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<blockquote data-quote="Dessert Nomad" data-source="post: 7526622" data-attributes="member: 6976536">First of all this is not accurate, the Magic User only hurled a single fireball, he did not 'keep hurling' them.&nbsp; Hurling a fireball at a 60' long creature while it is engaged in melee with half a dozen humans who can move along its length to stay clustered together without hitting them is a trivial task. I didn't think it was worth specifying that the PCs in melee would move to stay relatively close together towards one end of the worm, leaving the bulk of the worm's body free. (Note that in both 1e and 5e, enemies don't get free attacks* for characters moving along beside them, it's only for leaving a threatened space in 5e or disengaging in 1e.) With the worm in a 30' long U shape (bringing both bite and tail to bear) and the characters fighting at the straight ends of the U, it's trivial for the magic user to target the fireball where part of it will hit the worm but none of it overlap any of the party. If this was too complicated of a tactic for your groups to figure out, or the source of some great controversy, well...* Also note that I, and most other people that I have encountered, would use the term AOO for the free attack a monster gets on a character fleeing melee even though said term wasn't used in 1e. I deliberately didn't use it here just to avoid multiple pages of 'genius' argument that using AOO to describe something in 1e proves that I never played 1e.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dessert Nomad, post: 7526622, member: 6976536"] First of all this is not accurate, the Magic User only hurled a single fireball, he did not 'keep hurling' them. Hurling a fireball at a 60' long creature while it is engaged in melee with half a dozen humans who can move along its length to stay clustered together without hitting them is a trivial task. I didn't think it was worth specifying that the PCs in melee would move to stay relatively close together towards one end of the worm, leaving the bulk of the worm's body free. (Note that in both 1e and 5e, enemies don't get free attacks* for characters moving along beside them, it's only for leaving a threatened space in 5e or disengaging in 1e.) With the worm in a 30' long U shape (bringing both bite and tail to bear) and the characters fighting at the straight ends of the U, it's trivial for the magic user to target the fireball where part of it will hit the worm but none of it overlap any of the party. If this was too complicated of a tactic for your groups to figure out, or the source of some great controversy, well... * Also note that I, and most other people that I have encountered, would use the term AOO for the free attack a monster gets on a character fleeing melee even though said term wasn't used in 1e. I deliberately didn't use it here just to avoid multiple pages of 'genius' argument that using AOO to describe something in 1e proves that I never played 1e. [/QUOTE]

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