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<blockquote data-quote="angramainyu" data-source="post: 384715" data-attributes="member: 6">Where I am with magic:-most spells need to be dealt with on a spell-by-spell (and caster-by-caster) basis... although it's easy enough to generalze something like a wand of magic missile-a simple look-up based on the difference between the force's save and the spell DC gives you the percentage that make and fail the save-another look-up based on the number of creatures in a square, the damage the force has taken, and the area of the spell gives you the number of creatures affected-combine those two, and you get the number of creatures that fail their save and the number that make it.The obvious example is fireball... but that shows some of the problems.&nbsp; Really, against a force of single-hit-die creatures, it doesn't matter if it's a 10d6 or 5d6 fireball, it's ends up killing the same number of creatures, and thus should really do the same amount of damage.&nbsp; However, against tougher creatures, the difference between 10d6 or 5d6 could make a huge difference between the number of creatures that are killed or merely injured.This is what I'm struggling with now.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="angramainyu, post: 384715, member: 6"] Where I am with magic: -most spells need to be dealt with on a spell-by-spell (and caster-by-caster) basis... although it's easy enough to generalze something like a wand of magic missile -a simple look-up based on the difference between the force's save and the spell DC gives you the percentage that make and fail the save -another look-up based on the number of creatures in a square, the damage the force has taken, and the area of the spell gives you the number of creatures affected -combine those two, and you get the number of creatures that fail their save and the number that make it. The obvious example is fireball... but that shows some of the problems. Really, against a force of single-hit-die creatures, it doesn't matter if it's a 10d6 or 5d6 fireball, it's ends up killing the same number of creatures, and thus should really do the same amount of damage. However, against tougher creatures, the difference between 10d6 or 5d6 could make a huge difference between the number of creatures that are killed or merely injured. This is what I'm struggling with now. [/QUOTE]

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