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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marshall Gatten" data-source="post: 6164771" data-attributes="member: 6705156">We'll probably never agree on this one, then. The way I see it, if players wanted predictable results then they wouldn't come to the table with bags filled with hundreds of funky dice. I actually had another thought about this. I was watching a Mythbusters rerun last night where they were using ballistics gel to catch bullets. Having just posted in this thread, that gave me an amazing idea: What if you used Solid Fog to catch the Fireball bead? So, extending my example above, there's a 10% chance of the Fireball exploding on impact with the SF and and 89% chance of it reaching its target. That leaves 1% that it gets partway to its target and then stops. I'm picturing an alchemist paying spell casters to repeatedly cast SF and Fireball until he finally manages to catch an unexploded bead. And then he sends in his hapless apprentice to carefully remove the delicate bead which can now be studied as raw magic in situ. He could store it in a very thoroughly padded box. It could also be used as an awesome trap.</blockquote>