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<blockquote data-quote="Riastlin" data-source="post: 5424973" data-attributes="member: 94022">This is a lot closer to what I would do.&nbsp; I might allow a character to miss on purpose, but it would be an all or nothing deal.&nbsp; Either everyone is missed on purpose, or nobody is.&nbsp; Otherwise your wizard and invokers are going to be dropping area spells on their party without care since they can just choose to miss the allies.&nbsp; Likewise with Spiritual Weapon, if the weapon misses automatically, then I would say its not distracting the target either.&nbsp;I am not familiar with Band of Brothers.&nbsp; However, I do see a problem with actually encouraging a miss and whether or not the party as a whole should benefit from it.&nbsp; &nbsp;I still think all in all, though the idea of missing on purpose just seems off.&nbsp; As mentioned earlier, if you want to knock over the table dramatically without killing the civilians in the blast, just deal subdual.&nbsp; As the DM I would then have the civillians act as though they had just had the wind knocked out of them or something similar.&nbsp;I suppose fireball and scorching burst might create a bit of an issue if you were trying to use them to set stuff on fire without actually harming your allies.&nbsp; I think that there are likely easier (and perhaps just as flashy) ways of doing this, but depending on how it was used I might allow it.&nbsp; Again though it would have to be all or nothing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Riastlin, post: 5424973, member: 94022"] This is a lot closer to what I would do. I [I]might [/I]allow a character to miss on purpose, but it would be an all or nothing deal. Either everyone is missed on purpose, or nobody is. Otherwise your wizard and invokers are going to be dropping area spells on their party without care since they can just choose to miss the allies. Likewise with Spiritual Weapon, if the weapon misses automatically, then I would say its not distracting the target either. I am not familiar with Band of Brothers. However, I do see a problem with actually encouraging a miss and whether or not the party as a whole should benefit from it. I still think all in all, though the idea of missing on purpose just seems off. As mentioned earlier, if you want to knock over the table dramatically without killing the civilians in the blast, just deal subdual. As the DM I would then have the civillians act as though they had just had the wind knocked out of them or something similar. I suppose fireball and scorching burst might create a bit of an issue if you were trying to use them to set stuff on fire without actually harming your allies. I think that there are likely easier (and perhaps just as flashy) ways of doing this, but depending on how it was used I might allow it. Again though it would have to be all or nothing. [/QUOTE]

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