Wall of Fire and the hot side of the wall in ring shape

[Winterwalker]

I ran into a scenario where I was unsure how to handle Wall of Fires damage in a ring shape. Specifically if the hot wall side was the inside of the ring.

Does the 10' and 20' range of heat pulsing extend past itself in ring shape? or does the heat stay on the inside only?

If you make a small enough ring, say a 10' ring, would the heat pulse through the opposite side wall and do damage on a side not intended to be hot?

If need be I can illustrate but it should be simple enough to imagine. How do you think by the rules this should work?

Thanks.

[Valiant]

The way I read it, it pulses towards 1 direction. So if you say it pulses inward and the heat crosses over to the other side of the circle and even surpasses that, thats allright. No problem at all. Just not further then the 20 ft. The firewall itself in circular form is not a barrier that stops the heat eminating from the firewall part on the other side of the firewall ring. It lets it through.

That side it passes through might not be intended to be hot because the source of the heat eminating from that side goes inward, but it doesn't pose a barrier to let the heat from the other side of the ring through.
So that side would be hot, yes, just not as hot and not as far eminating as if you would chose to make the heat face outward of the circle.

[Riuken]

Winterwalker wrote:

I ran into a scenario where I was unsure how to handle Wall of Fires damage in a ring shape. Specifically if the hot wall side was the inside of the ring.

Does the 10' and 20' range of heat pulsing extend past itself in ring shape? or does the heat stay on the inside only?

If you make a small enough ring, say a 10' ring, would the heat pulse through the opposite side wall and do damage on a side not intended to be hot?

If need be I can illustrate but it should be simple enough to imagine. How do you think by the rules this should work?

Thanks.

Seems that RAW it would extend back outside of the ring. RAI seems to be that the damage stays inside. The RAW in this case is silly.

[Valiant]

I have an additional question about this spell:

Does the wall of fire prevent vision/line of effect of spells, arrows and all that? It isn't mentioned in the spell itself, but I do know an oracle of fire can have an ability to look through flames....so what would you rule?

[Adam Daigle]

In the Effect line of the spell it lists it as an opaque sheet of flame, so I've always ruled that you can't see through it.

[Abandoned Arts]

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A wall of fire (which is opaque as Adam points out) provides total concealment but not cover. It does not prevent ranged attacks per se, in the sense that blindness doesn't prevent ranged attacks either.

The heat effects would extend past the wall if you laid it out in a tight wall as the OP describes, in the same way that the wall would not interfere with a fireball or any other source of area damage.

Daron Woodson
Abandoned Arts

[Valiant]

Thanks for the explanation. My first language not being english, I had and still have no clue what Opaque means :)

[Diego Rossi]

Searching for a translation in Netherlander of opaque I find:

Ondoorzichtig

and

Mat

I hope it will help.

[yeti1069]

Opaque means "light does not pass through."
A clear glass (like a window) is transparent: light passes through it easily/completely--you can see everything on the other side.

A piece of thin paper may be translucent: some light can pass through it, but not easily/completely--you can't make out images on the other side.

A wood board is opaque: no light passes through it; you cannot see anything on the other side of.

[Rogar Stonebow]

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A wall of fire (which is opaque as Adam points out) provides total concealment but not cover. It does not prevent ranged attacks per se, in the sense that blindness doesn't prevent ranged attacks either.

The heat effects would extend past the wall if you laid it out in a tight wall as the OP describes, in the same way that the wall would not interfere with a fireball or any other source of area damage.

Daron Woodson
Abandoned Arts

Just thought of something.. if you shoot an arrow through it to the center, the arrow has to survive the damage done to it, right?

If your aiming for something on the other side of circle, then it has to survive the fire damage twice.

Just thinking.

[Valiant]

Thanks for the explanation and translation of Opaque, I get it now:))