Role-playing Games Asked by Dale M on October 30, 2021
Inspired by Does an Enlarge/Reduce spell on a druid affect the beast form if the druid Wild-Shapes?
Focusing on the specific effect of the Enlarge/Reduce spell:
You cause a creature or an object you can see within range to grow larger or smaller for the duration.
Consider a human who is, for reasons which will become obvious, named Inflatoman.
Inflatoman is the target of an Enlarge spell cast by Engorgo. He grows to twice his size becoming a large creature.
While the Engorgo maintains concentration; Reducto hits Inflatoman with a reduce spell, which clearly causes him to revert to his original size. While these spells have not cancelled each other, their effects have.
So, what happens:
if Engorgo stops concentrating while Reducto keeps concentrating:
if Reducto stops concentrating while Engorgo keeps concentrating:
An alternative way of asking this is: Is the growth from an Enlarge spell a one shot effect that causes the target to grow at the beginning and then shrink at the end OR a continuous effect that is trying to make the subject be twice the size they would otherwise be? Vice versa for Reduce.
From the "Combining Magical Effects" section of the Player's Handbook (p. 205) and the Basic Rules (p. 85):
The effects of different spells add together while the durations of those spells overlap. The effects of the same spell cast multiple times don't combine, however. Instead, the most potent effect — such as the highest bonus — from those castings applies while their durations overlap, or the most recent effect applies if the castings are equally potent and their durations overlap.
This rule can lead to one of two different rulings:
If Engorgo were to stop concentrating, then Inflatoman would either remain Small (option 1) or become Small (option 2). If Reducto were to stop concentrating, then Inflatoman would become Large in either case.
Thank you to @V2Blast for notifying me of the 2018 PHB errata on this!
Answered by jkat718 on October 30, 2021
When the spell ends (for whatever reason), their effect ends too. Enlarging a creature makes it grow when the spell is cast, and shrink when the spell ends.
From this, we can conclude that, no matter your interpretation of whether the spell is maintaining a certain size for the creature or not, when Engorgo stops concentrating on his spell, Inflatoman shrinks one size category, and when Reducto stops concentrating on his spell, Inflatoman will grow one size category.
Answered by xanderh on October 30, 2021
Given that the spells require concentration, they are an ongoing effect. When the caster's concentration ends, the ongoing effect ends.
To compare against your alternative, let's look at what happens:
Answered by Adeptus on October 30, 2021
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