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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 1591273" data-attributes="member: 633">For a cost of 6000, it deserves to be a nasty weapon. Let's see, a meteor swarm costs 3825 from a scroll. However, anyone can use a BoAF while only few can use a scroll. However, throwing a barrel effectively is a lot harder than casting a spell, which is more like point'n'click. Plus, lugging it around may be a problem in itself. So, I think it should be substantially more powerful than a meteor swarm.  Ignoring Epic rules, we can extrapolate scroll costs and find that an 11th level scroll would conceivably cost 5775. So, let's make the BoAF comparable to an empowered meteor swarm (which deals 12d6 damage plus 24d6 fire damage). A bit less powerful than that, to account for the fact that anyone can use it and it works against antimagic fields, spell resistance, whatever. First of all, the barrel damage - getting hit by a barrel is no fun, but by the rules you would have to hit normal AC rather than touch AC to deal damage with a thrown object. So let's just ignore it and make the damage entirely fire-based. 11d6 in the first round, 9d6 in the second, 7d6 in the third, 5d6 in the fourth, 3d6 in the fifth, 1d6 in the sixth. Total 36d6 damage. You can roll around to put it off, but the DC is 26 (11th level spell, INT 21, ignoring the fact that empower doesn't raise spell level). Jumping into a lake or using quench or similar puts it off immediately. Alternatively, the DC is 15 but the only result you obtain is to decrease the "dice counter" by 2 (ie, make one save and you take 7d6 in the second, 5d6 in the third, etc; make two saves and you take 3d6 in the fifth, 1d6 in the fourth, and the it's off).  Whaddya say?</blockquote>

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