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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 674645" data-attributes="member: 259">Well, I'm just sayin' how the rules are, not how they should be. As I said, it's totally unrealistic.  OTOH, I think it could be really frustrating if every fireball risked burning up all of a wizard's scrolls, toasting their cloak of protection, ruining the rogue's rope of climbing, and boiling away all the potions the fighter carries.  I understand why they made this realism sacrifice:  to do otherwise would take away a lot of the game's fun.A familiar normally isn't protected just by virtue of being carried, although don't forget that familiars have improved evasion.  Otherwise, if a familiar has 100% cover (e.g., is in a reinforced backpack), they won't be affected by most AoE spells.Were I you, I'd keep the rule the way it is, except for rare situations.  Don't make a dragon's breath scour away all of a player's equipment, but if my character fell into lava and was under the surface for 6 seconds, I'd consider it appropriate for all my equipment (and most of my skin) to be gone when I came out.As the rules are written, attended items are almost always safe from AoE spells.  Only unattended spells get affected by them a lot.Daniel</blockquote>