Revising Spells? What about Fireball!!!

[Charwoman Gene]

Give me a break on this spell.

It is retarded!!!! Shooting out a pellet. That's RABBIT POO!!!!!!

EEEEEEEEEEEWWWW!

Not the noble power of fire. Rodent Droppings.

Can't even fireball someone right in front of you!!!!!!


(The only man who could ever reach me...)

 

[Charwoman Gene]

*bump*

 

[Azure Trance]

Why fireball someone right in front of you when you could burning hands them instead. Much more safer tactically IMO.

 

[Hygric]

flammin' rabit poo! Hate to see what the wand of fireballs would look like. Also gives an interesting mental image of the old necklace of missiles!

Seriously though, I think that a lot of the direct damage spells could do with a little tweak to make them a little bit better.

Lets face it, direct damage spells are no where near as good as they were in 2e or earlier. All them critters that gained a lot of hit points has turned the trusty old fireball into a spell to lightly soften up the bad guys so that it only takes mr fighter 3 hits to finnish them instead of 4.

Still, anything that gets a wizard away from blowing everything in sight up before the rest of the party can act could be a good thing I suppose.

 

[Squirrel Nutkin]

That's RABBIT POO!!!!!!... Rodent Droppings.

Someone should wash your mouth out with SOAP, man.

 

[Piratecat]

Well, THAT brings back memories. It's the first out-of-control-rant thread I remember on the boards, and certainly the longest. All over fireball pellets. Shudder.

Nutkin, I'm scared; hold me!

 

[Charwoman Gene]

Heh...

That's me, resident God(dess) of confusion, gender ambiguity and nostalgia...

Did anyone see the post on wizards.com's boards about making deities based off of the Usernames of other posters?

 

[Henry]

Well, THAT brings back memories. It's the first out-of-control-rant thread I remember on the boards, and certainly the longest. All over fireball pellets. Shudder.

Nutkin, I'm scared; hold me!

All right, now - no porn on the 'boards!

And yes, fireballs as pellets do suXXorz. I would prefer to see balls of fire that you hurl out of your hand. Who came up with this stuff? It's a clear deviation from the way fireballs were in the first D&D!

 

[Zappo]

Even I recall that thread. IIRC, I first stumbled on Eric's boards right when that thread was raging. It was a real flame war.

 

[Dave G]

Pellets, schmellets. At least make it like The Prophecy with Richard Walken