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Thread: Land Druid and it's AC problems

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    Default Re: Land Druid and it's AC problems

    Quote Originally Posted by War_lord View Post
    It has a duration of instantaneous, there's no water produced.
    Ah, true that, forgot about that.
    So your reasoning is, I guess, because it's instantaneous you cannot consider it is "present" long enough to undergo any transformation?

    Or that it's not true ice in the first place because it's an "evocation" spell and not a "conjuration" spell?

    Interesting.
    But it reveals a very different understanding between us of the magic works.
    Imo, the "instantaneity" is not necessarily incompatible with any "persistence".
    Ice Storm does transform the terrain after all.

    So, you can consider that Ice Storm is just a magical thing that happen to have two different magical effects, which both vaguely resemble ice blocks... And instantaneity refers to, not only the ice block fall itself, but the "lifespan" of blocks themselves.
    Or you can consider that Ice Storm actually creates ice, which creates icy surface when crashing on the ground, and "instantaneous" only refers to the speed at which ice blocks fall and implode on ground (and is used to prevent any crafty idea to otherwise exploit the falling ice).

    Unless you can quote a line in the PHB that would "hardcode" something like "apart from conjuration, any effect is only a magical illusion and cannot mimick any natural phenomenom", both seem as viable to me. :)
    Last edited by Citan; 2017-03-05 at 08:33 PM.