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-sigh- I don't know, this just feels very strange to me. Why not simply allow it to be hemispherical? It always has been in the past. A fully upright 20-foot diameter sphere in the middle of the battlefield looks really odd, especially considering it can't quite touch the ground. It reduces the area that can be protected by the sphere at ground-level where most combat takes place. It would make a lot more sense if walls/floors and such were not considered objects, but I'm not sure how they could be described as anything but. It seems an awful lot of inconvenience for 8th/9th level spells, powerful though they may be.

And again, there's the issue of Chromatic Wall. Prismatic Wall is undoubtedly a more powerful version of this spell, why introduce this limitation now? It feels like a mistake to me. I realize PF2 will be different than PF1, but the spell seems player-hostile in how difficult it is to use.

I disagree - castable with 3 actions suggests using it in combat is perfectly reasonable. Also, the 'corner of your space' 10 feet in the air? Is your space 10 feet tall? Is it not a 5-foot square? If you cast Prismatic Sphere 10 feet in the air, the only square that is fully inside of it on the ground is your own (And not even entirely, for if it touches the ground, it poofs). Far from 'protecting an area', you could barely stand inside it. This is very different from every other interpretation of Prismatic Sphere ever seen before. Doesn't seem likely. It also sidesteps the issue of placement. Must all Prismatic Wall hallways be exactly these dimensions? The Elemental bloodline gets this spell as a bloodline spell, but unless they own some kind of structure purpose-built for this spell, it's nigh-useless to them.

The text of Prismatic Wall states:

You create an opaque wall of shimmering, multicolored light. The wall is straight and vertical, stretching 60 feet long and 30 feet high. You must form the wall in an unbroken open space so its edges don't pass through any creatures or objects, or the spell is lost.

I had a question about this... isn't this kind of unusable? It requires a space that is 60 feet wide and 30 feet high, meaning it can't be used indoors in the vast majority of indoor spaces or the edges would brush up against some wall or ceiling or another, which I can't imagine is anything other than 'an object'. I'm really struggling to see how you could use this well given how enormous and unwieldy it is. I rarely see battles where there is that much open space with no objects whatsoever. Since you can't shrink the wall to fit, and can't reshape it (that would kind of step on the toes of the Prismatic Sphere spell one spell level up) it seems nearly unusable. It would either be impossible to place or fairly simple to go around/over/underneath. Similarly, Prismatic Sphere shares the same issue. If you're standing on the ground, the spell fails. Are the ground and walls and ceiling not considered objects? There's no definition that I am aware of for what exactly constitutes an 'object'. Am I missing something?

EDIT: It also seems strange considering a very similar spell, Chromatic Wall, does not break the wall on objects, only on creatures.

Hey, I've recently bought Hellknight Hill, the first book in Age of Ashes, but now that I've decided I wanna continue the series, my attempt to buy the second book Cult of Cinders isn't working.

I buy in PDF format, and when I try to add the item to my cart, it simply says "Your request produced an error." I tried several times, then tried other books in the AP and other APs from 1st edition, then even some Starfinder stuff. Seems I can't add anything from the store to my cart.

Wondering if this is some kind of maintenance on your end or something wrong that I'm doing.

Thanks for your time.