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<blockquote data-quote="Ranes" data-source="post: 2433098" data-attributes="member: 4826"><p>The spell description describes an 'explosion' as being created but that it creates 'almost no pressure', so its behaviour is clearly not the same as a conventional (ie non-magical) fireball. Nevertheless, I would suggest that the walls of the ten-foot corridor would take damage as unattended abjects, as described by the spell entry.</p><p></p><p>As for how somebody evades full damage with a Reflex save, well, I'd suggest that any creature with a base size of 10' or less doesn't occupy the whole 10'x10' area (or volume, if we're assuming a 10' ceiling as well) and has some room to manoeuvre. I'd also suggest, as others have done on previous occasions that this issue has been raised, that the fireball is a swirling mass of flame that contains some empty space. A lucky, Reflex-saving creature caught in the effect could then presumably occupy some of this empty space, thereby avoiding the full effect of the spell.</p><p></p><p>It's a stretch but this is D&D. What isn't? Frankly I prefer the unlikeliness of this fireball to working out the volumetric effects of the spell in previous editions.</p><p></p><p>Edit: a shorter response would have made me look a lot less repetitive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ranes, post: 2433098, member: 4826"] The spell description describes an 'explosion' as being created but that it creates 'almost no pressure', so its behaviour is clearly not the same as a conventional (ie non-magical) fireball. Nevertheless, I would suggest that the walls of the ten-foot corridor would take damage as unattended abjects, as described by the spell entry. As for how somebody evades full damage with a Reflex save, well, I'd suggest that any creature with a base size of 10' or less doesn't occupy the whole 10'x10' area (or volume, if we're assuming a 10' ceiling as well) and has some room to manoeuvre. I'd also suggest, as others have done on previous occasions that this issue has been raised, that the fireball is a swirling mass of flame that contains some empty space. A lucky, Reflex-saving creature caught in the effect could then presumably occupy some of this empty space, thereby avoiding the full effect of the spell. It's a stretch but this is D&D. What isn't? Frankly I prefer the unlikeliness of this fireball to working out the volumetric effects of the spell in previous editions. Edit: a shorter response would have made me look a lot less repetitive. [/QUOTE]
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