Wall of Force...How do other players use this spell?

[Corlon]

well, you could get a bit more creative with an invisible wall.

putting it infront of a wizard and having him hit the wall with a fireball bead (detonating it) could hurt a lot, or think about those annoying jumping characters with +10910983471023981702958173456089734817230498273 bonus to jump checks. Put a 100 ft. chasm infront of them and have a wall of force in the middle. They try to jump 100 feet, but hit a wall 50 ft. across (pretty much taking 50ft. worth of falling damage), then sliding off and falling into the chasm

 

[skymage]

wall of force

one tactic that i've used before to trap a creature that can burrow is reverse gravity followed by the sphere version. we had to take the xorn alive for questioning and it would have burrowed out if it was still in contact with the ground.

 

[MerakSpielman]

You can also make invisible bridges with it to get across pits and chasms. You can then dismiss it when the enemy decides to follow.

 

[AuraSeer]

You can also make invisible bridges with it to get across pits and chasms. You can then dismiss it when the enemy decides to follow.

Wall of Force creates a "flat, vertical plane", or a hemisphere, or a sphere; those are your only options. It cannot be shaped like a Wall of Stone. You can't use it to make a bridge.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Wall of Force creates a "flat, vertical plane", or a hemisphere, or a sphere; those are your only options. It cannot be shaped like a Wall of Stone. You can't use it to make a bridge.

You can make a hemispherical bridge...

-Hyp.

 

[MerakSpielman]

Wall of Force creates a "flat, vertical plane", or a hemisphere, or a sphere; those are your only options. It cannot be shaped like a Wall of Stone. You can't use it to make a bridge.

If the other side of the chasm or pit isn't higher or lower than the near side, I see no reason that a flat vertical plane couldn't create an invisible walkway across. No rails, of course, but not TOO unsafe.

 

[Hypersmurf]

If the other side of the chasm or pit isn't higher or lower than the near side, I see no reason that a flat vertical plane couldn't create an invisible walkway across. No rails, of course, but not TOO unsafe.

Marvellous! Brilliant!

No, wait, hang on...

I'm sure there's something wrong there.

Ah!

The fact that a vertical plane is completely unsuited to walking on!*


| Vertical

--- Horizontal

See the problem?

-Hyp.

* - unless you have a whole lot of ranks in Balance and tough soles on your boots...

 

[AuraSeer]

You can make a hemispherical bridge...

I thought of that, but it'd be nearly impossible to cross. It's a sharply curved surface, more so as you approach the edges. If the top is concave, like a bowl, you'll tend to slide down into the bottom; you'd need to jump out. If it's convex, you would tend to slide off in a random direction, if you stepped anywhere but the middle. (It'd be like walking onto an spherical stepping stone, with the added complication that you can't even see where your foot needs to land.)

 

[MerakSpielman]

| Vertical

--- Horizontal

Er, of course I realized that. I was just testing you. Yeah, that's it.

Wait, supposing you were lying down at the time.... naw.

So let's see, what else.... You could build a swimming pool!

Yup, it's a replacement for Transparent Aluminum! Infinitely strong, but with no thickness whatsoever!

 

[Shard O'Glase]

Er, of course I realized that. I was just testing you. Yeah, that's it.

Wait, supposing you were lying down at the time.... naw.

So let's see, what else.... You could build a swimming pool!

Yup, it's a replacement for Transparent Aluminum! Infinitely strong, but with no thickness whatsoever!

That's a really cool idea for a setting dripping in magic, have cities with swiming pools/ponds/man made lakes with permanent walls of force making the pool. Maybe place it on the floors above so people on lower levels can look up at the swimers/fishies whatever.