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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 2871455" data-attributes="member: 515">Back in 2E, when you had to calculate the volume of the fireball and how much space it filled up, we had a player who was playing a wizard, and he had just leveled up so he now could learn the fireball spell. He was very eager to use it.The next dungeon the group entered, they found a smallish room filled with kobolds. He decided he would clear out the room with his fireball. The rogue opened the door and the wizard cast his fireball spell. It filled the room, and the excess energy backblasted down the corridor the party was in. He killed all the kobolds, but took most of the party down to near zero HP.The funny thing is, a few years later the same player, this time in a Cyberpunk 2020 campaign, tried to use his newly-purchased grenade launcher in the flooded subway tunnels beneath London against some policemen who had interrupted the players' transaction with black market arms dealers. The player missed badly with both shots he took with the weapon; his second attack, in fact, was a critical miss. I was the GM, and ruled the recoil from the first shot had caused the weapon to fire the second grenade straight up. It hit the roof, came back down and blew up the PCs.The player's wife looked at him and said, "This is just like the fireball all over again. No more explosive weapons or spells for you." We all had a big laugh over that.</blockquote>