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<blockquote data-quote="peregrijn" data-source="post: 828005" data-attributes="member: 11409">guido&gt;I agree it takes some individual fiddling with numbers as to what seems appropriate. The sphere however is exactly that, a sphere. It's burning on all sides. Would such a thin layer of water be enough to extinguish all of the fire, including the sides and bottom of the sphere (an it's not an insubstantial fire sphere, it has substance)?&nbsp; If not would the sphere flicker back to full fire and if so, how fast?On the other hand, the spell description says 'normal fire of similar size'. Should we go with this or take the abnormal shape of the fire (spherical) into account?A high enough caster could simply swamp the square with water, but at which point would only specifically targetted water be able to extinguish it?The create water spell seems to indicate you can create the water into a specific container, making it pretty exact. But in combat conditions? Wouldn't it need a hit roll then? maddman&gt;form the spell description:&quot;a burning globe of fire rolls in whichever direction you point...&quot; Commanding the sphere seems to be dependend on the caster actually and specifically pointing to where the sphere has to go.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="peregrijn, post: 828005, member: 11409"] guido> I agree it takes some individual fiddling with numbers as to what seems appropriate. The sphere however is exactly that, a sphere. It's burning on all sides. Would such a thin layer of water be enough to extinguish all of the fire, including the sides and bottom of the sphere (an it's not an insubstantial fire sphere, it has substance)? If not would the sphere flicker back to full fire and if so, how fast? On the other hand, the spell description says 'normal fire of similar size'. Should we go with this or take the abnormal shape of the fire (spherical) into account? A high enough caster could simply swamp the square with water, but at which point would only specifically targetted water be able to extinguish it? The create water spell seems to indicate you can create the water into a specific container, making it pretty exact. But in combat conditions? Wouldn't it need a hit roll then? maddman> form the spell description: "a burning globe of fire rolls in whichever direction you point..." Commanding the sphere seems to be dependend on the caster actually and specifically pointing to where the sphere has to go. [/QUOTE]

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