Can you drop a wall of force on someone?

[Three_Haligonians]

More specifically, can you chose to evoke the wall so that appears where a creature (or creatures) are and if so.. what happens?


R from Three Haligonians

 

[Delemental]

A wall of force spell creates an invisible wall of force. The wall cannot move, it is immune to damage of all kinds, and it is unaffected by most spells, including dispel magic. However, disintegrate immediately destroys it, as does a rod of cancellation, a sphere of annihilation, or a mage’s disjunction spell. Breath weapons and spells cannot pass through the wall in either direction, although dimension door, teleport, and similar effects can bypass the barrier. It blocks ethereal creatures as well as material ones (though ethereal creatures can usually get around the wall by floating under or over it through material floors and ceilings). Gaze attacks can operate through a wall of force.

The caster can form the wall into a flat, vertical plane whose area is up to one 10- foot square per level. The wall must be continuous and unbroken when formed. If its surface is broken by any object or creature, the spell fails.

Wall of force can be made permanent with a permanency spell.

Emphasis mine. If you try to put the wall on top of a creature, the spell fails.

 

[Lord Pendragon]

Also, to reply to the subject line, the spell description states that a wall of force must be a vertical plane. So no, you can't form a horizontal wall of force above a critter and drop it on them either.

 

[Starglim]

Also, to reply to the subject line, the spell description states that a wall of force must be a vertical plane. So no, you can't form a horizontal wall of force above a critter and drop it on them either.

Just to flog the question to death, if you cast a wall of force above a creature in whatever orientation, it won't drop. The wall cannot (and does not) move.

 

[werk]

Also, to reply to the subject line, the spell description states that a wall of force must be a vertical plane. So no, you can't form a horizontal wall of force above a critter and drop it on them either.

Just to flog the question to death, if you cast a wall of force above a creature in whatever orientation, it won't drop. The wall cannot (and does not) move.

And to continue to beat this point...

I always describe the wall of force as two dimensional, like a plane.

 

[Infiniti2000]

More shenanigans

And to continue to beat this point...

I always describe the wall of force as two dimensional, like a plane.

If a plane were two-dimensional, how could you fly in it?

 

[werk]

If a plane were two-dimensional, how could you fly in it?

You gotta fold it just right

 

[Corsair]

You gotta fold it just right

Even then it isn't really flying so much as gliding.

 

[Murrdox]

Whatever.

I let my players do this. Just cast "Wall of Force", do a bit of folding, and then with some "Gust of Wind" spells you've got yourself an instant glider.

Totally within the scope of the rules.

And by totally I mean "kinda".

 

[Corsair]

And by totally I mean "kinda".

And by "kinda" you mean "not at all, but it sounds novel, so sure why not?"