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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Borthos" data-source="post: 5476499" data-attributes="member: 93344">Once again, a fireball does not deal splash damage at all.  Not a good comparison because it's not the same thing.Where are you getting 90 damage?  And it would only be near that high if we were using Tanis' rule interpretation, which, no offense to Tanis, is not how I see it working anyway, imo.  Right now, if I threw a flask of acid at a huge beast, it would only take 1d6+9. that's it.  Under my interpretation, which is not addressed in the rules.  It's hardly optimal, and nowhere near 90 damage or 180.  The only thing about Large creatures it says is that you cannot target a large or bigger creature's grid intersection for just splash damage, like you can do with medium or smaller creatures.  Now, if I did hit that large creature, is it logical to say that the splash zone went from just the 5' square around where it hit to the 12 squares around the creature? No, it doesn't.  Therefore, from the evidence presented to me, unlike a fireball that doesn't deal any splash damage at all, a large or larger creature is within the splash radius of a splash weapon, and thus deserves to take splash damage only once.  I wanted to get other other opinions on it so I came here, but Mojo Rat, a flask of acid or alchemist fire is not a fireball, and therefore they can not be compared because the effects are not similar. The constant fireball comparison doesn't help.  Besides, I don't have access to fireball.And Dalzig, from what I read, I wouldn't say that every creature is within the splash radius because something had to be the target for the hit right?  Bigger things just have a bigger chance of being splashed, smaller ones avoid it.</blockquote>

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