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<blockquote data-quote="Alatar" data-source="post: 6976028" data-attributes="member: 38424">Given your summary, the &quot;Lalalala&quot; argument seems to lack a certain cogency. Fireballs don't target creatures or things, they merely fill areas. Creatures and things in those areas are&nbsp;&nbsp; affected by the effect, unless those creatures or things have some property or ability that causes them to remain unaffected by the effect, such as a 5e rogue's Evasion feature.This seems to me to be an extreme position, hinging on the word &quot;attack.&quot; In a purely gamist sense, that does not make it wrong. It could well be a logically consistent application of RAW. I'll leave the AD&amp;D rules parsing to you. My copy of the book is covered in the dust of ages. But if your interpretation stands up to such scrutiny,&nbsp; it does bring into sharp focus the arbitrary nature of the rules of the game, assailing one's suspension of disbelief. My own understanding of the effects AD&amp;D fireballs, formed during the Jimmy Carter administration, were that they were not quite so quixotic, though I cannot claim, at this point, that those views had any objective merit.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alatar, post: 6976028, member: 38424"] Given your summary, the "Lalalala" argument seems to lack a certain cogency. Fireballs don't target creatures or things, they merely fill areas. Creatures and things in those areas are affected by the effect, unless those creatures or things have some property or ability that causes them to remain unaffected by the effect, such as a 5e rogue's Evasion feature. This seems to me to be an extreme position, hinging on the word "attack." In a purely gamist sense, that does not make it wrong. It could well be a logically consistent application of RAW. I'll leave the AD&D rules parsing to you. My copy of the book is covered in the dust of ages. But if your interpretation stands up to such scrutiny, it does bring into sharp focus the arbitrary nature of the rules of the game, assailing one's suspension of disbelief. My own understanding of the effects AD&D fireballs, formed during the Jimmy Carter administration, were that they were not quite so quixotic, though I cannot claim, at this point, that those views had any objective merit. [/QUOTE]

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