fireball can not only hurt you, but make you look funny as well

[Vorith]

So who here takes into consideration that when you are hit with a fireball (or similar effects)...your hair would be burned off? We thought about this a few months back and decided that all of our pc's were bald and were missing eyebrows/eyelashes. Just read the description of fireball, it can melt metal you know! Thoughts?

 

[Klaus]

If you make your save, you maight be a bit sweaty, a bit singed, but nothing more. If you fail your save, you might say bye-bye eyebrows/lashes, but hair would be pretty much safe (if a bit smelly from the fire). If you fail miserably on your save and some of your items catch on fire, you may be looking at a bald adventurer!

 

[shilsen]

Something like what Klaus said. In the first session of my Eberron game, the elf sorcerer rolled a 2 to save against a fireball and went to exactly 0 hit points. I described him as having his eyebrows singed off and large patches of missing hair. After a couple of comments, he spent the next day and a half in-game wearing a hood till he could go get a haircut and patch-up job. Then he blew the save against the lightning bolt

 

[Klaus]

Oooh, let me guess: He got spiked hair for a week after that!

Now you know why wizards should wear skullcaps!

 

[The Shaman]

I like to add little tidbits like this to add verisi...uh, reali...uh...color to my descriptions of the characters, and to get them thinking about hygeine and such - no one walks away from a melee without being spattered (at least) in blood or ichor or protoplasm, no one travels cross-country without rents and tears in their clothing (magic items excepted, of course), no one crawls through a cave system without being covered in dust and/or mud, and so on.

So yes, fireball and fire elementals tend to singe quite a bit in my games, too.

Spiked hair from lightning bolt?!? *scribbles note in margin of PHB*

 

[CherubKid]

Yeah, it always pays to have a Disguise Self spell (or better yet, a Hat of Disguise) for just such an occasion.

Nothing worse than having to roll Intimidate checks and suffer a -2 circumstance penalty for absence of eyebrows .

 

[s/LaSH]

Yeah, it always pays to have a Disguise Self spell (or better yet, a Hat of Disguise) for just such an occasion.

Nothing worse than having to roll Intimidate checks and suffer a -2 circumstance penalty for absence of eyebrows .

You'd think someone with no eyebrows might almost be more intimidating. "Shouldn't you be in hospital?" "No, I thought I'd rather enquire as to whether you'd like to lick my boots for a while." (Udo Kier accent optional - sinister mastermind Yuri from Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 has no eyebrows.)

 

[Thanee]

The problem is, if you would start doing that, people would look pretty weird all around the place.

Of course, there is always the excuse with healing magic...

Bye
Thanee

 

[Jesus_marley]

This also raises the question of how often do you need a haircut if you have regeneration?

 

[Plane Sailing]

Personally I think the deciding factor shouldn't be whether you save or not, but how much damage you take. After all, you could fail a save vs burning hands and take 1d4 damage, you could make a save against a maximised fireball and take 30... which hurt the most?