The fireball spell through the editions
Henry
Autoexreginated
In one old Dungeon adventure, I saw a fighter take out almost HALF of an entire warren of goblins in 5' x 5' corridors with one fireball from a necklace of missiles. He just ducked and took the damage, and the goblins just fried and died, whether they made their save or not. 
you think 33 10' cubes are brutal - how about 264!!?!?!!
I do miss the compression effect, but don't really miss the melting of metals, because I don't see why things like steel would melt, though lead and copper I think definitely would.
you think 33 10' cubes are brutal - how about 264!!?!?!!I do miss the compression effect, but don't really miss the melting of metals, because I don't see why things like steel would melt, though lead and copper I think definitely would.
DethStryke
Explorer
I'm far more disappointed by the changes to Lightning Bolt than Fireball.
That melting point issue makes me realize that alot of the DMs I've played under don't really remember to count this in... When was the last time that your DM ruled that all the coin the monsters were carrying in little pouches on their belt were melted into small multi-colored balls of precious metal?
That melting point issue makes me realize that alot of the DMs I've played under don't really remember to count this in... When was the last time that your DM ruled that all the coin the monsters were carrying in little pouches on their belt were melted into small multi-colored balls of precious metal?
Scribble
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DethStryke said:I'm far more disappointed by the changes to Lightning Bolt than Fireball.
That melting point issue makes me realize that alot of the DMs I've played under don't really remember to count this in... When was the last time that your DM ruled that all the coin the monsters were carrying in little pouches on their belt were melted into small multi-colored balls of precious metal?
I once played a halfling cleric named Roofus. He got ambushed by a bunch of spiders that pulled him up into a tree. The party mage, in order to "save" roofus, blasted the whole tree with a Fire Ball... The DM ruled my chainmail melted and fused with my skin. Ouch.
But hey, it gave me a "natural" armor class!
lukelightning
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Ah yes, the good old days of fireball expansion. That was my first lesson on how to find the volume of a sphere (my older brother had to explain how the 33000 number came from).
My magic-user was a friggin' terror in the dungeon; thankfully my DM was gracious enough to allow us to use the "open the door a crack...fireball in, slam the door and jump back" strategy.
We also had something called an "All-Dice Fireball" which was a special ability we got granted from some deity for killing a demon lord. An All-Dice Fireball was just that: A fireball that's damage is ALL THE DICE. No, not a d4 and a d6 and a d8, etc. No, not even all the d6's. It was ALL THE DICE IN THE HOUSE . We raided the yahtzee and monopoly games, scrounged up every die we could find.
*BOOM* then spend the next 15 minutes tallying up the damage....woo hoo, 343 points! Whaddaya mean pit fiends are immune to fire!?!?!?
My magic-user was a friggin' terror in the dungeon; thankfully my DM was gracious enough to allow us to use the "open the door a crack...fireball in, slam the door and jump back" strategy.
We also had something called an "All-Dice Fireball" which was a special ability we got granted from some deity for killing a demon lord. An All-Dice Fireball was just that: A fireball that's damage is ALL THE DICE. No, not a d4 and a d6 and a d8, etc. No, not even all the d6's. It was ALL THE DICE IN THE HOUSE
. We raided the yahtzee and monopoly games, scrounged up every die we could find. *BOOM* then spend the next 15 minutes tallying up the damage....woo hoo, 343 points! Whaddaya mean pit fiends are immune to fire!?!?!?
lukelightning
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DethStryke said:
No big problem; all the gold melts into a blob so you don't need to worry about spilling coins.
I guess that's where all those electrum pieces came from: All the sp and gp melting together.
Sidekick
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El-Remmen: you're my hero
Ahh yes the good old days of 2nd ed. When I could blow up real good in a dungeon.
fireball was my friend.
I also really miss the bouncing lightning bolt. Once my DM had us fight a gold golem in a dungeon where lots of the walls were at strange angles. We didn't get it until the lightning bolts trap came into effect. The damn thing jumped about all over the place making us lose about 60% of the standing room.
Upside - when we killed the golem, it came time for trying to carry out all the treasure. We tallies up all the coins, adn then realised that the leg of the golem was worth more than then coins we could carry. So we left the coins & took the leg and gems.
The banker in town wal well surprised when we asked to exchange the leg for trade bars and gems. hehehe
Ahh yes the good old days of 2nd ed. When I could blow
up real good in a dungeon. fireball was my friend.
I also really miss the bouncing lightning bolt. Once my DM had us fight a gold golem in a dungeon where lots of the walls were at strange angles. We didn't get it until the lightning bolts trap came into effect. The damn thing jumped about all over the place making us lose about 60% of the standing room.
Upside - when we killed the golem, it came time for trying to carry out all the treasure. We tallies up all the coins, adn then realised that the leg of the golem was worth more than then coins we could carry. So we left the coins & took the leg and gems.
The banker in town wal well surprised when we asked to exchange the leg for trade bars and gems. hehehe
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