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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 3078188" data-attributes="member: 63">By the rules, it hits exactly where you want it to hit. I'd assume that, if we were making this into a movie so casting the spell isn't exactly instantaneous, the magic lets you guide it slightly as it flies, and heightens your senses so you can make it land with pinpoint accuracy.In the games I play in, the DMs rule it that way, and I'm fine with it. In my personal campaign I use Elements of Magic where all spells are made up on the fly anyway, so people can say the fireball just appears where they want, instead of it streaking. (Or they can have tiny motes of fire spring up on different targets; or they can have a dragon head appear from a fiery rift and exhale upon the targets; etc.).I think you're fully in the realm of reason to say that it's not perfectly aimable. But if you do that, you start down the path of having to house rule other things. Like how is it possible for an arrow to fly 800 ft. to its target in time to disrupt a mage casting a spell, or why you can charge 10 ft. as long as it's a straight line, but if your speed is 80 you can't step around a corner and charge 70 ft. as a straight line. I'd be cool with all these things being adjudicated, as long as they were consistent.</blockquote>