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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 2437656" data-attributes="member: 707">100% correct.Were I the DM, I'd allow the player to specify how far he wanted to target the fireball.  Then I'd determine a percentage chance that the fireball hits a tree, per 20' of distance travelled in the dark.  Then I'd roll that percentage once or several times, depending on how much farther than his line of sight the spellcaster shot the fireball.Then, of course, I'd have to determine whether or not there were any goblins there.  I generally have goblins scatter when retreating, so they wouldn't all be in a nice clump in any particular direction.  I'd assume there'd be a few goblins in the fireball's AoE, assuming that the spellcaster accurately guessed or knew how fast goblins can run, correctly gauged the distance he'd need to shoot his fireball, and the fireball didn't hit a tree before it reached the desired destination.Whew! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>