Board Thread:Versus Battles/@comment-29825745-20190213201204/@comment-28876888-20190216015656

No. It is just raw arcane energy.

Basically, there are tons of "elemental" damage types in D&D- some of which aren't actual elements. Fire, cold, electricity, acid, necrotic, psychic, sonic- the list goes on. This particular brand is known as Force, a generic, raw form of arcane energy harvested from the Nexus of Magic.

Nobody in-verse can "avoid being touched"- not Incorporeals, not Intangibles, not beings behind eight layers of armor which exist in five different layers of existence simultaneously.