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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 1901847" data-attributes="member: 707">This is where I disagree.  The pellet from the fireball is, IMO, a normal missile.  Thus, it suffers a 30% miss chance.  That does, however, take us into murkier waters rules-wise, since the rules do not take into account the possibility that an AoE spell might be subject to a 30% miss chance.  And I can understand why they don't.  Fireball, and the fact that it produces a pellet, makes it unique as far as AoE's go, which usually simply target an Area and have done with it.Were I the DM (which I'm not, in the scenario where this will come up for me, but for the further sake of this discussion), I might suggest the pellet veer 30% off-course, for instance.  This could result in a fireball detonating too early (by hitting the ground before it gets to its intended destination), detonating above its target (and thus possibly having a smaller effective area), or detonating off to the right of left of its target, possibly hitting a portion of its intended targets, but not others.Or another way to rule might be to simply apply the 30% to the negation effect.  So that the fireball pellet has a 30% chance of being carried up and away harmlessly like an arrow or bolt, and a 70% chance of pushing through the Wind Wall without any deviation in its course.</blockquote>