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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 6244500" data-attributes="member: 58197">By the rules as written, a fireball expands to the limit of its radius: 20 feet from the point of origin. Because fireball is a cloud rather than a sphere, that 20 feet can be measured around corners as well as in a straight line. However, you must be able to draw an unobstructed path no more than 20 feet long to the center-point.For example, let's say you cast fireball targeting the center of a 20-by-20 room, where there is a door in the middle of the north wall (10 feet from the point of origin) connecting to an east-west corridor. An enemy standing in the corridor 5 feet from the door will get hit, because you can draw a 15-foot path from the enemy to the center-point (5 feet to the door, 10 feet from the door to the center). Another enemy standing 15 feet from the door will not get hit, because the shortest unobstructed path to the origin is 25 feet (15 feet to the door, 10 feet from the door to the center).[ATTACH]60238[/ATTACH][SIZE=-2]Each square is 5 feet. The [/SIZE][SIZE=-2]fireball originates at the orange star. The red enemy will be hit by the blast, while the green enemy won't.[/SIZE]This is the same way fireball was handled in 3E and 4E. In 1E and 2E, fireball had a fixed volume, which would shape itself as necessary with no set limit on radius. In a 10-foot-wide corridor with no side passages, a fireball would spread 165 feet in both directions from the origin! Next does not use this rule, but there's no reason you couldn't house-rule it this way if you wanted.That's an interesting question. The bat's detection ability is described as "darkvision," and darkness specifically says it counteracts darkvision. On the other hand, the bat also has the special ability "cannot be blinded."By a strict reading of the rules, darkness blocks the bat's "sight," because the bat is not being blinded per se--it's still able to see, just not through the enchanted area. However, I would probably house-rule that the bat's darkvision works normally because it isn't actually sight-based.Edit: See Sage Genesis's post below. The bat familiar is supposed to have blindsight rather than darkvision. There don't seem to be any actual rules for blindsight in the playtest packet, but assuming it works the same way it did in 3E, it's unaffected by darkness of any kind.</blockquote>

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