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Message: <blockquote data-quote="toberane" data-source="post: 340542" data-attributes="member: 4968">kreynolds--You made some good points about alchemists fire igniting on contact with air.  This would take 2 spells, but yuo could make a flask with2 compartments, and divide the ingredients into 2 inter groups, then shrink the inert liquids, put them into the tiny container, and when the container shatters, the ingredients expand, combine, and become alchemists fire.There is something of a precedent for this.  In the second 3E module to come out (Forge of Fury, I believe) there is a trapped door that contains tanks of these two materials attached to a triggering mchanism.  When the door opens, it causes the materials to combine and sprays the alchemists fire onto the person opening the door (kinda like the explosives in Die Hard 3).  Luckily, I spotted the trap and disarmed it before we got hosed.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />You are right about the alchemists fire expanding slower not causing more damage due to its short burning time.  I didn't think it would work that way, since the object would probably take no more than a round to expand.  Any longer and I think it would mention the expansion time in the spell description.</blockquote>