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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6520959" data-attributes="member: 6669384">I find I've taken an adversarial stance on this, and it shouldn't be that way.Celebrim suggested that Color Spray was a 1st level Illusion spell that could substitute for the Evocation,  Burning Hands, and it was a good argument.  I jumped on it because it didn't do actual damage, which was very unfair of me.Burning Hands gets better with levels though, while Color Spray gets worse, so I'm comfortable with my position, just not with the way I expressed it.  I'm sorry, Celebrim.  You deserved better than I gave.Razjah, I'm not sure how to involve something like this as a "narrative element" without it being a game mechanic.  Game mechanics are what happens at the table, so if it doesn't happen there how can it be part of the narrative?  I think I'm missing something there.Right now a lot of players find it annoying that they have to take a -4 to attack when firing into a melee.   But since they know the risk and the price in advance it's not unfair.If I applied this in play without warning, yes it would be a problem.  Changing the rules in mid play is a bad idea, and nobody can play any game well if they don't know the rules or how they'll be applied.In Baseball, if an Umpire changes his definition of the Strike Zone size it's sure to earn some protests, or at least a lot of head scratching.  In the pros they play through such stuff (because they're being paid millions ) but in other leagues an Umpire who does things like that gets red-flagged as a "bad ump'", and may find themselves on the bleachers a lot more often.If everyone knows the rule, there are no surprises.  Maybe the caster has to shift their position so they can see their target area a little better.  Maybe the allow a bit more clearance before they drop an explosion into melee, the same way an archer would. Ultimately, all I'm suggesting is that the hand grenade shouldn't be a more precise weapon than the sniper rifle.</blockquote>

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