast horizontally over and dropped onto particularly large (or large groups) of foes. SSSPLAT!

...I see no reason whatsoever to deny the adept and creative caster the chance to cast a Wall of xyz horizontally.
...--Steel Dragons

So you heard of my game of iron pancake? Yes wall of iron above the monsters works great. Splat goes the monsters.
Until the NPC spell slingers cast ths same spell on the party. Talk about nearly having a table flipped.

Go ahead and be creative in your spell casting. Just don't whine when the monsters turn the same tactic against you.

I will side with the others. Unless written differently in description. It is a wall.

 

[Dandu]

I would just like to point out, for the record, that you can't summon a Wall of Iron up in the air for the same reason that you can't summon a celestial whale a hundred feet off the ground.

 

[steeldragons]

So you heard of my game of iron pancake? Yes wall of iron above the monsters works great. Splat goes the monsters.
Until the NPC spell slingers cast ths same spell on the party. Talk about nearly having a table flipped.

Go ahead and be creative in your spell casting. Just don't whine when the monsters turn the same tactic against you.

I will side with the others. Unless written differently in description. It is a wall.

Oh! I never said the monsters/NPCs couldn't (or haven't) done the same.

Bwahaha.

-SD

 

[jasper]

Dandu Not in 3E. But this happen in 1 or 2E. But the rules were looser then and very subject to the HOUSE rule. Aka is his house we playing at so his vote over rules the dm.

Thats rustydragon . It was after everyone calmed down, we change to all wall spells are wallsexcept the exceptions in rulebook.

 

[steeldragons]

Dandu Not in 3E. But this happen in 1 or 2E. But the rules were looser then and very subject to the HOUSE rule. Aka is his house we playing at so his vote over rules the dm.

Thats rustydragon . It was after everyone calmed down, we change to all wall spells are wallsexcept the exceptions in rulebook.

My bad, didn't realize common sense like, "if you can do it, they can do it" needed to be spelled out for everyone...in so timely a fashion.

Nevermind.

I'll just be over here on my rusty butt.

Carry on.

-SD