Woodland Stride vs Wall of Thorns?

[Plane Sailing]

Some of the wording of Wall of Thorns made me start to wonder about the interaction of Woodland Stride with Wall of Thorns. If I quote the two bits from the SRD first

Woodland Stride (Ex): Starting at 2nd level, a druid may move through any sort of undergrowth (such as natural thorns, briars, overgrown areas, and similar terrain) at her normal speed and without taking damage or suffering any other impairment. However, thorns, briars, and overgrown areas that have been magically manipulated to impede motion still affect her.

from "Wall of Thorns" (I didn't quote the whole thing to avoid inflating the size of the post, please include other bits that are important if I missed them). My emphasis added.

Any creature within the area of the spell when it is cast takes damage as if it had moved into the wall and is caught inside. In order to escape, it must attempt to push its way free, or it can wait until the spell ends. Creatures with the ability to pass through overgrown areas unhindered can pass through a wall of thorns at normal speed without taking damage.
A wall of thorns can be breached by slow work with edged weapons. Chopping away at the wall creates a safe passage 1 foot deep for every 10 minutes of work. Normal fire cannot harm the barrier, but magical fire burns it away in 10 minutes.
Despite its appearance, a wall of thorns is not actually a living plant, and thus is unaffected by spells that affect plants.

So what about that line in italics in Wall of Thorns? It sounds like it is a specific exception to the general condition that woodland stride doesn't help in magically impairing undergrowth - presumably to enable a druid to get through his own wall of thorns without difficulty.

Do you think that is what it means? Or do you think that the Woodland Stride isn't able to help here (in which case what does the highlighted text from wall of thorns refer to?)

I'm open to any ideas in unravelling this, uh, thorny issue

Cheers

 

[shilsen]

I do think that the line you italicized in the Wall of Thorns description points out that it is a specific exception and Woodland Stride will work with it (as opposed to other druid spells like plant growth, for example). Makes it a very nasty combo to use on enemies.

I'm open to any ideas in unravelling this, uh, thorny issue

Hope that resolved the prickly problem you had

 

[Liquidsabre]

Yup, sounds like you already got the point of it there Plane Sailing.

 

[Plane Sailing]

Well, I hoped I wasn't just b-rambling...

 

[Stalker0]

I also agree, it specifically allows for woodland stride to work.

 

[BSF]

I agree, it looks like Woodland Stride works for Wall of Thorns, but not something like Entangle.

Hmm, that could be interesting to play with.

 

[Plane Sailing]

My sorcerer has a ranger cohort (8th) who has woodland stride. We are just going up against a high level druid (I had to use a wall of fire to burn a path through an 80ft thick ring of wall of thorns. Since a wall of thorns can apparently be dropped on you with no save (oww!) having a character who can stroll through it will likely prove invaluable!

Cheers

 

[shilsen]

My sorcerer has a ranger cohort (8th) who has woodland stride. We are just going up against a high level druid (I had to use a wall of fire to burn a path through an 80ft thick ring of wall of thorns. Since a wall of thorns can apparently be dropped on you with no save (oww!) having a character who can stroll through it will likely prove invaluable!

Cheers

Or just make it really clear which member of the party gets ripped in two by a dire bear when he's the only one outside the Wall of Thorns