Ranged Touch Spells with Multiple Missiles

[Plane Sailing]

Since you can roll a critical with a ranged touch attack spell that does damage, I decided it was more fair to have multiple ranged touch rolls, thereby minimizing critical damage chance (for all of the damage).

So, multiple to hit rolls, one save per target.

This is the way that I do it.

Flame Arrow was originally the only spell which did this multiple bolts thing, and because of the possibility for a crit I decided that each bolt had to roll to hit separately. I would only allow sneak attack damage on the first of them, naturally.

The "orb" spells in T&B really muddied the water with their additional saves; I decided to not allow them in my game, but if I had I'd certainly only give one ST no matter how many hit.

Cheers

 

[Jens]

1: Yes. Of course you roll to hit for each attack.

2: Depends on the spell...

Acid Orb: I think the description implies that you cannot hit the same target with more than one Orb, meaning that question 2 is irrelevant for that spell.

Flame Arrow: Save separately for each bolt.

... In general I would save separately against damaging effects and a combined save against negative modifiers which would not stack anyway.