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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6881621" data-attributes="member: 177">Who says magical fire sources do damage to creatures or ignite things by plain old fashioned mundane *temperature*? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Who says magical fire sources have to be consistent?&nbsp; Maybe wall of fire is somehow different from fireball in some ineffable magical way.&nbsp; I agree that it's often better for play if they are consistent, but, well... magic is mysterious <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Really - don't lean on mundane physics to answer your questions about magic.&nbsp; D&amp;D magic typically has to invoke other planes of existence to get around the flagrant violations of thermodynamics.&nbsp; After that kind of metaphorical barbarian rampage on reality, you cant expect it to suddenly start speaking clean sonnets, not even out of breath.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6881621, member: 177"] Who says magical fire sources do damage to creatures or ignite things by plain old fashioned mundane *temperature*? :p Who says magical fire sources have to be consistent? Maybe wall of fire is somehow different from fireball in some ineffable magical way. I agree that it's often better for play if they are consistent, but, well... magic is mysterious :p Really - don't lean on mundane physics to answer your questions about magic. D&D magic typically has to invoke other planes of existence to get around the flagrant violations of thermodynamics. After that kind of metaphorical barbarian rampage on reality, you cant expect it to suddenly start speaking clean sonnets, not even out of breath. [/QUOTE]

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