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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarauderX" data-source="post: 1092189" data-attributes="member: 9990">How can you not?  The spell says that overlapping strikes do not deal additional damage; in my 'scenario' the critter is struck on all sides by the flame bursts, and none of them overlap, therefor each does additional damage to the critter.  Now why not apply that to a humanoid - each blast is precisely placed so that each side strikes the enemies square, but doesn't overlap any of the other blasts.  You should be able to get in at least two on her, if not three or four if you start thinking of stacking them in 3D.  Sounds great to me as a player, not balanced at all as a DM.  Anyway, I would tack on a line about doing only one blast worth of damage to the same creature.  You could drop the level some, but as this spell has multiple surgical strike fireballs, I would keep it where it's at since the total area of effect almost doubles.  Now imagine you are that same 20th level wiz kid - you can decimate a 10' by 200' long corridor of area with one shot.  A fireball couldn't get that kind of precision in such a powerful punch, so I think the level is ok.</blockquote>