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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 7235928" data-attributes="member: 6669384">I can see your point.I'm not the DM, at least not the only one.  I didn't impose the house rule, it was done by group vote.  I can't change the house rule, at least not unilaterally.All of that being said, I could talk about what makes a pipe bomb a bomb, but that's a pointless side trip, a rationalization of an idea you've already rejected.  By the same token you could argue that the spell ends gradually, an idea not supported by the rules anywhere.Rationalizations aside though, we saw it as a choice between the spell being used to stockpile kaboom spells days ahead of time, or being subject to indefinite extension.  We voted away from the combat option.  Rather like the text of Enlarge Person that indicates that you can't use it to crush opponents by enlarging them in a tight space.  It's not supposed to be a spell with direct damage potential.So I appreciate your position that the question should never have arisen in the first place, but it has and I/we have to be able to deal with it in a reasonable and fair manner, hopefully with at least a modicum of support from the rule book, somehow, someplace.</blockquote>