SirNibbles
2019-04-19, 10:09 AM
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A caltrops spell covers one 5-foot-by-5-foot square with caltrops.
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For every two caster levels beyond 1st, you can affect an additional 5-foot-by-5-foot square. Thus, you affect two squares at 3rd level (+1 melee), three at 5th level (+2 melee), four at 7th level (+3 melee), and a maximum of five at 9th level or higher (+4 melee maximum)." - Spell Compendium, page 42
So the area is up to five 5-foot squares.
If you combine this with the Sculpt Spell Metamagic Feat (Complete Arcane, page 83), does this allow you to change the shape (5-foot square) to one of the options allowed by the feat, allowing you to have up to five 40-foot cones/10-foot cylinders/20-foot radius balls/120-foot lines, or can you only have one area of the new shape?
Basically, because the spell affects multiple areas, can you change the shape of all 5 areas or is it all counted as 1?
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A caltrops spell covers one 5-foot-by-5-foot square with caltrops.
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For every two caster levels beyond 1st, you can affect an additional 5-foot-by-5-foot square. Thus, you affect two squares at 3rd level (+1 melee), three at 5th level (+2 melee), four at 7th level (+3 melee), and a maximum of five at 9th level or higher (+4 melee maximum)." - Spell Compendium, page 42
So the area is up to five 5-foot squares.
If you combine this with the Sculpt Spell Metamagic Feat (Complete Arcane, page 83), does this allow you to change the shape (5-foot square) to one of the options allowed by the feat, allowing you to have up to five 40-foot cones/10-foot cylinders/20-foot radius balls/120-foot lines, or can you only have one area of the new shape?
Basically, because the spell affects multiple areas, can you change the shape of all 5 areas or is it all counted as 1?