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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HolyGrenadeFrenzy" data-source="post: 3664988" data-attributes="member: 41808">Well if in the wilderness the brush and forest fires mess with Scent, Spot, Listen checks rather effectively and direct a party in a direction with relative ease.  Trampling animals trying to escape the fire and usally the last thing people expect when running from a fire is that the bowman in waiting started the fire behind or previously in front of them with Pine Sap bails waiting to be lit from afar and then waiting in cover to snipe them as they come out with penalties for the fire they are trying to exit.  One example of real life military strategy used to lure troops into a bottleneck for archers is by controlling the enemies terrain in this manner, among others with magic avaliable.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Even flying creatures have difficulty with a large fire.  If immune to fire damage then the light and smoke still impead the ablity to sense by and large.  They never even notice and additional Choking Cloud spell or some such thing just before they get arrrows in the chest.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" />  Even a druid may use controlled fires to chase Trolls out of their swamps after they get the other animals to leave........and a fire is a natural way to renew an area for growth, it happens in nature all the time.  So, imagine being in between your ambushers in front unknownst to you and a clan of frightened bellowing trolls and an expanding fire behind them!  You run away....right into an ambush.....Ouch!Oh, and I had nearly forgotten about another classic example such as:Think orc and goblin rangers and put them on worgs!  Maybe make the Druid a Druid turned Blighter or whatnot........  Or what ever.  Fire is great for many ambush senarios.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />But because it is available and the archers make it worse."Such funny little birdsAll up it the treesSuch funny little birdsFor they haven't any wingsSuch funny little birdsAll up in the treesLet's send them up In a fiery breeze!">Goblin Song from the Hobbit film even.</blockquote>

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