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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ridley's Cohort" data-source="post: 499148" data-attributes="member: 545">That is only a problem if you assume that damaging AoE spells instantaneously fill the entire volume.If you instead assume that, say, the Fireball creates globs of dangerous fire that shoot out from the center while there are fleeting safe zones that can be ducked into, then the mechanics of savings throws, Evasion, and Hit Points become almost comprehensible.  Presumably the wizard holding the scroll instinctively pulled his arm near his chest.  The fact that fire did not hit the wizard square in the chest is obvious because the wizard is not dead like the unlikely farmhand standing nearby.The rules for dishing out damage from an AoE spell are really just a quick and dirty procedure that err on the side of practicality.  More realism is likely to be less fun in this case.</blockquote>