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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ExploderWizard" data-source="post: 6878813" data-attributes="member: 66434">The way I roll with it depends on the outcome of the fireball. Anyone caught in the blast that is still standing isn't terribly burnt. If the fireball takes out a target then whatever it was wearing I consider badly burned, but not on fire. I believe the intent of the rule was to prevent squeezing extra damage out of the spell and needing to track ongoing fire damage rather than intending for fireball victims to remain unburnt.This way I get results that are consistent if a creature is taken out by a fireball without giving the spell extra fire damage. As for treasure and other valuables, the answer is simply don't throw fireballs willy-nilly at targets that you want to loot. There is a reason that cone of cold in AD&D is a higher level spell than fireball even though it does less damage. It leaves treasure more intact.</blockquote>