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<blockquote data-quote="OldGreybeard" data-source="post: 4579380" data-attributes="member: 80691">I was a player during this example: &nbsp;We were a party of moderately high level characters, when we came across a cave in the side of a mountain, a very strong pungent odour could be smelled before the cave like fools we entered, just inside the entrance we saw the floor of the cave was a bubbling smelly liquid, ahead of the party, from behind some huge boulders rose a gigantic black skinned giant, the rest of the guys were so wound up for a fight, before i had time to ask what colour the shaven giants eyebrows were our wizard was casting fireball, all the DM said was WHOOOSHHHH in a very loud voice, the silence from the group was deafening, as he explained that the cave was a natural oil well producing petrol or gasoline for you yanks, the spark set off the inflammable vapour, it was 2e at the time and whoosh twenty D6 rolled out of the DM`s fingers, i was marginally lucky, in that i was at the front of the party and was a Dwarven Fighter/Cleric, apparently the giant got a bit of a shock as the 300lb armoured dwarf flew towards him like a tomahawk missile, followed by a fireball the size of a small nuclear blast, it turned out to be the deadliest room any in the group had ever encountered, 76 HP damage for those who failed to save, which was everyone, as the DM said no dex bonusses on saves as here was nowhere to dodge to. All i was happy about was the idiot wizard blew himself up in the process, poetic justice for the rest of us.....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="OldGreybeard, post: 4579380, member: 80691"] I was a player during this example: We were a party of moderately high level characters, when we came across a cave in the side of a mountain, a very strong pungent odour could be smelled before the cave like fools we entered, just inside the entrance we saw the floor of the cave was a bubbling smelly liquid, ahead of the party, from behind some huge boulders rose a gigantic black skinned giant, the rest of the guys were so wound up for a fight, before i had time to ask what colour the shaven giants eyebrows were our wizard was casting fireball, all the DM said was WHOOOSHHHH in a very loud voice, the silence from the group was deafening, as he explained that the cave was a natural oil well producing petrol or gasoline for you yanks, the spark set off the inflammable vapour, it was 2e at the time and whoosh twenty D6 rolled out of the DM`s fingers, i was marginally lucky, in that i was at the front of the party and was a Dwarven Fighter/Cleric, apparently the giant got a bit of a shock as the 300lb armoured dwarf flew towards him like a tomahawk missile, followed by a fireball the size of a small nuclear blast, it turned out to be the deadliest room any in the group had ever encountered, 76 HP damage for those who failed to save, which was everyone, as the DM said no dex bonusses on saves as here was nowhere to dodge to. All i was happy about was the idiot wizard blew himself up in the process, poetic justice for the rest of us..... [/QUOTE]

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