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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bill Muench" data-source="post: 1812759" data-attributes="member: 121">Not really. This particular tactic is a favorite of myself and one of my friends. We basically have two uses for it:1. His druid casts Resist Energy (Fire) on my thug, granting him resistance 30 to fire. He then casts Fire Seeds and gives me the berry bombs. When I'm near someone he wants to blow up, he says the command word and sets them off. Since each berry is a separate instance of damage, the resistance applies to each one. The most damage he can do is 22 points per berry (he's currently 14th level), so I'm immune to the damage even if I fail all my saves.2. The other tactic is pretty straight forward. My other character, a cleric with the Sun Domain, casts Energy Immunity (fire) every morning. When I think we're getting near a combat, I cast Fire Seeds. As a combat cleric, I'm usually up front. When an opportunity presents itself (2-3 opponents clumped up near me), I pull out the berries and set them off, immolating myself and my opponents. Since I'm immune, no big deal.There are some downsides to this tactic. First, even resistance to fire 5 really drops the damage since it applies 8 times. So you have to pick your targets carefully. Second, casting it ahead of time doesn't always pay off and sometimes the spell is wasted ("So, Hosedarmah... why'd your pocket just explode?"). Finally, some DMs may just think it is too powerful. I'm not one of them, but some do. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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