Timeline for Is Leomund's Tiny Hut stationary relative to the ground or to the surface it's cast on?
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| Aug 11, 2022 at 14:35 | comment | added | ProphetZarquon | Location relative to the caster makes perfect sense to me... until I try to consider the spell effect remaining stationary relative to the caster if they move? I think I agree with T.J.L., that the best answer we can really get here is "locations are relative to the battle map"... | |
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| May 28, 2018 at 17:35 | comment | added | Mindwin Remember Monica | @lucidbrot the Zaratan is a good proof-of-concept that the referential is subjective for the story's POV. The players think they are on an island, everything works as if they are on an island, but it is actually a (pretty big) monster's back. Making something (like immovable rods or leomund's hut) work differently than from an island will be a clue that it is not an island. Is it good for the story? If yes then go for it. otherwise, let it "break physics" and work as the players would expect for the setting. | |
| May 28, 2018 at 15:29 | comment | added | lucidbrot | @Mindwin Thanks! But even without astrophysics, some guidance on which interpretations work well and which do not would be useful. At least I would want to know how the consistency works if I were a player with that spell. And as a DM, I would not know how to answer, because any answer might have edge cases where it would not be smart to handle like that. Or would you say this is a question that should always be decided in the moment? | |
| May 28, 2018 at 12:23 | comment | added | Mindwin Remember Monica | @lucidbrot there are no astrophysics in 5e. It is relative to what the DM understands as "ground". If the adventure is on an island that is moving because it is a zaratan, it is relative to the island. Neither the characters nor the magic knows what "frame of reference" is. It is a medieval/renaissance simulation game. | |
| May 27, 2018 at 12:21 | comment | added | lucidbrot | "Relative to the caster position", but in what frame of reference? i.e. the position in the universe relative to the sun? the position relative to the ground? to the ship? Related: rpg.stackexchange.com/q/69917/33691 | |
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| S Dec 8, 2017 at 19:03 | comment | added | SevenSidedDie | Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. | |
| Jun 27, 2017 at 16:18 | history | answered | Mindwin Remember Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |