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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 7400021" data-attributes="member: 6669384">I was looking at some old stuff and noticed that more than a few spells had odd areas or volumes they affected.I've long known that Fireball says one thing in the spell descriptor block and something else in the text on this topic:  The descriptor says 2 inch radius, the spell text says "32000 cubic feet (or yards)".But other spells, such as Rock to Mud, talk about cubes of 1 inch/level. (with Inch meaning 10 feet indoors and 10 yards outdoors.)Rock to Mud actually says 2' per level cube, as does Mud to rock.  The volume at minimum caster level for Mud to Rock would mean that a muddy track can be transformed into a Roman style high road twenty feet wide, and a shade under 38 miles long.  Yeah, miles.  That's what it works out to when you take a volume and expand it geometrically by level instead of linearly.  (Math:  a 10th level caster will have a cube twenty yards by twenty yards by twenty yards.  That's 80,000 cubic yards, or 2,160,000 cubic feet.).Has anyone else noticed this, or had to deal with it?BTW:  Fireball, as written, has a volume that goes up outdoors, but it's range doesn't.  A fifth level caster, firing a ground-burst at maximum range, is inside the blast radius.  33,000 cubic yards of volume, with the specific instructions to expand the spread to conform with available space, means that the bottom half of the sphere (being blocked by the ground) gets added as an additional layer on the outside of the remaining hemisphere.  The result is a hemisphere with a radius of about 27.5 yards, or about 82 feet.</blockquote>

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