@JeremyECrawford Movement of Moonbeam not count as creatures entering when spirit guardians moving into creature counts as entering?
— Kasey Umland (@kaseyumland) April 11, 2016
Moonbeam, spirit guardians & the like work the same way: a creature, not the spell effect, does the entering. #DnD https://t.co/7bwknIJJId
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) April 12, 2016
@crimsonknight52so if pc casts spirguard, and the badbuys are alrdy in zone, or moonbeams right on badguys, no save/dmg until badguys turn? Correct.
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) April 15, 2016
Does returning from being Banished, for example, count as “entering” the moonbeam AOE?
It seems that the 2024 PHB changed Spirit Guardians so that both the Area of Effect and the creature can do the “entering,” potentially causing 6d8 of damage per round, especially if the cleric moves the area out of a creature’s space and then back in on every turn. The spell became especially dangerous when used by high AC clerics with War Caster.
Moonbeam was changed similarly. Moonbeam now specifies that the damage is dealt when the spell is cast. Spirit Guardians doesn’t (but I don’t see how casting the spell doesn’t make the area “enter” a creature’s space).