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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 6881080" data-attributes="member: 23751">The point is not about fire.  The point is about what is in the text vs. what isn't, and whether the text contradicts the new addition.  I've already acknowledged that burning is more reasonable, but it's still just as allowable as doing laundry or reading minds.  If one is a house rule, they all are.  How reasonable something is doesn't play into it.Fire damage, yes.  Burning unattended objects, yes.  Burning attended objects is avoided everywhere in the game that specifically talks about fire damage and objects, so no.  If you want to add that into the game, it may be more reasonable than the other two things I mentioned, but it's no more RAW than they are.  All are house rules.This is the general rule that all of those spells override.  It does not apply unless you house rule in that those spells can affect attended/worn items.Right, but only unattended objects, since the spells call those out.  Attended objects are unaffected unless the DM adds that to the rule.You assume the answer, though.  The game does not tell you that attended/worn objects can be harmed, and in fact goes out of it's way to specify that those things harm unattended objects.  That's exclusionary language.  You simply don't specify unattended objects if you mean for all objects to be affected, unless you are in grade school and don't know how to write.  I choose not to assume that the designers are worse than a 1st grader when it comes to writing.  There's always, "because magic!"  Anyway, as I said, it's not about how reasonable something is.  It's about adding something to the rule that is not written, which makes it a house rule.  Something that you view as extremely reasonable does not turn that thing from a house rule into RAW.  For all that you quoted in your post, one thing was notably lacking.  Any wording AT ALL that says that fireball (or any other fire spell) burns attended/worn objects.  Not a single word about it.  All you have is a general rule that doesn't apply because spells are specific rules.</blockquote>

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