Total Area on Cone of Cold and other cone effects


Rules Questions


Pathfinder Rulebook Subscriber

The range in the spell descriptor states 60ft and the spell description says it starts and your hand. Is it a cone that goes from your hand out 60ft or does it merely go 30 feet as the area in the general description of spell areas seem to show?

Scarab Sages

60' - use the 30' cone as a guide of how to implement the extra distance


We always figured it would spread out in a straight corner with your hands as points of origin.

So if you stand in the southwest corner, it would go like this:

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for a 30ft cone: 6 blocks up and 6 blocks east and ofcourse a 30ft diagonal line.


Pathfinder Rulebook Subscriber

Unfortunately, I got two different answers. Is there a tie breaker?

Dark Archive

Preston Poulter wrote:
Unfortunately, I got two different answers. Is there a tie breaker?

IIRC, it's 60 ft. from your square (i.e. 12 squares). Just as Ceefood said.


Preston Poulter wrote:
Unfortunately, I got two different answers. Is there a tie breaker?

You got the same answer 3 times now. The middle one was talking about 30' cones.

Basically cones end after they have moved 60' away from their point of origin. They also have restrictions on arc of movement (i.e. stay in a quadrant, etc)

-James

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