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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 7618179" data-attributes="member: 6801845"><p>For visuals, I replace "match" with "cutting torch" and leave it there for couple of seconds for higher level spells. You're still not going to catch many things on fire although wood will char, cloth that is not in movement may start on fire and so on. But even with fairly high heat if the application is relatively short there will be damage but not fire.</p><p></p><p>I do allow spells to start things on fire now and then. Set off a fireball in the eponymous warehouse when I just described a lot of goods as being packed in dry straw, or in a forest that's tinder dry because of drought* and there's going to be a fire. On a related note, most fires are deadly not because of the heat but because of the lack of oxygen and smoke. I use con saves or gain levels of temporary exhaustion.</p><p></p><p><em>*Note that most forests in the US that are susceptible to forest fire have far more dry fuel then is natural because of well-intentioned directives to stop all fires including the types of fires that historically would clear out brush on a regular basis.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 7618179, member: 6801845"] For visuals, I replace "match" with "cutting torch" and leave it there for couple of seconds for higher level spells. You're still not going to catch many things on fire although wood will char, cloth that is not in movement may start on fire and so on. But even with fairly high heat if the application is relatively short there will be damage but not fire. I do allow spells to start things on fire now and then. Set off a fireball in the eponymous warehouse when I just described a lot of goods as being packed in dry straw, or in a forest that's tinder dry because of drought* and there's going to be a fire. On a related note, most fires are deadly not because of the heat but because of the lack of oxygen and smoke. I use con saves or gain levels of temporary exhaustion. [I]*Note that most forests in the US that are susceptible to forest fire have far more dry fuel then is natural because of well-intentioned directives to stop all fires including the types of fires that historically would clear out brush on a regular basis.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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