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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8803912" data-attributes="member: 58172">Regarding the damage progression. Many players are emotionally attached to the 8d6 Fireball. Instead of reducing the Fireball damage, what about calibrating every other spell with Fireball as the standard? It is a power up for many damage spells in the game. But it leaves Fireball alone, and makes the lower slots a bit more worth spending a precious slot on. Meanwhile, it doesnt make too much difference at the higher slots, and actually matches the 9th-slot a bit better. The numbers are for spells that only deal damage: spells that deal damage plus some other effect typically are one die less. For example, in the 2014 Players Handbook, Burning Hands currently deals 3d6 damage. The following table would either improve it to 4d6 damage, or else add some kind of nondamage benefit while leaving it 3d6. Personally, I wouldnt go this direction, but can live with it. Your thoughts?<table style='width: 100%'><tr><td>SLOT</td><td>MULTI-TARGET</td><td>ONE-TARGET</td></tr><tr><td>1st-slot </td><td>4d6 damage (14)</td><td>4d8 damage (18)</td></tr><tr><td>2nd-slot</td><td>6d6 damage (21)</td><td>6d8 damage (27)</td></tr><tr><td>3rd-slot</td><td>8d6 damage (28)</td><td>8d8 damage (36)</td></tr><tr><td>4th-slot</td><td>10d6 damage (35)</td><td>10d8 damage (45)</td></tr><tr><td>5th-slot</td><td>12d6 damage (42)</td><td>12d8 damage (54)</td></tr><tr><td>6th-slot</td><td>14d6 damage (49)</td><td>14d8 damage (63)</td></tr><tr><td>7th-slot</td><td>16d6 damage (56)</td><td>16d8 damage (72)</td></tr><tr><td>8th-slot</td><td>18d6 damage (63)</td><td>18d8 damage (81)</td></tr><tr><td>9th-slot</td><td>20d6 damage (70)</td><td>20d8 damage (90)</td></tr></table></blockquote>

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