Healing Well Spell from SoM has contradictory text and range

[Flambe]

My cleric player asked me a question about the new spell "Healing Well" in SoM. He pointed out that the range listed is 30 feet but the spell description mentions "The well appears as a disc of shimmering light on the ground in a square you touch".

For tonight we ruled that the spell was cast on a spot within 30 feet but to interact with the spell you had to be in touch range of it. Is there something I am missing?

Healing Well

[Perpdepog]

That does look like it might be an error. At first I thought maybe the width of the well might be 30 feet, but that'd be an odd way to write it, and you have to be adjacent to it to gain its benefit, as well. Huh.

[Falco271]

Flambe wrote:

My cleric player asked me a question about the new spell "Healing Well" in SoM. He pointed out that the range listed is 30 feet but the spell description mentions "The well appears as a disc of shimmering light on the ground in a square you touch".

For tonight we ruled that the spell was cast on a spot within 30 feet but to interact with the spell you had to be in touch range of it. Is there something I am missing?

Healing Well

Range is how far away from the caster it can be cast. So it doesn't need to be next to the caster, or in the square of the caster.

Using it means standing next to it.

[HumbleGamer]

Maybe the disc appears in a square you touch, then it slides up to 30 feet.

*honk honk*

You are on the well's way! Get out!

[breithauptclan]

Yeah, that looks like an editing error. I would go with the spell's Range entry of 30 ft. Not the description text of 'a square you touch'.