drnuncheon said:
As for how meteor swarm works: The meteors from meteor swarm must burst in one of the patterns detailed in the book - it's not like you get to toss 4 (or 8) separate meteors to completely separate areas of the battlefield. So they really all go down the same line.
It's probably easiest to picture the meteors as going in a straight line to the 'center' of the burst pattern and spreading out from there, like some kind of magical MIRV warhead. That's the simplest eway to picture it and it fits the spell's description. Draw a line from you to the spell's 'point of origin', and if anyone is on that line, they take the 24d6 damage.
The part that is unclear to me is that the spell says if the spheres reach their destination they explode, which makes me wonder if they go away after hitting a single target and doing their 24d6 (no save).
Since those two already beat me to the errata . . .
Thanks about Meteor Swarm, I get it now. I never thought of the warhead way. That makes things much more simple.