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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Centaur" data-source="post: 1081250" data-attributes="member: 11822">Living in BC, I am keenly aware of the risk of Forest Fires every year.  This year is especial bad with more and more of them poping up every day and no end it site.Which brings be to my dilema.  Here is a Hypothetical situation.  Small town is being extorted by a group of Orcs on regualr enough basis that they are in danger of not having enough food for the following winter.  They hire the PCs to get rid of the Orcs.  Simple enough right.The PCs go off into the woods to hunt the Orcs and within short order, find them and proceed to engage them in combat.  Being summer, the forest is likely quite dry, the kind of conditions that a lightning strike would cause a forest fire.  If the PC wizard (Or an Orc Wizard for that matter) uses a spell like Lightning bolt or fireball to defeat his enimies, should not a part of the collateral damage be to set the forest ablaze?If so, How do we then deal with this situation?  Are there guidelines in any of the books for dealing with this?  Or should we just brush over this and not worry about it; it is after all, a RPG?In the above senario, While the PCs may indead kill all the Orcs and therefore save the town from these mauraders, they may have inadvertantly doomed the Town to firey destruction if they can't bring the fire under control.Which brings be to the second part of my question.  What spells would someone use to bring a fire like this under control.  Obviously spells like "Control Weather" would be quite handy, but if the weather is currently, Clear and Hot, then it might be difficult to shift it to Cool and Heavy Rain.One possibility would be to use spells like "Cone of Cold" or Fireball metamagiced into a cold ball.  But then, given the risk, these spells should have been used first.I'm wondering if other people have ever delt with the issue of a forest fire in their Campaign and second, have they ever had the PC's actions result in such an occurence and how they handled it.For the players out there, Has your GM ever sprung something like this on you?</blockquote>

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