I recently had a player in my campaign cast a ForceCage around a flying target. As hard as i tried, i couldn't find anything that states that a force effect like that is affected by gravity or needs to be braced (a la web). so, i let it hang in midair for its duration.
thoughts?
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I recently had a player in my campaign cast a ForceCage around a flying target. As hard as i tried, i couldn't find anything that states that a force effect like that is affected by gravity or needs to be braced (a la web). so, i let it hang in midair for its duration.
thoughts?
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Some might say that a solid force effect is affected by gravity, while others would say it isn't. It can be argued both ways with ease. It comes down to DMs choice and hence you made the right decision. Now of course, you have to be consistent with your ruling for future gravity/force effect conundrums.
Force Effects are high end spells, and when they aren't they still do high end things (magic missle: never miss). Also, spell descriptions generally mention any special conditions needed for a spell to work, or any odd caveats that could interfere (web anchor points, cloudkill/gust of wind blow away). Since you can certainly throw a web in midair as long as you have anchor points, (between two tall buildings) and you can throw a cloudkill in midair, and you can throw a wall of force in midair (note that it does not have the "anchor" requirements that the other physical walls do) then you can certainly forcecage in midair. Does this make the delicious forcecage spell even more powerful? Maybe. As long as you're enforcing that terrible 1500 gp of ruby dust component, it should be ok.
Force effects are Evocations, not Conjurations. Therefore, things created with force spells are energy, not mass. A thing with no mass is not affected by gravity (for the most part).
The forcecage can hover just fine.
Of course, an Otiluke's telekinetic sphere falls until it hits a level surface if it is not being controlled (see spell description). This seems to suggest that force effects are either affected by gravity or by the weight of the creature inside. Of course, if it's the latter, then a forcecage might very well fall if created in the air.