How does this work?

[oOReikaOo]

Area: 20 cu. ft./level emanation, centered on you

How is this different then 20ft radius?

[Darth Stabber]

Area: 20 cu. ft./level emanation, centered on you

How is this different then 20ft radius?

The area is per level, and will have a different result than the radius.

The area of a circle is pi * r^2, where as 20 cu. ft. is already solved.

PI(20)^2 = 1256.6 cu. ft.

[oOReikaOo]

um... in terms of 5 foot squares?

(if say the person asking this question is an idiot)

[TuggyNE]

Area: 20 cu. ft./level emanation, centered on you

How is this different then 20ft radius?

I don't know for sure, but I would bet the emanation is shape-able too.

[oOReikaOo]

Control Temperature
Transmutation [Cold, Fire]
Level: Druid 3, sorcerer/wizard 3
Components: V, S, M/DF
Casting Time: 1 round
Range: 20 ft./level
Area: 20 cu. ft./level emanation, centered
on you
Duration: 1 hour/level

CL 15... do I control a huge 300ft circle of temperature... or is this like ... 300cu ft you control a small room lol

[lsfreak]

That's... extremely poorly written. I'd go with a 20-foot radius per level. 20 cubic feet per level isn't even a 7x7x7 foot area at level 15 (i.e. it doesn't even extend one square away from you).

[oOReikaOo]

Thats what i was thinking!!!

lol

[SiuiS]

Ten cubic feet is 10x10x10 isn't it? As far as game measure go at least? So the base is a 4x4x4 area on the grid. Add +100% each level.

That is pretty dumb though. Yeah.

[lsfreak]

Ten cubic feet is 10x10x10 isn't it? As far as game measure go at least? So the base is a 4x4x4 area on the grid. Add +100% each level.

That is pretty dumb though. Yeah.

A 10-foot cube =/= 10 cubic feet. Off the top of my head, cubic feet are used nowhere else except in the description of backpacks. It could be that they meant it to be a 20-foot-cube per level, but that doesn't match the 20ft radius per level either... so no matter what, you have to have your DM make a judgment call.

[olentu]

A 10-foot cube =/= 10 cubic feet. Off the top of my head, cubic feet are used nowhere else except in the description of backpacks. It could be that they meant it to be a 20-foot-cube per level, but that doesn't match the 20ft radius per level either... so no matter what, you have to have your DM make a judgment call.

Cubic feet are used in a few other places, such as polymorph any object, but it is certainly not the most common measure.

[Deophaun]

Cubic feet are used in a few other places, such as polymorph any object.
And stoneshape. I don't think I ever saw a group more depressed when I first pointed that out to my gaming group.

[oOReikaOo]

Assuming my DM rules thats its like 20ft radius / Level

Can I do...

FLASH FROST SPELL
Your spells that use cold and ice to damage your foes leave
behind a thin layer of slippery frost.

This metamagic feat can be applied only to spells
that have the cold descriptor and that affect an area.

:3 600ft radius is now covered in ice and is freezing cold

[Immabozo]

The area is per level, and will have a different result than the radius.

The area of a circle is pi * r^2, where as 20 cu. ft. is already solved.

PI(20)^2 = 1256.6 cu. ft.

Not quite right. That's SQUARED, not cubed. big difference

[Darth Stabber]

Not quite right. That's SQUARED, not cubed. big difference

You are quite right, that is surface area that I calculated. Whoops!

[oOReikaOo]

Assuming my DM rules thats its like 20ft radius / Level

Can I do...

FLASH FROST SPELL
Your spells that use cold and ice to damage your foes leave
behind a thin layer of slippery frost.

This metamagic feat can be applied only to spells
that have the cold descriptor and that affect an area.

:3 600ft radius is now covered in ice and is freezing cold

no one have an opinion on this?

[Invader]

This is noticeable elsewhere as well. I don't think a lot of the designers all quite understood cubic feet/ X foot cube.

[Lord Haart]

Ten cubic feet is 10x10x10 isn't it?
No, 10x10x10 (a cube ten feet aka 2 squares on each side) contains one thousand cubic feet. Simple as that.

[Emperor Tippy]

Draw a line on the map from your square forward (4*caster level) squares long (each square being 5 feet). Do the same at a 90, 180, and 270 degree offset so that you have a + with the intersection point being your square. Draw a circle that touches all four end points of the +.

That is a 20 ft. per CL radius emanation centered on the caster.

To be technical, you should also draw two vertical lines and make it a full sphere.

[Fouredged Sword]

Also, for the difference between an emanation and a burst, the emanation flows around objects and ignores cover if it can flow around it. The burst does not. A tower shield will protect you from a burst, but not from an emanation.