Reflex Saving Throws

[Pinotage]

pmlyon, welcome to the boards!

Pinotage: There are sceatios where you don't get to make a reflex save, but prone or grappling aren't among them, nor do you get any penalty officially.

Great! Thanks! That's all I was after.

Pinotage

 

[diaglo]

Where did you find this in the rules btw? I wasn't able to find anything about this anywhere. :-(

SRD: Under EVasion... If subjected to an attack that allows a Reflex save for half damage, a character with evasion takes no damage on a successful save.
As with a Reflex save for any creature, a character must have room to move in order to evade...


edit: and there are cases where you get a bonus to reflex... look under Cover.

 

[pmlyon]

SRD: Under EVasion... If subjected to an attack that allows a Reflex save for half damage, a character with evasion takes no damage on a successful save.
As with a Reflex save for any creature, a character must have room to move in order to evade...


edit: and there are cases where you get a bonus to reflex... look under Cover.

Thanks!!

 

[Quasqueton]

No offense to the original poster, but this is one of those recurring questions that drive me mad. I blame the earlier editions of the game for this kind of thinking (where a fireball expands to fill every cubic foot of area within its volume).

The trick is to change the way you envision the fireball spell. Instead of a "solid" sphere of flame, imagine that it is a swirling ball of flames. There are "dead" spaces inside it that are, at any given time, not on fire.

Yes.

Many people have been caught in the radius of grenades and mortars and walked away unharmed. I've seen video footage of a bombsquad technician accidentally setting off a bomb 2 feet from his face, and he got only partially singed hair. (Ironically, they said that had he been wearing his helmet at the time, the heat would have gotten trapped under it and killed him.)

Why does this question never come up for lightning bolt?

Quasqueton

 

[pmlyon]

No offense to the original poster, but this is one of those recurring questions that drive me mad. I blame the earlier editions of the game for this kind of thinking (where a fireball expands to fill every cubic foot of area within its volume).

Yes.

Many people have been caught in the radius of grenades and mortars and walked away unharmed. I've seen video footage of a bombsquad technician accidentally setting off a bomb 2 feet from his face, and he got only partially singed hair. (Ironically, they said that had he been wearing his helmet at the time, the heat would have gotten trapped under it and killed him.)

Why does this question never come up for lightning bolt?

Quasqueton

Hehe, I was actually going to apply whatever answer I got here to lightning bolt as well.

 

[werk]

Hehe, I was actually going to apply whatever answer I got here to lightning bolt as well.

Welcome, and here's a link to a hyper-text-system-reference-document. Super useful/time saving.

http://www.d20srd.org/

...Not that your question is directly answered in there, just being helpful

 

[JamesDJarvis]

A number of years ago a gentleman just a few blocks away from me woke up after a brief nap and lit a cigarette... BOOOM!!!! He was at the center of an explosion that blew a wall off of one side of his house thanks to a leaky propane tank on an enclosed porch of his house. He still suffered a number of burns but recovered. So it is clearly possible to make your save and remain in the area of effect of a fireball, even an explosive one.

 

[Whimsical]

Click here to watch Haley the rogue completely evade the fire damage. Notice how she didn't even have to move. That's D&D physics for 'ya!

 

[pmlyon]

Click here to watch Haley the rogue completely evade the fire damage. Notice how she didn't even have to move. That's D&D physics for 'ya!

LOL!! That's the best comment so far.

I absolutely love that comic, just started reading it a few months ago. (Started at #1)