@JeremyECrawford is ending concentration willingly the same as breaking concentration? For example, Conjure Elemental states it stays for the duration (up to 1 hour), but if concentration is broken it doesn’t disappear. What happens if concentration is ended instead? #sageadvice
— ⒸⒶⓈⒺⓎ (@case_race) January 9, 2019
Willingly ending your concentration on a spell in D&D isn't the same thing as having your concentration broken. In the rules on concentration (PH, 203), willingly ending your concentration is purposefully not on the list of things that can break your concentration. #DnD https://t.co/nfqEWuac5v
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) January 10, 2019
So… What happens if you willing end your concentration on Conjure Elemental?
— Peter Pattison (@PJP2810) January 10, 2019
When you willingly stop concentrating on a concentration spell, the spell ends.
Conjure Elemental: "The elemental disappears when it drops to 0 hit points or when the spell ends." #DnD https://t.co/7yiQhXHjip
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) January 10, 2019
Does the spell end if it is banished?
— Girl Lover 3000 (@viviwizardshark) January 10, 2019
Banishing a creature summoned by a spell doesn't end that spell, unless the description of the spell or the banishing effect says otherwise. Spells are ended only by things that explicitly end them. #DnD https://t.co/2rfQaCCQ1A
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) January 10, 2019
So to make sure I understand, stopping concentration ends a spell, breaking concentration ends a spell, but there are instances where stopping concentration and breaking concentration have different effects on the results of the spell? Such as with Conjure Elemental?
— Kymlaar (@kymlaar2) January 10, 2019
The distinction between ending your concentration willingly and your concentration being broken is only relevant when a rule tells you it's relevant. The conjure elemental spell is a rare instance of the distinction having meaning, which is detailed in the spell. #DnD https://t.co/bydwVAWaEk
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) January 10, 2019
Conjure Celestial by contrast makes no comment on what happens if concentration is lost so we would assume the spell ends?
— RM (@BittersTweet) January 10, 2019
A concentration spell ends when your concentration on it ends. That's the bedrock of the concentration rule. #DnD https://t.co/aLVyzBTc1X
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) January 10, 2019
