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<blockquote data-quote="T. Foster" data-source="post: 2973751" data-attributes="member: 16574"><p>I like fireballs expanding to their full volume, but think using the full spherical volume is excessive (since even outdoors the spell is likely to be targeted at ground level and require calculations). Therefore I prefer to think of the spell less as a "fire ball" and more of a "fire disc" (10' height x 20' radius) or perhaps a "fire hemisphere" -- the former fills ~12.5 10x10 squares and ignores the 3rd dimension entirely, the latter fills ~16.75 10x10x10 cubes and if cast in mid-air would conform to a sphere of a little over 15' radius. If playing AD&D I'll go with what the books say (even though I don't really like it) but in OD&D I'm more likely to go with one or the other of the above.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="T. Foster, post: 2973751, member: 16574"] I like fireballs expanding to their full volume, but think using the full spherical volume is excessive (since even outdoors the spell is likely to be targeted at ground level and require calculations). Therefore I prefer to think of the spell less as a "fire ball" and more of a "fire disc" (10' height x 20' radius) or perhaps a "fire hemisphere" -- the former fills ~12.5 10x10 squares and ignores the 3rd dimension entirely, the latter fills ~16.75 10x10x10 cubes and if cast in mid-air would conform to a sphere of a little over 15' radius. If playing AD&D I'll go with what the books say (even though I don't really like it) but in OD&D I'm more likely to go with one or the other of the above. [/QUOTE]
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