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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8474644" data-attributes="member: 6779196">I actually don’t think the rules of 5e are hard and fast at all. They straight-up tell you you don’t have to follow them if you don’t want to. I’m arguing about what the rules support, not what they allow. They allow anything and everything you feel like, so that would be a pretty pointless thing to argue about. But they do support certain things. If you want to run fireball as a spell that does 8d6 fire damage to each creature in a 20-foot-radius sphere of a point within 120 feet of the caster that fails a Dexterity saving throw, and half that much fire damage to each creature in that area that passes, the rules support you in that. If you want to run fireball as a spell that does something else, the rules allow that (because they allow anything and everything), but they don’t support it (because they don’t provide any guidelines around running the spell that way).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 8474644, member: 6779196"] I actually don’t think the rules of 5e are hard and fast at all. They straight-up tell you you don’t have to follow them if you don’t want to. I’m arguing about what the rules [I]support,[/I] not what they allow. They allow anything and everything you feel like, so that would be a pretty pointless thing to argue about. But they do support certain things. If you want to run fireball as a spell that does 8d6 fire damage to each creature in a 20-foot-radius sphere of a point within 120 feet of the caster that fails a Dexterity saving throw, and half that much fire damage to each creature in that area that passes, the rules support you in that. If you want to run fireball as a spell that does something else, the rules [I]allow[/I] that (because they allow anything and everything), but they don’t [I]support[/I] it (because they don’t provide any guidelines around running the spell that way). [/QUOTE]

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