[3.5] Question about Sculpt Spell

[dextercorvia]

Is Caltrops from the Spell Compendium an area effect spell? Could you use Sculpt Spell on it?

[Tytalus]

Since the spell does have an "area" entry, it qualifies, even if it's an unusual area.

[nedz]

Its the Close range on Caltrops which may inhibit your options a little.

[dextercorvia]

So, if a level 1 character casts a Sculpted Caltrops in a narrow hallway, Sculpt would allow it to be a line, but the range of the spell would stop it at 25'?

[jiriku]

Correct. If the area you select from the sculpt spell menu won't fit within the range of the spell, the area is truncated where it hits the spell's range limit.

[Caphi]

25' + 10% per caster level, but yeah, that's the gist.

[TheMadLinguist]

Since the area and range for a cone are always the same, doesn't it just override?

Otherwise a widened cone of cold or lightning bolt would be exactly the same as a normal cone of cold or lightning bolt.

[dextercorvia]

Just a curiosity, would the 4 10' cube options create a Caltrop Rain effect? I know the extra caltrops wouldn't have any game effect, but it would be fun.

[jiriku]

Technically you can't conjure items into an environment that can't support them, so the cubes of caltrops would become rectangles of caltrops, but as DM, I would TOTALLY support the caltrop rain.

[TheMadLinguist]

Technically you can't conjure items into an environment that can't support them, so the cubes of caltrops would become rectangles of caltrops, but as DM, I would TOTALLY support the caltrop rain.

Wouldn't they be supported by the hundreds of caltrops below them?

It'd be like caltrop jenga.

[dextercorvia]

Technically you can't conjure items into an environment that can't support them, so the cubes of caltrops would become rectangles of caltrops, but as DM, I would TOTALLY support the caltrop rain.

You sound like the kind of DM that would be fun to play with.


Are there other low level spells that are good to sculpt? I had been thinking Color Spray, but I see now that the range would be a serious impediment to that. I know Glitterdust would be awesome.

[TheMadLinguist]

Grease (again, assuming that sculpt spell saying "changes the area's shape" includes the needed change in the spell's range to actually make the spell into that shape). Body of the sun, if you can swing it.

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