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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheGogmagog" data-source="post: 3001461" data-attributes="member: 27702">I agree on this point."In addition to its regular fire damage, it deals 1 point of splash damage per die, and it ignites any combustible materials within 10 feet."At first I thought that it said in addition to regular fire damage, which would add normal fire damage, but in re-reading it, it seems to refer to the spell damage to the primary target.As far as defining hard surfaces or what it takes to be damaged...  D&D doesn't get involved of the minutia of wear and tear on clothes and armor, nor does it get involved in items taking damage when you fall.  As a DM I'd rather assume that if it's thrown, it goes off, if it's not thrown it doesn't.  I don't want to create a system where every time a character is hit, or falls that his fire seeds or alchemist fire all have to save or burst.  One it's too much work, and two it irks me as a player.  If I know the DM's going to ad hock rules about that, I spend an extra 10 or 50 gp for a wooden or brass box that would survive any fall that I would survive.  All that's gained for overlooking that small suspension of disbelief is a minor adjustment by the players that would satisfy the DM's mental block.On range, I can't decide.  It is a thrown weapon, which would indeed follow the same rules as alchemist fire and the like.  If that was the case though, siting a maximum range seems odd.  I usually don't remember to apply range increments, so it might not matter, but I'm leaning to it being a thrown weapon with 10' range increments.For golems, spells with "spell resistance: NO" work on them.  They arn't immune to all spells, they have an infinite spell resistance.For sneak attack, yes anything with an attack roll allows a sneak attack.  For spells, only the first attack roll in a round gets the sneak attack damage.  So if you rule it's a thrown weapon, each attack would get sneak attack damage, if it's a spell with 100' range then only the first acorn each round would get the sneak attack damage.  This assumes that all other sneak attack conditions apply, within 30', opponent denied dex, etc.</blockquote>

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