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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6824103" data-attributes="member: 4937">It does have to go straight, but in practice it's usually pretty trivial for a wizard to pick some spot in space that is the intended point of detonation that doesn't require the 'to hit' roll.&nbsp;&nbsp; The 'arrow slit' rule is most commonly evoked exactly in the case of arrow slits.&nbsp;&nbsp; In the case of trolls, it would be relatively trivial to pick a point slightly above and behind the trolls as the point in space that will be the center of detonation.&nbsp; Fireball is a relatively weak tactic in 3.X (except against swarms and the like) and as such, there is no need to get to pedantic regarding its usage.&nbsp;&nbsp; It does annoy me as a DM when the player spends like a whole minute exactly mapping out where he wants the point of detonation to be, and I do try to hurry it along a bit to simulate the urgency of combat, but there is no sense me as the DM being a jerk about it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 6824103, member: 4937"] It does have to go straight, but in practice it's usually pretty trivial for a wizard to pick some spot in space that is the intended point of detonation that doesn't require the 'to hit' roll. The 'arrow slit' rule is most commonly evoked exactly in the case of arrow slits. In the case of trolls, it would be relatively trivial to pick a point slightly above and behind the trolls as the point in space that will be the center of detonation. Fireball is a relatively weak tactic in 3.X (except against swarms and the like) and as such, there is no need to get to pedantic regarding its usage. It does annoy me as a DM when the player spends like a whole minute exactly mapping out where he wants the point of detonation to be, and I do try to hurry it along a bit to simulate the urgency of combat, but there is no sense me as the DM being a jerk about it. [/QUOTE]

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